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Any links to a good, cheap MVHR unit that would do the one bathroom? Room volume nom 9m3.
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Not easy. To get a duct to the other side of the kitchen would mean clearing an upstairs bedroom, carpets up etc. Possibly an option for later though. Would have to drill though the wall where the copper pipes go through. Not sure on joist levels etc. Would my idea of the fresh air duct just outside the bathroom work?
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Still got to do this so thinking on options and tbh ease of install and maybe future planning: Option 1: Simple extractor fan. place directly above the shower end of the bath here (Zone 2): Duct through the wall: To vent here: Or ducted to a tile vent: With the above, potentially no drilling. No MVHR though. Option 2: Vent Axia Lo Carbon MVHR unit, 12V: Mounted here, again in Zone 2: Ducted through the wall to here: Thinking the heat recovery aspect and bringing fresh air in would be good. Or a combination of the above, or something else...no drilling is appealing. How about. A "proper" MVHR up in the loft space. Fresh air intake and warm, wet extract tile vents on the roof, one each end. Warm, wet intake in the bathroom, same place, above the shower. Fresh air ducted into the lobby ceiling just outside the bathroom? Would I need to insulate any ducts?
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@onoff’s been on the silicone again
Onoff replied to Pocster's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Tbh he very likely passed it on as his own observation. Whatever if it gets it sorted. The powers that be would be more likely to listen to him than me. Saying that, an email from Joe Public on this sort of this thing nowadays tends to sort it as it leaves an undeniable paper trail. -
@onoff’s been on the silicone again
Onoff replied to Pocster's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
I knew one of the consultants working at the then new London Bridge Station. As a passenger I noted some stupid, projecting screws on the escalators. Took a photo and told him. Next thing they all got changed. -
@onoff’s been on the silicone again
Onoff replied to Pocster's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Cruising then. Talk about busman's holiday! -
@onoff’s been on the silicone again
Onoff replied to Pocster's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
No comeback? Presumably in custody charged with going equipped...with a DeWalt cordless and holesaw! -
@onoff’s been on the silicone again
Onoff replied to Pocster's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Are you looking for fastlove? -
Never had an issue until now in about 15 years. Now there's 5 people using the bathroom. Got any links to this and where the vents should go?
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Went over today and had a look. Definite mould spots Need to sort asap really. Bathroom is nom 9m3. Height from floor to ceiling is 2170mm. Inside bath to ceiling is 2100mm so Zone 2 all the way to the ceiling above the bath and 600mm past the bath. Interesting outside, an old air brick blocked up with a very weak mix. There's no matching vent inside though, cavity vent?
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Block Paving - Batch issues different shade
Onoff replied to canalsiderenovation's topic in Driveways
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A Vent Axia MVHR unit here? Would draw the warm, wet air across to it and out the wall?
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Looking to fit an "extractor fan" to a small bathroom extension. Rental and really nice tenant. 3 kids, lots of bathroom use so some black spotting on the ceiling above the bath. Bathroom window directly above the garden box: Access into the roof space above the bathroom is likely doable, through the airing cupboard where the gas boiler is (lucky I'm slim): Looking from the hatch to the end wall above the garden box:. There's a smattering of old fluffly insulation between the ceiling joists. As the outside is all brick thinking this must be a cavity wall on the end. Looks like a line of Celcon blocks just above the joists. Not sure how those ceiling joists are "fixed", looks like L brackets rather than proper hangers. I was thinking I might as well put a crawling board up there and maybe re-insulate whilst in there. Going over there at the weekend so will look then. Going to get some better internal pictures. Thinking mabe a SELV extract directly above the bath but have to check heights to the ceiling ref Zones. Pretty sure it's all Zone 1 above the bath height wise. Saying that, an inline fan in the loft space would I think negate any requirement for SELV/PELV? I can fit an isolator above the bathroom door entrance on that grey bit of wall to the left, behind the chandelier. The door in the picture is the airing cupboard door open against the bathroom door: Rough sketch of the bathroom. There's a shower rail and folding screen the towel rail end. Mulling a single room MVHR unit above the sink exiting out into the "alley", first picture above: Only photos I have:
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I like the traditional, smelly one that gives you a headache in confined spaces.
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Glue some 3" drainpipe together with solvent weld. Makes a lovely duct. Covered in pea shingle it won't go anywhere. PM me your address and I'll send you a few metres of cable tape to put just under the surface. You can even spiral wrap round the "duct" so there's no doubt should somebody dig it up. The "duct" between my gate pillars is drain pipe. Mind its all then covered in concrete. I've SWA in there then other cables in their own 20mm ducts within the 3" pipe.
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Proper DNO stuff I used. Cost me a tenner off eBay/Gumtree. Brought it back round the M25 from Esher ratchet strapped to the roof of my then Golf GTi. It's smoothbore and a heavy bitch of a thing to wrestle with. No harm, if trenching anyway to run other ducts in, say a blue one for water in the workshop.
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Found at random: https://www.idealhome.co.uk/diy/building-a-pergola-things-to-consider
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Cut through housings in your roof joists at the appropriate angle to fit over the front and rear goalposts. Just Google "pergola designs" and then Images for ideas.
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Get a local fabricator to make exactly what you want?
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That stone wall would probably give a lovely key if you were to render it. Much easier to stick flashband to a flat surface...
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Ideally you would screw a guide batten to the wall, cut to the angle of the slope. Batten has to be positioned "high enough" so you can use the grinder, 9" probably best. Lead will poke into the slot, come down the wall a bit then dress over the profile.
