Kelvin

My spark wanted individual isolators at each blind location. Which blind motor are planning on using?

The ‘more musical’ HiFi reviewer’s go to term when ‘I liked it better’ doesn’t cut it. 😂

I don’t particularly like the effect on music. An Atmos music mix is good though. Dark Side of the Moon Atmos Mix is particularly good because they’ve been sparing using the 3D placement.

It’s good at upmixing standard surround sound mixes creating more height and spaciousness. However there’s very little native content for I think maybe in the gaming World. A good Atmos mix is significantly better. It’s good to have it as an option as it will work well with some things and less so with others. It’s quite big in Germany I think.

Graf here. We don’t have a high water table and it’s in a place where it won’t ever be driven over so it’s back filled with shingle then earth.

Scottish Larch factory treated with SiOO:X. It’s only been on for two years so who knows but I’m not expecting any problems. We’re in East P&K so less wet (generally) than elsewhere. There’s a house near us that has Scottish Larch fitted as board on board like ours. I went to see it before we decided on board on board. I noticed that the cladding had failed but it was the underbuild that had failed not the larch. It had been on for 25 years though. Why it failed was in the detailing as there was a lack of suitable ventilation behind it as far as I could tell. The screws had mostly rusted too so that also contributed to it failing as some were broken. We went belts and braces carefully following the guidelines and also added a plastic breather strip from SIGHA which makes the cladding sit off the straps and used somewhat dear SIGHA fixings.

Are you planning on putting an EV charger in at any point? You will need to run a cable back to the meter tails for CT clamps. There are other ways of doing this too. My meter is in a cabinet on our boundary with the main CU in the house and a CU in the garage. Octopus are installing the Zappi and want to run the EV cable direct to where the meter is. I hadn’t planned for this so have had to run a duct behind the wall and up to the cabinet, fortunately I had a spare duct into the cabinet. They also want to install a small CU in the cabinet but there’s no room in it (it’s a 3 phase sized cabinet but we are only single phase) Consequently I have had to install another electrical cabinet beside the main cabinet. The main thing is to plan for this by putting in a spare duct into your cabinet just in case. The PV panels are being installed on the garage roof and the batteries will be in the garage. I have a spare duct between the garage and the house to connect to the main CU.

Exactly my point. It’s all fine until it isn’t

Keeping a tidy site inside and out is a good point. My last task every day was tidying up and sorting materials out for the next day.

Except if that big hole doesn’t have adequate protection it’s still your fault. Despite having a ladder up the inside of the scaffold at the gable ends and a sign saying don’t climb one of the roofers insisted on climbing up the outside of it. On one of the sides the scaffolders hadn’t secured one of the braces correctly so when the roofer grabbed hold of it, it slipped out. Fortunately it jammed itself between two poles. I went bananas at him. My observation re H&S among the trades that came to my site was most pay lip service to it. The electrician did for obvious reasons. The joiners wore eye protection when using table saws etc. But the general climbing about the building, hard hats, foot protection etc was a bit hit and miss. I had an accident book which a few of thought was funny as they’d never seen an accident book on a self-build. Their attitude was if you don’t write it down it never happened. Like so much in life everything is fine until it isn’t.

I’ve only ever fitted units first then tiled.

We went quickly but I added up 9 months of delay from first buying the land to moving in that could easily have been avoided.

Our Cemfloor supplier said the same as Nod. No need for Ditra mat, tile on it after 7 days, no need for prep just clean it, no need to commission the UFH. I chose to do all of it because we had time and I’d had enough problems up until that point 😂

What our tiler wanted was for us to run the ASHP in floor drying mode which, from memory, took two weeks. It slowly heats up the floor then slowly cools it back down again. It then had to be off for at least 24 hours before tiling. We did this after 14 days from the screed being poured. The reason I used Ditra mat is because a friend tiled directly onto Cemfloor and had three cracked tiles a few months later. However he didn’t fit crack inducers in any of the doorways etc

Friction fit worked fine for us you can tap some long nails in on the studs to hold it too.