Gone West

I used one of these

@DIYMichael Congratulations, a very tidy building. Well done.

We have just signed up for Starlink, which seems to be on special offer this month in our area, for £25 a month for six months then £35 a month. That is for the cheapest level which is 100mbps which is 10 times our current 10mbps on copper line. If it all works out ok we'll scrap the Openreach line all together.

I put it in the most convenient position on the way to the sewage treatment plant. I don't think there are any set distances.

We had the stub stack in the flower bed near the STP.

@lizzieuk1 Our insulated raft sat on 250mm compacted type1 with 50mm granite fines on top. The insulation was 300mm thick. The inspection chamber was around 3m from the edge of the raft. The pictures show before and after sub-base was laid.

IIRC @ProDave had a problem with render on wood fibre EWI, but I think it was a while ago, so I may have got it wrong.

What is the date today???

For a newbe self builder I would have thought that full plans is a very good idea/essential.

We used Schneider Lisse fittings in our new build and wanted to use them in our current house but unfortunately they are not exported to the UK any longer. We chose Hager Sollysta as an alternative. As @jack says buy samples before deciding.

Looks like Jeremy had it blown in. I looked at having it sprayed on damp, but used Icynene in the end. https://web.archive.org/web/20200923194439/http://www.mayfly.eu/2013/11/part-twenty-one-putting-in-the-insulation/

+1 for Soudabond, I've never had a problem with it.

+1 for borehole-driller.co.uk, we used them sixteen years ago for for our deepbore soakaway/borehole. The chaps came from Deal and charged £3750 for 46.8m, sounds good at that price.

I would want to know what the actual air tightness is now. So I would have a test done, and then you know what you are working with. If it's really bad you might want to react differently.

We used a few builders bulk bags.