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    Trees!

    joe90 replied to patp's topic in Foundations

    Question, does the BCO out rank the structural engineer? Structural engineer will have insurance, will the BCO?
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    @gc100 try https://www.gov.uk/guidance/discharges-to-surface-water-and-groundwater-environmental-permits. Or. This is the company I bought my Vortex from and they gave useful information https://www.wte-ltd.co.uk/. Or Email enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk. The Vortex can discharge to a ditch that’s dry for part of the year, which is what we have, no one checked to tell If I was telling the truth?
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    +1 to the above by @redtop.
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    It was for me but could not be missed so it went in the container fir a couple of years.
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    Ha, the name comes from my nick name at school where I would invent things (and had the same kind of glasses).
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    I have a 1200 x 800 shower tray with 1200 glass panel and a 300 “flipper” panel (hinged on the first glass panel. We also have a rain head (er indoors wanted it but never used!! )and normal shower head on rail all from external mixer (don’t like plumbing buried in the wall and mine is easily replaceable and cheap?. We find very little water gets past the tray, the flipper panel stops water tracking along the glass screen and on the floor.
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    Sorry I meant pressure and flow at the trough, if it’s good enough you could extend it to the site.
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    I bought an Ebay heatpump, 4Kw, rebadged Carrier unit (kingspan), still shrink wrapped on a pallet, no warranty and only £850 delivered. Bit of a punt but it paid off big time.
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    Thats on houses with mains drains or sharing a treatment plant.
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    Like @JSHarris we have an aav (50mm) in the airing cupboard just below ceiling level upstairs and this is to avoid “gurgling” in any traps in the house. We also have a vent pipe on the detached garage to vent the treatment plant.
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    Yes as long as they are still rising (hence 92.5k bends) Not away but above, loft conversions should extend the soil pipe above the new loft windows.
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    I would think so. Less penetrations of airtight layer especially if the duct then run in service void. Do you mean the ducts to outside? Fresh air and exhaust as per @JSHarris note above? Where do you plan to put these?, is the cupboard on an external wall?, if so no need to break the airtight ceiling barrier at all.
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    @Oz07 depends where your manifold goes, if it’s in the loft then all “distribution ducts” will need to penetrate your airtight layer anyway and your manifold will also need insulating, this is why having a warm loft was so easy for me. Loads of room to service/install everything. I did see a drawing somewhere (but can’t find it) where the MVHR unit and manifold are installed in a cold loft but in a “box “ and the airtight layer and insulation go over it, so it becomes part of the house rather than loft. Would need a door to access it fir servicing/setting it up but easier than a full warm loft (tho I like mine).
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    I would not compromise my ceiling height if you have spare loft space, loft insulation is cheap, 200mm laid on top (if insulation exists below them) IMO would be more than adequate. Mine is installed in a warm loft (so no insulation required, apart from incoming from outside to the unit) and it was soooo much easier to instal in an open space.
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    Half the Tamar is in Devon, it’s (most) of the county boundary!
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    @Amateur bob might be a good idea to measure the water pressure and flow rate at the trough, if it’s good enough then bobs your uncle (pun intended) ?.if not new pipe back to meter on your land (decent size) you can do all the work and no road crossings to cost a lot.
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    EA authorised it’s use in our situation and this passed on to BC, EA were very helpful as I had to tell them which water course it ended up in, but I didn’t know or find out, she asked for my postcode and she worked out our outfall ended up in the Tamar.
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    I do, the vortex treatment plant we have can discharge to a ditch that is dry for part of the year as long as it’s connected to it by a rumble drain (perforated pipe buried in drainage stone).
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    I am planning a tractor shed on the side of my garage under permitted development but it’s not allowed in front of the primary face of the house or road side but my garage is already in front of the house and I have a road on both sides???.
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    This is a contradiction mate, you either trust him or you don’t?. How can it be too deep if the floor level is what you asked them for? And if it’s not you make him put it right. Frankly your worrying fir the sake of it. (Sorry to be blunt). You keep telling us he has a good reputation therefore you must trust him. I have fairly recently finished my first build and it was not stressful at all, perhaps it’s just me (others kept telling me it was a stressful thing to do), my builder had a good reputation, I kept up to date on what he was doing and why.
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    Perhaps this comes under the remit of trading standards, very naughty.
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    I don’t know, with all the things that go wrong on GD might make you feel better about your own build?
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    Is the loft insulated ?, run the ducts under the loft insulation. Our unit is in a warm loft but I still had to insulate the in and out ducts to the outside as condensation was forming on the “in” duct.
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    My build would never get on Grand Designs, nothing went wrong!. I did write to ch4 to suggest a new programme in light of global warming etc etc “Green Designs”. Did not get a reply?.
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    How far from hole to ceiling. Can you not drill at ceiling height?
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