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measured with the same tape measure you used for the walk-on glazing? .....I'll get my coat.

@Kelvin my 2 cents on this subject. 1. you have peace of mind with section 75 protection 2. last years accounts were filed 31/3/22 and so they're only a couple of weeks late. 3. talk to the director about the new company and the late accounts! it might all be very above board. 4. when doing due diligence on our groundworker his accounts were late filed. I asked him about it and he said 'are they? my accountant deals with all of that'. so he didn't even know about the late filing. I ended up hiring him and he built me an excellent basement. I understand the level of paranoia especially considering the other threads going around at the moment but this could all be worrying for nothing.

Fair enough!

Track lighting?

you really should stop PMing people pictures. this is a public forum where many folk are willing to help. by sending pictures directly to individual members you lose out on the benefit of the hundreds of people on here who might have the experience and knowledge to answer your questions. you did the same in your other thread and it was mentioned there that it's better to anonymise the photos and post them up. you'll get much better help if you do.

you don't have to worry about being hands on if you have the budget to get subcontractors to do the work. even project managing (although that in itself takes a lot of time!) will save substantial amounts of money. so it's possible to do a self-build with no hands-on 'building' work.

Well, not exactly what I said. It was designed and supplied by Enhabit and GBS took over when they merged with/took over Enhabit. The installers were arranged by GBS but they’re an independent sub contractor. it’s not been commissioned yet as we’re not finished.

Can’t wait to do mine!!

i initially used Enhabit to design our MVHR system but they eventually merged with Green Building Store and the guy that designed it ended up moving to GBS and they took over design and delivery of materials. they also sent someone to install. a great team who were really personable and did, from what i can tell, a great job. i'm sure they'd be worth a shout if you're just looking for an installer. https://www.facebook.com/apexventilation/ . ask for Ben. 🙂

bet they're bloody heavy!

if you contact Rockwool (or whatever manufacturer's insulation you choose to use) they can perform a condensation analysis for you. this should give you peace of mind that you're not making any mistakes!

yes, it might be sacrilegious but who gives a f**k! it's much more convenient in digital format. by all means have a lovely analogue vinyl setup but also have a setup that enjoys the convenience of digital. it's single minded bigoted people that think their way is the best and only way that causes so many issues in the world. if only people could understand that it's ok to be different and have different opinions and to also enjoy different ways of doing something.

I learnt a long time ago after reading many threads on avforums that audiophiles generally talk out of their arses. the 'normal' person won't notice many of the differences that they often talk about and so it's best to take their reviews with a pinch of salt!

i did!! 🙂 all our Sonos gear is old first gen stuff. back then you had to have a Sonos bridge which connected to the internet and all other Sonos devices connected using the proprietary mesh network. what i didn't realise is that these days you don't need that bridge type connection and can simply join the Sonos devices directly to your wifi network. so, i simply did that and now all speakers connect (as i have a good Ubiquity mesh network) and we no longer get skipping songs. so all good for Sonos for us now. i still have the Loxone Audio servers and will connect them to ceiling speakers in the new house and then make a decision as to whether to keep using our old Sonos stuff.

that definitely looks amazing! but at host dollar prices it'd cost me north of $6000 which, considering how shafted we are in this country with prices, will probably be around £6000. way to steep for me.

this was the only photo I could find!

our firings for our flat roofs were just attached directly to the joists. afaik noggins never hurt! except for maybe the pocket with the current timber prices. 😉

doing mine myself I thought many times that I'd hate to see the sort of job a builder and their labourers would do (not all of them though I'm sure!). the methodical and detailed work we did cutting PIR, membrane and taping I can guarantee that a builder on a price job wouldn't spend the time to do. I'm very glad I did ours ourselves but I wouldn't do it that way again as it was a horrible and slow job.

I would suggest the OP do as @ProDave has suggested with a cut roof. having been through the process of filling our attic trusses with 195mm glass wool and adding 100mm PIR underneath I can tell you it is a pain on attic trusses! in our vaulted ceiling entrance hall we had a cut roof and it was a doddle not having to cut around trusses. but might I also add the suggestion of using very deep trusses as filling will blown cellulose instead of mineral wool and rigid insulation combo. if I had my time again I would do a cut roof with blown cellulose for sure!

the do look rather good! mind tell me/us where you got them from? was it from Topps as shown above or was that just a dig at them and their tiles and display?

I used 90mm ring nails for ours. Was really quick and I used the battens as a climbing frame to reach other areas at points and they didn’t budge. I’d be asking for specifics as to why you’ve been told screws.

Zehnder Q600. i didn't want 2 x smaller units and so the company i was using made the Q600 work with regards to flow rates by using 92mm ducting.

for clarity.....12.5mm plasterboard on EITHER side means only on one side with the linked prosound-soundboard on the OTHER side, right? not 12.5mm plasterboard on both sides with the additional soundboard on one side?

i bought a load of screws for fitting my PIR and battens from https://screwshop.co.uk/ .

did you dig all that with just that shovel and yellow bucket? you truly are amazing!