Gone West

I don't remember him doing that, but I do remember he had a Genvex MVHR with a built in A2A heat pump which did heating and cooling through the ventilation.

I would have thought that unless there are no other sources of suitable timber around, your cladding won't particularly attract them. I have two wasps nests in the garden this year in old vole tunnels underground. They are a nuisance, and I keep away from that area as much as possible, but we haven't been stung yet!

We had cedar cladding on our last place and the wasps chewed it, but didn't do any damage. Where we are now they chew any unpainted wood in the garden, but as there's so much around it will take forever to do any damage.

When we fitted our kitchen in 2016, the plinths came with sealing strips to fit to the bottom of the plinths.

I always use a hacksaw and file for things like that. More forgiving.

What is it that makes you believe the second SE rather than the first SE.

There's a chap near us that does robotic scrub clearance. Too far for you though. https://www.facebook.com/p/Nigel-Stevens-Scrub-Clearance-61561133578989/

Exactly. We designed and built our last place to PH standards. It was around 130m2 and was heated with a towel rail in each of the three bathrooms and an EASHP built into the MVHR came on when the weather was very cold. The whole house was kept at 23C 24/7. Very low energy costs.

Our box was remote and designed to be half buried in soil. It was quiet if more than a metre away.

Welcome to the forum. That's what I like, optimism.

I don't know exactly, but I used a compression elbow on the 25mm MDPE coming into the house. It was ok for the three years we lived there. I didn't use a standard stopcock but a lever ball valve.

We protected ours with a couple of layers of heavy duty bubble wrap. We also protected the threshold as they were dragging heavy pipes inside.

The FCA banned dual pricing at the start of 2022 Insurers are no longer allowed to charge renewing customers any more than they would charge a new customer for the same policy. https://www.cuvva.com/how-insurance-works/dual-pricing-insurance-fca

I had a similar problem at my last self build. I cut out the section of strongback, where I needed access and replaced it with a noggin top and bottom between the metal web joist flanges.

I just screw a bit of OSB in the hole and finish it the next day, and don't do it in mid-winter.