Ideas needed for new build

[IMM]

Good point

[Mike]

Yes. Despite clear signs they still get lost and end up in our garden rather than walking across our field.

[Mike]

Not in a National Park.

[Mike]

The 'standard' door stops we are all used to that stop rain coming under the door aren't allowed as they are hard to negotiate in a wheelchair. So now you can get a wheelchair in but the entrance hall always has a wet floor.

[Mary Fisher]

I think you mean thresholds and in a way you're right.

But the frames of all the PVu doors I've seen are so deep that they're dangerous even for people on two legs, I think they'd be impossible for wheelchairs. It's a very big bee in my bonnet ...

Mary

[Mike]

To me thresholds are wooden or plastic strips that stick up onto the bottom of the door, whereas a doorstop is a continuation of the surround at the sides and top and gives a much more definitate closure to wind and rain.

Agree the PVC ones are useless either way.

[Andy Hall]

Are you an expert on r****ng of foundations?

[Mary Fisher]

IMM's a self-determined expert on everything.

[raden]

In message , Mary Fisher writes

Mary - just don't google for r****ng, OK ?

[Suz]

Laundry:

Have a laundry room upstairs. Saves carting all down and back up.

Or, if you prefer to line dry and iron have a laundry chute from above into laundry area.

(Top loading washing machines can be opened mid cycle to throw in the sock you dropped too)

[IMM]

Ah, noticed at last Mary.

[IMM]

Maxie, please refrain!

[Aidan]

I think that such rooms are usually called pubs.

[IMM]

Are you having a laugh? Wires aroundthe walls in a new build?

You are having a laugh.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Not entirely true, since even after the insulation layer there is a 'pond' of warmth under a house. This des leak out via the ground to the cold soil surface BUT stopping it going THROUGH the foundations is not a lot of use, since there is effectively a massive cold bridge UNDER them.

If you have no floor insulation whatsoever, it probably makes a bit of difference, but with decent floor insulation, its negligible as you say.

Polystyrene around foundations is normally applied to absorb soil heave, not insulate.

[The Natural Philosopher]

UFH reverses the trend. You get temperature inversions. :-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

Cheaper still at newey and eyers and I have yet to lose a single one.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Only the ones around his toliet bowl.

[Lobster]

Doorstop:

Agree the PVC ones are useless either way.

So do I. How are the wheelchair regs reconciled with these PVC doors though??

David

[Mike]

door pushing through and out the other side is also called a doorstop.

They aren't. You are supposed to use the ones that let rain through.