General-Lee

@Barney12 still happy with your Graff? What’s maintenance like on it? I’m still going round in circles with plants! Bio pure then...Conder...Graff!? At least got my bum in gear with the pipe work etc.

Thanks contacted dozen online and local merchants had a few come back with a Marsh Ensign, so will have to look into that. Although I do like the look of the cone type plants.

@ProDave Hi, how are you getting on with the treatment plant? I narrowed ours down to a Bio pure before Christmas but now favouring the Conder for several reasons. I like to plan/research a lot of the bigger stuff often well in advance often decide on something then when the time comes to order research again (going over everything I’d read before!!?). But am buying now!!

Yeah what I did is same. 300mm deep, 75mm reference points then divide the seconds by 150.

I may of done the test wrong? I timed how long it took to drain in the 300mm hole between the two 75mm points.

I know this is probably done to death, but a lot of the posts I came across were older. I’m planning the drains for our new build (4 bed), did a percolation test at the weekend and took 7 hrs to drain away, so looking at treatment plants. Kind of narrowed it down to Bio-Pure, WPL, Conder but I do keep coming back to Biorock for several reasons. Any up to date opinions on the above? I do like the fact the Bio rock is electric free, I’m more than capable and happy to install and if I can commission, service it myself down the line even better. Also how are people finding the desludging intervals? On our own farmland so no issues with siting, probably going to be approx 35m from the house.

Sorry for late reply, not checked in here for a while. Going to be boarded out and insulation on top, due to tight finances we're happy with just that. Down the line can see me boarding above the insulation or making rooms up there and moving the insulation above that. It’s a long time ago now we went through it, it’s a class q permitted development. My sister and I both put in for a barn each I was led to believe with the 2 applications we’d reach the square metre allowance, could be bunk but 229 square metres is more than big enough for us. It’s a nickname I picked up in my teens from Takeshi’s castle, nice car!!? For the moment we’re only insulating the living space, external walls and the loft space/ceiling.

Going on the design I’m guessing the en-suite door is fairly well sealed up and there is a T for transit on the wall between the shower and wardrobe and T from wardrobe door to bedroom.

So currently building a house/class q barn conversion. Our builder mentioned a while ago about MVHR‘s which is something I know very little about or experience off, so took to the internet looking at prices and anything written to do with them. This site and also @Jeremy Harriscame up a lot. I’ve tried searching for any info on air transit paths but found very little, doorways pretty happy with, will purpose design architrave or gap under doors or both. But unsure how to get around circulating air from our master bedroom-walk in wardrobe-en-suite. You can get stainless steel grilles but think that’ll look unsightly, do I have a grille behind a nice oak beam or fit a vent/valve each side of the en-suite-wardrobe? Any help on how you’ve got round this would be greatly appreciated, oh and hope my ramblings make some sense.

I don’t know the u value, it maybe on Kingspans website. I went with the insulated panels (60mm) for some sound deadening when it rains with the added bonus of the insulating properties. About £3.48 - £5.42 (if I’ve got that right!) between quotes. Don’t think you can buy direct I had quotes from several companies local and national. In the end our builder was cheapest buying it through Bradfords. The 7m sheets were a handful, especially with the windy winter. A artic wouldn’t get to our site but luckily where I work could. Then used a tractor and bale trailer to bring home. We’re building on a tight budget I hired a long reach loadall and borrowed works normal sized one and I hired a cherry picker, I’ve built/roofed a few ag sheds where the sheets tend to be 3m and only single skinned. These were quite lumpy involved lots of humping-reposition-lift... It was pretty intense but the roof runs are in one length no extra sealing required and less worry of and extra joint for water ingress. It didn’t help we did it in the height of winter we were restricted to driving on the concrete, if we did it now you could drive where you like. We have our own scaffold but only enough for one side a full wraparound would of helped, physically and from a safety point of view. Was quite stressful I had machines on hire and not being used because of the weather, snatching odd hours here and there. But massive satisfaction knowing we did it ourselves and most importantly no one died!??

We only got planning for a single storey, plus we’ve more than enough space with one level. If we do do anything in the future we’ve more than enough height, 4.2m to the apex where the ceiling is at its highest and 4.8m at is lowest. Nope only Devon More than happy to have my brains picked.??

Hi there we started building our house back in the Autumn, was our old Silage shed. Been a rollercoaster with planning, getting builders on site then the wet/windy Winter. Demolished the surrounding buildings last Summer/Autumn. Stripped the old roof very little photographic evidence of that!?? Then when the weather allowed fitted the roof again by ourselves, builders arrived Nov/Dec and been on sight on and off. I’m doing as much as I can alongside them groundwork’s, steel cleaning and painting, outside cladding... Electricians on 1st fix, which leads me to this site, need some MVHR help, so will be posting a separate thread on that. Lee Here’s some pics and our Instagram page. https://instagram.com/devon_barn_conversion?r=nametag https://www.instagram.com/invites/contact/?i=1xwabykomp0t4&utm_content=b9tjlhg