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Not back buttering our kitchen and cloakroom tiles has led to a “hollow” sounding floor which will need to come up some time, but as the skirting and kitchen is now fitted it’s not a job I am looking forward to. Also not double boarding the downstairs ceilings has led to voices being heard between floors.

I am in the middle, unable to use ground slab due to many things so went fir 70mm liquid screed and that works well.

On our plot, my late father in law had a cess pit in the field, quite small, and he used to empty it himself with a bucket and rope and put it on his potato growing garden!!!,!. He also drank water from his well which turned out to be surface water, not aquifer water, which had iron and copper in it (we know because we had it tested). He lived into his nineties ?. Reminds me of the joke, one gardener to another, “what do you put on your rhubarb?”, “horse muck” came the reply, first gardener said “we put custard on ours!”

I used old road scrapings on top of existing road stone and the tarmac contractor said 50mm top layer was sufficient for our drive, he has done that and given us a guarantee.

I pay Tesco mobile £ 7.50 per month for loads of minutes, texts and data AND a smart phone (not the latest admittedly) but I don’t use apps.

What’s an app? ?

I would suggest that most people do not read “terms and conditions” AT ALL. Let alone understand the implications. When I worked for B.T. I had to sign the official secrets act because I could listen into conversations carrying out my work on the network.

Dead right, I took mine to appeal and won hands down, appeal inspector even documented that the planner was not abiding by their own policies!!!!

Yes, when I was fighting my planners they suggested I build “what they wanted” and then extended it in the future??? Go figure!

One of the things that modelling cannot get exactly right (I believe) is local topography, we are in a flat location near the Atlantic and (in my opinion) get a lot of windwash that can suck the heat from the outer skin unless there is no wind (rare). @JSHarris is in a hollow and a suntrap which may be why his overheating at times is not quite what the calculations showed. We are yet to have a summer with our south facing conservatory so we are yet to see how it performs but so far (spring) it’s been great. edit to add, I did no modelling at all, just gut reaction on what I felt was right and followed passive house principles. Let’s hope I was right ?

The ASHP would be located outdoors and are really quiet so noise should not be an issue. We have a south facing sunspace (conservatory) which we have been told will over heat but we have solar glass to cut this somewhat and when it’s warm out there we open bifolds into the kitchen diner and lounge and the heat warms the house quite nicely. As you will see from numerous threads on here MVHR are very poor at moving heat via air (although I know of one that does). To negate solar gain you may need shades of some sort outside the glass on those warm days. We like the outdoors and views hence our South facing sunspace and on cooler winter days a nice place to sit in the sun but out of the cold.

I had a little bout of dizziness and after seeing my GP she recommended looking at Utube !,,,, apparently crystals can build up in the ear canal but it can be drained by moving your head in certain directions and lying fir a while in a certain position, it worked! (for me). Sounds like your roofer has something worse, perhaps like JSH. Good for you for sending him to the doc, imagine if he fell off your roof!

Wow, you must be so pleased, mine still looks like the Somme ?.

What a shame, I have just heard my bricklayer/builder that did such a good job on my build has just had a stroke and is in a bad way, self employed, ex military fit guy 6 years younger than me. Hope you find someone soon.

When I renovated a cottage in Shropshire a friend said their friends were thinking of doing the same so I lent them my scrapbook of photos showing the work involved (it was very derelict and I lived in a caravan), last I heard they put a deposit down on a new house ?

Ah, I stand corrected, as @JSHarris says above:-

Do I remember correctly that a fly by wire plane (first?) crashed when the test pilots tried to do a “fake” landing I.e wheels down then open the throttles and fly on but the “computer” said “no, we are landing” and the plane crashed into woodlands killing the crew. I think they then changed it to “pilots have the last word not the computer.”. please correct the above if I remember it wrong.

Welcome, there is no such thing as a stupid question, stupid is not asking !.. I believe we are all better informed from being on this forum. I spent many years up near you walking the hills, wonderful area.

I am the same as @ProDave, not a plant room but an airing cupboard with tank as above and er indoors is complaining it’s not hot enough as an airing cupboard ?.

Yes we are in the country where “liquid muck” is spread over the fields but easy to switch the MVHR off for a while, better than living in a town with all the other invisible pollutants in my opinion !

I have just watched it and I know planning was relaxed but building regs?... obviously an architect must have been involved? And an S.E. surely? What happened to her roof was a design fault and yet no mention of architect or S.E. was made and she had to stump up for the fix.

Hi Tony, towel rads are electric on timers so not on all the time, Also the heating does not come on at all in the summer months so I went for electric to dry towels whatever time of year it is.

I came across a site (somewhere) where a stud wall was built with verticals staggered but overlapping so apart from foot and header plate (4x2) the 3x2 verts were not touching each other and acoustic foam weaved itself between them. (Needs a diagram really ?).

I bought all my floor tiles from B@Q and they were very reasonable and look great.

And name and shame the builders ?