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Cmon Ferdinand if floor area was that crucial the big boys wouldn't be doing dot n dab! 50mm round a perimeter adds up but I doubt the internal area/value is going to stack up exactly like that. Especially with how the British buy. Bedrooms as opposed to floor space

Your near Midlands aren't you? EH Smith do 2 good ones. The black one is around 100 quid. Supposed to be non permable but I've noticed water pool on it. White one is better but closer to 200 quid. I've used both before Wait till you start talking to groundworks people. They reckon there's about 500 different specs.

To be fair I had blown in dritherm on last house I built. This was after bad experiences of brickies installing poorly. However I'm not sure how well the blown in job was. If going down glass fibre route you just need to make sure subbies are thorough. Eps beads are the way forward though as you say. Better flow and better performance

Out of interest is the timescale for payback no good on swapping full fill 37 with dritherm 32? What difference in u value would you get and how long would it take to pay back?

Seen it from a decent sized tf manufacturer here before. Probably not ideal.

So I thought to till I had one turn up once. They have a tablet and big pole connected to satellite

40:1 gradient in line with grooves. Go back and jack it up one end or firing strips

Me and a friend have only passed a water supply connection first inspection 1/2 times each. Built over 20 houses between us. They put a new main in for him recently and they were at 600mm. They make it up as they go along

New regs. Got to show something like 3-6 months history. Money laundering regs

Was thinking of buying a new fridge myself last weekend. As you say though it might save me a tenner a year but will be worth half what I paid in a year. Decided to stick with the oldun!

Who moans about energy being too cheap?! Seriously! It's like moaning petrol is too cheap. I'm not hating on your eco houses but i'm fine with cheap energy! Get down the pub and tell everyone its too cheap

looking good btw... Did you have oak linings as well? Were these fitted as part of second fix?

The doors will stick around at the kind of money, howdens do 3 varieties of that style in oak now (3 price points). By the time you 3 coat a standard door vs 1/2 coats of oil on these the price difference isn't so great, and you've got an oak door.

30-70 clean. Type 3 I think 200mm thick and leave around 100mm low not including surfacing. +75mm tarmac. Top the 100mm up with type 1 towards end of build.

keylite have that expanding foam collar as standard

Fake news it's actually a great job. They're all having it done like that now!

Jeremy you do seem to be an extraordinarily helpful bloke though and also passionate about low energy builds!

Shuttering trenches never seems to work very well. Depends how neat machine driver has been. 6mm ply is laughable but feel free to try use this then backfill. You will soon give up! iv found pallets either side wedged with everything pulled out good solution. Pull out props and pallets as Conc rises to be most effective cheap method as usually have loads of pallets. Ive filled lost corners with conc before but think textbook founds should have nice vertical sides so not ideal

The industry is booming. Perhaps in the dark years they'd of tried harder to win your business but their order book might be full regardless

Is there not done confusion here where you are just fixing horizontal battens to your frame and others are assuming you fixing 2 layers of battens?

Seems odd. How many have you tried? Perhaps previous client don't want every potential new customer traipsing thru their door. Understandable I suppose

Recently bought a makita planer and it was no good. Returned under warranty after 4 months and refund taken. Went back to Bosch. I'm not loyal to any manufacturer but didn't give me a good impression

was hoping to get away with vine eyes and staples! Im thinking if i pull taught before knocking the staples home on the posts all should be good?

So thread thru vine eye one end. Twist back on itself to secure. Run to other end, through vine eye again, then how do those nifty pliers pull the wire taught?