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Thought about a few of those options - OSB is one and even considered using 4x1 and 11mm OSB to create a laminated box beam. It's not structural so I'm not going to huge expense ..!

To stop the bottom hinge binding you could use a rose joint on that bottom pin

Question... I need a 300 x 38 ridge board as we have 200 x 47 rafters cut at 50 degrees. Getting anything that size is problematic so my question is can I laminate / biscuit joint 150 x 38 lengths to make a ridge board at 300 depth ...?? I am thinking biscuits at 300 centre's and D4 along the joint with staggered joints between lengths. Thoughts..?

@JSHarris could the personnel gate not go in the side where the 1.2m return is ..??

No - some have a low level input for showers so it can stand on the same floor level.

Hmmm ... plastic duct ..?? I've considered that as I find it easier than metal to work with. May make it easier to insert a heat / cool matrix in the end too ..!

Potentially both. Some of the newer ones are much better at handling "hard" items and they do have their place although it would not be choice for a main bathroom

They are not sealed units and you have to get them to service them. The saniflo website shows them behind a panel. ... and there are better units from other providers....

I think that's my point - MCS suppliers seem to quote full list price and keep the benefit of discounts.

What is needed is the offset and crank from the post. Pretty good example here. Search for rising hinges

@ProDave the list price on a Mitsubishi 8kw with controller is around £4800 - installed my local MCS installer wants £7950 for effectively a day and a halfs work. I queried the price on the unit he quoted me (a 12kw despite saying I wanted 8kw...) and it was list plus VAT... plus VAT..! So he was marking up at 20% plus any discount he would have got. That is a true MCS premium ...!

Two things ...! Brickwork and the wine cellar ..! I set my brickie a real challenge with some reclaims that were big and heavy and different sizes and he's done brilliantly ... and even a cock up with my marking out was resolved with a lovely corbel to the chimney that "looks" like it should have been there... And the wine cellar was me being stubborn about not filling in the old garage pit - perfectly sound and dry and a bit of shuttering and some concrete and we have a perfect wine cellar for about £200 vs the thousands we were quoted for a circular one..!

@jamiehamy I agree in part with your statement but I think it's clear the key word in what @craig says is should be null - there will always be issues as tolerances on buildings are always going to be +\-5-10mm so when that is the average gap around a window you are bound to get issues. A lot of these can be down to spec and quote but unless you build the whole house to factory tolerances then something coming out of a precision factory environment - and I have worked for a window company in the past - is being fitted into something that potentially has a tolerance of build of more than the available on the product. I am building with a reclaim brick that has a +\- 12mm per brick on any of the length or width and up to 6mm on the depth - my brickie has managed to get the openings within 10mm of plan but if I had ordered my windows off plan then 2 would not fit. As it is I then have to wait for them to be made but that is easier than having to fix an opening in a brick wall..! Yes windows cause problems, but usually because we are wanting to put something onto a schedule that really should be waiting for the proper stage of the process to complete. I know that's probably an over simplification too, and windows do as you say seem to be the biggest sticking point on any build ..!

So why do you need a 110v circuit or am I missing something .?

So if you get them to use Laminated both sides with Planitherm Ultra N coatings with a 20mm krypton cavity you will have 33.5m and a Ug of 1.0W/(m².K). Change to Argon and it's 1.1W/(m².K) Thats rough and ready from the Calumen calculator from St Gobain Make it 4-10-4-10-4 with Planitherm Ultra N on panes 1 & 3 and you're at 0.8W/(m².K) Ug Have they suggested laminated or toughened ..?

@Nick or @craig may be able to help with this as they are in the business from what I've gleaned the centre U is irrelevant as basically you can eliminate any savings with a poor edge spacer ..!

I did all mine in Visio and I have the dimensions layered in ... and sockets.... and MVHR.... and pipework.... joists.... It took a few hours but producing new plans is easy ...

We had a T shaped batten with the heights marked on so when it was stood on the floor it was pretty accurate .... simple things ..!

Same here - couldn't track the payment between the portal and their systems so rejected for non payment despite me advising there was no way to hit "Submit" on the portal unless a payment had been successful ....... Added 2 weeks and they took 7 weeks and 5 days....

If it's a standard farm gate it doesn't need a rail - castor / roller under the bottom edge at the "hinge" end and a pair above to create a cantilever. Makes it a floating gate and easy to install.

From memory most of the cost in these systems are in the safety mechanisms needed to stop it closing on someone. There are certain BS / EU regs on what is required iirc. I think the cheapest rack system I found was about £400 then needed a battery backup so around the £500 like others have said.

Yes - reason why most end up with Ebico I think during the build as it's the most accessible zero standing charge supplier. @Ian are there any penalties for using more than you prepay in terms of the rate you get ..?

This is 99p and in Horsham.... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/172735592431 what is there to lose..??

I'd partially disagree with that !! The reason that a lot of manufacturers lock out admin functions is that they use the same systems in multiple regions - for example, the defrost and temp curve for Scandinavia will be different to that for Japan. If you let a customer "play" with the settings then you can potentially cause an issue with the system that could result in a warranty claim. This is even more important where a system is being used for RHI payments as if you lock out the ability for cooling for example which is not part of the RHI, you then also void the RHI agreement. On the whole I would say less than 0.01% of consumers fully understand the functions of their own boiler controls, let alone the detailed settings !! You wouldn't access the admin settings on a gas boiler, so why would you want to on an ASHP..?

I think that was the whole point - my query was probably why go through switch A to get to the PoE Switch B when the router has 4 ports so I probably wasn't clear ..! I can't see any fancy firewalls in that supplied unit spec so unless you're into managed switches etc then there doesn't seem any benefit to creating multiple vLans.