LiamJones

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.

Yeah any ral colour you want, ours are agate grey 7038.

Would choose lift and slide over pure sliders. More airtight, and hopefully not let the ants in like my previous pure sliders did. We went with expressbifolds LS25 in the end as the best value IMO. Paid about £6k for 4x2.1m last year. Only double glazed 1.3U

Looking very smart, what eaves detail did you use in the end? And what the detail above the top corner of the array? Lead flashing that was too high, so cut the tile round it?

Just ordered the £5 VAI0020266328 plug. Thanks to those on this thread 🥵

It sounds like you already know a fair bit, grab a pen and paper, and do the plans yourself. That’s what I did! Helps you understand all the details. It’s really not that complicated. You should be able to draw a continuous airtight line through all your details. Here’s how I did mine

Be keen to see how you get on with it, maybe it’s been out of stock because they’re dropping it/people don’t rate it?