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  1. dpmiller
    Yours didn't have a water drip as well Jeremy?
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    do you mean real aluminium or Mylar?
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    do MBC not counterbatten the ceiling for a void?
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    Normally "original" beans from Tesco, but tripped over a couple of 1.2kg bags of "gold" beans in Lidl. Not a bad cup but even more palatable at under a fiver for a bag!
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    not too picky on the beans here but we do have a Delonghi bean2cup machine to put them in.
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    depends. I'd say a consumer mig will be running out of penetration on bigger box wall. 150-180A needed IMHO.
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    We've both an underbench integrated larder and freezer from Bosch and they're pretty quiet; at the time of purchase they were much better efficiency-wise than any other reasonable options. based on that i don't think you'd go far wrong with the likes of this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BOSCH-Classixx-KUL15A60GB-Integrated-Undercounter-Fridge-/263226903686?hash=item3d498bcc86:g:0BUAAOSwviBZx-dy
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    rated as P5 http://www.ecologicalbuildingsystems.com/docs/Spano-Durelis-Populair-Data-Sheet.pdf
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    Right then gents. Getting into the nitty gritty of some TF quotes and of the two I'm most interested in (names witheld at this time..) I'm interested in the collective's opinion of differing buildups. Forgetting cost at this point, and bearing in mind both systems are quoting the same U- value:- option 1 breather membrane/9mm OSB/140mm stud filled with Frametherm35/ 50mmPUR/ vapour barrier/ service void/ PB option 2 breather membrane/ 12mm Durelis Populair/ 140mm stud filled with Superglass35/ 50mmPUR taped as air&vapour tight/ service void/ PB Is the Populair's better vapour transfer likely to be a benefit in the real world?
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    If you're breaking Torx bits that easily, thay aint good'uns.
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    Heads up

    dpmiller commented on sussexlogs's blog entry in sussexlogs

    it isnt?
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    looks like a clone of the Lidl one I bought a year or so back, in which case it was an absolute steal at £30 as it really punches above it's weight in CFMs.
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    I'll retract my statement as my memory turns out to be befuddled. Back around ten years ago I was pretty active on Ukwhitegoods- both for personal research and also because I was doing a fair bit with Miele commercial glasswashers at the time. Back then the trade was agog at a tie-in between BSH and Merloni. But I remembered the detail incorrectly, I apologise. Trawling back through postings of the time, Merloni were buying in non-German BSH product and it's quality did no favours for either brand...
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    ^ against that, remember than Bosch bought in dishwashers from Merloni a few years back (rebranded Hotpoints) and they didn't quite live up to the German name.
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    Beko must've upped their game- as I recall it their earlier auto-defrost systems were "problematic"...
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    And if funds are tight for the design portion, you could look in the same direction that we did- there are a number of architects in the South of Ireland (possibly elsewhere too but that's what we found) with long lists of modifiable "book plans" I'll not link them directly but a google search for Irish House Plans/ plan-a-home/Blueprint might give food for thought.
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    Rules are different here, and 98% straight into a ditch is a good scenario, I'm told.
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    presuming oil... do you want to build an external "boilerhouse" or would you mind a fabricated unit? Or have you somewhere inside where an oily smell wouldn't be a problem? I put a Turkington condensing jobbie in the current place and it's very neat. the Combi version is a touch bigger but it's still quite a small box. Great boiler, well impressed. http://www.turco.co.uk/countryman
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    Invisible from the road the lane's on, and you'd need binoculars to see it from the "other" one and then only the ridge.
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    ta muchly Neil. I'll circulate a quote request closer to the time then. D.
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    OK then @Alphonsox , what's your view on the local BMs, who plays ball best on pricing? Groundworks guy uses Bangor Supply a fair bit, and I've found O'Haras (Ray Grahams) cheaaper for timber than Norman Bell's of recent times. And what about quarry materials and concrete? Carrowdore's closed now so need to go a bit farther afield for stone, but I hear John Hagan's good for readymix?
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    Wunda use 16mm I think, so you'd need to change the Eurocones.
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    You could also go with a cheap DOL starter which then gives the opportunity to have all and any kill switches at SELV.
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    Double runs can be handy if you want to shift a VGA or HDMI signal around without a specific cable being pulled.
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    OH is a member, and the wee book of discounts is handy occasionally. Mostly for days out kinda things, I'm not sure the NI version has the other"shop" discounts?
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