Kelvin

Our ongoing replacement glazing unit continues. First it got broken, then the replacement was 2G instead of 3G then the replacement of the replacement has a slightly different tint to the rest of the windows. They had this IGU made in the UK rather than Europe. They said it would be an exact match where it clearly isn’t. Would you accept this?

But like everything it can be done badly or done well

I did all of mine. I also ran it up the walls a bit and up the windows which impressed the screeders as most folk don’t bother and it can make a right mess. No problems so far. The screeders showed me pictures of some right disasters though that they’ve had to try and fix. What a mess some of them were. The worst was straight onto the foil backed insulation. Bubbled up and lifted everywhere.

It’s the nature of threads so get over it.

It’s all connected. Inflation in the UK is being driven by the fallout from COVID, the cost of energy, wage inflation, the fallout of Brexit, commodity prices, demand led, supply chain bottlenecks etc We have a relatively blunt tool to tackle this with interest rate rises and it doesn’t appear to be working so far. There are a number of posts on this thread that aren’t directly related to interest rates but are connected.

It just isn’t as simple as that binary viewpoint. You have no real idea what would have happened to a non vaccinated population where it was allowed to rip through the country. Long COVID is a significant issue and it will be a few years before we understand the impact of that. All of that needs to be balanced with the knock on effect the collateral damage of locking down to both the economy and health of the populace. But to argue from hindsight that what Governments round the World did was better or worse is just guessing really. Specifically on mask wearing among surgical staff. The primary reason they wear masks is to protect the patients from infection given they are likely to be immunocompromised. However a study carried out in California showed that mask wearing generally reduced rates of infection which improved depending on the type of mask worn and the duration of wearing it.

We ran ours around the internal panels. I also filled in the voids. No the upstand doesn’t double up as the expansion joint as it’s too rigid. We fitted a foam strip around the perimeter and the around the panels.

The text below might not apply to you of course. I’m in Scotland where this new planning regulation isn’t mandatory. We don’t have a working telephone line nearby. There’s a rickety overhead cable attached to the next house along but they barely get a telephone service let alone broadband. Consequently I’ve not done anything about ducting for FTTP although I have plenty of spare ducts. “It should go without saying that the language of this policy means that some developments will slip through the cracks. For example, we suspect that some self-built homes will probably escape, as the cost of connecting them to gigabit lines in remote rural areas would simply not be viable until better underlying infrastructure becomes available (falling back to 10Mbps+ will resolve this for most such situations).”

Exactly why we have a wall of glass too. The view is great. I’ll live with extra cost. The only heating we’ll have upstairs is an electric towel rail in the bathroom. I’ve wired for two panel heaters in the bedroom and dressing room and will wait for the first winter and see how we get on.

It’s too low to do that (2250mm) I don’t mind the industrial look. When we come to board the ceiling we’ll take the ducting down board the ceiling and put it back up again.

I’ve had this battle just today. Due to our ceiling height problem we can’t lose this above the ceiling which was the original plan ad we’ve had to push the ceiling header up reducing the void above.

We are on track to come in at £2100/sqm all in but only because we fixed prices last year and I paid deposits on everything. Had I waited if would easily be knocking on £3000/sqm. The timber kit and windows increased by 20% shortly after I paid for ours for example.

of course but not all oak flooring is the same. Some is more uniform after oiling/staining. We have looked at multiple samples of oak flooring and always come back to this one. Well I say we I’ve given up the will to live with it. We’ve had so many samples of flooring sent here I could floor the place with them. It will certainly look varied then. I’m pretty much settled that we want a solid oak staircase construction. Other half needs to decide on the look.

😂 if only it was that easy.

It’s the variation she wants to match. She’s away at the money and has warned me not to make any decisions about anything that affects the look of the place 😂 🙄 I’m using a local guy to build it in the next town over I’ve be trying to use as many local trades and suppliers as possible rather than the on-line places.

Just in the process of measuring and getting the staircase made. Having a debate about the wood to use and how to build it. I want to use solid oak as it makes for a better stair. Other half wants to clad it in the same oak flooring we are using upstairs. This is the look she’s going for. The flooring is European oak that’s smoked and treated with a mix of osmo oil to get that variation. If we go with a solid oak staircase it likely won’t match the flooring. The staircase builder has taken the samples away to see if he can match it or get close enough. My joiner is saying while he can easily clad our stair in the flooring his recommendation is have it built in oak. Our staircase isn’t a feature staircase as it’s hidden behind the kitchen wall. The oak flooring is only upstairs. I’m not convinced an exact match of wood will be that critical and detract from the look. The other way I thought of doing it was to do the treads and risers in a butcher’s block style. That way it’ll have the variation but be very different from the flooring in look. I think materials that come together either need to match exactly or be very different. Close matches look exactly like that close matches.

Good effort well done.

It needs to be 300mm from the building (well ours does anyway) so you won’t get any vibration and if it was attached the house and it was vibrating there would be something amiss. Ours is on concrete because if was easy to do when pouring the slab and the ASHP installer requested it.

Rebuild and start again very much dictated by purchase price I’d have thought

This is mine.

I assume it doesn’t include the UFH? If it’s just the ASHP and HWC then it’s dear but comparable to nearly every quote I got.

I thought my groundworks team did a great job and the slab was fairly flat overall with an 8mm variance from the highest point to the lowest point. The screeders told me about a recent job where there was a 60mm variance between the high a low point. Too great to pour the screed in fact.

Can you be sure it will be contained? My various membranes have taken a real battering in places that I wouldn’t want to be relying on them to keep water out of the building

I see. It could cause all sorts of structural problems. Wouldn’t you be better biting the bullet now and redoing?

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