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Sounds like you will need a self build mortgage. These release funds in stages (defined by the lender). As you complete one stage funds are released for the next (I think its that way round). So, find out what mortgage you can get and what the stages are that they will release the funds, then get your quotes lined up to be staged as per the mortgage lenders definitions. Don't forget contingency of minimum 20% when you go seeking your mortgage. Wishing you the best of luck in the build

Just saw this on FB https://safedoorbells.com/products/doorbell Not looked at the detail yet

Any self levelling screed is best laid on an already stable surface. If things are moving now, they will afterwards. Get the ply fixed to be as inflexible as possible. May be better to lift the ply and have a screed poured directly over the pipe and insulation.

Not 100% certain however it may be some kind of cill to divert the rain water from the vertical cladding over the first horizontal cladding, which I think is how you deal with the join

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As I know where my units are going I am not running pipes under them. In the islands we will have an extractor unit for the hob and that will no doubt create heat under the island. So, shrug, WTF. Low flow temps , it'll likely make no difference if you run pipe or don't

We have a timer and override switch on the immersion, switched off completely right now. I guess this is the same thing in essence.

We wanted 300, but the installer would only put in a 250. May change it sometime down the line after we've lived with it a couple of years and had a couple of family gatherings. All to do with the fxxking MCS calcs

Buy her a really nice pair of slippers and a really small rug at her side of the bed 😁

With an unvented cylinder (UVC) the flow/pressure is related to the pressure of the mains and size of the pipework. Also with a UVC you don't need water above 50 for showering, washing etc. (otherwise you'll just scald yourself, or use lots of cold to mix it down). Using an ASHP to go any higher than 50ish and you'll just be running it VERY inefficiently.

Ours is inside the plant room because that is where I put the duct as Nick said above

Pass on the delivery details provided to the delivery driver. If I give you a What3Words address there is a damn good reason - postcode will put you in a 2.5 mile radius of the actual location

I feel your pain My local timber merchant allowed me to sort through the pile to select - in fact he helped and rejected pieces I was OK with 😁 Bolt them together as soon as you get them onsite, as they warp as they dry out. I would start with the two larger overlaps first and then do the middle overlap last. With the larger overlaps do the two pairs of bolts at each end of the overlap and work inwards (I presume you are putting in more than just two pairs of bolts on each overlap).

The £130/MWh is the thing that makes Hinkley a white elephant IMHO

My standard answer for nearly 5 years to the question "When will you be finished?" was "2 years". It was my signature on here for about 3 years also. You will see I recently changed my signature and also my answer to the above question. Still no commitment, but a tiny bit more positive perhaps 🙂. Anyone interested in have some T-shirts made up with the question and first answer?

My earlier point about electricity-gas price link should perhaps have been clarified to state that the UK would then not be hit so hard by changes in the gas wholesale price. My argument is all academic because it would take this country too long to actually get a decent nuclear base load in place. Hinckley C was initially proposed in 1981, announced in 2010 with nuclear licence granted in 2012 - current project completion 2031. So 50 (expletive) years. Madness.

We should have more nuclear and less gas as the base load in our grid. This will lessen the burden on bills of the electrcity-gas price link (which is a pants situation anyway). Investment in nuclear as well as solar and wind is what is required

Saw this on FaceAche. Interesting explanation. https://www.facebook.com/share/16bjH3NyKQ/

That happens when travelling at 90 at meeting tractor 🤣 Othe things happen to the driver as well 😂

And difficult to stop. There is a version the Kia Niro like this and they didn't update the brakes (enough). The Howdens rep says he has to be very careful driving in the country lanes

Add 2x4 to the side of the top and bottom chord of the posi joists from underneath. These are the parts that do the work, generally the top one in compression, bottom one in tension. Some have used a metal strip on the bottom chord instead of extra wood

We'll make the effort Susie. SWMBO currently on bed rest for 2 weeks until mid May so after that is good for us. 1st week of June is kitchen fitting week. Any other time is currently good for us, probably weekend works best

Our local distributor came out on day 1 and helped get first couple of rows in place. That's when we learnt and the remainder of the first week we cracked on with the rest. Off the top of my head so these are rough numbers, we spent about £10-11k on concrete and pumps, about £3k (?) on rebar (retaining wall so more than normal required) and the Nudura was about £18k. We hired the props to support the walls for about £1200. All in, about £34k for insulated, air tight, and essentially waterproof walls ready to be rendered or clad outside and plasterboarded inside.

JoH, What you have does not have an A/C function. Summer bypass will continue to do the air exchanges, so drawing air from outside to in, and vice versa, so as it cools down in the evenings it'll remove the heat build up from the day. You're better off turning it off completely in heat we have at present and drawing curtains and blinds to keep the sunshine out. There may be a way of introducing a cooling coil into the ducting, but that is major retrofit and may not be that effective anyway. We are all having to adapt to the conditions being caused the changes to or climate. If you want air conditioning in the flat for the handful of days each year when it currently required you'll need to install a specific unit. OR, hang a bag of ice in front of a standard fan

Looks like the water meter bills will be lower as well after they impose hosepipe bans 🙂