Gone West

I don't know if you've said before but have you checked how much insulation is in the loft as you said the room below is warmer.

That's got a silver coated lining, and is usually used when incorporating an underground heat exchanger. I only fitted an ordinary MVHR system so didn't need need it. £9.60/m wow, I see what you mean.

Hi, welcome to the forum. I would say it's possible if it's a straightforward design with nothing fancy and you aren't including fees, landscaping or tools in your costs. Depending on the plot position, services can be significant. Good luck.

I don't know what sort of ducting you're using but my 125mm rigid plastic was less than £2 for a 90 degree bend. I can't think of anything that I thought was a ripoff.

He's still on the staff list so I'd be surprised if he doesn't look in on us occasionally.

If this is of any help we have one of these in several of our rooms. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/383680821544

Ours are called Magic Gliders and we even used them for sliding our 210kg Genvex Combi into position. The nearest thing I could find now was:- https://www.magiglideuk.co.uk/

We've had some teflon sliders for around 25 years which we've used many many times for moving anything heavy. A bit like these:- https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/273232292342

My stud walls upstairs are 89 x 38mm CLS. Only 3mm, would it make that much difference.

I'm pretty sure you can get stuff with a skin on which I guess would be airtight. Not sure about the open sort, I know Compriband is airtight if it's within it's expansion range and it looks similar.

I would try a temporary solution first rather than gunging up the gap and then not being able to remove it. I would use a round EPDM foam strip that will squash into an uneven gap and then try the hose on it. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/223789673562

Ours stays the same 24/7 on level 2. The only time the supply fans increase is if the built in EASHP pushes out warm air when it goes to 100% for a few seconds and then modulates down to whatever flow is required. Level 4 is boost which is 100%, we don't change the setting for overnight. Level 1 is for unoccupied and level 3 is a party setting both of which we have never used.

Our fan settings are 30% supply and 45% extract for normal use. I've also got a large difference in valve openings but that is because of the difference in room volumes, but everything balanced out ok eventually.

Around here 'running sand' is another phrase for quicksand. We have it 2.5m down and it's a problem for soakaways if too near the surface.

We used Grass Block which we had bought for our driveway turning circle. It stood up to a crane and many many lorry deliveries before we took it apart and used it for the driveway.

We put in a single row of mixed blackthorn and hawthorn bare rooted 60cm tall in winter 2015/16. They can just about be seen behind the rabbit fence in the first picture. Five years later, second picture, they have grown a bit. They are kept at 1m high as they are on the road edge.

Yes my joist plan had sistered joists on both sides of the stair well.

Is that noise from the bubbling stew or from the air pump.

You're wasted on here

Several years ago when my last Twintec block softener packed up I bought a Wrekin ECO10 or 15, I can't remember which. It worked ok regenerating at night. The only problem was that if there was a power cut it lost the settings and would start regenerating in the day time if I forgot to reset the timer. It was larger than the previous Harvey, Twintec etc I have had, so I sold it and went back to a Harvey Crown when I moved into the new build.

Our house has been built with an I-beam timber portal frame and the joists were included as part of the overall cost.

Our kitchen is 5.9m with metal web joists. IIRC the joists are 250mm deep with 122mm chords and are spaced at 350mm centres. There is zero discernible deflection.

No it's the exhaust. I thought because the exhaust is more likely to have condensation in it I would want it to drain quickly. The ducting slopes down to the outside vents and I've used 45 degree bends spaced apart.

I prefer the ones that are 4 x 22.5's myself.

IIRC our outside vents are 3.5m apart so our pipework is 5m for one vent and 1.5m for the other. I used 45 degree bends to reduce restriction of air flow.