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  1. Gone West
    I've had UK Power Networks pull the cable through and fit the main fuse. The meter installer is coming next week. I've now had an email to say I will need to show the installer an ICERT before he will fit the meter. I rang them up and they said not all installers want to see an ICERT but if they do and you don't have one they will leave and still be charged. My electrician mostly works on new developments and hasn't heard of an ICERT. Has anyone been asked for an ICERT before a meter will be fitted?
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    Well done and don't worry my place has been 90% finished for years.
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    We have a ground floor utility room with all the water, electricity and ventilation equipment in it. Next to the utility room we have a wet room, the reason behind that arrangement was that if there were a flood, in theory, the water could be directed into the shower drain.
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    We have Western Red Cedar cladding and it extends up under overhangs. Although it appears it would be protected from the rain it's not the case. When it's windy the rain gets blown up much higher than expected and it's the rain that washes the colour out of the cedar more than the UV affecting it. It causes a large variation in colour.
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    I suppose it's too easy to say, just don't cook with fat, or if you do let it solidify and put it in the bin before washing up. I've never known the vegetable oils we use to clog anything.
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    Bull by the horns, and do it. You'll regret it later if you don't, but then I'm not the one having to do it. Plus it'll extend the thread to a definite record.
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    Do you suffer from the effects of decrement delay or is it always windy enough so that heat build up on the surface of the building fabric is lost to the atmosphere.
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    Our 90m2 Isoquick passive slab with 300mm of insulation was around £18000. This was with a 200mm thick reinforced concrete slab. It was around 50/50 materials and labour.
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    If it really is meant to be a VCL I would use stainless steel staples and tape over with aluminium tape. All ridiculous of course.
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    Parts 1 & 3 sound reasonable. I would have thought part 2 wouldn't be above £200.
  11. Gone West
    Try white cement mixed with different types of soft sand.
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    The problem disappeared when I replaced all the Hep2O with Speedfit on the CH.
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    Definitely not decades. From experience it takes about three years. I plumbed a house in the early nineties with the original Hep2O pipe and it caused no end of hassle.
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    Back in the 90s the original Hep2O pipe didn't have an oxygen barrier which meant oxygen passed through the pipe walls and into the water. In a central heating system it resulted in corrosion on the radiators etc. even with inhibitor.
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    Possibly the grey Hep2O piping may not have an oxygen barrier.
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    There are a couple of old Hep2O fittings along with old Plumbsure fittings and a mixture of Hep2O (grey) and Speedfit (white) piping.
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    Possibly there could be different types of movement between the two different types of foundations of the two semis which would cause problems with party wall cracking. All depends on ground conditions.
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    Good luck with the project Mark, it looks like a very nice area.
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    It would be interesting to have a repeat of those pictures in five years and maybe ten years time.
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    We designed our home so all the bathrooms, kitchen, water tanks, pipes etc were in one quarter of the house. This meant there were no long pipe runs and the utility/plant room could be next to the kitchen and have all the ventilation, electrical and plumbing equipment in it.
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    Well done, I can tell you're pleased.
  22. Gone West
    Yes I have a Genvex Combi 185LS which is a compact unit housing a 185l UVC, EASHP, which provides warm air and heats the DHW, and the MHRV unit.
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    Bluewater is at Greenhithe, Kent and Lakeside is at Thurrock, Essex. Both currently have free parking, but for how long who knows.
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    I used skateboard trainers, very grippy. The second picture is me, I like sitting down on the job.
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    I think gaps under doors have to be larger than 10mm or the air flow will be faster creating draughts. I like @JSHarris's idea of transfer vents, wish I'd thought of that before fitting all the pocket doors. Like others have said I doubt many of our doors will be closed anyway.
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