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150mm + PIR will one day be considered standard, it's worth it, but it has to be installed carefully and thoughtfully, if you have window and door rev...
Brendon, I'm trying to work out how I access your experience, you are three and a half hours from me by car, do you go that far?
100sqm, two room spaces connected by a wide corridor with a room in the middle.
@bontwoody cheers for that, first glance looks suitably complicated 😀 I'm running a small electric fan heater in the space now with a therm...
@bontwoody I share the same approach to things in all things building, I quite like the learning curve and spending weeks often making a complete mess...
I pay joiners £220 a day on day rates, £160 for the plumber, £2- 300 for a spark, I'd expect to pay more for a heating engineer and have no problem wi...
@heacol completely agree, I trust my plumber and he could do it, but in life and ASHP's experience is everything, I'm also useless with engineering so...
@bontwoody you can reuse timber for a stud wall no problem, with a wooden stud you lose less space by cutting PIR to fit into the stud then make up th...
Cheers, I'm slightly relieved, I priced up the kit in the quote and it came to £5/6k just ordering the first I found on the internet, so struggling to...
I guess the first question is do you want to cover it? you can insulate and board with a vented cavity. I can show you an example of sandstone,...
I screenshotted the key bits, the rest is just the usual contracty fluff, I don't have the heat loss survey.
Until recently my only heat was a multi fuel stove, bout 9 years burning wood only, a year on smokeless anthracite over wood, first consideration for ...
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