joe90

Just an update, Andrew (the VAT man) has just emailed me to say he has got a “VAT legal expert” to look at my claim (at no cost to me) and he thinks I may get another £1000 refunded (minus 22% fee). Watch this space.

We have an immersion for anti legionella protection but after reading here that there has not been a single case of domestic problems with this I have not bothered to wire it up. I believe the problem comes from stagnant water in shower heads that are not used fir a period of time. Edit to add,- As i had not heard of pseudomanas I had to look it up and found this, Pseudomonas is a germ found in the environment. It can occur in moist areas such as sinks or baths. It rarely causes illness outside a hospital or healthcare setting.

The only instant hot (warm!) water heater I have is in the detached workshop . I ran hot water pipe in 10mm plastic to avoid wating fir hot water, designed the house around central DHW tank (short runs). DHW tank is well lagged and temp like @ProDave is 48’. All running on an ASHP (4KW) ?

Yes, the Clearwater site is not very specific about this, with our plant (different make but similar process) I have an AAV inside the house but this is purely to stop “gurgling” or trap water being pulled due to negative pressure when pulling the flush or emptying the bath, my external pipework is vented with a stack pipe up the side of the garage after the house, this vents the plant pipework as I think they mean above. Doing it this way also stops a thermal bridge with a stack on the house connected through the house wall.

Why do you need a structural engineer? With regard the foundations the BCO should be able to give an indication of what he wants, a couple of test holes should prove it!

Like @ProDave above we have an ASHP and 300ltre DHW tank and it does us plus a couple of guests just fine. We have a couple of immersions in the tank in case of ASHP failure/downtime or loads of guests but not needed yet.

I bought a nail gun second hand and it saves soooo much time, I have however pulled timbers together with screws just to hold it in place (need more hands!) then nailed them with the nail gun, you could probably sell the nail gun for what you paid for it afterwards (but if like me you see it as a necessary tool to keep ?).paslode nails and gas are expensive but loads of copy ones work just fine and much cheaper.

A neighbour had a gas boiler replaced on the cheap and didn’t touch radiators or pipework, boiler lasted about 4 months before major problems and engineer (I had to let him in) said just that, needed a new heat exchanger £££ and no chance of flushing it out.

I have to get the boiler in our rental serviced annually (£45) and I know the boiler is old and spares difficult to get but I took out direct line landlord insurance and it covers boiler breakdown and even boiler replacement if spares are not available ?

But most of the ASHP,s are built by large manufacturers such as Carrier (like mine) who have been building air con systems (ASHP in reverse) since 1902, it’s just a fridge in reverse and how often does a fridge go wrong or need a service?

Yup, I wanted straw bale build once as well, did all the research and I went on two builds in Pembrokeshire as a volunteer for a week and enjoyed it very much but it was very labour intensive (and I am getting on a bit?) Very happy with our brick “cottage”.

Not my cup of tea but a little better now it’s finished, that polycarbonate will make a racket in heavy rain!!!! But better with the timber rails. Having done my build through illness, he is a twit for not going fir blood stuff and checkups.

Yup watching it now (buildhub In advert breaks!) yes scissor trusses look good but they never go into what “we” want to know, u values, insulation, airtightness details.

I presume that’s not a typo!!!!!

I don’t fancy filling tyres and using a hammer to compress it all ?

I always do that, give us a sketch of the roof/trim detail (preferably with dimensions).

My brother for years used to have to hit his pump with a hammer first time he put the heating on after the summer.

I don’t think so, you can see the taper of the door reveal in the photo, so the door looks vertical and the wall NOT. @AnonymousBosch You mention Evalon V and a capping strip, can you not get another capping strip, same colour, to come out over your timber cladding. You don’t want too many different materials as it will make it scrappy. Your diagram does not show membrane and capping strip (just being picky?).

@AnonymousBosch what version of CAD is that your using?, I really like it. ?. How far out is your wall vertically?, would you notice 10mm out of vertical? I like the idea of packing battens out to be “level”. How long is the green stuff on your roof overhanging the wall? If it’s long enough just run cladding up under it (we need more accurate measurements).

I find some things annoy me every time I look at them if they are not right, others don’t, can’t explain why.

I made my own out of bits and like @JSHarris mine are not adjustable (previous threads talk about air noise from restrictions at the terminal). I can’t remember where I got the bits but they were dead cheap. (Note to self, get the MVHR balanced) ?

Re @Onoff AstroTurf, two things, will it support people? And was it invented by the Greeks to hide their pools and avoid tax!

No (as far as a remember, but it was decades ago?) some firms accepted a grade 1 CSE as the equivalent of an O level.

I only got three o levels (and a gcse) and I am better off than quite a few people I know with a degree!

Tesco crates!!!, (I know they are supposed to go back ? )or any other supermarket crate, they are solid, stack well (no lids) I got a load and still use them in my garage (built a rack for them to slide into) and loft, they even have a label slot .