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Will take longer to heat up. But will warm the room quicker (I'm sure there are some maths involved here) and will stay warmer for longer...

I would always get the biggest rad I could, then you can run on a lower temp.

Congrats! Sounds like a fairly smooth experience. Ours is planned for mid jan, in scotland, so I am looking at alternative accommodation as I don't think it will go down well with wife and child with no heating / hot water for a few days!

I would keep any carpet until you have got the majority of other work done. Its amazing how your nice newly sanded floorboard get fucked by work in the house (as someone who is seeing this happen right now). Having a carpet may encourage trades to be a bit more careful / tidy and then when all that is done you can sand and fill gaps if needed.

I'm unsure how much insulation you'll be getting from upper floor carpets, but you fill gaps or whatever pre-sanding.

Can you pull the damaged wire through at all? Add a connector and push it back?

I have no idea if that’s a good though! My electrical adventures are pretty minimal

Have you engaged trades in this work yet? It’s the type of constraints you need to give builder/scaffolder and see if they think it’s possible.

How do you deal with pipe work that falls below an airtight membrane? Is it a case of cutting and taping around said pipes?

This is on my to do list for next year. We have insulation but opted for no membrane as we’re having new heating put in and the membrane would have been hacked to shit. I’m mindful of all the pipework from sink/bath/kitchen plus rad pipes that will need to be navigated.

Not that I am in a position to do this in anyway, but can you get marble/granite/solid worktop apertures adjusted to fit these flush mount hobs?

If you have access under the stairs, have a look where the current screw placements are, re-tighten and maybe add a few more. There are usually wedges as well which I have seen come loose. So, test those and hammer back in + glue.

It was an 8mm thick vertically sliding unit that I installed behind the sash and case windows (internally). The windows each had a slight bay (very old solid wall house) so I could leave a 100mm gap between the window and the secondary unit. That kind of gap was also really beneficial.

Never had any issues with condensation in the 2+ years we had them.

I’ve heard good things about gecko glazing. Cut to size “secondary glazing”.

In our last place we bought 8mm glass secondary glazing units from
Clearview and the difference was insane. Appreciate that if you’re getting windows done some time you might not want to pay for something like that.

Have a look at Gecko though!

What are you trying to achieve? Reduce heat loss?

great minds etc. have just done a design review with the 7yo of this exact chair (in a different colour) and we have initial sign off. just need ceo approval now.

Haha, I just had a look at the sizes! Are they for golf club chihuahuas?

Not the typical ask on here, but my 7 year old wants a soft chair, kind of bean baggy thing but maybe quite chair like too!!. I quickly looked online and places like wayfair, dunelm have them but I imagine they’d fall apart pretty quick.

Anyone bought anything like this that would last a while?

Nice work! Did you use an de-chlorinating stuff after? I've weighing up getting/borrowing a pond hoover for ours to give it a really good clean as we have some fish / frogs / newts and I'm a little unsure about successfully emptying the pond of all that to clean it out without hurting something in the process.

Just over 200m2

None of the quotes I have received have been below 20k, this is for complete rip out of a mix oil/gas system, re-pipe, all news rads etc, some new rad placements plus a 12kw ASHP. Its a painful amount of money

Yeah its different in Scotland. I'm going down the ASHP route next year, and the reason for the delay is that I have to install internal insulation on sloped ceilings as it was flagged in the EPC. Scottish Gov will not release funds until my post ASHP installation confirms those measures have been taken.

Its a little frustrating but overall its probably something I should do, I just wish I didn't HAVE to do it to get an ASHP as my current heating system is a bag of shit.

...Exploding head emoji

All good! It just blows my mind. I don't know/understand enough about the area and what people are willing to pay to live in a fairly mediocre house that looks like you'd need to spend A LOT on it (that's subjective of course).

Woo! You have a spare £500k down there already?!

That is an insane amount of money for that house (coming from someone who lives nowhere near London), I struggle to compute. Can someone explain why it is suggested as being worth that much...

We have some 700x1600 specced for when we have our ASHP put in next year. Not done a full tech survey but some of them look to be huge, can't wait.

the size of that rad is delightful! can't wait to get some beefy / non sludge filled ones in our place soon

I paid 160 a sheet for 2 x 24mm from Shawfield Timber inc multiple cuts a few months back. It’s a lot, but I built two desks and a set of shelves and have a few bits left over so it went quite far IMO.