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I'm confused by this too. As I understand it we need an EPC for the RHI. All the stuff will be arriving next week and the final sign off by the energy RHI company is scheduled for 7 December. We did have a SAP done for building regs compliance which puts us 70 C (no idea what this is) but do we have to get an EPC done as well for the RHI. It seems any info I can see for claiming RHI asks for an EPC not a SAP ?

Thanks, will agree everything now. Hopefully they should get all the kit in the next couple of days now.

@PeterW you mentioned Samsung are fine. I'm guessing they are much of the same for the big names. We had paid for the Mitsubishi 11kw one, apparently this is a little more but they are footing the extra cost. Any particular concerns I should have about the change to Samsung?

Ok to replace the Mitsubishi 11Kw we have now had an update that we will have a Samsung AE120. Any advice on this? We already have the Gledhill tank 400l as suggested to have a large tank for the solar immersion (Solic200). Anyone have any advice on Samsung ASHPS?

That is the shower!

Ha! I'll look into the options.

Hmm when I went into Clearview at the weekend (about another matter) they discouraged this. I'll take a look at soapstone too thanks.

Thanks. A bit worried about the heat and limestone. I think we may stick with the slate snooker table option and get it cut and polished which seems to be reasonably priced.

No it's block and beam and was sorted before as we knew where we wanted the toilet all along. I don't know about our building control but I know there has been a few meetings via Skype with them. I actually mentioned this yesterday as it occured to me then when I was looking at the sliding door threshold. It's hard to tell from this picture if there is rodding eyes?

Whatever the alternative is it can be obtained next week. Just need to get the details and make sure it's comparable.

Sooo, we ordered our ASHP/contracts signed and deposits paid weeks ago and are going down the RHI route for an 11KW Mitsubishi. We have the Gledhill 400litre tank and some other bits and bobs which arrived today. Seems we have a hiccup in that apparently there are major delays with Mitsubishi and it's going to be next year until they get any. Our plumber reports he was told apparently anyone who ordered before 1 September will get them in a few weeks but otherwise it's Jan/Feb. He has a very unhappy customer who ordered on 6 Sept who has been waiting weeks to now be told it's next year. Apparently Alto energy are going to send through an updated spec with an alternative to Mitsubishi - our plumber said it's a more expensive ASHP but they would be footing the extra cost. I'm waiting for the details but is anyone else finding delays with Mitsubishi products? I rarely hear any other ASHP brand mentioned on here so I'm not sure yet what the alternative is but I presume there are only certain brands of ASHP that are eligible for the RHI so it will be one of these. Any brands we should be aware of not using?

There is space for paving below the lip and drainage, infact that's exactly what the builder was saying earlier this evening. Sorry it was dark tonight but that's the current situation. This was shortly after the fitting.

Nope, it's a glazed gable. They are coming out Friday so I'll ask the builder to be there as well. Right ok hopefully can discuss on Friday with both. I know the builders mentioned this when the doors were being fitted and something was mentioned about a trim or something.

Thank you. I see you have the strips joining the panels we will need to join the panels but I don't want strips so I think that's why showerwall have quoted the tongue and groove ones?

That's the same as us then. Thanks it actually doesn't look as bad as I was picturing the trims would look in my head.

We had two visits from John Knight Glass/Internorm to discuss this and they also met with builders when discussing floor level and we picked flooring before we even got footings in so knew this all along, I'm not sure. No issues with sliders yet but I'll get some more pics later today. Internorm/John Knight rung today wanting to do an inspection post installation but we still don't have a sliding door handle so I won't be signing anything off til they happens.

Thank you. Is that trim on the second pic on a corner or joining the panels?

We are about to push the button on getting shower panels ordered but I'm worried about the trims. The end ones (in satin silver or white) and also the corner trims. I know some panels such as Nuance don't have these rather just rounded edges but in typical fashion we can't find any we like. Can anyone send me pics of the trims on their shower panels so I can see them please?

Sorry I didn't mean for you to do the Google search, I just meant somewhere you'd recommend/used?

Oh dear not good. Do you have a link to anywhere to buy it? This is the issue. If we find a piece it's getting it delivered as the size/weight is an issue and then any cutting and polishing of it is what costs a fair bit.

We've tried a couple now and prices are just ridiculous for granite as we would need quite a large area for a T piece. We did toy with an idea of getting off cuts but then to cut and polish them out stone masons were charging quite high prices as well.

So we have got some tiles for the inside of our fireplace from Porcelanoso which are kind of like silver triangle looking things. We need some form of slate now, granite is too expensive. Our builder has suggested seeing if we can get our hands on some snooker table slate and he can get it cut and polished by the local gravestone guy for about £40 and then with it sealed he says it looks really smart. I think the snooker table slate is around £140 delivered. Has anyone used this?

I don't think there is anything I haven't haggled over, bribed tradesmen (I make good cakes), complained, moaned, cried, begged and pleaded, presented price matches just to get some discount or better prices. Our building bill is one thing we can't control (although we have had some success) but anything else I've done pretty well on. I'm a good judge of knowing which approach works best! Our bathroom shower cladding for three showers was close to £2k and an afternoon or haggling and I almost halved our quote.

We are still waiting for our replacement door handle from Internorm and a final visit to go through things and I just want to check the 5.5m sliding door and thresholds/floor heights incase there is some issues I need to raise. The floor pad is slightly higher and we are then needing our LVT flooring on top which is around 2.5mm. I think Internorm/John Knight fitters mentioned something about 'a strip on the edge' but I'm not sure what this is. Should there be any alarm bells based on the pics below?

I believe it was because the only door knobs we liked were an unsprung Carlisle Brass one one which needed heavy duty latches so magnetic latches would be unsuitable. We also were only looking at around a £12 budget per handle/knob set which hindered choices. The ones in my first thread post (Carlisle Brass Cebu Mono in satin) are £13.95 at the cheapest we can find but we like the design.