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Are you friends with Dorothy?

Won't be any of mine then! @zoothorn, this balancing lark is a real thing. People aren't just saying for a laugh. Picked at random but try this: https://www.bestheating.com/info/a-best-heating-guide-how-to-balance-radiators/#:~:text=When you balance radiators%2C you,then your radiators need balancing. As for a temperature measuring device you can pick up a multimeter with temperature probe like in the guide above for about a tenner.

@zoothorn could you in some way harness the heat from the bridges you keep burning? ?

Like a train wreck you can't take your eyes off! ?

All the ribbing was in jest! (Payment in kind as per usual please ?)

Looks pucker that!

Agreed. Even in my as yet unheated bathroom the tiled floor is oddly not particulary cold underfoot.

300mm? For new builds on this site that's pretty normal now. People's build specs (here) far exceed the regs in terms of insulation and particularly air tightness. Air tightness is critical but goes hand in hand with good ventilation in the form of MVHR so as not to get high humidity, dead air, mould etc. Couple all that together, done right and it equates to lower bills.....forever. I've dug down in one 10m2 room only (by hand). Ended up with 165mm insulation. 150mm pir + 25mm eps. If I'd have known what I do now I'd have maybe dug deeper! (In fact with hindsight I might have done it all different! ?). @oranjeboom on here dug down the floors in his whole (existing) house. Not sure how much insulation he ended up with. Think he went with ewi too? You can only go so far with an old house. Internal walls will go through the floor insulation layer whereas in a new build you might start with a big, insulated slab. First floor joists penetrating walls create multiple cold bridge and air leakage points. Everything can be improved but it's often a time consuming, disruptive, work-around that falls short. Worse if you're living there! (In fact with hindsight I'd have knocked it down and rebuilt it! ??).

They are excellent, invisible too.

Learn to plaster, pay a tiler.

You go girl! Beauty is in the eye of the randomiser anyway. (The Randomiser was a device that would ensure a TARDIS would land at unpredictable times and places).

@Jeremy Harris made a comment in the thread below, that even with his 300mm of EPS below his slab he's losing around 8% to keeping the worms warm. You only pay for insulation once.

We're still waiting.....

How high are the ceilings? Raise the door heights?

Smaller one's coming tomorrow. All of £3 I think it was. The only thing is when it's in its stainless steel enclosure on a roof, in the height of Summer it can get pretty hot in there. I've seen smd stuff literally dripping off of inverter boards.

The 2VA trannie turned up. Though it'll fit on plan I reckon it'll be tight up against the case. Thinking a bit of airflow over the top is a good idea so I've ordered a 1.5VA. That'll give the nom. 3mm clearance like the original one had.

Under that landing footprint might just be the perfect place to bring in a new flow and return from the boiler in the future. I'll try and finish the ground floor plan some time and it might be a bit clearer.

Surely the welding in the first photo was done in the factory with the steel then shipped off to the galvanisers? Looks reasonable... The shit welding on that extrusion at the top of the second and third photo is aluminium isn't it? That can be a mission on site, especially if windy. Then the angle to the box all steel? Looks like they used the same broken silicone gun for both! ? Reminds me of a few months back when I set up a bit of angle clamped to a box section and told my lad to weld it up. (He hasn't been welding long). No matter what he did it'd only take to the box. Give it to Dad I said. Silly Daddy, with my dodgy eyes I'd picked a piece of old, discoloured, BRASS angle from the garage. I'd kept my mask on, switched to grind mode when I cut it to length and ground it clean. I just didn't notice including when setting up. I've occasionally had stuff tacked up on site then taken back to the factory, properly welded and galvanised such is my aversion to plain painted steel. Saying that I've even "fabricated" complex templates in the same thickness MDF, cut to fit with woodwork tools then sent that down to the fabricators and said "copy that" in steel.

When, not if, I dig the stairs room floor up I need to decide what to do about the bottom landing. That is whether to dig down underneath it and build the whole floor back up including that section. That'll be a game!

More like Cabernet And Disarrono!

How many bottles? ?

SWMBO bless her! Just look at the pictures on page 14 of this thread... "Can we leave the corners (aka all the piled high tat) & stuff under the stairs and just dig up the middle bit (of floor)?"

You draw it, I'll build it! ? I can't see how I can connect the UFH loop straight to this single pipe without blending. It's too hot surely for the tiles etc. The pipe is pumped straight from the oil boiler. (My lad's cheapo multimeter):

Yep, cool in the Summer and 'kin freezing now! When I do get heating in there I won't stop grinning hopefully.