MikeSharp01

Sounds odd lets hope there is an obvious answer - like is the Eddi unit mixing up the units?

Welcome Arty - to THE forum for self builders and like minded types, enjoy your time here.

Perhaps not a good reason not to own a Tesla, or at least if you do, don't play video games while driving. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51645566

We have used the water based 3 product / 6 coats / 10 year guarantee system from Dulux - any RAL is possible. It its a PITA to apply that number of coats but it is a lovely paint

Feels wrong too much - does it include all the scaffolding and are you in central London?

I am also struggling with this although, think I know where each plenum is going, at the point of providing all the infrastructure, holes in I joists etc, I am held up because I cannot get my total duct air resistance much below the Passive house total of 100 Pa (This doc refers) and balancing the recommended 30M3 per bedroom with the total extract recommendation. Anyone have the air resistance data for the 90mm ducting, have found it for the 75mm ducting (Page 5) but think I may have to use 90mm, cos of overall resistance, but cannot find a reference for the resistance data!

Shower more frequently? We have the same problem with a bath that no body uses much and when the trap empties you get a nasty smell so I just run the bath tap every so often to keep it topped up but it is a pain..

I have the internal walls on the first floor going up and I initially thought I would build them on the joists but I have been told that I could just put the whole floor down, 22mm Kaber protect+, and build them on that - thus making things a bit simpler, somewhat safer when building and more fireproof when finished does that sound about right? (There are a couple of places where structural beams go up through and these will not sit on the floor panels as they may crush!)

I think I might be more concerned about the router brand!

But - who is listening......

Hey ho - there will be bumps in the road but stick to it and the rewards will follow. Small wins help and once we get into the sunlit uplands of spring and you really crack on .... our experiance with the neighbours has been good but they were, and still are, a bit worried about our rather 'out there' design.

Welcome to THE forum for self builders and like minded people of all kinds - a friendly place where help is never far away, but I guess that is why you joined - enjoy.

You could recess the outlet into the external brickwork so it was flush and therefore is on you land!

Just because we are paranoid it does not mean they are not out to get us?

Challenging for steam buffs like me who like to move the logs down to the house by train - what will I do with all my spare time?

Yes we have one on order now but I guess I will have follow @Jeremy Harris and create a UPS backed up system.

Hi @Jeremy Harris I found the solution - looks like this is what we will get. https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2018/05/protecting-access-to-emergency-services-in-a-broadband-voip-world.html

Probably like us you have had a power cut or two over the past couple of weeks - what fun. This set me wondering because in 3 weeks we will go over to a full fibre connection to Millstone manor and our land line will switch to Voice over Internet protocol (VOIP). With the traditional land line the power for the phone - ringing and speech is derived from the exchange so they stay working in a power cut. What happens to your VOIP phone in a power cut at you home I wonder, I assume it stops operating, and then what happens to your monitored alarm if the power fails because it can no longer warn you if you are out or inform the monitoring company if an alarm is triggered. Just solved the alarm problem by getting our alarm company to switch us to radio monitoring, but what about home security and emergency calls. Do I need a Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) I wonder and if so how big.

Sounds like the switch is polled too slowley or not latched on the input. Can the device it is connected to see the short pulse? Do you want to sent a 250ms pulse or an on / off command as they are different things realy.

By slow what do you mean - seconds or just too many Milliseconds?

By challenging I guess you mean easy to achieve such a leaky building if you were trying but with this level of leakiness other things around building regs etc fall out of bed?

Our slab system has a render coating on the outer edges making it Rodent proof once the sole plate is down none of the polystyrene is visible / accessible other than to serious;y burrowing animals. Cannot comment on the basement issue as we don't have one.

Not me - you - your the proportional German

Interesting link - thanks for that.

Yep, I read it in a Which report (https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/solar-panels/article/solar-panels/solar-panel-battery-storage) but I have not had time to confirm it - it seems daft, as you say, and it may be that they have it wrong or I misread it.