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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.

The finalising of the design is massive IMO. The TF company are good at what they do, but they aren't designers - it needs input from all parties pooling all their skills to make it right.

Yes - 5 zones just for control. And you're pretty much bang on - we have 800m of pipe! It will be the only heat source we have and I'm not anticipating turning it on much (the PHPP calcs showed a pretty minimal heat load demand), but having it and not using it is better than not having it and needing it! I'm still struggling to get my head around not needing much heating though, even though I've been in a few well insulated houses. I do need to sort out the cooling soon too!!!!

Brill. Thanks all

We're just putting in the UFH pipes and I'm trying to work out the best position for the manifold but the best position for it is smaller than the alternative location. We have 5 zones but 9 loops (so 18 pipes in total) so I was assuming that we'd need an 18 port UFH manifold but the biggest ones I've seen are 12 port. Basically, what I want to know is what would be the length of the manifold plus pump, valves etc to suit our requirements?