New heating Regs?

| I've just heard that from April next year there will be new regulations in force where the house | will need to be "Pressure Tested" to comply with new insulation requirements. | | Any body know of an on-line source for these regs? | | I've also heard that there is nobody set up to do these tests yet. Typical...

The fake email addy Rick, , says it all

Good joke though.

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Fit a tyre valve through a hole in the door and get Two Jags to inflate the house using a foot pump. Apply soapy water to various points on the house to detect leaks, rectify and repeat inflation procedure until Two Jags either changes his mind or dies. :-)

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force where the house

Presumably you'd need a pretty powerful compressor to inflate a whole house quickly. This is going to create a lot of noise in the neighbourhood and also the risk of flying bricks/glass/concrete etc if the pressure testing personnel are incompetent.

Mr F.

It's in the new Part L Approved Document that comes into force 6th April

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There is an underlying serious issue here in that as you make U-value requirements tighter and tighter ventilation losses become far more significant. Thus the motto "build tight, ventilate right".

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No it's not a joke this stuff is coming down the line. The latest Gas Installer made mention of it, not a magazine that usually runs spoof articles even for the April issue.

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Lord Hall, your Little Middle England tendencies are still there. Please get therapy.

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Rick... (The other Rick)

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"You're only s'posed to blow the bloody doors off" ;-)

There certainly are companies which do pressure testing in commercial environments. It's required whereever you have a halon, FM200, etc fire extinguishing gas discharge system.