Selfbuildsarah

We have received a predicted energy assessment and a BREL compliance report today. Will I find the numbers I need in there to help size a heat pump? I can’t see anything re heat loss amongst the headings. We are meeting with an installer tomorrow. Over heating stuff is to follow.

Looks fabulous. Kitchen and doors look particularly fab! Well done to Mrs P on the doors 😊 Hope you absolutely love living there.

The ones illustrated at the beginning of this thread are the ones on our order.

As shown at the beginning of this thread in the line drawings. Outward opening patio & French doors.

Thanks for this. We have just ordered. We are hoping we’ve got everything right with the window sill choices. I will check using your advice! I just have an issue with not seeing the door sills. Norrsken seem thorough re end caps,widths etc for windows depending on finishes. We have render with some walls. Cladding on others. I feel comfortable with that. I just would love to see a photo of a slide under sill on a door. I think it may look ugly or flimsy 😏

That’s good of you Craig, thank you, but it’s just gone into the order pipeline. I thought I could relax but I’m still twittering about the sills.

I’m worried how they might look. I just want a photo of a door to put my mind at rest. I have trouble visualising from line drawings. I’ve found all the window stuff quite stressful. So worried that we might have made mistakes that can’t be corrected 😬 I must have been through the order schedule about 50 times!

I’ve been searching but no luck. Their website is crammed with information but it’s really hard to find stuff. I’ve wasted so much time on it.

Thanks Nick.

Patio and French doors.

Does anyone have Norrsken French doors or patio doors with a slide under sill? Would you be kind enough to post a photo please? Can’t find one anywhere. Thanks!

Having approached a local company a month ago re a heat pump installation and being happy that they asked all the right questions we sent our plans to them to quote. I phoned to chase them up as we still hadn’t heard anything. I received this reply by text “we have never done an air source heat pump in a new build with drawings like this. So it’s not something we can offer to quote on” 🤔

Thanks Nick, I will check that before I reply to Norrsken.

Morning all, having read a fair bit about taping windows for air tightness I am still not sure if there are circumstances where you wouldn’t use it. We are having Norrsken windows in our timber frame build but they don’t include it as standard. Everything I’ve read says don’t rely on just foam and silicone. I have to tell them yes or no today. It is a considerable amount of money to add to the build (I even thought I’d do it myself!) but we have 17 windows and 5 doors! 😅

Thank you Stratman!