Gone West

My air pump is in a box under the ground and can only be heard when a couple of metres away.

When doing jobs like that I always put masking tape along the tile edge and then when it squidges out it's easier to peel off and it means using less wipes.

In a word, grim.

We have used fused connection units (FCU) with flex outlet plates for all our kitchen appliances. I don't know of any safety reasons why you shouldn't connect two cables to the flex outlet plate for the fridges, but I'm not an electrician.

@lizzie This is quite common when connecting EU to UK wastes and just needs an EU/UK 40mm waste adapter.

Our neighbours new bungalow has been with the current estate agents for around a month and has now sold subject to contract. There has been a lot of interest in it and we have spoken to some of the prospective buyers. They have not been put off by the ASHP and UFH and have liked it's position with good views and the outside appearance of the building.

Hi, welcome and good luck.

I am considering fitting these to my lift slide next year, don't know if you've seen them before. https://solargaps.com/

Our house has 50mm Rockwool RW6 on the outside of the OSB3 racking on our timber frame. We then had to have a 50mm air gap before the rainscreen cladding.

Hi, welcome to the forum. Whereabouts in Kent are you? We didn't go for ali-clad windows in the end as the price was too high but others on here have fitted them and I'm sure they'll be along soon.

I think the people around here have sussed that our house was built on a budget as they've seen us slaving away for eight years building it and now another three months dismantling the old bungalow by hand. Wendy says having an eleven year old car in the drive also shows we're not in the GD league.

I bought our expanding foam tape from https://www.affixit.co.uk/Expanding-Foam-Tape/ https://www.affixit.co.uk//EXP6-Expanding-Foam-Tape-Compriband-TP600-Alternative.Html?search_in_description=1&keyword=tp600&cPath=182

I guess it won't help with your problem but there are self regulating electric UFH mats that are limited to 28C.

It's bigger than mine .

An alternative to reducing centres or increasing depth is to increase the chord width of the metal web joist. Our maximum span is 5.9m at 254mm depth with 400mm centres but much wider chords.

If we were to fit PVs we would want all black panels with micro inverters which is not the cheapest system. I used PVGIS to estimate output many years ago when we started our build but our electricity usage is lower than we had anticipated hence the doubt about fitting them. If we ever sold the house it would seem that PVs would be expected so we are still wondering.

We also are procrastinating about whether it would be worthwhile fitting PVs on a similar sized area. Our electricity usage during April to September is just over 1kWh a day. If we had an EV we would fit them but is it worth it when most of the electricity would be exported to the grid. Everyone seems to think a PH should have PVs and are surprised we don't.

Our house has a 350mm timber I-beam frame with Icynene insulation.

Hi Nick, welcome to the forum. Yours sounds like an interesting project. We have built to PH standards and are just coming to the end of the bungalow dismantling.We have survived and are coming out of the other side a lot more knowledgeable and a lot poorer.

We bought all our bathroom equipment from Bathstore. We got it in the sales and because we have three bathrooms we got extra discount for buying three of everything.

I used frames for two of my basins and for the other basin I used a Fischer fixing kit screwed into a strengthened area of stud wall. https://www.toolstation.com/shop/Screws+%26+Fixings/d90/Fixing+Packs/sd3310/Fischer+Wash+Basin+Fixing+Kit/p86297

Hi and welcome to the forum. Good luck with your project.

Welcome to the forum. We didn't have experience of house design or build but we designed and built our own house to Passivhaus standard. Whether it was all fun I wouldn't like to say .

@j_s Well done, sounds like you're doing an excellent job. It's a disgrace that a ten year old house is so poorly built.

That's good to hear. I hope it solves your problem. They certainly sound like a good company. I guess you'll have to wait until next year to find out if it works.