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But getting brickies to fit that well is going to be hard work IMO.

@jayc89 i will have to look into it. sounds good though.

Sounds like a good idea. I wonder what the extra cost of cavity beads would be ?

Well B n Q won't have been selling it for a loss, so shows how at full price it is overpriced.

@Temp Yes. Otherwise 7 extractors required.

@joe90I will need 7 extracts 4 bathrooms, kitchen, utility, and downstairs loo. I was hoping that rather than have 7 outputs i could simply have 2. One in the landing upstairs, and 1 in the hall downstairs.

@joe90 So my simplified version would'nt cut it ?

Thanks @ProDave I was hoping that i would be able to keep the pipe runs down to a minimum.

I did engineered oak in the last house in all the bedrooms. 3 girls, and despite the, no shoes on in the house rule, the youngest One put hundred of dents in hers, trying on lots of shoes in order to pick which ones she wanted to wear going out. If i was doing it again i would go LVT. I'm a big fan of LVT, and i'm prob going to use it all over the ground floor in my new house, and in all the bathrooms. I'm just not a fan of tiles. LVT and a rug would be my choice.

I would have 1 bath with a shower over, and 3 further showers. If you had three teenage girls you would understand the need for each to have there own showers. Avoid the "Mum, xyz is still in the bathroom. I'm going to be late for the school bus" Add, that being screamed every morning.

Either girls or boys. The boys thesedays seem to preen as much as the girls I am always incharge of the remote control ? Slightly better, but not stupid because i don't want to end up with walls 3ft thick. However, happy to hear options with block and block build ?

@Carrerahill That is a seriously neat job.

I am going to be building a new house from Block and Block. I will aim to try and get the insulation levels slightly better than building regs. I have some understanding of air tightness, and have previously achieved 1.8 on an airtest on a simple block construction. This time i will try to do better on the air test. I would like to think that if i do a decent job that the heating requirement would not be too high. In my mind the problem will be supplying enough hot water to supply a Kitchen, Utility, Downstairs toilet, and 4 Bathrooms. The bathrooms will all have showers, and as in the previous house, if you have got 3 teenagers, It is quite easy to have all 4 showers in use at One time. Any smart ideas, or am i just going to have to have a huge store of hot water ? In the last house i did electric showers in 2 of the bathrooms, but im not sure that would be acceptable in a new, expensive house ? Any good ideas ? Thanks as always for any advice.

The house i am proposing to build will require 7 extractors. I hated pumping all of that paid for heat out of my last house, and to add i'm not a fan of trickle vents. Would it be possible to have a simple HVMR that had 7 collection points for the stale, moist air, and only Two points where the fresh air could be returned. Say upstairs landing, and downstairs hall ? Would this be a bad idea ? Would i need gaps under all the internal doors ? I'm just trying to consider how many pipe runs i might need, and how feasable that might be. Thanks in advance for any help.

I think i am going to end up building from block and block. The outside will be rendered on the bottom half, and cement clad planks on the top half (ventilated). I would like to achieve better than regs insulation levels if poss, and not to expensive. I am not sure im keen on the rigid type cavity insulation. No offence to any bricklayers on here, but it's hard enough to get the cavity batts fitted well, let alone tounge and groove ridged panels. I could live with perhaps battens on the inside leaf, with insulation in between, if that could also provide me with a cavity for electrics. Any ideas from the smart, and helpful people on here ? Thanks in advance.

@SteamyTea Ilike that.

I wouldn't seek permission to swap out the existing mobile home for a newer one. It is very easy to trip yourself up when it comes to planning. I would get a lawful certificate for the existing mobile home before anything else. Better still speak to a good planning consultant, spend a couple of grand doing that before anything else.

@joe90.Did you wet plaster, or dot and dab.

The ability to churn them out without the land to put them on. Big investment at 175million.

+1 to @ProDave The council, or the locals won't be keen on you building anything in Bucks. So very important to get the fall-back in place before you rattle the cage.

Quite a lot i would imagine....

I did use about 100 tubes of silicone, but it was only about a quid a tube.

I built a couple of houses for a client about 10 years ago. It was a brick and block build. People were scaremongering a bit and saying, oh, wait till you get to the Air test. I did a cement slurry coat on the inside of the blockwork. Ran a bead of silicone around the blockwork to floor screed. I put a load of silicone around the socket boxes before they were fitted and stuck silicone up the wall cappings where the wires came down. It was dot and dab with a skim coat, and i doubt it got a full bead of adhesive top or bottom. The windows were fitted with straps, and the gaps filled with foam. I siliconed around the inside of the windows, and doors, and stuck the cavity closers on with silicone. Any pipes got a load of silicone around them where they went through the wall. When i got the Air test bloke in i was crapping myself. The first thing he said to me while setting up was that he had just come from a test that had failed with a score of 27. I got a score of 1.8 for 1 house, and 1.7 for the other. I am considering building again in Block and Block. Are there other things that i could do better this time around ?

Indeed @Katie AG Or some great photo's of the planning officer. Get the right one's and they will get whatever you want through planning.

Ẁhat a great bunch on here. I love some of the alternative ideas. Either way, i hope at the end of the day that the Lab likes it.