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What would you go for? There is cavity wall insulation on our existing but should we go for more? Will it make that much difference? Obviously we will need to consider the overhang for cills and eaves as our windows have all been fitted and new roof etc etc. What would you recommend?

Oh that's reassuring. Presume the Aldi is a typo ?

Now we have pretty much sorted the inside snags inside and plumbing issues we can turn our focus onto the EWI and render and getting the house looking decent from outside. We are looking at 50mm of EWI and have settled on the pure white silicone Krend rather than the pearl as we prefer the clean white appearance rather than anything yellowy. Is there anything in particular I need to be aware of, e.g. should it be done at a particular time of year. Whilst I'm keen to get it sorted ASAP I don't want to risk any weather related issues.

She!! I'm a woman. Luckily our plumber isn't in Scotland but you are welcome to him. In fairness the heat pump seems to be the one thing we haven't had issue with in terms of fitting really, aside from sorting the settings and huge electricity bills but that's Alto.

We had in roof solar 12 x 320w panels in roof landscape. It was not as cheap as @ProDave as we had to pay for installation and the equipment was just shy of £2400 alone which included everything - the Solic for diverting the excess to the immersion, the in roof panels, inverter etc We currently only have our heat pump heating the water for a couple of hours a day on the Octopus Go Faster Tarrif (8:30pm for 4 hours of 5p electric) and we find the Solic pv heats the water in between (it's set at 48 degrees for the heat pump to heat it and a sunny day like today the excess pv diverted to the immersion and it's heated way above that and I've had bucket lots of hot water today as I've been cleaning windows and washing the car). Pics taken just now... The solar today and yesterday did well over 10kWh. Earlier in the month it was only around 5kWh a day. Today we have charged everything, had washing and dishwasher going. It's worth it for me but we both work from home and can really make use of the electricity when its there.

99! The initial sensor we had wasn't bluetooth but we got it swapped by Internorm today for a bluetooth one so it's easy to set up via the app now.

Us but it's one the main contractor uses we just paid him directly. It's a small place so they all know one another and within 5 mins of him leaving the main contractor has been in touch as the plumber spoke to him. They can argue it out who is responsible and what the issue is. Main contractor on site tomorrow.

After the plumber has been the latest is ..... It's not the toilet. Infact the plumber said it's not the pipework at all as far as he is concerned. This is all the 'new' bit so it's back to the main contractor now to check outside walls, take skirting off etc.

I had to try a couple of fingers to set it up as it wouldn't register (from sanding woodwork)!

I really have to prevent myself from exploding when I see him because everything he has touched has been sh!t. We still owe him £600 but there is the damaged Roper Rhodes unit to sort (probably a Magic Man task) and now the LVT flooring to be replaced - thank God we over ordered and have a few boxes left as it's a discontinued range and not in stock anywhere. I'm tempted to say we don't have any left and let him get the whole thing redone including the bedroom as the flooring is the same and flows into the bedroom from the ensuite. I'm confident the flooring has been done properly. When we had a leak in another bathroom from the toilet (ensuite) the flooring has been fine but obviously this has been there for some time unnoticed.

It took numerous conversations with Ekey and Internorm themselves visiting today (as we didn't get the door directly from them it was an eBay find) to reset the thing and sort out a dodgy motherboard but it's working! Not bad for our ex showroom door. Note it's not the one with the motorised lock rather this is separate and key operated. We were advised the fingerprint lock is fine on its own but if we were say going on holiday for example to use the manual lock as well as the fingerprint sensor. VID_24370106_231730_800.mp4 A big thanks to @Onoff for the Din rail and advice as the transformer we located close the floor.

Plumber is on his way we isolated it. I have no idea how long this floor has been wet for as it's not a bathroom in regular use and to be honest it was only as dropped something I noticed it. I'll be insisting at least half the floor is taken up and the plumber can be paying for it to be relaid.

Thanks I'll try now just hunting for a longer screwdriver. We don't ordinarily use it anyway but it's probably wise to get it off for now.

? I'll consider it. I can't reach the isolation valve I can see the bu$$er though. My arm ain't long enough. Is that these holes? Every bloody toilet is missing them if so god only knows why they weren't done and where all the fixings went.

Just the top bit and I've shone a touch and the immediate floor below looks ok.

It's a bungalow. That is the floor and it is gluedown LVT onto a screed. It's now been a good hour since I flushed the toilet and still - here's a better video. VID_20210223_112111.mp4

It's with furniture so the plumber really needs to come and sort it out. Well the plumber can pay for that!

Oh look, another plumbing issue. Went into guess bedroom, was doing some cleaning and flushed some tissue down toilet. Noticed a bit of water went to wipe it up and this...Our LVT is now coming up. Water looks 'muddy' in places. We don't use this bathroom as such but it happens more easily when you flush. Any ideas what could be causing this? We have UFH too. VID_20210223_104834.mp4

I've not looked at DIY kitchens I'll have a looksie and see. Thanks

I don’t like untidy (part of being OCD I am told,) Wife is the same and don't get me started on some of the other things like coat hangers needing to all face the right way.... Same problem x 2. Some of stuff is still scattered across three counties as we didn't get it all back before lockdown....

@joe90 I'm impressed. Firstly by the tidiness of secondly at how little clothes you have! We need to look at the dressing room plans one thing we are not sure about is if we go for the walk in wardrobe is how he is building the divide in between the main room and the walk in wardrobe bit - we don't have a stud wall. The price was cheaper than Sharps and similar to DIY Homefit but we are getting something more specific to fit our exact measurements.

Prior to lockdown - we both were required to go into an office. And then we are two women so have lots clothes anyway plus hair, makeup etc items. I think we could dedicate a whole wardrobe space to sports and hiking gear! I think it will be rare I return to an office again so I can definitely scale down. You'd think as we are the same size we should have half of what we have! Currently I just seem to wear more PJs than anything!

Bear in mind this is current state of said dressing room

Dare you post pictures of this tidy set up?

It's my worst nightmare having it open. This is what my wife thinks it will look like: I think it will look like this: