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Look harder! https://www.downlightsdirect.co.uk/shallow-downlights.html

Available from CPC:

PIR no good if any chance of damp. EPS is the kiddie for damp, that's why all the passive brigade put "300mm of eps" under their slabs.

Clay flower pots are an option for "hoods". Hole in the top though...

Double post!

I originally had a lovely, airtight vcl between the ceiling pb and underside of 145mm joists. Multiple penetration now with said downlights, speakers etc. At each downlight I've carefully removed the pir in between the joists leaving the foil. You can just see the green vcl. The Thermahoods will be stuck down to the pb with intumescent mastic then the whole thing foamed in. Flexible metal conduit will come out from the foam into proper conduit. I'm aiming to this bond the Thermahood edge to the cut edge where the vcl is, to go some way to reinstating the vcl. The Thermahood will become part of the vcl in effect. I can't do that with the body dryer so I'm going to line the vertical edges over the blue vcl with Asbestolux type fire proof panelling. All edges again will be intumescent sealed. This'll then be capped over with pink pb on an intumescent foam seal and a slab of pir over that. All screwed down for future access to the body dryer terminals. (Red Commando jobbie is a test plug from when I took it into work to try). This'll be wired again in galv conduit back to the board.

I've used Thermahoods. They do low profile ones. Gets expensive if lots to do. I saw something similar in Wickes the other day. https://www.thermahooddirect.com/product/thermahood-th-095-square-low-profile-downlight-cover-pack-of-10no/?

I have a steel staircase construction book that may help you. You have a pm.

It's not a diy option afaik.

A few 10% off offers at the Exeter Elexshow: http://elexshow.info/category/news/ http://elexshow.info/register/

Hope you're going to stain that ply...

So if does 60'x10' at 1" thick. That's nom 20x3m so 60sqm. A 25mm sheet of pir is about 2.9sqm call it 3sqm to make it easier. So 20 sheets. Call it £10 per sheet. £200 all in. 3 times cheaper than spray. Check out Icynene. @PeterStarck had it done.

You'd have thought the government would have stepped in. Pretty sure in Oz that home PV generation has long, well for the last few years at least, exceeded what they buy from the grid. Must make for some nervous electricity suppliers and in turn the government through lost taxation.

I find it strange the project has failed... https://reneweconomy.com.au/solarreserve-abandons-huge-solar-tower-and-storage-plant-near-port-augusta-93885/

We occasionally get the most horrendous smell in the area. Someone said it was "silage"? Really wouldn't want to be dragging that in!

@Moggaman, chuck "mvhr bonfire" in the search box (no quotes) and a few interesting threads will pop up. There's chat in "Why Insulate?", "MVHR Intake", "Carbon Filter" etc.

That'd be enough to keep the doors shut!

Think I'd fit a smoke detector in the intake if I ever did it. The scare story I love is about the burst pipe in the passive house. It was so well sealed the owners couldn't open the inward opening doors from the outside and could only look through the windows at their possessions floating about! ?

Think @JSHarris did something ref the position of his intake or was going to, to alleviate this issue.

Imagine living with MVHR in one of those countries where they burn confiscated drug crops...or even in the UK if your neighbours are partial to a puff...

Not a silly question at all and it's come up on here before with bonfire smoke bring sucked in.

Like a Kardashian selfie! I find moist toilet tissue a nice touch...

From the mouths of babes... Lucky he's not into Star Wars...

I so want one but guess it means learning a new CAD package. Set in my ways on AutoCAD.

Peanuts. The place they're building I think is valued at £2M.