ProDave

So @Onoff has been on a bender today then?

^^^ Exactly Unless you are VERY lucky you will always have some tiles left over. On the floor, under the kitchen units behind the kick board is a very good place to store all the spare tiles so they are safe, and you know where they are if you ever need them.

We have hot water. Only heated by the immersion heater just now, the heat pump plumbing will be later. And I have just had a shower in the new bathroom, I said I would get there before @Onoff Pictures to follow, no not of me showering but the tank plumbing.

Telford Technical said it does not matter, it' a symetrical coil that goes up and down the tank twice.

That's what I did. Means you can leave choosing and paying for the tiles until nearer completion.

The drain you lay underground is exactly the same. There is no such thing as a "non foul drain"

CPC is a well known component shop, part of the Farnell group. Most us us just use them mail order http://cpc.farnell.com/

It arrived today. A day early in fact, I had been told to expect it on Friday, so I had gone out to do a job. I just got back late afternoon and there was the truck pulling up at the house. One question. The two input coil ports are side by side. The diagram in the instructions says "heat pump flow and return" But WHICH is flow, the left one or the right one?

Makes me feel smug. Even stripping all the top soil down to sub soil, and then digging the foundations, muck away =0. The advantage of a sloping site and using all the excavated soil to build it up and make it less of a slope.

I'm confused, You knew about the lines, you knew about the invalid wayleave, but carried on and built close to them (no doubt with a lot of difficulty) but only now you are finished are you actually asking for them to be moved?

Here in the UK we have to do a garage ceiling with 2 layers of the pink 15mm thick plasterboard with staggered joints to achieve the fire rating. Ceiling up first, then you can fill between the joists with insulation, then your floor. What's wrong with P5 chipboard flooring? OSB does not give a particularly smooth finish.

And even when I cut and pasted to the address bar it went to a blank page. I have removed the link as it is proving contentious, and I will edit it out of the quotes as well.

I read that as ANY solid material, which could be tarmac, concrete, paving bricks etc I would avoid resin bound gravel, awful stuff imho.

Hi and welcome. I am not sure how helpful this forum will be as we are mostly in the UK and familliar with UK building regs. But it's nice to see your project and perhaps there is someone here familiar with French building regs.

No, surely the guy on the right is the electrician. He's probably on a charge.

Hi and welcome to the forum. There are several on here building on split garden plots so you will get plenty of help in due course. Can you post a plan of what you are doing?

You can now also play "what if" and see the effect of better U values for windows, doors, walls floor, roof etc and see where it might pay to make improvements.

Got it. Old joke.

I think we all need to go and read "Eats shoots and leaves"

I like 15 and 16

Where's your Grammar. She's out with me grandad.

I'll vent my pet hate at miss used grammar. If I had £1 for every time I have heard someone say "you could of done that....." FFS OF is not the same word as HAVE. It should be "you could have done that....." There. I can sleep easy tonight now that is off my chest.

The report on the fire has been published. A summary here https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/grenfell-tower-report-how-the-fire-began-on-the-fourth-floor-and-spread-throughout-the-block-a3814831.html (and probably many other places as well) The key things for me. Fire started by a fridge / freezer The kitchen window in that flat was open (to let the smoke out?) so it's fire rating was irellevant. Sprinklers would only have helped if in the kitchen where the fire started. The front doors to the flats did not have self closers and at least part pf the spread of fire was doors left open No fire breaks in the cladding (I think we knew that)

All that is inside the heat pump is a plate heat exchanger to transfer the heat from the refrigerant to the water (brine) so I can't see there is anything in the heat pump to get upset. I have spoken to Technical help at Telford. They advised for my small heat pump to use the standard heap pump coil not the larger one. The argument being that the larger input coil takes it almost to the top of the tank so most of the time will be in the hottest part and you won't get much extra heat transfer. They advised the larger coil is best suited to larger cylinders above 450L

Just standard plated steel wood screws. Mine is screwed to a wooden back board. The advantage being if I had drilled my wet wall and got the measurements wrong then after the trial fit I could have moved the valve. As it was, it was spot on.