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The MVHR and gas boiler will be located in the plant room, which is just under 1.9m wide. The plan was to put the gas flue and MVHR exhaust as far to one side of the room as possible (which is about 300mm in from the side due to joist positioning) and the MVHR inlet was to go above the room next to the plant room. That way I could easily get a minimum of 1.5m between inlet and exhaust. Just looking at it now, I just don't see how I can possibly fit the inlet and I'm somewhere between stuck and really worried about it. Here's the problem... The photo below shows the room I wanted to put the inlet above. There are a few issues: the insulated flexible duct and hence the duct to outside, is 180mm - this is 30mm more than what was in the original drawings from the supplier the gap between the upper and lower beams of the joists is 155mm - so can't pass the duct through it the gap between the wall and the nearest joist is 120mm - so not enough space to fit the flexible duct onto the duct to outside, even if I could get it through the joist So what to do?

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Pretty much all sorted, yes. We ended up working around the beam issues which, had I known beforehand that it would have taken so long, I would have ordered a new beam. Partly I wasn't that confident with the steel company and was 50% sure a new one would have been just as bad. The guys are due to leave site tomorrow, I understand. Roof to be slated the week after next I think and windows due w/c 12th Dec. Apparently the windows will take around 2 weeks but hopefully they'll be done for Christmas so then I can crack on with the MVHR over the holiday period

Off the top of my head the delays were down to (most minor issues btw): engineering calcs not sent to BC in time so pre-pour inspection was delayed by over a week wrong spec of rebar used for part of the slab meant a couple of days delay heavy rain on planned day of pour meant 2-3 days delay steel beam - big issue! Made too deep, holes drilled in wrong place and twisted by 12mm. Ultimate delay due to waiting for Brendan to come available and then for the fix to be implemented meant a delay of 2 weeks in total bad weather for a number of days has certainly impacted the guys ability to work as well as they would have liked. To be fair, the guys on site have been amazing! So about a month longer than expected

Mainly problems, but a bit of weather

On and off, quite a while...

Slooooooowly getting there

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Thanks Peter. Yes, speaking with people at the moment but the indoor units we like (Mitsubishi Zen) don't work off a branch box so either we'd have to have more pipework or different (even more ugly!) indoor units. I'm starting to look at window films now too!

Thanks Peter. To confirm, are you suggesting that if the copper pipe is 10mm then it should go through a 63mm pipe/conduit? I was hoping to keep the holes as small as possible as, depending on how many indoor units we have, we may need 6-8 pipes in total. Ideally I wouldn't fit the air con, but we have a lot of glazing and the risk of the house getting warm is there, despite the PHPP calculations suggesting otherwise. It's far easier and cheaper to do it now than after the event!

We are considering fitting air conditioning to our MBC build and I’m just working out how best to get the pipework fitted if we do go down this route. It’s looking like the best way is to fit a conduit, make it air-tight around its perimeter with an air tight grommet, push the copper pipe complete with its insulated sleeve through the conduit and then squirt some low expanding foam (or something similar) into the conduit just to improve the seal between the conduit and the pipe insulation. As an approach, how does that sound? And is the low expanding foam idea a good one or not? TIA

Do you think there would be enough space for some conduit?

Hi guys - quick question on these pocket sliding doors... We want one in a bedroom to the side of the bed, but there is to be a wall light about 400mm from the door opening on the side that the door slides to - in other words, the wall light would be where the pocket door frame would be. Is this possible? How would we be able to route the wiring to the wall light?

Well, some of it but at least it's a start

Might be a regional thing. My OR guy said they were putting 5 pair in in case it was needed in the future

Yes, it is

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I've been looking at wireless broadband too but there's not much that I've found that covers my area at the moment. I know I will be able to get OR's quote down though. I will arrange my own traffic management which will save 1000 -1500 and I think I will be able to get some sort of discount off OR, although nothing definite Edited to add - there is 1 definite wireless broadband available and 1 hopefully in place by the time we move in. Unless I manage to get the OR price down, I'll be going down this route

Yes. Also, because of an overhead electric line running across the front of the property, we would have to have a very tall pole 4m inside our plot so that the line could go from the existing pole to the new one (above the electric) and then on to the house. It would look terrible

I queried it with OR and this was their response: This is called a universal service obligation whereby everyone must be able to have access to fixed line telephony. It would apply when you ordered a circuit only. The circuit would be provided overhead, and not underground and a pole would have to be installed to carry the overhead service and because of other utilities in the proximity no doubt this would be in a location within your land. Because the pole would be installed to serve you there would not be any wayleaves required. The £3400 would be allocated for this process. Your initial request was for an underground feed to the property which would not form part of a universal service obligation. Hope this clarifies for you. I will be in touch as soon as I have spoken to the head of region with regards to any reductions we can make to the cost.

This is all the information I've been able to get: Traffic management £1917.70 Civils entailing Core Drill into Network Box duct road crossing to site boundary £3,624.19 Cabling £875.42 Total £ 6,417.31 + VAT Material £ 70.67 Final £ 6,487.98 No mention of any allowance

Where does this get mentioned? My quote is just under £7k and there has been no mention of an allowance at all

A wooden frame? Builders strap?

Going to make ours out of angle iron

Couldn't disagree more.