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@Ed_ Not read all of the above, apologies but it is Friday night. 🍷 If it’s of any use we used GRP angles to support the sliding doors and negate any thermal bridge. MBC, timber frame.

With the exception of Zoot, I do wonder sometimes if you’re all being trolled? (An observation, not bullying)

I have numerous friends in Portugal, a few of whom are planning a new build, I shall pass this on to them 👍🏻

Our utility that has a fair bit of plant in it which adds a bit of heat. To dry washing, with the door closed, the MVHR does the trick overnight with ease. The good lady and I have been working outside a lot these last few months, frequently come in with drenched outer layers, on those days we hang the wet stuff in the utility room and run a small dehumidifier for a few hours to aid the drying. Works like a charm.

What hob is it? Our down draft induction hob has a grease filter followed by a carbon filter and then discharges to the room at floor level. I would certainly be concerned about ducting air that hadn’t been filtered for grease into the units or at floor level. At least on the floor you could clean it with ease, into the units it’ll just go rancid over time and, well…

Our wasn’t necessarily cheap (but thanks to info from @JohnMo massively cheaper than the first quote we got). The tariff dictates our usage, currently 15p export and 7p/29.14p import. We’d be mad to use our solar when the batteries take us through the day with ease and the off peak tariff heats the house/water does the dishes/washing charges the car etc etc. Sure the tariff will change, and is about to, and working out ROI would be tricky, too many variables etc but our annual usage at peak rate would be around £2500/year. Last year we paid minus £400. Which is nice.

@scottishjohn can you not get a cheaper off peak tariff? We’re all electric. Fill up at 7p export at 15p (soon to be 12p) if there is anything to export. We’ve used very little peak rate electrickery over winter

Alternatively. Buy some cheap/dummy thermostats, stick them all over the place and bin them when your house is signed off 😃 ~~~ Our place is a bit smaller than yours and we only have one thermostat downstairs. Nothing was mentioned.

Just butted up to the architraves. Yep, good point. Our tiles are cut in half length ways and the factory edge faces up for exactly that reason. We have MDF in all the carpeted rooms, no problems whatsoever, no damage on external corners. No knots to prime. If done properly I see absolutely no issue with MDF (apart from the dust 😷)

Where we have tiled floors we used the same tile as the skirting. Looks good and hard as nails (obviously depends on the size of your tiles for this option to be considered).

I couldn’t agree more. But, if you do Heatpumps except you can’t do Heatpumps in new builds, that is pretty damn suspect.

Good grief! Well, at least you found out in good time how professional those professionals are.

@Conor good point, I wrap the magnet in a dried out wet wipe to prevent marking the wall.

Use a strong magnet (search Amazon) it will find all the screws attaching the plasterboard to the studwork and, if strong enough, the metal stud work itself.

I suspect this will be merged with another thread. I had the same email yesterday.