Gone West

Yeah, we found it 'interesting' positioning a 1.5 sink, and tap infront of the window with a flying mullion. It's all good fun.

When your A2A is defrosting, does it just turn off the indoor units.

Welcome to the forum, good luck with the renovation. Stormdry is one type of treatment you could look at.

If you don't mind me asking, what type of stone is it and does it have a particular name.

I think I did mine more or less 50/50 with the tap positioned central but so both windows would open. The sink was fixed with G Clips. https://www.gclip.co.uk/Undermount_sink_installation.html

I doubt it, looks more like coir fitted to stop the pipes squeaking against the joists. If you're worried you can get asbestos testing kits from Amazon.

I bought a 620mm wet bridge saw for around £150 back in 2010. I did all my floor tiles, roof tiles and sandstone paving with it, and at the end, the bridge bearings were knackered so I gave it away. Used several blades but always got clean cuts with no chips.

We only had two trades who I considered to be very good, the plasterer/tiler and the carpenter who did the cladding and plasterboarding. The first carpenter, who was recommended, was useless, so he went on the first day. Others I let go and did it myself. I ended up doing the studwork, electrics, plumbing, kitchen, bathrooms, flooring, doors etc. The reason it took eight years.

We had a Genvex Combi with an EASHP and when we had a problem with it we used Isoenergy who were excellent. We were in Kent and they are in Surrey, don't know if that is your area. https://www.isoenergy.co.uk/

I think 55% RH is good. It's roughly the same in here at the moment. At the last house, with MVHR, it was around 45% which we also found comfortable.

We didn't have UFH and our bamboo flooring pulled back from the edges in the summer, in the main bedroom, if the sun shone on it for any length of time. The solution was to close the blinds a bit.

We kept our bathrooms at 24C with electric towel rails.

This was a few years ago, but the make was Nikles and I think the model was Pure Tronico.

We heated our EASHP powered UVC to 45C and didn't have any problems with our bath thermostatic valve, nor the thermostatic showers.

We've used 247Blinds several times, good choice and reasonable prices. https://www.247blinds.co.uk/

Is this any good? https://www.rselectricalsupplies.co.uk/products/schneider-ultimate-flat-plate-stainless-steel-3g-2w-light-switch-gu12322wss

We did smoke tests, and the lift slide door was the only one showing a 'significant' leak, although nothing compared to most houses. I can't imagine even the joints would need taping, but it comes down to how carefully the panels are joined together.

Yep.

I don't know what I could have done to improve it other than not have a lift slide door, which leaked a bit.

OSB can be airtight, it depends on the thickness and how well made it is. I would be very surprised if a thick SIPs panel wasn't airtight to the degree required for an airtightness test. With the the way the SIPs panels are joined I would have thought the purple paint wasn't really required. I achieved an average airtightness on my house of 0.47ACH without any airtightness tapes, membranes or paints. I just had 15mm OSB3 and 350mm Icynene foam. The window and door frames were sealed in the openings with two rows of Compriband and Soudal SWS foam. There were no openings in the walls or roof other than the two ducts for MVHR.

I bought Knightsbridge plasterboard boxes from TLC for my new build and ended up replacing them with Appleby. I only bought the Knightsbridge ones because I was getting a lot of stuff from TLC and they didn't have Appleby. Knightsbridge were crap, so many of the sliding lugs broke off that I just chucked them.

I fixed the probe to be in the centre of the duct and didn't move it as I took the measurements, so I was always comparing like with like.

Almost definitely, we had to stop if it was windy because the readings were too variable.

A cavity brush is usually used to keep the insulation your side. https://speedybrush.com/cavity-insulation/

I haven't been able to find it. Have you got a link? I wonder if that means the DHW tank is now 165l rather than 185l.