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  1. Gone West
    Thanks all.
  2. Gone West
    Is there a requirement for timber internal doors to be fitted in order to obtain a BC completion certificate? These are not fire doors.
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    Yes, our Dyson doesn't have any filters. Apparently it uses high speed vibration to shake the dust into the container, or something like that. We've had it about a year and it's good not having to clean filters.
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    I've used creosote and creoseal from https://www.creosotesales.co.uk/. The creoseal looks like creosote and even smells like creosote and the rain beads on the surface just the same. It does take a bit longer to dry than creosote though.
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    We have a Dyson and don't have any problems with it at all.
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    I have an extract in my wetroom which is near the shower. Can't be anything but near because it's a small room. I wouldn't worry.
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    I've been called a lot of things, clueless yes, rimless never!
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    Ours was boarded four years after the frame went up and we've been lucky and haven't had any cracks.
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    Being signed off wasn't a problem for them, it was the fact that it was unoccupied. When unoccupied the property needs to be checked once a week at least. Fortunately for me me the property is a few metres away from my bungalow and I'm in there everyday.
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    I no longer required site insurance and arranged a one year 'Unoccupied Buildings and Contents Insurance' policy with Sennocke at a much lower premium. Their telephone number is 01732742102.
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    Yes I have bought a Genvex Combi 185LS. This is a compact unit which includes a hot water tank, MHRV unit and ASHP which provides warm air heating and hot water with immersion backup. It is PHI certified. Genvex is part of the Nibe group and their products are very well constructed. http://www.genvex.dk/en/products/combinated/combi-185-bp/ https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=da&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sundthus.dk%2Fgenvex-combi-185-l-s%2F
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    Thanks Erwin. Hopefully it will be just a case of sliding it into position.
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    The price on the UK website is £8641.
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    I would like to thank Jeremy @JSHarris as I have now received the Genvex unit from the supplier, in Denmark, that he recommended a while back. The whole purchase went very smoothly with a ten day delivery time. The cost including VAT was over £3100 less than if bought from the UK supplier. Of course the VAT in Denmark is 25% so no doubt it will be interesting doing my VAT reclaim in the next few months. At 210Kg it was quite interesting moving it from the driveway to the back door for an oap and 8st partner. Once we got it there I asked a couple of friendly farm workers in the orchard who lifted it into the house for us. Now I just need to connect it up, that is after I've turfed the front garden!
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    Yes I've got VoIP in the new house via the WiMAX connection. Won't have a landline in there at all.
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    You need to consider orientation carefully and it's effects. As Jeremy @JSHarris found digging in could create an unexpected micro-climate which may have a large impact especially with a low energy house.
  17. Gone West
    If it's possible to measure signal strength outside and inside the house wouldn't that be enough to see what effect the house construction was having?
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    +1 In my case their design was not the best but everything turned when they said it would. It's not the very best of quality but well built and strong.
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    Very true. That's one part of our build where we were lucky to get good plasterboarders and an excellent plasterer.
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    It's an interesting point where reception is good outside but poor inside. For instance I don't have any problem at all with mobile reception inside my new house. I can also use my cordless landline phone inside the new house from my bungalow next door. Perhaps we should create a list of new house, wall construction type, along with mobile reception. I could start it off with 50mm high density Rockwool and 350mm Icynene and good reception.
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    The problem with steel rusting under render is that the steel expands when it corrodes and the render will crack. On my last house someone had fitted a steel bracket in the mortar between bricks. The bracket had broken off and been pointed over and over the years it rusted and pushed the brick out around 1/4".
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    I bought several rolls from C&A Building Plastics with some polycarbonate sheets. It was very sticky, couldn't get it off once stuck down. It was a few years ago though.
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    Well done, stunning in every respect.
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    £25k for an integrated lift might be a bit high. Stiltz quote around £14k which includes all standard site preparation work and all standard installation costs. Don't know exactly what that means though.
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    It's not only the spacing but also the size of the flange. I have, 122mm flange, metal web joists spanning 5.9m at 400mm centres and there is no deflection at all.
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