Gone West

We had to put two shelf pieces on top of the base of the cupboard to bring the F/F up so the doors lined up correctly. There's no problem with putting packing timber on the base to bring it up to the correct level but it would need a cover piece at the front to hide the hole.

Yes that doesn't look too bad at all, no flakes like on the outer side.

I'd drill a 3mm diameter hole to see how thick the steel is as it's difficult to know what the other side is like.

Brilliant ceiling.

We imported our Genvex Combi 185LS direct from Denmark when we were in the EU. It was a lot cheaper than buying from the UK dealer. The disadvantage is of course that if anything goes wrong it's much more difficult to sort out. I would have bought it from the UK dealer if it had been only a little more expensive, but over £3000 was too much to lose.

We had the same primed MDF skirting and architrave. I didn't re-prime the rear just touched up where necessary on the front. Glued to the wall using Heavy Duty Titebond Construction, didn't use any nails or pins.

We have a Genvex Combi 185LS and we leave it running continuously all year. As Mike said the the fan motors have sealed bearings and there isn't anything to oil. On mine the only servicing needed on the MVHR side is changing the filters and checking whether the heat exchanger needs a clean. I also vacuum out the filter housing if needed.

I remember our first fridge was a gas fridge and that was in the 50s. I guess if you had a fridge in the 30s you were quite well off, we weren't.

Two of the vertical lines of stain appear to line up with the reveals of the first floor window.

I dunno but I use them a lot and you can still get them from Screwfix. https://www.screwfix.com/c/screws-nails-fixings/plasterboard-fixings/cat840020?brand=gripit

You want medium or heavy duty, depending on how well protected it will be, reinforced PVC hose. Whatever internal diameter your current hose is, something like this : https://www.acecompressors.com/product/heavy-duty-pvc-hose-20mm-3-4-id-26mm-od/ I would shop around, Screwfix unlikely.

Yeah, that's tricky. 2" domestic push fit waste pipe is 54mm. 2" domestic solvent weld waste pipe is 56mm.

The largest unsupported areas were 1.6m x 1.2m and the largest area was 2.4m x 2.0m but I put some temporary vertical battens in to reduce movement of the sheeting. The 4m high gable end I covered with a tarpaulin again with vertical battens. I stapled the sheeting to the OSB but I folded the edges twice before stapling and stapled around every 50mm. This was done in the spring so didn't have to stand up to winter weather.

We had our TF completely boarded with the OSB3 racking because it was just before the winter. I worked inside over the winter using site lights. The following spring I routed out the openings and covered them with 1000ga clear plastic sheeting until the windows and doors were fitted which was over a few months.

Our air pump housing is about 2m away from the treatment plant and is semi buried in concrete. I stood the air pump on rubber blocks and you have to be closer than 2m to hear anything.

Hi, welcome to the forum. As others have said for a bungalow the roof and foundations will cost more and foundations could be a significant proportion of the build for many reasons. We have built a two storey PH near Sandwich.

Yeah it's Wren, gloss white.

I was told it will be flush fronted.

Hi, welcome to the forum and good luck with your search. I believe there are others on here from your neck of the woods.

Don't know if these help.

I'm not sure that the picture is correct in showing how it should be done. It's important that water doesn't collect on the top reveal. On my house I had the top part of the reveal inset from the side pieces so the cladding goes over the top of the front edge of the top reveal with a 3mm weep gap between the cladding and top reveal.

We planted a lot of herbs as plug plants last year and they’ve really grown well. We had a mixture of culinary, and flowering types for the pollinators. We also planted a prostrate rosemary in a pot which is supposed to trail but ours is resisting at the moment. Hopefully gravity will take over soon. We also took some cuttings from a wild honeysuckle and they are doing well. Wendy’s keen on growing herbs and has parsley, chives, sage, thyme, basil, bergamot, bloody sorrel, tarragon, sweet majoram and lemon verbena. I’m more interested in the flowering herbs. Some like hyssop attract the bees and can be used in cooking.

I made some. The inflow to the MVHR should have the lowest flow restriction of any of the ducting. I have 125mm diameter ducting and in order to maximise flow into the unit I used 45 degree bends and a short pipe run. The vent I made was 230mm square and by using a grille and insect screen of that size I got slightly better flow area than the ducting. IIRC I used 2mm or 2.5mm stainless steel woven mesh for the insect screen. Some of the mesh companies give flow rates for their different products.

The only problem with those is that they cause a significant restriction to flow. I bought a couple and gave them away for that reason.