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  1. Gone West
    I'm now wondering, is this 'seat' for when battening or tiling? If battening, no problem using the vertical channels as they just clip in but for tiling it would have to be a U section that would hang over the battens and tiles with some sort of padding to prevent the tiles cracking.
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    I don't know if it might be possible to use a couple of the vertical channels that clip between the battens to mount a support, to sit on
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    That is shallow and very doable. I installed Nu-Lok on a 30 degree roof and it's easy to sit sideways on the battens. On the main roof, at 42 degrees, I fitted the battens but I found it harder on my knees.
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    It was a bit of a saga really. We got our completion certificate on 28/2/18 and we sent all the paperwork off to BuildZone on 8/3/18. Their surveyor made his final visit a week later and then we heard nothing for two months. I contacted them and apparently they had a new computer system and had lost my paperwork. So it was all sent again and I finally got the warranty on 15/5/18. I would certainly chase them.
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    Doesn't water exist as a collection of H2O molecules caused by hydrogen bonding between water molecules therefore this makes the practical size of the molecule much bigger.
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    Mine never did seal for the air test so I asked the BCO and he said just fill it with water the day before he came over and see if the level goes down. It didn't, and he was happy, and so was I. Water molecules are much larger than air molecules so it might leak a little air but it won't leak water. It's not under much pressure.
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    Mine eventually went on fine, when I did it the way Wendy told me to. It was a good reason for me not doing it myself.
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    You might be as good at it as I am.
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    @Roz When I submitted my planning drawings the planners wanted to see a cross sectional drawing which therefore shows wall and roof thicknesses etc.
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    I can't understand that there would be problems with external films on any sort of glazing. If it was an internal film I would only use it on single glazing. I asked them why the spec. didn't include triple glazing and they said they didn't have any data on triple, probably because it's not that common. The solar gain does reduce a fair bit between single and double so I'm assuming the reduction would be at least 60% for triple.
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    Wendy has just reminded me that when I stuck the sample to the window I forgot to peel off the backing, doh! It blew away eventually and I had to recover it and do it properly. Wendy likes to remind me of these little things.
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    I would go for motorised external blinds if they were easy to fit. They would also solve any privacy issues. The film I used reduces the solar gain by around 60% so it is significant but an external blind would be able to stop all solar gain with the option of allowing a certain amount by varying the height of the blind.
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    They did the installation because it's on a glazed gable that's just over 4m high and I didn't fancy having 4m of film flapping about in the wind. There were two of them and they were excellent. It was done so quickly and with no air bubbles. They did say they wouldn't install unless the weather conditions were ok.
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    I don't recognise the the name THE80 but there is a very slight blue tint when looking through the glazing where the Vista80X is applied. This is in the same way that there is a very slight yellow tint on triple glazing with coatings. The picture shows standard triple glazing on the left hand side and glazing with the Vista80X applied on the right hand side. I don't think any visitors have noticed the difference.
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    The glazing is 2.3m high and the total thickness of blind when compressed is 70mm. Not a very good picture I'm afraid.
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    We're lucky in that our reveal is 160mm which is just enough to allow us to have vertical blinds where we have the lift slide door. You'll have to excuse the saw in the sitting room but there isn't anywhere else to store it at the moment.
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    Thanks, yes they are, well spotted.
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    So if I understand you correctly you want something like plisse blinds that fit to the beading rather than say vertical blinds that fit in the reveal. If that is the case I have looked and not been able to find any sort of blinds that are slim enough. Our lift slide doors have 17mm beads and the slimmest plisse blinds I could find were 20mm. We have the 20mm plisse blinds in our porch because we only have double glazing in there and they fit well.
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    Yes, it's not too difficult. We did the setting out and levels for our foundations. I used a lot of short lengths of reinforcing rod, a steel measure and the 3,4,5 triangle rule.
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    These were the type we were looking at, but I don't know the price. https://www.phifer.com/product/suntex-80-90/
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    I'm struggling to come up with anything at the moment, but I'll keep pondering.
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    No, temperature the same. If only I had the time.
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    We used Clearview Vista80X on the outside of our glazed gable and it has been effective at reducing solar gain. If it had been a rectangular window we would have considered external blinds. http://www.sun-x.co.uk/products/clearview-solar-film
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    On my system there are four fan settings and it is recommended to run it on setting two. Setting one is for when the building isn't occupied and turns everything else off leaving the fans running very slowly. It is possible to change the fan speed for each setting so I have reduced setting two to 30% which allowed me to change the ventilation rates to that for a PH. This has increased the humidity from 37% to 45%.
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    We went for a solar heat gain reducing film because that particular window is large and only sees the sun in the late afternoon/evening for around four months of the year. It doesn't see the sun in the winter so there is no loss in solar gain in the winter. I like the Sageglass solution because it is neat and works automatically.
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