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could it be that the carbon usage of a poorly built house over it's lifetime pales in to comparison to the carbon usage of a passivhouse regardless of it's construction? (please note I have no data to back up that theory)

you won't be disappointed. (I hope!) we love our Norrsken windows. we also saved a lot of money by not having opening windows! a lot of ours are large fixed panes. we have very few opening windows.

I would check with the manufacturer of the PV panels (not GSE). we have Solaredge Optimisers and their manual states that earthing is not required. but I guess it differs from manufacturer to manufacturer

Can you please delay that until after I’ve finished my plumbing?

neighbours aren't important for planning decisions. and i wouldn't try and second guess planners as you never know which planning officer you're going to get. @ETC has come up with a fantastic looking design and i would be speaking to him about getting plans drawn up and submitted to planning.

+1

https://www.eclisse.co.uk/blog/how-to-guide-how-to-remove-the-door-from-an-eclisse-classic-pocket-door-system/ maybe this is why Eclisse are the bees knees for pocket doors?

like @ToughButterCup my advice is get reading on here!! I spent a good year before we started building reading many many different sub-forums. then I forgot most of it and revisited each part as and when I needed the information and had many 'oh right! I remember reading that before' moments (still do to be fair). good luck with your barn conversion and I, for one, hope you share your journey with us.

can't you just remove the door from the runner and paint it and then refit it? 🤔

nice work!

i was quite fortunate as when i was shopping for pocket doors i decided to buy just 1 for the time being to see how easy it was to fit rather than buying all 3 at once. there was no discount for all 3 at once either so it made sense. so glad now as otherwise the other 2 would be sitting here and i'd be trying to flog them!

as far as i know the door on the Eclisse system can be fitted later after all the plasterboarding has been done. i'm pretty sure when i read a thread by @pocster that was how he ended up doing it.

apparently they're called dip tubes! https://mcalpineplumbing.com/traps/shower-traps-accessories/stw19-tubec-dip-tube-shower-traps

ps. to be honest I actually want to use a very deep trap with a removable 'filter' type thing so the boss doesn't have to be completely at floor level. I want it to act like a catch-pit type thing so I can easily remove any mud and other stuff that comes off the dog. I've not researched them yet though but surely they exist?

Thanks! Was going to go to City Plumbing and just buy the stuff to see if it works. Shouldn’t cost me more than a tenner and it’d prove once and for all that I’m not tight! But if you can that’d be amazing.

Did all ours too. Screeders said it was all top notch. Also regaled me with tales of horror preparation work!

or do the membrane and taping yourself so you know it's done right! then get someone to do the flow screed. 😉

think this will take a little time to digest. I'm sure I'll have further questions but I need to think about your solution and draw it up! thank you once again for your valuable input.

i used Floplast for all my 110mm pipework but when i was researching the waste pipe i found the Osma Wavin stuff from CityPlumbing was cheaper than the Floplast stuff. but this is still a 45° bend. no one seems to make a 22.5° bend for plastic waste pipe.

also seems a moot point as I can't find anything but 45° or 90° bends in any manufacturers waste pipes. 😞

i'm sure i've previously read on here that different manufacturers can have slightly different sizings and so it's best to stick with the same manufacturer! or am i misremembering that as well?

the problem for me with this solution is the shower waste will be relatively high off the ground. the higher it is going in to the soil pipe the higher I have to fit the dog shower! I do have some lee-way as we're not fitting the shower to the ground but we don't want it so high that it's hard for a smaller dog to get in to.

tbh, not sure what you mean here! this is what I was thinking with the boss collar you linked? or like this with 2 x strap bosses the boss for the shower needs to be as low as possible to give a required fall from the shower to the soil pipe.

i guess i could cut away some of the insulation at the bottom of the wall to give me more space to fit the 45° bends? 🤔

thanks. but dimension A is way too big to fit in the gap.