MikeSharp01

Hello, welcome to THE forum for self builders and like minded individuals, and as @Jilly says ask away.

Do you mean timber frame with brick skin? If timber throughout cannot see how it could be worse for the environment than block and brick.

This is an interesting challenge. Is now quite an old piece of research, doubt that much has changed greatly for batteries, but charging sources (Solar / Wind / ???) have moved on so the overall equation might now be a bit better. However the guarantees have not really kept up with expectations - wonder why this is? Is it because charging / discharging control technology to maintain battery life of these systems is so diverse - and you need care when charging Lithium, so they don't feel able to offer longer as they have no control over the surrounding kit. You cannot expect to need to replace a £1500 battery every couple of years and so having longer term confidence would be a buying decision game changer you would have thought.

Yes but you need to know where to start and what all the guff you get back means / implies. We can help with the interpretations perhaps.

I think somebody else here tried to move a bus stop and found out that although they are only a sign the invisible red tape was difficult to break.

22mm sounds like loads doesn't it but I guess the weld adapter is all about connecting simply into typical waste pipe sizes and if you do have a 22mm run you will still need to wrangle a way to connect that into the waste system somewhere. I think that I am saying perhaps best to stick to waste pipe sizes so you can get adapters, there must be small sized waste pipes out there I think the overflow from our roof tank is about 20mm but 32mm is the most common.

Me too - but welcome none the less.

Might be worth thinking about replacing the skirting board if it is too bad, chipping out the lower plaster and using something like easy fill to replace it - depends on the level of crispness you are up for.

A decent MIG will do ARC as well while ARC makes thin material welding challenging.

To paint vertical and horizontal for papering over IIRC.

Looks like the outside slopes down towards the house! If there is a reasonable area of path up the slope then in a real down pour that slot drain probably won't cope and you will get water coming in the door. Might it be valuable to arrange it so the tile up to the door slopes down towards the drain and to lower the last few path slabs so it is level OR arrange a run off the path across wise so some of the water get directed elsewhere rather than channeled to the front door?

If anything goes wrong or needs moving then its simpler if you can get at them. I am a great believer in little access panels everywhere, much to my other half's annoyance, so I can get at things easily - like the underside of the bath, through the wall behind it in the corridor. The deal in the new place is that there won't be any other than in the utility room so I will have to think very hard and test every connection before covering up!

We are trying to resolve the details of the junctions between the slate hung walls and the slate roof. We want a crisp junction but have not managed to find a detail for it. The one we have uses a dry verge and secondary trim (The vertical junction is basically the same without the air gap), as in pic but I would like to get to something more like the Belgian house below. Any ideas very welcome.

It must be getting a command from somewhere, does the new unit have any unconnected inputs. It may be that noise on these inputs, or indeed the relay input which maybe fed from an output with some sort of pullup / down resistor in the new models controller, is triggering the mode change and latching it. Is there a wiring diagram for both units. On another note I guess you are telling us that Heatrae Sadia don't support 3rd party servicing very well so we should take note! In the light of the right to repair movement(s) I think we should start asking that full circuit diagrams are available prior to purchase of such equipment.

Sounds like a great place to work, until you get called back into the office! Enjoy the forum and all it has to offer.

Yes - as many as you can to run the services that don't need TLC - Electric, Water, Comms, even gas if you are up for using tracpipe, leave the roof space for the hot water etc so A: You don't need loads of holes through your joists thus making them weaker, B: you can insulate them carefully so as to keep the heat where you want it.

Mine takes about .9T and is only 800mm wide.

Jet washer - Steer clear of abrasives as you can take anodizing off, assuming it has any, if you are not careful. If not anodized then you can be harsher.

Good question, I just wandered round here and looked at our windows, double glazed and fitted in 1993 (close to 30 years), there are over 40 individual units and none of them are blown. I would have thought that modern manufacturing would get to 30 years MTBF for triple glazed without a problem although I cannot see any guarantees that go out that far.

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Great piece of work but the overall benefit may hinge on more than the pay back time for you personally. The house will be around for perhaps 100 years at which point it will have paid back more that 10 times over on a planetary scale rather than just for your pocket - assuming the windows don't get replaced (our daughter has just replaced several rotten sashes that where installed in 1887). If you have children, they will see the benefit in an improved environment and future generations more so. Maybe there is additional gain here to help justify.

It must be the regs then allow people to NOT have have homes that impact the planet less. We almost had something like we needed in the 2016 regs that HMG deleted prior to them coming into force. On the plus (ish) side there is a new PART L coming and I found a good review of this and the associated new SAP scheme HERE which shows how much tougher it will be for the big house builders and the self builder.

Didn't he use Eltron in line water heaters to boost the temp on demand he found that they would add the few degrees he wanted to the tank output.

Yes we have only been going 4 and I feel like an old stager, still 18 months to go at current pace.

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