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Russel timbertech may be a good start. I haven't used them myself.

This gives you the idea of the staples, we never used a timber batten around outside.

We also used metal staples from kore which we run out of and made our own. I think biggest bit for no movement was the guys who poured the slab, they where concerned for movememt and eps lifting/floating in the concrete and placed concrete very cautious and slow with starting on the main slab before the ring beam. Seemed to work.

Sorry can't help on your question but looking good, more pictures would be nice????

Window cill covers??

Icynene type insulation.

I need a some sort of air breathing kit for spraying insulation. Anybody used the MSA turbo-flow kit, or is this over kill?

Thats very expensive.

The £75m2 from isoquick, what exactly is that for ( Design supply or install etc) ?

@Triassic That picture looks very similar to our next build. 3 sided icf basement with bigger raft footprint area on 1st floor.

Our took slightly longer than 4 days but was a DIY effort (got in a company to pour the concrete).

@nod Is it expensive? For complicated designs do I supply CAD ?

Looking v nice.

Yes double sarking is over kill, below board could be a membrane.Our orignally plan was all slate then changed to half slate half steel. I wasnt away to remove the sarking. You have got 2 routes for a DIY standing seam roof either to go to likes of tata and buy a pre formed complete kit which is pretty straight forward on a DIY effort but pretty expensive on £m2 cost for what it actually is but saves a lot with no labour or buy a rolls of metal and form it on site (which is what your hiland tray is) which is pretty skilled job but also DIY if you are very good hands on type of preson. The machinery for this is pretty expensive new cheapest form is £8k and electric closer is £3k. We are renting the form and bought a second hand electric closer on german ebay but this can also be rented. Plus you will need a few specialised hand tools approx another £1k. We have a local metal fabricator with a 4m electric folder which has been a major help for fascia boards, valleys etc. Tata offered a free day course on the standing seam which would be a good start, also there is a company who offers training on forming the metal yourself which is pretty expensive but is usually on a one to basis. If you go dow this route I would recommend doing the tata first, and treat is a intro. this is a good link for material https://www.roofing-tools.com/home.htm

Are you planning on doing this yourself?

Will get a sketch tomorrow but basically double sarked the roof with a 50mm batten in between to create a air gap with a vent in soffit and ridge. We have struggled to get exact information as when people know we are DIY'n the roof they become less generous with info. Different metals need different breathing requirements even some zinc needs the fancy membrane or air cavity and some other zinc with special treatment needs only standard roof membrane. We have chosen stainless steel with being on the coast and needs less breathing requirement but have done a extra air gap as extra protection.

What type of metal are you using. We have a 50mm air gap below ours. Will draw a sketch later.

Thanks to @newhome tip off i am applying for the loan and may go down the RHI route even if it means ditching my cheap ashp from eBay. But the sums need to add up!

Just visited a tile show room in Preston from the recommendation on here, as always excellent advice. Much appreciated. New problem. Any ideas, experiences on water jet cut porcelain tiles??

I feel for you, your story does sound similar to mine. I am pretty sure we have different manufactures and installers/UK agent. Maybe I am wrong but I do have faith they will sort it out but does it really need to be this difficult?

Deleted I am wrong again ?

Good timing with mixer valve advice, been eyeing up a £60 esbe valve for low temps ufh and adding own pump. Although prob go with mixer mentioned above what's the chance of getting away with using a standard efficiency grundfos pump ( I still have a "few" lying around) ?

Just a update. New front door and window beading arrived wrong, looks like another 6-8 weeks that will take it almost up to 1 year!!!!!!

Big bit of kit that! Looks the the same slide mechanism on the battery as the rest of the XR range inc 18v never had the problem of the battery sliding out on anything i own but I don't have a breaker. I always thought the little metal clips was for hanging of the belt for the john wayne pose!

If you are running surface mounted you can do it in copper, fittings for that Trac pipe are pretty expensive.