G and J

What goes on top of that PIR upstand just inside the door?

Don't tell the architect that 😉

Buy the house. Then you get it for free. 😉

Ah I see. Ta for getting back to me. We’re using a 140mm stud frame.

Just had a quick Google on the Veismann Vitocal 151a. Is it effectively a dual heat pump system?

Ah, as we are. What material did you put on as the outer leaf? We are having masonry downstairs and timber clad upstairs and I’m struggling to work out exactly where to place the windows with respect to the frame.

Is your house timber framed?

I’m assuming this discussion is referring to gap covering type tape. When I visited @Nick Laslett he showed me the expanding foam tape he had used. Is that not an option? I think it goes between window frame and whatever the fabric of the house is, thus no tape showing issues.

Nudging us towards homes that help the planet a bit is no bad thing really. In some ways it’s no different from the increase in minimum insulation levels. In your shoes I’d build ‘em in, and be ready to put in for a variation of conditions after the event if needed.

From what I've read on here if bnb spans more than 5m there's a definite danger of ‘bounce’. As a result we're putting an extra foundation (is it called a sleeper wall?) down the middle of the house to reduce beam length. We will have to manhandle these beams as we cant use a crane (overhead wires) so that helps with that too. Are you thinking of using a beam to save the extra foundation?

Ours will, I hope, cool as well so it might be going when we are in the garden. Hmmmm, so if there’s little noise anyway then there can’t be much if a difference. So sitting in the garden when it’s running hopefully won’t be too bad.

Hmmm, we’re planning a similar installation. Is there much difference in the noise level between standing to the side of the unit and in front of the unit (i.e. with the airflow coming towards you)?

Just expressing an opinion.......it makes our (G&J) lives easy if we just do what the rules say......the rule says do forms before you start, so like it or not it's a no brainer to do.........venting over it is not going to help our stress levels, nor is taking a pop at anyone who has a different view of the world to us.....horses for courses, we're all different

Oh I’m sure it’s accidental. I couldn’t possibly be thinking of anything other than precisely the title of this thread. I wonder at the desirability of local variations in such legislation. Hoomans appears to need to feel both special and individual , so perhaps customisation of local stuff is the natural result. Perhaps a ‘ one size fits all’ thing would be equally flawed but in a different way.

J found a post by @ETC “PART 3 -Timber Frame Junction Detail” from which I’ve found: So it looks to me like behind blockwork I effectively use the windows to close the cavity. Is that correct?