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  1. Gone West
    As @lizzie we had a Hozelock irrigation system with timer at our last house for the pots and hanging baskets and it saved us loads of time. Don't remember having any problems.
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    Wendy had a similar problem with Vodafone. She closed her account, and had it confirmed verbally because they refused to put it in writing. Two years later her VISA credit provider was behaving strangely so she checked her credit record and found Vodafone was claiming unpaid bills. After a long drawn out farce with Vodafone she took it to the Ombudsman and won compensation against Vodafone and her credit rating has finally gone back to where it should be. Wendy complained to the Ombudsman that these companies can affect your credit rating without having to tell you.
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    We had to supply a hard landscaping and planting plan as part of our planning application. When the weather has been pleasant and we've been fed up working indoors we've worked on the garden.
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    Our door openings were too tall so I just put noggins in at the height I wanted.
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    I supplied samples of materials to the planners as per the conditions and when I asked a few months later if I could have the samples back I was told they only keep them for a short time and then dispose of them. So I don't know how they are going to check whether what I have used has been approved or not.
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    Sorry I forgot to update this. The BCO accepted that the Genvex Combi was a self contained unit with built in safety controls and didn't require G3 certification.
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    We finally received our Build Zone Warranty yesterday. We took out the warranty when we started the build eight years ago and paid £1299.25. The insurance premium part of the cost was £535.50 inc. tax and the remainder was site visits, paperwork etc.
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    We have a WPL Diamond DMS2 which we chose because of the ease of installation. As @ProDave says all the air pump ones are much the same. I was also told to avoid a Biodisc like the plague.
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    Well I think my build kept me reasonably fit physically, but made me mentally ill, but then Wendy has always said I've got problems.
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    Well done, and five years before you have to start. I expect it will be long finished by then.
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    How can they overrule precedent set by legal judgement.
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    We had similar problems but I thought @JSHarris Jeremy said it was the water supply that was the critical requirement for council tax purposes.
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    @Moira Niedzwiecka Hi Moira, the grilles are flat. I cut some cedar battens, I think 20mm square, and made a frame which I attached to the cladding around the duct pipe. I screwed the grille to the frame. The grille, 300mm square, needs to be set away from the end of the duct, 125mm diameter, to allow the airflow into the duct. The total cross sectional area of the holes in the grille must be larger than the cross sectional area of the duct.
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    The only gas engineers I have used in this area were R G Williams in Deal for my LPG boiler in my last property. I didn't have any problems with them.
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    We've used it from the local authority tip and it was fine, much the same as as any bagged compost.
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    These were mentioned on the other forum and look interesting. http://www.denso-am.com/products/life-energy/co2-heat-pump/ https://www.stiebel-eltron.com/en/home/products-solutions/renewables/ventilation/central/lwz_504/lwz_504.html
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    It's not adventitious because when we designed the house we wanted the bathrooms to be a little bit warmer than the other rooms. The advantage of that is that the air extracted from those rooms can help warm the incoming air to the house. The towel rails are always on,unless those rooms are warm enough without them. I don't know how effective a pre-heater would be, I guess it would depend on where in the country you live. Yes, I've never used it. We have the hot water set at 45C. I think it can be timed to come on whenever you want. It sound feasible. I'm sure if the surface of the flooring is insulating it will be as comfortable underfoot as a heated less insulating surface. On the rocks is swearing.
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    This is the saw that Icynene provide.
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    It was too dry and sandy for grass snakes up there. Grass snakes grow up to 3' long but adders not much more than 1' so I'd like to see an adder eat a grass snake .
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    @Nickfromwales It has a built in EASHP rated at 585W which provides hot water and warm air heating. The hot water has priority and the EASHP will heat it to a max. of 55C. There is a 1kW 'immersion heater' which is just a coil in a pocket in the side of the tank which will heat it up to 65C. The warm air heating is up to around 45C. It works straight out of the box and all these settings can be adjusted on the control unit. We have a porcelain tile on 200mm concrete ground floor and bamboo flooring on 22mm chipboard first floor. The model we have is the LS which has the larger compressor. I think it only works because it's a small house and has a very low space heating requirement. The smaller S model would struggle unless in a small, very well insulated flat. Our main heating is supplied by the three electric towel rails in the bathrooms and around 4m2 electric UFH in the kitchen. I prefer my pint of Glenfiddich at room temperature.
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    When I lived at Wrotham Heath as a kid we used to go up Gallows hill behind the Royal Oak. There were adders everywhere but no grass snakes.
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    A few years ago my mate asked me to remove one from his pond because it was eating his fish. I managed to pick it up but it then wrapped itself round my forearm and crapped all over it. It stunk for days. I think we were both glad to be separated when I let it go a few hundred yards away.
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    It didn't cause any health problems. It degases very quickly with most smell gone after a day. It's a soft rubbery foam so there aren't hard gritty bits getting everywhere. It does cling to everything though and needs vacuuming off but that's about the worst of it. It's just the tedium of days of trimming.
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    Sorry for being thick but I don't follow what you're saying. and Are you saying there is a requirement in PHPP for a MVHR setting of 0.5ACH? I don't remember that when I ran PHPP, but it was several years ago. Is it in the Ventilation tab?
  25. Gone West
    The PH requirement is 0.6ACH but once you get down to less than 1.0ACH it has very little effect on space heating requirement.
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