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    ? with that reaction @joe90 I guess I’m now looking for the ‘paddle shop’ now!
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    I was rooting around in the Hafele catalogue where I suspect the answer to my problem lies but I couldn’t decipher it.
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    @joe90 I don’t have the room for hinges as per your diagram, it’s in the loft so limited space, plus if it opens more than 90 degrees it’ll start digging holes in the plaster.
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    What hinge do I need to allow a wardrobe door to open and close as per the image below? I’m completely whelmed by the choice available, bordering on over whelmed.
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    you could call it... a tap! ? @Dreadnaught you mention having to convince you’re M&E advisor on the merits of an alternative system to the hot return loop. Just TELL him that is what you’re having. You mention you’re using a Sunamp so you’re M&E advisor is clearly already comfortable with some less than conventional elements of your design so he should be able to manage an alternative to a hot return loop.
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    @Adsibob WAY better to ask than wish you’d asked.
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    @Arnold9801 so @Tennentslager was right on the money. And I’ve used one, but never thought to ask its name! (you should have strung us along for a bit, a golden opportunity wasted ?)
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    @Tennentslager is it? I’m steering clear of Google on this one because I don’t want to spoil the surprise.
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    @Arnold9801 I can’t wait for the reply’s because I have absolutely no idea what on earth a ‘dappling bar’ is. This is better than home schooling I suspect.
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    @Jason L We used this style of cowl vent, clearly no use on a roof but may be there is something similar somewhere that would work on a roof? I think they are similar to @JamesP's but with a much coarser mesh. The coarse mesh will probably let lots of rubbish through, so minimising external cleaning requirements. I made a 'pre filter' just prior to the MVHR to catch that rubbish. The pre filter also allows access to the back of the cowl so I can clean it from inside the house. My pre-filter is probably over large and it turns the airflow through 90° but I reckon something much more compact could be knocked up as an in-line filter. Provided it was big enough to get an air line in you could blow all the crap of any external mesh from within.
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    @ma9mwah what @BartW said. That was a bit over my head as well!
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    I don’t suppose you have a link that specific reg do you?
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    Could you run a supply duct up along the ridge of the vaulted ceiling, boxed in, or would that ruin the aesthetic?
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    @Jason L as above, I’d get one in the dining area. Also I’d get them further away from the doors, as you have done in the sitting room. When I did mine I found out somewhere that the supply and extract air valves should be at least 1500mm from any wall. I can’t remember for the life of me where I found that but it’s something I’ve tried to do where possible, unfortunately doing that upsets my OCD as the valves are not necessarily in an eye pleasing position in the ceilings or aligned with light fittings.
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    Yes you can, and if needed you can also get a flatter version if there isn’t room for the round. The more 90 degree bends the more the flow is restricted though.
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    @Temp Two good ideas there - apart from the carpet one that is. I’ll get right on to it ?
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    Some clown, probably me, kicked over a tin of Hammerite thinners, right after cleaning some black Hammerite from a spray gun. We now have a massive black stain on the slab. I soaked up as much as I could and covered the stain in sawdust for a couple of days but it still stinks of thinners. I assume the odour will disappear in time but is there anything else I can do to ensure the room, that will be carpeted, doesn’t always have a whiff of thinners about it?
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    +1 to that. When we finally get in to our new gaff we’ll be waving a sad farewell to a Clearview wood burner. They’re not the Rolls-Royce of wood burners, they are the Tesla of wood burners.
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    Our fence was done with 3m arris rails for aesthetics. Any shorter and it seemed to me there would be too many post cluttering things up. I can’t fault the quality. (My nephew did it and he’s bigger than me.)
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    Dead impressed with the cupboards @Big Jimbo and the bed, we need a wee vid to see the sofa/bed conversion, plus how exactly did you straighten out the warped ply?
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    @SteamyTea it may just come to that!
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    Which Osmo Oil?

    Russdl replied to ProDave's topic in Decorating

    Just thought I’d share my OSMO experience so far. Our stairs treads are made out of oak/engineered oak and to try and keep them lightish and greyish and stop them going orangeish I’ve used OSMO’s Polyx Oil - light grey. It’s a bit nerve wracking, the product in the tin is most definitely grey, it looks like a grey primer paint. I had numerous trial runs on off cuts of oak before I had the balls to go for it on the treads themselves but I’ve achieved the look I’m after. Time will tell if it keeps the orange at bay. In the picture below the horizontally aligned treads have had one coat and the vertical treads the maximum of two coats.
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    Finally the MVHR with added bits is properly fitted and the loft space in which it resides is taped and painted. The spiders are already on the advance through the grills on the intake and exhaust vents so hopefully my MVHR pre filter will keep them out of the MVHR itself. The pre filters are airtight so should be spider proof as well. The home made attenuators are easy to remove, which I’ll need to do to fit the restrictor rings to the manifolds and I haven’t airtight taped the fronts on yet. Not sure if I need to? The boxes are lined with acoustic foam, would that be airtight enough I wonder, and how would I know if it wasn’t? Just need some electricity to see if it all works as I hope ??
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    Does that mean you have to ship the roof panels to BiPVCo to get the PV bonded to them?
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    @SimonD he posted drawings on page one of this thread. Doesn’t look too complex.
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