MikeSharp01

Interesting stuff @JohnMo - great posts. Not for us here as we won't have a boiler in our system anywhere although we did fit the trackpipe at the start and are leaving it in in case any future residents want it - not that gas will be available to them by then I hope.

Same with me, built all the roof structure from inside scaffolding then got the roofers to fit the slates as I could not go there. Although on one day I did crawl to the apex and sat there to let the roofer take a picture of me as he said I needed to own it and the worst that could happen was I slid back down onto the scaffolding at gutter level. Actually over the build I have got more confident on ladders and scaffold but once outside support like that I have to get out of there.

I am guessing that they would not have developed the Wufi system if they could have done it with a spreadsheet. This field is littered with no fun hard sums the most difficult of which is calculating value when all you know is the cost 🙄🤣.

Tough one. Have looked at shared ownership opportunities it may be a route they could take and then purchase the other portion in time.

I think this may be the case and it is curious that such a great idea is engineered so poorly. When you look at the guts of it, @TerryE posted some pics when he took his apart , it's clear that it is not just a great concept but simple in practice. A little attention to the design for servicability and control would have made them world beating. As it is everybody is giving it a body swerve.

@JohnMo How cool does the slab get, we are just considering the flooring, my wife has fallen in love with engineered Ash (5mm thick slice of Ash on 15mm plywood) and the manufacturers say that with UFH expansion is a lot less of a a problem than contraction and cooling must lead to contraction.

Interesting project - loads of work for the cable jointers of this world.

We got lucky with our blown cellulose - we DIYed it by 'borrowing' a machine from a member here who purchased a machine on Ebay. This machine is no longer available but they do come up on ebay or there are smaller machines available in the states that would do the job. DIY was not that difficult but made some rookie errors particularly around the stretching of the internal Intello membrane. UK kits are available for purchase / rent EG https://www.markham-sheffield.co.uk/product/turbisol-56-blowing-machine/

Not fixed down by the door though so all the expansion is away from the door, is your floating on a membrane?

Anybody know what has become of Ed? Not seen here for some time and his last blog post is also some time back. Hope all is well.

Couple of observations - not sure they are helpful though. I interpret that as meaning you cannot extend the existing side extension (the 1975 one) you could build off the the second one and, as you say maintain a gap between them but that would mean your kitchen diner having a pair of walls, with a gap, jutting out into it where the diner window is now so it seems a daft thing to do. Given that, there must be some other motivation for the clause and I have no idea what that might be. On another matter you seem to have removed the pillar in the middle of the original kitchen diner - presumably with some structural work, will having to restore the building compromise that? Have other houses in the road done the same thing you have done? Finally do we take it that you still have a right to normal retrospective planning permission or is permitted development your only available route here for other reasons - maybe I missed something.

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Probably already been done or in progress although I could not find anything like it in any of the listings. I did find one piece of research that would definitely be in the bibliographic remit of such work: "Chewing it over - public attitudes to alternative proteins and meat reduction." https://bryantresearch.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Chewing-It-Over.pdf supposing that you might want to investigate the psychological / attitudinal approach to the 'snack' as this effects the way one tastes it and how perhaps frame of mind is somewhat a function of more than the time of day. However apropos the thread topic I found an interesting chapter on how heat affects our eating habits - a somewhat profound statement of the bleeding obvious but with nuances that make you think along the lines of: 'So if I keep my house warmer I will eat less and be healthier' , 'I can afford to keep my house warmer because it is very well insulated', 'the air tightness of my house forces the use of MVHR which allows me to control, via filtering and flow, the indoor air quality', 'So if I build a well insulated, airtight house and keep it warm I will be healthier' QED . The question is what price / value do you put on that then and how might it affect the way the house should be built and, should you happen to get your vegan sausage roll home - unlikely because of the current evidence of shards of flaky pastry stuck in the seams of the car seats and your trousers indicating that self control in these matters is somewhat lacking, how it tastes there? (Read the chapter here: https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=MFhTp_wtPDMC&oi=fnd&pg=PT201&dq=The+effects+of+insulation+on+food+awareness&ots=h1YqHjdtdo&sig=O0sjlZumkeQJ-O6-y7m1o3OA9vo&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false)

Yes sorry I was thinking of our setup.

Guide link: https://www.screwfix.com/p/erbauer-diamond-tile-drill-guide/84524

That will do but you will need a guide as well.

That will give you only 17mm void (They are normally 17mm deep), so 42 assuming a 25x50 counter batten as well or you will need to cut slots in the resilient bars to get any cables through them.

You can get away with this while you make sure the screws pull the board down tight and the screw gets covered with skim. The screws will relax a little over time but even then the gaps around the threads won't add up to much on the scale of things.

@Post and beam don't forget that dew point moves about with relative humidity (RH) so any control system will need RH and temperature inputs to calculate the dew point. A simple equation can be found here although , as the author points out, it gets wobbly below 50% RH.

That is possible but these days you can get many colours in intumescent. We did our only steels, two uprights supporting a cross beam, in white intumescent they look good but only a portion of them will show.

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Got our first fix air test today 0.2 on the Passive House scale max = 0.6). (n50) and 0.3 on the Part L scale (max = 5) very happy we are so now we move into second fix. It has been several months of work doing the air tightness taping windows, floors and sealing ducts.

and there be dragons - Mr Bernoulli’s Equation is no fun to apply and this has been discussed before:

Do you recall your methodology for working this out? Did you use just savings in energy input or this and / or other factors?

I have fitted a 22mm Plastic pipe into the wall, mounted at DHT22 on the end of a piece of 15mm pipe and put a RPi PICO on the other end to monitor temperature and Humidity, it is all behind a standard drylining socket box so I can access it and it is fed by a PoE CAT6 cable - power only data is by WiFi. Slide the 15mm pipe and DHT22 into the 22mm pipe, plug the Rpi into the Poe converter, close the wall box and job is done.