Jump to content

Gone West

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    4641

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    20

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Gone West

  1. Gone West
    @JSHarris Cherry laurel grows to around 4 or 5m is evergreen and grows 300 to 500mm a year. We had a laurel hedge at our last house for privacy reasons and kept it at about 3m.
  2. Gone West
    Welcome to the forum and good luck with the rest of the project.
  3. Gone West
    I have a mast head amplifier and it works fine. If you have trees obstructing the signal, especially with wet leaves, the picture will be poor and it's best to site the aerial away from the trees.
  4. Gone West
    I have two guns with different types of foam on them. I leave them on all the time with no problems, certainly more than 30 days. Just remember to turn the valve off when you finish foaming.
  5. Gone West
    Yeah it was a disgrace. They didn't mention the role of BCOs in all of it.
  6. Gone West
    Our neighbours 9m x 9m timber frame bungalow cost £5000 just for asbestos removal.
  7. Gone West
    I guess then properties that have a water softener should have a single check valve at least.
  8. Gone West
    @JSHarris & @Nickfromwales. Thanks for that. The area where the mains enters, and the other gubbins is, including the water softener, is a bit cramped. I could fit the DCNRV just after the mains pipe but because the water softener is in the way it would be unwise to fit the stop cock there as it would be difficult to access quickly in an emergency. Do NRVs fail very often, I've never lived in a house with one before.
  9. Gone West
    On a previous thread @Nickfromwales gave me this info: If you tick the boxes, so..... 1) incoming mains into propery 2) stoptap of whatever guise 3) double check NRV 4) drain off cock So first question is, can 2 and 3 be swapped around? and secondly is there any advantage to using a 28mm double check valve instead of a low loss 22mm DCV wrt flow rates.
  10. Gone West
    I did think about an electric lift but decided I'll sleep in the study instead.
  11. Gone West
    +1 We did the same and designed the access with a ramp, not difficult in our case. We have also put thought into future proofing the interior.
  12. Gone West
    That's for a twin cell SAPV I think. They were talking about having SAPV with different numbers of cells. Presumably if they produced a single cell SAPV it would be cheaper, but would a single cell system work effectively?
  13. Gone West
    I looked into using SunampPV in my house but decided against it in the end. In the literature they mentioned having different numbers of cells in the SAPV and I was wondering if it would be feasible to use a single cell for a very small building.
  14. Gone West
    Do Sunamp make a single cell SunampPV? Expensive, but could be offset by using PV?
  15. Gone West
    We had SUN-X Vista 80X external clear film fitted last July to a WNW facing three quarter glazed gable. It's only needed during May, June and July and has been really effective this month. It's not noticeable which was our main requirement but was expensive.
  16. Gone West
    Hi Karen, welcome to the forum. Don't worry builds always take longer than expected, we've just started year seven!
  17. Gone West
    It's a much smaller area, but I used a piece of Tyvek (Housewrap?) on my shed. It's lasted over a year, faded a bit, but still waterproof.
  18. Gone West
    My BCO was happy to accept my PHPP results instead of as designed SAP.
  19. Gone West
    A friend coated some of her floor using Tadelakt which she did herself and it looked great. It would be beyond me to do it myself, I'm not at all artistic.
  20. Gone West
    I have bought perspex from here and they also do splashbacks. http://www.cutplasticsheeting.co.uk/acrylic-kitchen-splashbacks/ We decided on a glass splashback instead of acrylic because I was worried about possible deformation due to heat.
  21. Gone West
    IIRC Accoya softwood has a 50 guarantee. I think there is probably the largest lifetime range with softwood than any other material.
  22. Gone West
    @DNA You could also read my blog entry detailing my insulated raft foundation. I don't want to put you off though. It was done nearly seven years ago and was the first in the country.
  23. Gone West
    Another exception are laurels.
  24. Gone West
    As in Jeremy's case, at our current self build we had to have an overhead cable moved which involved repositioning poles. This was done by EDF, a few years ago, and again there was no cost to us. We asked if they would run the cable under the ground but they said there would be a charge so we didn't bother. There wasn't a wayleave agreement in place when we first moved onto site so we had one set up. They even back dated the payments for a few years. I think having the wayleave agreement helped to get the work done.
  25. Gone West
    Welcome to the forum Lucy. Do you mean you have overhead power cables crossing your property? If so do you have a wayleave agreement with the DNO? If so you could find out if it is possible to remove the wayleave agreement and make them reconsider the cost. I had uninsulated overhead cables replaced with insulated at my previous house at no cost to me due to the wayleave.
×
×
  • Create New...