LiamJones

Yeah this changed recently. For my first mortgage with ecology, I used buildaviator, equivalent to estimators online. To obtain additional borrowing I needed to provided costing, for which build aviator was no longer acceptable. I chose to get individual quotes from trades and material quotes from websites/merchants. The alternative was a (presumably costly) QS.

The g6 doorbell(s) has just been announced https://blog.ui.com/article/introducing-all-new-g6-entry-lineup

Ah okay; change of plans this weekend then 🤣 thank you!

How long should you wait after laying self levelling compound <5mm before laying (glue) engineered wood flooring? Is the day after okay? Only thing I’m concerned about is moisture, but I think this would all be locked up in the chemical reaction? Subfloor is bone dry concrete slab

Self level and glue? Minimum buildup and maximum heat transfer?

I’m also looking into this, favouring pine t+g at the moment

I had to put in writing I only wanted heating downstairs, and then they only sized for heat loss downstairs, which I was confident after using Jeremy’s spreadsheet was more than enough for whole house heat loss. Otherwise they were going to way oversize. I’ve no emitters upstairs so it all sort of worked out. This was under BUS scheme

Do we know if the valuation office will revalue the property after a period of being uninhabitable? For renovation purposes, the trade off may be the saving of no council tax during renovation vs a potential re-band after renovation, offsetting any initial short term savings? I’ve currently not attempted to reclaim any council tax during a deep refurb, for fear of a steep increase in council tax once completed?

and for the lounge I laid wood fibre underlay and then floating laminate. Don’t have any pics of this

Are you going to tile over? If so, can you tile directly onto the over floor boards? I did that with the wundaboards, after applying the appropriate primer.

If you’re insulated and air tight enough, there’s no need to heat upstairs. Get some cheap Bluetooth thermometers and place the around the house, you’ll get a feel for heat loss and wether you need to supplement heat upstairs.im more worried about cooling upstairs than heating mine!

Running copper end to end is the only way to guarantee a solid connection, but that doesn’t help you now. Can you run a temporary cat5/6 to one of the cams, just until you sort out the plugs? Even then, I’m not sure I’d ever trust home plugs for home security purposes.

Can you remove the switch to take that out the equation? Run a single ring directly off the homeplug? Dependant on results, swap the homeplug or the switch? I’d be surprised if the route cause were the rings

The forum generally pushes people to publishing disconnected threads about specific problem, rather than document progress via blogs.

I agree, I think blogs are very hidden here, coming from other forums I was used to seeing them front a centre. I love being able to follow people’s journeys, but here it’s hard. I’ve kinda got used to it now and just browse recent activity. A way to see all blogs, with options to order search, order by views, posts, most recent post. Or even build type, budget, stage, you could think of loads of ways to search for interesting blogs/projects.