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Never mind tape be glad your window fitters used metal brackets..... our 1st installers stuck in 5 meter sliders with expanding foam ??? luckily the window supply company was as horrified as us and refited everything.

What the benefit of the decoupling mat?

Will follow this thread as I am also searching for a nice insulated/fire door for between garage to house. Haven't seen anything yet.

Excuse me..... I am in the sub 40 category aswell? Tbh I have a few friends that would be more than able to go down the self build route (main contractor) but they have no interest, they are more than happy just to go to the local developments stick there name and get the keys 12 months later.

I swayed back and for about the FIT. I decided the sums worked for me but it was a close call. £1k premium and no up front vat for 4.5kw system. I had a good look at two in roof kits the GSE system and the EASY ROOF system both very similar and i believe both French. My installer recomended the GSE as it was easier to install. No major issues when installing ( we installed it ourselves), but there was no exact instructions (maybe online?). Double check your chosen panel is compatible with your chosen inroof kit (most are but not all). You will probably be around £800 for the inroof kit for 4kw of panels. Prices are steadily falling for panels so pays to shop around. The all black panels with the inroof kit does look very tidy esp on slate (see jsharris house). Break the pv cost down to Cost per watt, makes life easy to compare apples with apples. Maybe hold of as long as possible, when the FIT ends in spring you may pick up some bargains! We looped cable from every panel into the loft space with a connection. This will allow easier maintance and repair down the line, I have not seen anybody else do this. Not to sure how to advice on inverters I don't have any first hand knowledge. All seem to have a life span and don't seem worth to repair. SMA sunnyboy inverters have been in the game along time and we picked up one in a bulk solar thermal purchase. If you have shading on roof look at ditching the single inverter and sticking on micro inverters on to each panel ( this was another reason we looped cables into loft space as we have trees but are planning to cut these back). quick check 300w black 8.33 solar (longest preformance manufacturer warranty I have seen but bit sceptical of 20 year warranty) is £110 each plus vat. You can get a better deal on quantity.

Maybe a bit more expensive but I was eyeing up a hard wired hormann/garador keypad opener wired to the garage door. http://www.ukgaragedoorspares.co.uk/garage-door-wired-keypads/hormann-wired-keypads

We are on mains so having a hose would be very easy. Bit of topic what's the standard bore for a garden hose?

Following over from another thread about fire, It got me thinking I do not have any fire prevention or fighting stuff on site. I have mains water but no hose! I am thinking of adding:- a hose (need one anyway), 2x fire blankets (stay after build) 5kg C02 extinguisher (stay after build) 6kg powder extinguisher (stay after build) 2x battery smoke alarms ionisation that will be replaced with hard wired alarms later Is this way over kill?

Quick check at TP (cash trade account for self build) mapei pro flexible 20kg £10.51 ex vat. Don't know if it's any good though.

Think I am away to redo my corgi sorry gas safe tickets??

I considered some strange ideas Inc linning the pool with UFH pipe to heat it. The basics was insulated slab, icf with pool lined with stainless steel (same stuff we are doing the standing seam roof) all diy. I was trying to botch together stand alone meaco ducted dehumidfyer and of the shelve mvhr but prob better to get a proper designed unit.

Stunning.much appreciated for the follow up info. What dehumidifier system did you go for? I haven't ruled out one yet and your figures are very similar to what I was projecting.

Take the WB website with a pinch of salt aswell. All it means is they fit X amount of WB boilers, attended a sales course and a odd day training course. Being ex trade the few good guys I would trust in my own house don't advertise Inc no sign writing on van!

We once had a worcester flue that the flue wasn't correctly installed (vertical that somebody cut short) and not sealing correctly and everything in the main exchanger was signs of corrosion gas valve, fan wiring loom etc. We ended up changing the boiler like for like in a few hours.

5 year old worcester, that's still a good boiler. I know worcester will come out themselves for a set fee think around £300, usually next day (sometimes same). They will give the boiler a once over and any weak parts that a prone to failing they usually replace aswell.

Your not alone, been there got the t-shirt aswell? 100% with triassic he also sorted as out.

We used the T2 profile in the above link directly on to the sarking. Worked a treat apart from the first slate tier when we kicked them out for the bellcast which was a bit of a bugger . Also ordered direct from kloeber in RAL7016 to match windows and facias. We have used tapco plastic slates.

10-15 is the going rate around here. I had to travel 80 miles at the time when I needed them. We used a trailer which we bought cheap for the build, probably paid itself long time ago.

I have never came across 14mm pex as in the nuheat quote. I believe the wunda is mlcp type pipe if it is, it's nice stuff to work with?

Does the jnr have a self diagnostic every time you reset or switch off/on power?

I know the feeling with finishing off before the concrete lorry arrived, we stepped off the slab when the concrete lorry was reversing in in to the pump..... Thankfully we got a little help from the concrete guys (8 guys arrived at 7am, lorry 8am) with tie wrapping the last of the pipe or we would not have made it! Everything went smooth after that.

email over now, I would delete your email address of your last message if i was you

Over In Peterhead, Although she did not do our drawings she was on site a few months ago. We have a DIY kore insulated slab (local company did the pour).

Hi Russ_fae_fyvie. Another self builder from the shire here. Nice area you are building, say hello to your architect (katrina) from me!

We have found the same with any EPS we have removed on our ICF.