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    95p per linear metre + vat when I did the workshop base. But that was a year or more ago.
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    That's impressive. Brendan, Darren and their crew have finished tonight (just packing up). So it's taken them nearly 12 working days working 12 hour shifts.
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    Ecohaus Internorm ask for 10mm for sides and top, nothing for bottom. For larger windows they ask for greater tolerances on the height. They did send their surveyor last week but unfortunately MBC were well behind schedule and didn't even have the first floor up (despite being on-site for a week) due to the atrocious weather so I agreed to do upstairs. Glad I did! As an aside MBC have done our entire build with a telehandler and hand balling. Due to the wind where we are they probably would have only been able to crane on 1 or 2 days over the past two weeks. I have a suspicion they might be glad when ours is done!
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    I like to keep my salad leaves and veggies inside the animal I'm going to eat! Best place for the horrid things! But being serious for just a moment. Take them out of any plastic bags/packaging and lay them fairly loosely (I.e. Not stacked) in a wooden open top and side veg box. Ensure any Bananas are well away from everything else.
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    A combination of width and height issues. Mostly width. The worst being a large height error of nearly 60mm. They're going to have to cut a glulam lintel to fix that one. Ecohaus only ask for a 10mm tollerance so that one would have more than a slight issue! Ive now been round every window and noted the window number and opening dimensions (as per the schedule) and written onto the smartply with a sharpie marker.
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    Yes, I'm putting a radial circuit in for electric rads as a fail safe. Im minded to put the UFH pipe in too as you are doing as the first fix cost is minimal. My one concern is that I haven't actually seen a fan coil rad in the flesh and the ones I've seen online look bulky and akin to the aweful night storage heaters of the past. Windows; what a complete PIA they are. Ours are going in a week on Monday. Well they will be when MBC have adjusted almost all of the upstairs openings which are too small due to a manufacturing error in the factory. I'm glad @jack banged on at me to check all the openings to the window schedules! I also found a couple of errors downstairs too where the slab recess was wrong. Thankfully all of the errors are reasonably easy to put right but will certainly add to their workload.
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    Thanks. So how have you left then in the room? Just below the floor with their locations carefully recorded? Or have you got them above FFL with a cap? Sorry for being inquisitive!
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    All you need is a certificate. This should do it
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    Did you manage to find those right angle floor connectors for your UFH pipe upstairs (ready for the fan cooled rads if needed)?
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    How did you decide on your slot widths?
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    Was this a HVAC engineer by any chance? I have received similar feedback about slab cooling AND my MVHR cooling. However, I cant see that either reach temperatures where condensation will form?
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    Yes. This one: https://www.bpcventilation.com/airflow-bv400-618 I've actually discovered that its simply a re-badged Helios kit. There is a PDF to the kit here: Ground-to-brine heat exchanger SEWT (Kit) - Byggahus I dont actually have it though! I ordered and paid for it mid/late April and long story short, they had supply issues, they sent their 'display' kit, it had various bits missing and it went back and I'm still waiting for its replacement. All I currently have is a length of pipe buried in the ground. To be completely honest if I hadn't have gone to the huge expense of burying the pipe I would have by now demanded my money back. I'm also still waiting for my Airflow MHRV unit, I have everything else just not the most expensive bit!! I sense Airflow (and in turn BPS) may have some significant supply chain issues.
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    Of course a lot also depends on the skip companies view of "cheeky boards". That can make a big difference.
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    I think as @JSHarris said. A lot will be dependent on your nearest yard/waste transfer station. For us thats a good 40-50 minutes each way.
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    We're not supposed to either! We're breaking the rules. Thankfully the house is relatively sheltered from near neighbours and out of public sight (unless you know where to go to look). The MBC guys know that one complaint to the national park and we'll be back to agreed hours. There's 10 of them on site with nail guns today. Oooops. Yesterday I was running around in full on "peace keeping" mode with bunches of flowers to near neighbours. £200 in flowers (so far) wasn't in the budget Right I need to go and wash the grill pan after making 20 rounds of bacon sandwiches. Tea is in shifts as I only have 6 mugs
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    +1 The MBC guys are working away on my roof as I type (Sunday). The atrocious weather of the last few weeks has put them behind but they haven't stopped once. Working in the howling wind and pouring rain, 7am to 7pm every day. I really can't fault their work ethic and the quality so far seems very good, they've had a few problems with the frame design but they don't seem to let it worry them. Brendan and his brother in particular are bordering on super human. Watching them makes me feel old, fat and unfit
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    @nod Only just spotte this. Did you do the GRP yourself in the end? Simple enough? Certainly looks good from the photo's.
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    Thanks. Thankfully the park are not quite that bad. We've had a Spanish prime 500x250 approved. The MBC guys are battening tommorow (yes Sunday) so I've got to decide on the headlap. So many decisions!
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    Just to update this thread. I have finally taken the decision to ditch Tata's product. Hugely frustrating. The straw that broke the camels back was their notification of a price increase since my quote (despite checking only two months ago that the quote was still valid). How much you're asking? 45% yes you read that right FORTY FIVE PERCENT! They are BY FAR the worst company I have EVER had the displeasure of dealing with. I could write paragraphs on their general inefficiency, unhelpfulness and couldn't give a crap attitude. Buyer beware.
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    I'm paying £280+VAT for a mixed waste 10t (8yard) skip. Thats the cheapest I can get from any local provider. Quite a few of the skip companies consider our address as "special" and whack the price up .
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    Be careful not to confuse confidence with blind enthusiasm
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    Not a chance Natural slate only and the exact type, colour etc is subject to planning approval (which we now have).
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    Hi All I've done a small amount of slating. I.e slated a few small workshop roofs etc. But I would not call myself an expert by any means. However, I've been considering "having a bash" (Mmmm inappropriate choice of term ) at doing my slate roof myself with the help of my nephew. The principle reason being nothing more than the sense of accomplishment and being able to say "I did that". Its not a complicated roof, no valleys etc, just one straight ridge. The battens will be done by MBC. Two dormers (but no slate detail). The tiles we've chosen are "prime" and the supplier is telling me that they will need almost no grading. We will have to nail the slates. Slate hooks are forbidden on the National Park (heaven knows why!). Talk me out of it? Risks (other than falling off the roof )? Biting of more than I can chew?
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    Yes I would agree. I think the UFH element for us was only £1,200 inc labour and materials. As you say start adding the screed to a traditional floor etc and it all adds up. Of course the problem is MBC don't (or at least didn't with us) separate out the foundation cost from the frame.
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    I've Googled/researched this extensively as timber bris soleil are actually a planning condition for us. We have to fit over 20 m2 of the stuff. My conclusions are: as you say the majority are very contemporary (which is fine for us as we have a modern build) and the proprietary systems out there are crazy money (I mean really silly money!). I've concluded that the most likely option for us is to commission our own. I've done some very basic pencil sketch ideas in my notebook involving the design of metal brackets and timber sections. Even allowing for custom steelwork, galvanising and custom spindle moulding the slats I'll still be quids in. My my biggest challenge is that some of the slats in the central section have to span 4.2m of glass. That means that I've got to come up with some form of metal support behind the timber (think flitch beam) so I can span such a large gap. Its got to hold up against wind and rain at 2000ft above sea level Thus in summary; is the answer to your question to "roll your own" using suitably rustic timber slats and some custom made brackets?
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