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  1. jack
    Complaining about 20mm ridges is you "being difficult"? I'm concerned about this language being used so early in the discussion with him about this. What's your relationship been like to date?
  2. jack
    I've said it before, but our plumber was aghast at the idea of a 5kW ASHP for a large house - and that was just for heating! He simply wouldn't believe there was any chance it could handle both DHW and heating. He gave an example of the DHW being on for a couple of hours very early in the morning, and wanted to know how we'd feel about the temperature in the house falling significantly during that period. I pointed out that it would take 24 hours without heat for there to be much difference to the temperature, so a couple of hours was nothing. He still refused to believe me and suggested a 9kW ASHP (he wanted 14kW) as a compromise. We went with the 5kW and it works just fine.
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    Definitely good enough for the plant room. Oddly, I think I'd rather have the garage and workshop looking nice, as I anticipate spending more and more time there over the years.
  4. jack
    Exactly. In one of the three windows in our kitchen, the plasterer double-boarded the head reveal, but only single boarded the others (long story, but basically there's double-boarding in a lot of the side-reveals, and I think he doubled up by habit when he did the head on that window). It drives me a bit nuts, but no-one I've pointed it out to has noticed it, even when I've asked them to tell me what's wrong with the plastering around the windows. The kitchen alone has maybe 6 or 7 details that I'm not happy with, but no-one else seems to notice.
  5. jack
    There'll be days when you'll feel like this, for sure. There will also be days of pure joy when things you've been planning and dreaming about for months suddenly appear in real life and are even better than you'd imagined. I'm not sure whether I could do a house build again, but I'm pleased I did it, despite all the heartburn. It's hard at times, but it will turn out in the end, and everything is fixable (albeit not always cheaply!) Come on here, ask for help, and have a whine. Many of us have been there and will do our best to help or at least sympathise.
  6. jack
    Thanks all. Quite a bit to digest there.
  7. jack
    Hi I have Fermacell lining my plant room and garage. We weren't able to get hold of the special glue used between the boards in time to use it for the initial installation, so left a gap with the intention of back-filling it with Fermacell Jointing Compound. This is a resin-based plaster filler that is, presumably, stronger than standard plasterboard fillers. I'm having a devil of a time getting hold of this stuff at the moment. I'm now at the point where I'm considering using a standard plasterboard filler. I appreciate that the strength won't be as high as with the correct stuff, but these aren't mission critical areas, so I doubt that'll be an issue. Any thoughts about whether there are any issues using plasterboard jointing compounds with Fermacell? Assuming not, any suggestions about which jointing compound (or other product) to use to minimise the chance of cracking? Thanks as always.
  8. jack
    I'm on Three. No problems at all with coverage in London, Surrey and Hampshire. If anything, I get better coverage than I did on Vodafone.
  9. jack
    Hugely useful info for others thinking of doing the same. Thanks for sharing!
  10. jack
    I used to watch a few of this guy's vids, until he came out as a full-on pro-Trump nutjob. Lost the taste for it after that.
  11. jack
    Yes, ours is the only unpainted room in the house!
  12. jack

    Photo of more flint work

    jack commented on sussexlogs's blog entry in sussexlogs

    Lovely work!
  13. jack
    We used Fermacell in our plant room. Brilliant stuff for durability and mounting things to. I'm sure it's better than the same thickness of plasterboard for reducing sound transmission, but suspect it works better for airborne noise than for preventing noise from vibration caused by things mounted to it. Our Immersun unit, for example, buzzes under load, and that sound is transmitted quite effectively through the wall. I'll be mounting it on something more resilient in an effort to reduce this.
  14. jack
    Ours is spaced off the wall (house is 18 months old), but I don't know whether SSE or the electrician installed it.
  15. jack
    SSE was happy to mount our internal meter on chipboard (not 22mm - more like 10 or 12, I think).
  16. jack
    According to my electrician, that was exactly the reason. He thinks most electricians are cowboys.
  17. jack

    Finding the plot

    jack commented on divorcingjack's blog entry in Coffee Towers

    Ooh, I like how this is going. Don't leave us hanging too long!
  18. jack
    Pics, pics, pics please!
  19. jack
    Well that's clearly false. It's "literally" possible that an error was made with a return and the goods ended up with you. Still, thanks for initial story and for following up with the results. Hopefully others will see it and think twice (or at least check their packages sooner) when considering ordering from Wunda. I won't go off-topic and bore you with the similar issue I had with the UVC I had from McDonald Engineering...
  20. jack
    Our ASHP is on the far side of our garage from the house, so it'd be pretty hard to hear even if it did make noise. However, if I stand beside it in heating mode (ie, not on full blast for DHW), I have to hold my hand in front of the fan to determine whether it's actually on. I don't know how much noise it makes when it's doing DHW, as I'm not generally up at the time it's on (4-6am). As Dave said above, if you have a well-insulated house and triple glazing, you won't hear it anyway. We have a train line that runs quite close to our garden and you can only barely hear that a train is passing when it's very quiet and you listen for it. If a window is open it can be quite loud!
  21. jack
    Erm, yes you do, because your employer (or the entity to which/whom you're contracted) has agreed in writing to "do" Durisol. Quite aside from anything else, why would any builder, irrespective of knowledge or experience with particular building systems, want to do anything less than the right job? Following a line is a fairly fundamental part of building, whether you're laying blockwork, building a stud wall or slating a roof! Looking back at this from a few months or years in the future, the loss of time and funds will pale beside the feeling of relief that your house wasn't ultimately built by these neanderthals.
  22. jack
    "A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once." - Ernest Hemingway I prefer your version - discretion is the better part of valour, etc.
  23. jack
    I found some galvanised conduit behind a rendered wall once, long before I knew about safe zones. I'm pleased it was there, because if it hadn't been I'd have gone straight through the wire!
  24. jack
    If you were expecting 10mm off the top, does only having had a couple of mm off make an important difference to your floor heights? None of our external doors would have opened if our floor had ended up 7mm higher than planned!
  25. jack
    Bollocks. Really sorry to hear that Ian. Keep your pecker up - we're rooting for you.
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