MikeSharp01

It is Pro Clima Extroseal 100-20

I got my rope from Screwfix on a 500m drum, super strong, very, very long and not expensive! (https://www.screwfix.com/p/polypropylene-rope-blue-6mm-x-500m/76432) If you need the full 450Kg SWL then you have something very wrong in your duct (Oh and While I remember - I capped all the ducts off to stop rodents taking up residence! - or worse eating through the pull rope!!!!!)

Their concern will be the tightest radius and I would have thought that standard twin wall ducting would be fine provided you have a draw rope in it. I only have 35m runs of the stuff but its dead easy to use. I did ensure I had a 80m draw rope so I could pull it either way without needing a join in the rope I just taped the end of the cables to the mid point of the rope and hauled, and for the big power cable pushed, the cables through. Openreach just want an easy life and the people who arrive to do the job are very pragmatic in my experience.

I've got some which is coated in 3mm acrylic and about 100 wide. I will have a look and see what it is, its GBS. Sticks to anything / everything.

Hi and welcome to THE forum for people like you & us.

Once you get FTTP you begin to wonder why you would need a wireless terrestrial connection at all.

You must have had the motivation to leave and move north and a bit east - to become one of the forest dwellers.

Hopefully you have not had as many similar moments as our recent prime minister but one may have had!

PS - I was told by a roofer that acid rain sorts it all out, the efflorescence anyway, in the end!

We are cladding our build with the same slates as the roof, which was completed 18months ago - we kept the slates in dry storage, did a corner on Friday and my other half went ballistic, at a distance 2m+ they look great but close up you can see the efflorescence stains and small scratches, only very slight. So now I need to go through 2000 slates and choose the best ones for the front of the house and relegate the stained / scratched ones to high up on the sides (where nobody can see them). I have in the past managed to clean the efflorescence off with a weak vinegar solution. I will get a better picture tomorrow as this one does not really show the issues.

Not sure this is exactly a perfect market as highlighted above some of that fall might be down to Gas costs!

You are right but PowerPoint, that I used to add those trends, only really does straight lined. I hated thermodynamics at Uni - I only did one course and decided my future did not lay in that direction so steered well clear. Even though now it might have been useful I wouldn't have wanted to clutter my brain with it for 40 years only to find it useful now! Respect to those that get it though🤩

That's interesting data. I am curious about the steps at about 09:15 - 09:25 the trends carry on but are stepped lower, does the machine decide it is approaching setpoint and back off (Modulate down)? It does slow It does look like it could get the Flow even higher, for a lower CoP. Have added a few, very crude, lines to help me get it all in my head. I appreciate that the two trends (Power in / Power Out) won't ever meet but I thought is was interesting to see where they are going!

@Alan Ambrose Nope, all very straight forward the Electric (UKPN in our case) people and Openreach all said how much a doddle it was hooking it up. We arranged them so the Gas (Not connected - just a blanked off meter in there) and the electric Meter where on the front on the block accessible to the suppliers and the Electric distribution box and the comms box are behind them (Actually will end up being inside the cycle / bin / ASHP - if we have one, shed so secure. Just to be clear on the Gas situation, we have installed a track pipe from the utilities block into the plant room / utility just in case we, or future owners, want to have gas appliances but for us its a no-no. Once we can get onto the right tariff with octopus we will ask them to remove the meter. If anybody in the future wants to have gas they will have to get it replaced but all the pipework will be there for them ready.

Now all we need is to be able to print them full size - oooops we already can!

If you have superfoil you can get water flowing a long way from the leak... So that may need thinking through as well.

Then, if borrowing to do this work, you need to factor in interest on the loan as part of the cost - which simply, as in easy to understand, pushes the payback time out. People generally don't do a full cost accounting job on such purchases so Net Present Value (NPV) and Rate of Return (RoR) calcs are not performed.

If you are going to do this a structural adhesive, Phenol-Resorcinol Formaldehyde Resin, is the stuff. I have used PU adhesive and this is good enough to create a bond stronger than that within the OSB itself. I assume that wall will be inside so not subject to weather, outside you are going to struggle with OSB almost no matter how you coat it.

They sort of did.

We have 157m2 ( close to 500m2 of wall and roof) and we brought 16 rolls of vana, 2 of profile, only need enough to go around all the windows, and 3 of the 4m wide ( that's a lot but we have about half a roll over) Intello plus.

An old XJS in the garage might be a good idea if the headline in the Telegraph today is anything to go by: "Warning that Chinese electric car ‘invasion’ could paralyse Britain" in short if they don't like us, whenever, they just turn the cars off! Lots of opportunities to cut demand in an instant!

Us too - brilliant to deal with.

Cut a little bit, 5-10 mm of the plastic top you want, take it to someone with a 3D printer, e.g. @Onoff and ask them to print you some lengths for you.

In the end we went with Norrsken, we are very pleased with the windows and the fitting team were excellent. A few snags remain to be sorted - they are due back next week. (We have not done the air test yet so that remains to be seen.) We chose them for some of the reasons you mention, EG roughly price equivalent & slightly better U values but our main reason was that they could do, and Rationel could not, the triangular opening (Turn before Tilt) we wanted at the front - so no glazing bars across the triangle and the glass to glass corner we wanted for our corner window.

Yes one point of isolation for all of it then no chance of a cross feed from anywhere.