SuperJohnG

Ceasing the opportunity...I have a staple gun for sale. 🤣

I have gutters tying into my land drain around the perimeter of the foundations, suggested by my groundworkers. Works well. Rodding points only required at changes of direction, I have inspection chambers where I am tying a number of lines together or they go under the slab so I can rod them.

It'll be fine. They are meant to be buried so can take it, backfill with peashingke or just earth which would be much cheaper!

It likely uses a slipring to transfer all the data and power etc.

These are mine...4.6m wide 2.3m high I think. Very pleased. Having triple sliders is OK if you want 2/3rd open but I have 50% opening and happy it's very wide.

50m2 labour only. 25m2 for the materials. So 75m2 all in. I did get quotes for supply and fit for 50m2 whose work was good but weren't fully approved and I wanted the warranty

I used some and they were OK on 110mm pipes but not essential..

Hi Mark, I used K rend system which is TC15 a thin coat silicone render system finished in limestone white. I put it on knauff aquapanel boards and used the proper screws and everything, my joiners done a brilliant job mounting the boards to mm perfect which helped and I used a k rend recommended applicator. Albeit there are 15 in Scotland they would only recommend 2 in scotland. Simon from SJT plastering in Glasgow and Barrie Morrison from over your way, both do a great job and if you go k rend I'd stump the extra cash and use Barrie as your in West Lothian. You won't regret using a really good applicator.

I have an insulated foundation (Kore type) and don't have this...and never heard of it and I've read just about every thread on here about insulated foundations.

Hi im in East Ayrshire ( Stewarton) Straw bales sounds ambitious and brave for West Coast where it is always pishin it down. I'm building a SIPS house and that was far enough off the beaten track for me. By soil survey do you mean for test pits to check ground bearing strength? If so...get a man with a digger pay him 100 quid to dig a few holes while an SE looks on. But dint rush yourself to do that yet till you make a few decisions around the design type.

Hi Anna and welcome. I'm in the Glasgow area (just south towards kilmarnock). Any solicitor should be able to do it without issue. Just use a decent proper solicitor and not a fixed price conveyancing service which is very basic and albeit they are solicitors they are not really very good at things apart from doing house conveyancing. Thinks to ensure is access and provision of services. Never buya plot unless you are 100% sure that you can get services and the cost of connection. Also worthwhile adding clauses around doing checks that it isn't made up ground or contaminated etc.

Pretty cool and what a view. Can feel the cool sea breeze just looking at the pic...

Looks the boy.

Would be ok if the fascia line was close but its a good 600mm away from the window

This is actually a great suggestion. It was me who put it in...🤣. But to be fair it was the only way and has done my nut in. Nah...I've just done the render. I think he missed it. It wasn't on planning drg but was on building warrant drg. To be fair I missed it too. Such a pain.

Hm nah - not to my liking. Cant change the angle really - driven by the available branches and bends which are only at a set angle.

What about this bloody monstrosity? This was the least invasive method if getting the middle gutter to a downpipe. The other option was to take it to the left hand one, but that was worse. Other suggestions have been to run gutter right across but the eaves are 600mm and that look entirely ridiculous. Any other suggestions?

I have a 4.6m double, from zyle fenster in black. Will post a pic tomorrow

Power. I planned ours well but it was a year to get sorted, albeit I had three fields to cross and my own transformer. It didn't affect schedule just took a while. On the day they ran the lines it was mega quick. I'm currently 15 months in and outside nearly complete. It's slow now plodding along at weekends alone, but I enjoy it. Windows will hold you up, and contractors. The other thing that held it up is me, wanting to control all aspects of the build and be there and oversee people.

@A_L It's likely easy but can you walk through the calc to go from R value of a 50mm board to your figure here? @Nickfromwales Is this just a single set of cables internally to where the inverter is, plus an earth? I'm at minimum going to add these right now. I have ran some final figures now. Going to likely add 50mm PIR to the ceilings internally which works out at 300m2. Cost of this is £2100 plus my labour time which is free. The simple economics of this don't really add up as even considering 33p/kWh, with a COP of 3 on the ASHP, the saving over 20 years is only £1700 and that's allowing for starting point of the 33p compounded out at 3% - however it will remove the thermal bridges in the ceiling which is my main focus there. In stark contrast - given the same 33p/kWh and allowing for the same 20 years and compounded interest with a 4kWp array and getting 50% utilisation from that I would recoup £8k, from generating £14k worth of kWh minus a £6k outlay right now. Which is quite significant. If I up that utilisation to 75%, which shoudl be easily achievable with a PV diverter that £8k increases to £15k which is unreal. I've absolutely no doubt the PV I need to do now, it's just the wrong time from a cash flow perspective in the build stage and definitely reeling from not doing it while slates were going on. but such is life. The plan now is to run in the cables so I can do at end of build if I have cash easily. Also add the 50mm PIR as that just cannot be done later and regardless of the economics it will no doubt have other benefits.

I work on HPC the cost is astronomical and the time wasting blows my mind with so many stakeholders...even tiny wee decisions are so complex. The costs of doing major infrastructure projects. Which meets us directly unfortunately.

Slightly off topic but Prysmian make small cables through to huge subsea power cables 500mm2 and above (I design equipment that lay them), So defo OK.

I have four so far... 1) Trusted the kit suppliers subcontractors to erect my house. 2) drilled a borehole and didn't get enough water. 3) just to be sure I didn't get enough water drilled another borehole...to waste some more money. 4) my current mistake highlighted by the energy cap rise was not putting on the solar PV when I was getting roof slated. Silly mistake.

Just got this from octopus.