Andeh

Yeah, it was more user error in my approach to the times. A friend helped me re approach it.... Basically Its grouping the rooms together.... NOT the time slots together. So now I have 3 profiles set up. The rooms I want to come on morning and evening (corridors, kitchen, bathrooms etc) are grouped in a profile... With 2 x time slots a day. The rooms I only want on in the morning (study, playroom) are in a profile with just a morning time slot. The rooms I only want evening (lounge) is in its own evening group. Hopefully this helps?

Could you post up pics once done? I need to consider similar on black!

As above, disabled it for the given reasons. I might run it once a month if we have guests & need an extra boost of extra hot water anyway!

50mm isn't enough for UFH, it'd probably work but wouldn't be efficient. You need at least double that. Can the slab be dug out? Only a couple days work, tool hire and a skip for the builder? Not all insulation is the same, PIR is the better kind so ensure you use that not the generic polystyrene you've got there.

Disappointing thing to have done!

We never asked... due to a rapid change from extension to full rebuild, offered by the builder with a decent 15% odd discount if we agreed to start in 5 weeks vs the expected 9-12 months. - Builder had a large last minute commercial cancellation hitting him at the 11th hour, and we were the closest project to him to fill the gap. The price he offered for the build we'd end up with included the floating corner, so we left them in. I would guestimate its near 5 figures of potential saving, had we stuck a single post at that corner & done it sensibly. The depth of foundations, sheer size of the steels, a month of delay due to some slight flex that was seen in the roof overhang steels (so the floating corner steels also then support two more steels that support the overhang....) and knock on design work to that corner of the house must have added up. Cold bridging was an issue & will be a compromise still I am sure..... Every bit of metal was infilled with PIR and foam, then the leading edge of the steels I applied a small strip of insulation likely butting up against the plasterboard. Basically did what little I could to micromanage the steels out of site with insulation best I could!

We have a touch sensitive mirror that does this. In the pitch darkness you can slight light from the LEDs but its probably 2% of the actual ''on'' illumination of the light, Always wondered why myself...

It's 1.5m horizontal, about 1.8 of actual overhang. Down the side it's only 800mm. About 23sqm of surface area based on the cladding we put on. Brick and block with some serious steels to hold it all up, especially as its a floating corner that is suspending the overhang! Sliders are 5m on one side and 3m other side.

If you plan to PM, accept a large portion of your life will be on hold for the later stages of the build . You need to be on site whilst trades are, evenings with be spent adjusting and updating plans and contingency, weekends spend tidying, adjusting and fixing what you didn't get to during the week.

Yes happy to, if you want to pm an email address I'll respond! I'm snowed under early week, but I'll come back to you.

Very exciting! Not a million miles off our design.... Good luck!

Thanks Alan, didn't realise that existed! Ill ring their technical team & post there as well..... the issue is indeed the fact you can't have the same room on two different profiles, even if they don't overlap!

Love the heatmiser app and it's capability, but it is driving me mad with nit saving the profiles. We have about 15 zones throughout the house and generally control them via a few grouped profiles. So bedrooms all controlled together, kitchen/living space controlled together, bathrooms all controlled together... We're doing this as we settle into the new house and learn the heating needs of it. However, for some stupid reasons when I create the various control profiles, it doesn't 'save' the rooms ticked. So I'll set the time, temp and rooms... Save it. Then when I go back into it, it has 'unticked' my saved rooms. Has anyone ever come across this before? I THINK it is when I have two profiles controlling the same room at over lapping times. Ie.. We have a large Corridor which I would like heated during both the morning profile and the evening profile, so it is selected in both profiles. When I create the second profile with it, and tick the corridor, and save it... It deletes the corridor from my morning profile. But gives no warning or reason for doing this???

Feel your pain! If people just did the job they're being paid for properly, and during the timing they confirmed... Everything would be 10x easier for 'us'. But that would require just a little bit of effort and care on their part... Which never happens because they don't care nor can be bother for the effort. It's a shitty industry.

Have you ever experienced internal damp? any evidence of it anywhere? If the answer to both is 'no' (especially over such a long time period) then top up and move on!

If your on mains gas, and a house like that... Stick with gas!! If there is no insulation underneath it then anything you do is just tickling the symptoms. Put a thick rug over the cold floor and leave it until a refurb enables you to insulate the the floor and do it properly. The £3-8k you could spend on the ashp would be better spent doing this! We've got an ashp in a modern build, and I'm happy enough with it... But I would never recommend an ASHP for anyone unless a full refurbish or new build is on the cards.

Buy and knock down is an easier route, pay a bit more but likely less issues with planning, services and timing. Virgin plots will be fought over.

And in FURTHER parallel to what Alan said.... Each week move your bin further down the path! If you can't beat them on the beaches or beat them in the trenches... Go for the morale low ground, petty and pathetic... And bask in the smugness of him moving the bin back Every. Single. Week.

Definitely appeal, using your guy to lead it on the appropriate clauses. Please keep us update! Awkward neighbours are hard work.... Been there before!

Interesting, thanks for that. We have a lot of glazing all over the place, which we've never had before so taking some getting used to.

For what it's worth OP, I'm dealing with this myself! The house retains heat well, but exactly as you say... 20 degrees feels more like 17 degrees!

Better views on the thicknesses if things....

Yeah, overall I am. Fitters were ok, but a couple of gaps in the draft seal I'm not happy with, and I can't get the fitters back out 5 months later which is disappointing on a premium door. I'll stick my own seal in to resolve though. They are impressive doors, narrow, large and overall pretty slick. We have 8m x 2.5m high with a floating corner enabling the corner to be pulled back fully. Upgraded 2G glass as well. Around £13/14k incl fitment about 9 months ago ( ordered towards end of peak energy prices which hurt us), I do feel we over paid. We never shopped around enough due to the rest of the build, which I wish we did. So overall a mixed bag mainly due to fitters, doors are a real wow factor though.

Sorry, I missed first fix shell.... My bad! I'd estimate the £2500+VAT for finished 'basic' spec Yes, £2000 psqm plus VAT (ish) for 1st fix shell doesn't feel unreasonable. So much can be local market dependant though. Online estimators are worth a punt as a cheap QS alternative.