joe90

Pick it all out, take off all paint, let it breathe and point with lime.

dog not cat, sits there cocking her head trying to work out where it’s coming from (like me )!

Yeh right, was that after Nigella or before ?

Interesting, I always read “affordable” as “subsidised”.

I don’t know that make but the hip looks messy, the ribbed flashing should be stuck down to the tiles, but it’s not. I folded mine back a little under the hip tile so not to be seen (but well stuck down). Yes, ridge fixings look odd. Best to ask the builder why it looks like that!. Welcome by the way ?

Welcome to THE forum on self build, Gosh, Clifton, that will be very expensive. Best of luck finding a plot and your future plans.

I did this, hung it from the roof trusses, not on the bedroom ceilings, mounted on rubber feet. NO noise in the house apart from air whoosh when on boost.

I am a “cynical old bugger” who installed his own ASHP etc with a bit of help from others here. Yes RHI is fraud in my opinion. Any bad press about ASHP is where they are not installed/programmed correctly.

On one of my first houses I did a GRP valley (as I could not afford the lead!) GRP was unheard of as a roofing solution back then but I had built a canoe out of the stuff years before and got on well with it. I fashioned a spout out of old lead and continued the GRP over it. Added an old cast iron hopper to the downpipe and it Looked really good.

Our conservatory “whines “ when the wind is in a particular direction, proving very difficult to locate the source, sounds odd.

yes, I can’t make out any weep vents or sign of cavity tray in that photo!!!

we have a mantra here about insulation, insulation, insulation so we will be interested in the details, insulation, cold bridge avoidance, heating and DHW plans, so bring it on.

Welcome tell us more!!!

No, the GRP forms the “gutter” , the lead cloaking slid into the wall and dressed over the vertical GRP part (I think????). On the slope part the felt and tiles go over the GRP.

+1 on GRP, no steps required, all done in one piece, tough as old boots. (And no one wants to Nick GRP).

Looking good zoot, well done!

Can you put a multimeter on the Willis to confirm it’s turning off at 30! ?

No, get them fixed in place. They will soon dry out once the roof is covered, I have built cut roofs in the rain before.

No, but it was like a plastic bag (this was 40 years ago ?).

As a slight “aside” what checks are done on a g3 installation annually?

that happened to me many years ago, plastic header tank was about to let go and flood the house. The tank was a funny shape after that. Only noticed it as I heard boiling water sounds from the airing cupboard when walking past.

I would prefer to say “could be problematic “. We have a house built to near passive spec and have a wood burner. It is room sealed and yes it’s probably a little bit of a heat sink in cold weather but the room in general is no colder than the rest of the house. We have MVHR (but still have not balanced it yet ?) if we light the stove fir a cosy evening the room goes up from 21 to 23 degrees after an hour, we don’t light it fir long and the house is noticeably warmer even the next morning (lots of thermal mass ?). We would not be without it.

Or you could cast a ring beam on an mot base, with rebar in it instead of bricks. Blind with sand, DPC, infill with foam insulation and floating wood floor on that.

Well done you, that showed them eh?

And with mine which is why my son calls it “the poo jacuzzi “