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  1. Gone West
    Around here any pipework under agricultural land has to be 1m below the surface to prevent damage to the pipework by any future deep ploughing. I can't see the activity of any cows affecting pipework 1m down.
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    The reed bed system we bought came with common reed (Phragmites australis) plants. These grow vigorously to around 8m high and unless there is sufficient space need cutting down to an acceptable height throughout the year. I found out later that other types of water plant are suitable as long as they have a rhizome root system so we replaced the reeds with irises which only grow 0.75m high. Apparently the bacteria that continue to breakdown the effluent live on the rhizome root system. The beds have to be cleared out every 3 to 4 years depending on plant growth which entails removing the plants and silt. The plants have to be split up and then replanted and the excess plants disposed of. If the ground conditions are suitable you may not need a very deep borehole. Ours is 110mm diameter but unfortunately even after drilling 47m down to the chalk only found water bearing geology.
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    Hi, welcome to the forum. Very remote in our case.
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    I did a similar thing at my last house in the 90s. I made the mould out of melamine board and just to be sure I coated it in vegetable oil. I fixed a semi circular bead on the bottom of the mould near the front as a drip channel. It all worked as expected fortunately.
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    Slight overkill . If you like pheasant to eat an air rifle would would soon stop it's unsociable behaviour.
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    We had a similar problem with a crow attacking one of our windows to the extent that there were blood spatters all over the window sill. Maybe a temporary silhouette of a cat or fox on the inside of the glass would deter it.
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    If I was going to fit a replacement for ours it would probably be a Viltra's Oxtec which appears to have tertiary treatment in the one tank. https://www.viltra.co.uk/products/sewage-treatment/oxtec
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    If at all possible I would prefer to have a deep bore soakaway. When we installed our treatment plant, ten years ago, discharge permission wasn't required if your property is not over a certain type of aquifer. I can't remember the details now. The reed bed system we have is high maintenance and there are safety issues when maintaining it but at the time it was all BC would accept. More recently the BCO allowed our neighbours to have the outlet from their sewage treatment plant flow into another tank which was filled with plastic filter media and from there it flows into an ordinary soakaway. There are also trickle filter systems which can be used for tertiary treatment before flowing into an ordinary soakaway.
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    It may improve airtightness and noise quite a bit if the extractor was replaced with an efficient recirculating type.
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    Hi, welcome to the forum. Does the extractor hood extract to the outside or recirculate. If it recirculates have the carbon filters been changed? MVHR is certainly worth it if you can reach reasonable airtightness.
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    I haven't increased the DHW temperature above 45C in the, nearly, two years we've lived here. The flow rates seem fine but we do have aerating showers and taps so I don't know whether the aerating effect masks anything.
  12. Gone West
    I paid a fiver each for four port Speedfit manifolds many moons ago from Screwfix. They were in a sale though.
  13. Gone West
    The traditional material used with stone is burnt sand mastic. https://www.womersleys.co.uk/shop/stone_repair_grouts_and_mastic/burnt_sand_mastic_10_litres
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    Unless I misunderstand you it seems as though spacers are 6.5mm high for most widths. https://www.thermosealgroup.com/products/spacer-bars/b7681
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    The EASHP in my Genvex Combi 185LS is rated at 585W input and has a 1kW immersion, so total input is very similar to the CE-ES300. We have never had a problem with running out of DHW and we have never used the immersion even though it is only 185l. When it's not heating water it's available to heat the air from the MVHR. As mine is an EASHP, unlike the CE-ES300, the CoP is good but I like the details of the CE-ES300 and would certainly consider it.
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    The minimum could be 3mm XPS as linked to by @jfb . You would have to initially fit the 50mm Celotex as required by the BCO and then remove it after sign off and replace it with the XPS which could be 3mm, 6mm or 10mm. The XPS won't be insulating to the same degree as the Celotex but would create a little more comfort underfoot than with no insulation at all and the thicker the XPS is the more comfortable the floor would feel. Thin XPS is a lot cheaper than thicker Celotex.
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    The Grundfos pump in our pump station is rated at 235W and only runs for between 5 and 10 minutes a day in total, so is a matter of pence/day to run. It has a maximum head of 5m but only has to lift about 2.5m.
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    We had granite fines specified for under our insulated slab.
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    Only if the test is carried out. My BCO just looked the stairs, said very nice and carried on.
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    @JulianB We have a Genvex Combi 185LS which has a MVHR unit and 585W EASHP built in which heats the DHW and provides supplementary warm air heating through the MVHR ducting. I don't know the CoP of our unit but IIRC it is supposed to average 4.0 in our climate. The DHW is stored at 45C and the showers run at 38C. The Genvex Combi 185LS is suitable for a small (130m2) very low energy house but would struggle in a larger house. There are other EASHP DHW heaters such as the ESP Ecocent.
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    The answer is yes. I would put a few packers around the edge to prevent it moving and leave doing it until very close to your BCO visit. I'll add that you're in a difficult position re the insulation because of the ceiling height but I would put something insulating between the concrete and wood flooring if you are removing the Celotex.
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    That is the way I would do it, whether that's strictly correct is another matter, but I can't see why it isn't.
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    @JulianB Just a couple of points. We heat our water with an EASHP and it is stored, 185l, at 45C although there are only two of us. Although it seems popular I wouldn't use UFH on the ground floor due to it's inefficiency, I would probably use some form of skirting heating.
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    I had a 350mm I-beam frame built which used I-beams for the sole plate. There aren't any header plates because mine is a portal I-beam frame but I have seen I-beam wall plates used.
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    Yup, no problem as Jeremy says. Does this remain the same after the 31st.
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