Plumbing Design – Part II
This is the Part II roll up of a couple of earlier blog posts and Buildhub forum topics which provide the groundwork and context. Plumbing Design – Part I Heating…
Harveys Water Softeners
If you have a Combi boiler, or SunAmp, or pretty much any device with a built in Plate Heat Exchanger (PHE) and live in any region which has hard water…
Plumbing Design – Part I
I have been doing the design validation of my plumbing solution partly so I am comfortable that it is feasible and partly to write this up so that others have…
Heating the Slab – an overview
I have no idea whatsoever what you are talking about in your topic thread on modelling your slab? — joe90 on the Buildhub Forum 27/01/2017 at 09:52 [link added -TE]…
SunAmp – our alternative to a UVC or TS
I just wanted to include a brief post explaining from a self-builder perspective why we have decided not to use an Unvented Cylinder (UVC), Thermal Store (TS) or combi-boiler for…
Window and Door Detailing on a Stone Clad MBC Timber-framed House
As I've previously discussed we have an MBC Passive Slab and Timber-frame, but unlike most builds, our house also has a very traditional stone cottage-style exterior because the new build…
Coping with a Thermal Flaw in the Design
(This post is a précis of a post and thread discussions that took place on the eBuild forum October last year and subsequent discussions with my builder.) Many of the…
Fun Surveying Site Levels
One of my preconditions it to provide an accurate survey of site levels across my site. The last time that I did anything like this was just under 40 years…
Planning Approval Down, Conditions To Go
We've had our second planning application in the system since mid December. Our first application was in May and the main reason for the delay between these was negotiating with…
A Little Aside On Radiance
I've sort of covered this topic buried in various Buildhub threads, but since I need to use this info for my heating calcs, I thought useful to cover this in…