Gone West

Wasn't the Strangford Lough turbine a rotating one?

1. Boxed in order, small receipts stapled to a sheet of A4. Check receipts thoroughly before putting in box to make sure they have a VAT number and are proper VAT receipts. Each receipt was numbered in order to match the spreadsheet. 2. 385 3. Spreadsheet 4. No stress, my partner did it. 5. No That was back in 2018, things have changed now I think.

Our concrete slab had been down for nearly six years when we tiled. We used BAL flexible tile adhesive and used door threshold expansion strips. No decoupling matting used. We didn't have any problems.

Yes, we achieved 0.47ACH with only the Icynene, combined with the 15mm OSB3 exterior racking, as the airtightness. We didn't use any tapes or membranes in the structure at all. The windows and doors were sealed using two strips of Compriband and the Soudal SWS system.

That is something I looked at when designing my new build. I looked at the Rehau system which used silver plated ducting to kill off any bugs, but it was too expensive. That was sixteen years ago though, so things might have improved.

I think if I lived in the Netherlands I would rather buy from inside the EU.

We had a Genvex combined unit, but I think others on here have used standard Genvex MVHR units. Ours worked well and was straightforward to set up.

It's a shame Zoot that you aren't able to understand that your way of wanting to heat your type of house is 'fundamentally absurdly wasteful'. By letting the rooms cool down over night you would then be using more energy to heat them up again the next day, rather than leaving them heated all the time. If you want to heat a house that way you should move to a more modern house. As I have said before my house is a very similar type of construction to yours and is in a very damp part of the country, it is heated 24/7 and kept at 23C. It's not cheap but a 30kW oil fired Aga does the job.

So why don't you sell it and get a 30kW oil boiler, then you can run it the way you want to heat your house, no problems.

Is that a 3D printed transparent cover on the box? I didn't know you could print clear plastic.

Don't know what it was made from, but they were little honey coloured granules/balls. I liked the smell when I was a kid.

My father used "animal glue" in the 1950s, which he heated up in a metal pot inside a water filled pot. In the 1960s he started using the more modern Cascamite.

Twist the knife, why don't you 😀. I videoed the pour, and saw the concrete was going off before it was laid and there were voids forming. We had the slab tested for voids and several were found, so they took core samples and condemed it. All because they wanted to save money by not having to use a pump. So much easier the second time. Fortunately it didn't cost us a penny, but we did lose a couple of weeks.

Indeed!!

I can't say accurately. All I know is between 22/1/22 and 4/12/25 we used roughly 10800 litres of oil which works out at an average around 7.6 litres a day for hot water and heating using the old Aga which is around 70% efficient. Plan to replace the Aga with a new condensing oil boiler this year.