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    @vivienz it’s quite interesting really, the house has no heating but has never felt cold over the winter even though it’s been down to 10 degrees inside, now that we’ve added gallons of water 14 degrees feels cold. @Dreadnaught We’ll use what we have left to finish of the bathrooms and toilet where it will be tiled over, so much easier to use. Onwards and upwards...
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    Sadly my Fermacell experiment has come to an end. We've found it very difficult to get a smooth flush finish to the boards with a less than smooth and uneven timber frame to attach the boards to. Where resilient bars were used it went someway to help but that hasn't been fool proof. The precision required to ensure that endless filling and sanding isn't needed prior to the Fine Surface Treatment is very time consuming and has been problematic. As time was running out we ended up getting the first room skim plastered, which made me weep as all the time and effort to get it pretty good was then buried beneath a few mm of plaster. The plasterer hated the Fermacell but he's done a great job. I had a go with the FST in one of the cupboards and I didn't get on with it very well at all. With more practice and time I may have got to grips with it, but I don't have the time so the final decision was made. No more Fermacell. I wished it had worked out for us because it's really quite disappointing to be introducing so much water into what was a nice and dry house but such is life. As many advised: It's heavy. Dust created with power tools is hideous. It does indeed eat power tools and their blades alive. It is of course expensive.
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    So it would seem to be a similar product but without the ‘name’ for similar money. That makes one wary. Thanks for the feedback. Does one follow the other? I know BPC have a good reputation here.
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    @Big Jimbo it does look good. What is that cladding? Is it Cedral (or something like that?)
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    @Jeremy Harris How do the 'specs' of the Komfovent compare to your Genvex? Are they much the same?
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    There blurb says that one of the benefits of the Rotary Heat Exchanger is that it won't freeze up even at -30 outside which means the unit doesn't have to defrost and let cold air past the heat exchanger in the process.
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    That's where I first saw them, I thought they were very reasonably priced until I dug deeper/scrolled further and actually looked at the price of the RHP model which is quiet reassuringly expensive.
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    Has anyone heard of these Komfovent MVHR units? Does anyone have any experience of them? https://www.komfovent.com/en/business/rhp/ They have a Rotary Heat Exchanger, I've never heard of that before but they sound quite clever but is it really just one more thing to go wrong? Plus a little bit of cooling/heating. What does the collective wisdom think of these units?
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    @Moonshine, as @Bitpipe says, you want them on the same elevation. Could they both go out of the west elevation above your master suite?
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    @Moonshine It does sound like it'll be a bit tight. Where do you plan to route the inlet and exhaust for the MVHR? Straight up through the roof? It'll looks like it will definitely get a bit crowded up there.
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    Unless I’ve misunderstood you, that sounds to me as though you expect one manifold for each floor whereas each manifold serves both floors (extract from the kitchen/supply to the lounge. Extract from the bathroom, supply to the bedrooms)
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    Up. In that picture you’ll see the standing seam above the the top right hand panel looks a bit fatter, it’s actually a bit of black conduit attached to the seam, cables within. It goes under the ridge and along to the gable end then down behind the cladding on the gable end and in to the loft space about a foot above and midway between the two posh stainless steel MVHR vents The most difficult part of all that was having roofers and PV installers in the same county at the same time.
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    We’ll put you on the ‘like’ list then. Whilst the house already has a name we’ve taken to calling it Marmite House for the reaction it’s caused ? Those stainless vents were cheap as chips. I wish I could say the same about everything else!
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    Here you go @gc100
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    @gc100, not a recent one, I’ll take one tomorrow and post it.
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    Yep, sadly that was the option we ended up going with. Black panels on anthracite zinc. To my eye it looks ok, but it wasn’t what we initially planned.
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    We were going to use this company: https://bipvco.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/BIPVco-Active-Classroom-case-study.pdf on Tata steel panels. Our plans with Tata went rapidly south a long time ago and I believe BIPVco don’t work with them any more (could be wrong). BIPVco would have taken the roof sheets to their factory to bond the PV on to them, as we ended up going with zinc, formed on site, the bonded PV wasn’t an option, at least not one that we could find.
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    You’d think so, wouldn’t you, apart from whilst I recognised pretty much all the words that @nod used, I don’t think I’ve seen them arranged in that order before! ??? I'm constantly amazed with how little I know.
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    Well, it’s all going a bit pear shaped with me and the Fermacell. Out of time, out of skill etc etc. Im going need to plaster the Fermacell in at least one room in an effort to get back on track which raise a question from the plasterer which hopefully @PeterW can help with. The question is: How do do you seal the Fermacell boards prior to plastering? Here’s hoping someone knows the answer!
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    @PeterW Thanks for the tip Peter.
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    @Visti that would have been very tough going I’m sure! Where are you getting the spatula from? I’m struggling to track one done without a £30 delivery charge!
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    And I thought it was just me!
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    Same here. What do you plan on using to apply the FST? Have you got one of those Fermacell spatulas or are you going to be using something else?
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    @oldkettle Typo, I actually meant 'warped studs' but as it happens the bottom of the posi joists are all over the place as well (3 or 4 mm) @Visti The 10-15mm is the exception - but they're there! And yep, I've been using a plane as well. I haven't got round to filling yet, I have that pleasure to come. Have you used any of the FST yet? For the cutouts I'm using a flat wood bit in the corners and a jigsaw, that works well. Destroyed one saw blade already, I don't suspect the jigsaw is far behind!
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    I'd love to report that it's all going swimmingly with the Fermacell and it's a delight to work with but someone once told me that honesty is the best policy, so I won't. Still achingly slow progress, Endless adjustments to the timber frame to deal with; warped joist, noggins that aren't central in the joists, battens that are different depths and so on. Generally its 3 or 4mm I'm fretting over but up to 10 to 15mm in places and as the plan is to finish with the Fine Surface Treatment I think these irregularities will stand out like the dog's. I presume if I'd gone down the traditional route of plasterboard and skim coat then the plasterboard would have gone straight on the frame and the plasterer would have hidden all the minor twists and turns of the timber frame beneath. @PeterW Do you have any smart short cuts up your sleeve that I should be employing to make life a little easier?
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