Gone West

I can't in all honesty say I had a problem getting to sleep when we were self building. I was so knackered everyday, that I went out like a light. The only thing that got me down was the daily grind, day, after day, after day.

Is toughened glass the best option for, above your head glazing? It can shatter, sometimes dramatically, and I would have thought laminated would be better, but just my opinion, no expert knowledge.

I agree, but most people live on a normal street, with a postage stamp garden and don't even have a garage. The result of living in an overcrowded country where it's difficult to balance the requirements of housing, industry, wildlife, food production and open spaces.

That brings back memories! I was using PHPP2007 in 2009/2010 and I found the results were very sensitive to which of the climate data files I used. IIRC the example data file for SE England was from Heathrow. I got data from the Met Office for Manston, I lived eight miles away at the time, and then got a free version of Meteonorm. The data Meteonorm created was very close to the Manston data so I used the Manston data in my calculations. The Heathrow data produced very different results, as did a data file I got for Vlissingen.

We cheated for several winters, and spent a couple of months in Madeira. We were refreshed when we came back.

Welcome to the forum, this might be somewhere to start. https://familyrollo.co.uk/rolled-mosquito-net?m=1709&c=135

Yesterday, I bought some Soudal low expansion foam from Toolstation, for sealing around windows and doors. https://www.toolstation.com/soudal-flexible-expanding-foam/p69089

Yes, two storey, walls and roof U factor 0.095W/m2K, floor 0.1W/m2K, 0.47ACH.

My last self build was a timber I-beam portal frame, structure as follows:- Plasterboard and skim 350mm Steico timber I-beam, fully filled with Icynene 15mm OSB3 square edge racking Protect TF200 membrane 50mm timber battens fully filled with Rockwool RW6 Protect A1 membrane 50mm counter battens vented air gap 15mm cedar cladding The walls and roof were both constructed in a similar way. The construction was successfully tested using the Glaser method for condensation risk. A WUFI analysis was not carried out. That may be of some use.

@Admin Wot @Big Jimbo says.

My windows are constructed differently, but I think where you have circled the area in yellow, is probably the same.

I have had small window leaks in the area shown. When filled with Soudal Fix All Crystal the problem went away.

When I was designing my last house I used the PHPP, and I ran some iterations to determine the sensitivity of infiltration on the space heating requirements. There are the results for my particular design. This was back in 2009 using the 2007 version. Pressurisation Test Result (ACH) Specific Space Heating Demand (kWh/m2) 0.2 12.1 0.4 12.3 0.6 12.5 0.8 12.7 1.0 12.9 2.0 14.0

Back in the 70s when I bought my first house, I also bought a book called The Conveyancing Fraud. I thought I could save some money. After having read it, I chickened out and used a solicitor. It was an interesting read though.

This question came up last week, although I don't think the appliance was named.