Gone West

@Jimmyjazz Welcome to the forum and good luck with your search. This site is at Whitstone around seven miles or so from Bude. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/129285185#/?channel=COM_BUY

You're definitely in the right bit. Once you're down past Bodmin it's all tourists and pollution.

That's right, we lived there for just over three years. If you've got a well performing house and they're sized correctly, they work well.

I made my own.

Yup.

We used solid wood door linings and MDF architrave and skirtings.

I used Nu-Lok in 2011 and the two English suppliers I used no longer seem to stock it. It looks like you have to go to NI to get it now.

We had to have a couple of the glazing units replaced as we could see marks between the panes of the triple glazing. One of them was 3m high. Apparently there are rules about the size and how easy it is the see the marks from a certain distance. Can't remember the rules exactly.

Yeah, she was my favourite for a while as well, but that was a long time ago. Memories, just memories. 😍

I installed a similar compact unit, in 2017, into my 120m2 Passivhaus. It was a Genvex Combi185LS and it worked very well. It was quiet, it stored 185l of water at 45C efficiently and kept the house ventilated. IMO it only worked well because the house was small and only required 13kWh/m2a and had an airtightness of 0.47ACH. The house was heated with three electric towel rails in the bathrooms and the warm air from the Genvex was only produced when it was cold outside.

When we sold our PH, not certified, in 2021 we had several buyers bidding against each other for the house, which sold for way above the asking price.

IIRC when I did my PHPP runs in 2010 you could specify a compact heat pump unit supplying warm air through the MVHR which calculated the space heating load and whether that was sufficient on it's own to maintain the required internal temperature.

Use one that ducts air in from outside. https://www.vaillant.co.uk/for-installers/products/arostor-domestic-hot-water-heat-pump-58880.html https://www.orionairsales.co.uk/cool-energy-ecostore-200l-all-in-one-air-source-heat-pump-hot-water-system-ce-es200-solar-thermal-16610-p.asp https://www.clickonbathrooms.co.uk/3069426-ariston-nuos-fs-200-floor-standing-direct-air-source-heat-pump-water-heater-nuos200d-c2x12743911 https://www.orionairsales.co.uk/giona-all-in-one-indirect-unvented-air-source-heat-pump-with-250l-cylinder-288kw--10000btu-240v50hz-4682-p.asp https://www.dimplex.co.uk/product/edel-hot-water-heat-pump

IIRC he bought them from the village bakers.

We had the final test in 2017 and he was thorough and also liked his pasties. https://www.airtightnesstestingkent.co.uk/air-tightness-testing PS I've just noticed the picture of him on his website, which I took, is of our front door, hall and porch.

I paid £200 for a half day airtightness test in Kent.

I thought the stumps had to be dead before that would work, as the rising sap stops the oil soaking in.

I'd cut it off level and drill half a dozen 25mm holes, 100 to 150mm deep and fill with neat glyphosate or SBK.

I used it for all my pipe runs from the manifold to the various appliances. You can just see the red ducting for some of the hot water feeds.

Exactly what I did. Complained about the Planning Dept. to the Chief Executive of the Council. When he supported his Planning Dept. I complained to the Ombudsman, which wound them up a bit. They continued to refuse my applications so took my application to the Planning Committee, with the support of my local councillor, and won unanimously. Now that really did wind up the Head of Planning.

The closest I've seen is a post puller. https://uk.vevor.com/post-puller-c_10219/vevor-t-post-puller-fence-post-puller-jack43-3x5-9x5-9in-fence-post-remover-p_010177485256

I would do my own hardness test as their results appear to be ambiguous. https://www.toolstation.com/water-hardness-test-kit/p91729

Could you use a plinth brick on the outer blockwork. It's poor design and you shouldn't have to sort it out.

I would question why you have two different values for mgCa/l. Total hardness is just mg/l.

IIRC when we were in Kent and had a softener we looked at total hardness which was well over 300mg/l. The figure you have been given of 76.9 is for Calcium only. Total hardness consists of Calcium and Magnesium.