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  1. Lesgrandepotato
    I’ll add myself to the borderline under 40’s. No passive house build here, just a big returb. But trying to make it sensible cost to run. I was 6 weeks past the post when we moved in last year. Is the mortgage big, yes! Did we make a bit of money, yes! Will I care in 10 years once we’ve broken the back of it? Probably not.
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    We’ve got secondhand granite and a custom made oak section for the breakfast bar. Whole lot cost about 750quid or so. Plus a fair amount of faff... the Oak was from worktop express as it happens. For what it’s worth the stone is lovely, exquisite. But functionally equivalent to a bit of 40quid laminate ?
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    Perhaps with a trim strip down the centre? Perhaps an acrylic bar?
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    Breakfast bar is normally 900 deep. Can you not just back to back two 600’s
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    @recoveringacademic my digger man is about £16 an hour. Sure he’d be happy to use your kit. That’s probably only a days work. Is it worth your time to look at it?
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    The gaps around the exterior of the Ali frames. You need between 8-12mm on each side so. If your window is 2000mm with 4 panes you’ll need 2*12mm for each end, then the 3*8mm gaps between windows. So Your wooden frames will be be 2000 - 24mm that’s 1976mm wide. Each Ali frame will be (2000-12-12-8-8-8)/4 so that’s 1952/4 giving us 488mm wide sections. From experience if you needed a 500mm escape window.... its worth understanding all this, you will get from Velfac a deeply complex contract that you take the risk on. Lovely windows hard to buy. We did a final review at a trade show with them that really helped..
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    Where’s the photo of this Saxon stone then? You can’t just leave that hanging! Will it influence the name of the house? Ethelred the unreadys byre?
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    We found out after the event, velfac have a measuring service... the way they describe their measurements caused no ends of confusion for our lads. You have to account for the shadow gaps from memory.
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    Could keep a couple for those. That just leaves the other massive pile ?
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    I have circa 20 windows sat in the garden gently rotting. I have a half empty skip. Is this my best call of action to combine the two or is there something better I can do?
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    Hmm. He clearly spends a lot of time looking up at the ceiling.
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    I think a grown up conversation with the PM about options is needed here. Before you do. How unacceptable is the colour to you? Is it a shade of grey? Or wholly inappropriate? To make a decision - you’ll need a view from the manufacturer on what they’d use and how it affects the warranty. If he started painting before either either of these on my build then he may find himself in a career limiting situation as I’d have a serious loss of faith. There will be constraints in what can be done. They need to be understood and a decision made on approach / recompense.
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    We paid 550 for a sale recently. 21 days end to end (inc weekends) local solicitor
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    Never cleaned ours out. Well not quite. Only after a code brown situation involving a toddler and a sieve.
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    My front doors are 2.4m tall and each side is a shade over 900mm
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    Or create a central winter garden? Dividing the two spaces with a metre wide of planting and rooflight above? Or even properly open to the skies?
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    What about basement style light wells outside? Perfectly screened but actual light at room level? Could be quite exciting? Imagine these recesses are all windows down the wall... it could be immense in style.
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    What about a wedge, from 2400, to 3000+ Might help angle the roof lights well to? maybe with a floor level change at the higher end?
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    We have a kitchen diner space here that is 10m * 4m that has a ceiling of 2450-70 or so. Feels good to me. Was well worth the effort to oversize. The illusion is completed by the oversize French Windows (2200 vs a more standard 2100) and the adjoining atrium. 5m * 6m with a double height space and double height glass screen. I think 2450 would be fine. You could do some thing really magical with a little more. You could also ruin it with downstands.
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    Surely this should be led by asthetics? If you make it die straight inside and it’s wonky outside will it feel right? My natural reaction would be to embrace the wonkage.
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    This stuff is brilliant! We’ve got a few walls done in it.
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    I have an 8metre similar one in our house. It’s still standing. Slightly struggling with the concept of a non load bearing (no studs, no roof load) load bearing wall
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    My thinking is as follows EWI is quite a challenging project for the house and a major investment. Could you achieve 80% of the gain for 20% effort with internal insulation? We didn’t Ewi even though we re rendered the entire building as my feeling was that it still wouldn’t be that efficient and we could create a better effect with 60mm of celotex around all the internal walls. You could then go room by room? And the disruption is much lower.
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    We rendered over some of ours, but that’s only because it wouldn’t come off without taking half the blocks with it. I think I’d be wondering if Ewi is actually worth it on this property. Can’t polish a t**d. Is Ewi just rolling it in glitter?
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    Waves from the sticky toffee pudding village.
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