Barney12

Ketchup! Gallons of the stuff to drown the taste! I don't go to supermarkets. Far too many people for my liking. On the rare occasion I give SHMBO a lift to one I get a newspaper from the kiosk by the door and sit in the car. Far safer!

So the frame is arriving......Slowly! Its taken them the best part of an hour to move three panels down the lane by telehandler. Its of course as standard p*ss*ng it down with rain! I think they're in for a long afternoon. Worse still I'm trapped at the flat on-site as I cant get out. No milk or food in the fridge. I've just had to resort to eating Linda McCartney Veggy Sausages as it was the ONLY thing in the freezer which I could cook from frozen YUK!

Now why couldn't I find that document! such a Luddite So it seems that cooling is a standard setting? Not hidden at all? Can I really be that lucky with my choice? See luddite and sceptic all in one slightly overweight package!!

Yes sorry. Sloppy typing. Do we have a definitive list of ASHP's where enabling cooling has been achieved?

Really interesting thread. Do we have a definitive list of the ASHP which have been successfully achieved cooling mode? I've currently specified a Samsung unit but haven't been able to find any information about its cooling mode (if it has one!).

Well at this rate it looks as though my roof is going to be delayed due to the metal seam (Tata) element, thus at this rate the blockwork will be ahead of the roof!!. Thus what I'm planning to do is load the roof tiles on to the roof and stack across the battens. I'm hoping this will provide the "loading" you describe to help compress the frame?

Its another question from Tata I need answering. I don't think we will need to as the North of the building is sheltered from the South/South West aspect which takes the full brunt of rain/wind from the open moor. Today's Friday. So that's another broken promise from Tata who on Monday promised answers to my questions by "midweek". Amazing how they can attend each and every trade, self build, design show in the land with a fancy stand but not actually come through with actually allowing me to spend money!!

Result

I've been watering it all late afternoon/evening after the guys went. Just did the final drenching at 9pm. Hopefully I've done enough to stop any cracking! UFH was indeed cable tied to rebar so all ok.

Sorry, scrapp that. I thought I had one but I dont

give me 10 mins!

Yes, I'd like to reduce it to 25mm as that will bring the slate section over the top of the metal seam creating a neater finish (obviously with the flashing underneath at the junction. Sorry, yes MBC have detailed it as counter batten but the plan is to run it on top and in line with the rafter. Thats interesting to hear. We are in a very rural location but we do get some pretty special wind and rain as we're 2000ft above sea level. Thankfully the North elevation is fairly well sheltered from the worst which comes straight off the open moor in front of us. I had actually gone this route because I was told by a couple of local roofers that Zink has a poor life span and tends to rot. I must check what Tata's warranty says on the subject.

Finally the wet weather has cleared and the guys can get on with the concrete. Today its apparently too hot. Cant win

I wouldn't use two personally. Just give yourself enough clearance at the top to drop the triple over the existing pipe. That's exactly what I did.

That may be an option. If I did that would I need to do the same on the South or would such a small difference not be noticeable to the eye?

Thanks Jeremy, to completely honest if I wasn't this far ahead I would ditch them. The girl I had been dealing with was brilliant so I suspect it may be one and the same! Sorry No.5 is a typo by me. Its actually listed as "roofing felt" which I assume would be the normal breathable stuff they use. I'll correct my post.

We have specified the above for the North bottom section of our roof. Its a slightly unusual design (which I'm really regretting) as its a transition from slate to metal seam. I am absolutely pulling my hair out with them. It seems the sales person I was dealing with left the company and no one took on her workload. Her emails were just not answered and her mobile answerphone ignored! Great service!! NOT! Anyway I finally managed to make contact with someone new and despite another three weeks passing I'm still waiting for the answer to what I believe is a very simple question. I have a new promise of an answer by "midweek" but thought I'd ask the collective view of the forum as the MBC guys are going to start putting the bloody frame up next week! I have a recollection that @JSHarris had originally considered this product? My question relates to roof build up. The Tata technical manual shows this: So I have agreed with MBC the following: (From the inside out) 15mm Plasterboard (Client) 22mm Service Cavity Batten (MBC) Airtight Membrane (MBC) 225mm Rafter (MBC) Roofing felt (MBC) 50mm Counter Batten on Rafter (Supplier TBC) 18mm OSB3 Deck (Supplier TBC) Breather Membrane (Supplier TBC) (Note that between 3 and 5 above will be the insulation fill.) To my mind this provides what is required. What I would actually like to do is reduce the counter batten (no.6) to 25mm as the build up creates a kick from the tile to metal seam transition. Do others think this provides sufficient ventilation of the deck? Any thoughts hugely appreciated! I had even researched changing to another metal seam roof supplier but all the quotes I've had in are more than double that of the Tata product.

+1. I'm exactly the same!

As we are on the national park we were not allowed to burn. The 1950's house we demolished had a similar level of poor quality timber. Full of nails and in general poor quality, I put an advert on Gumtree for "free firewood" and an entire house worth was gone in one weekend. I could have got rid of it 5 times over!

+1. I think the comments about wasting your time before you've got a plot are entirely wrong. Yes there are elements of design which are going to be heavily influenced by the plot, it's location and the building orientation on the plot BUT you can certainly start to think about spaces, how you use them, features you like or dislike. One other tip (if you haven't already) is to set up some Pinterest boards and start consolidating various design ideas and inspiration. We we did exactly as you are doing and many of our thoughts and ideas were taken onboard by our architect and transmitted into our house design. Keep going!

Don't do yourself down! That's a better job than a lot or architects could muster!

The MBC guys are back on Wednesday to pour the slab now it's finally stopped raining here. I've got one job I'm considering doing which is to put some temp sensors in for later connection/future proofing. I've got some waterproof ones sat here waiting, I was initially going to attach them to the rebar in the middle of the UFH runs by extending them with cat5 soldered and sealed but am now wondering if that's too deep with the added risk of the joints failing and in fact would be better to retrofit by cutting s small channel in the slab once it's down and then connecting in the service void? i don't have any means to test the temp sensors before as I have no equipment capable of reading the output. Unless there is a resistance I can measure across the wires? Google turned up nothing though. Any thoughts?

@Nickfromwales might provide a better answer but is that a vent or is it a rodding access point?

I did almost the identical job a couple of months back. As @ProDave has said you'll need the triple socket at the bottom with the slip above. Have a look at my thread here with pics:

Now it makes sense: