****EVH's house building thread****

[Django x2]

Thermaskirt is far from crap, but yes, its more retro fit. It overcomes a lot of the coolspots that underfloor heating can cause.

EVH, theTV mount worries me. The physical unit will sit very far off from the wall and look a bit gash. Have you considered something like this?

Simple floating wall, tv bracket mounts to physical wall, 2x2 battons all the way around as a frame, then 18mm MDF mounted to them, smoothed, filled and painted, wallpapered with dimmable rope lights

 

[Fuzz]

Thermaskirt is far from crap, but yes, its more retro fit. It overcomes a lot of the coolspots that underfloor heating can cause.

What like have one huge coolspot in the middle of the room. ?

I can't see how underfloor heating dissipating heat over the entire floor area where it's laid can lead to coolspots where skirting board heating doesn't.
That sounds lol worthy, please explain


For eg. thermaskirt in your living room, Back of the sofa will be nice and warm but your feet remain like blocks of ice..

 

[Deleted member 651465]

I have, but both the swivel brackets will only ever be used when extended. I don't have the TVs yet either, so I can always take the bracket off and buy a better / slimmer one if it looks gash

Is that your setup?

 

[Fuzz]

oops that was meant to be an edit not a quote

 

[JBuk]

I've done a lot fo research on underfloor heating and it's the first time I've heard of such a thing as coolspots

 

[crisbduck]

Can't believe you got the chance to create your own house and didn't design it

 

[knowlesy]

excellent thread subd !!!!

 

[Laser402]

Is it me or are those Cat6 modules in the faceplate upside down? Label normally at the top no?

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Can't believe you got the chance to create your own house and didn't design it

1) This isn't Grand Designs. I don't have £500,000 to play with to build a glass box on the yorkshire moors. 2) Planning permission is hard to come by in my area as it's classed as rural and 3) We did go through several designs with an architect, it's just we got to see the show home "in the flesh", so it was much easier to visualise the layout and it was genuinely a layout we liked.

Is it me or are those Cat6 modules in the faceplate upside down? Label normally at the top no?

Well spotted. I did mention that in a previous post though

 

[Fr0dders]

Didnt get round to adding you last night.

The wife had reset my MSN password because she thought somebody had hacked my account and forgot to tell me !

 

[Will Gill]

for such an awesome fit out I'm surprised to see your power setup under the stairs, especially as you are opting for a 42u rack, surely a UPS and PDU setup would be better on every level, all the sockets on the wall made me cry a little inside, rip them out and shove one or two 16amp commando sockets, then enjoy a monitored, filtered and redundant feed.

other than that, I'm jealous

 

[Django x2]

What like have one huge coolspot in the middle of the room. ?

I can't see how underfloor heating dissipating heat over the entire floor area where it's laid can lead to coolspots where skirting board heating doesn't.
That sounds lol worthy, please explain


For eg. thermaskirt in your living room, Back of the sofa will be nice and warm but your feet remain like blocks of ice..

Quite simply, I guess it comes down to underfloor heatings unrespoviness, it takes a long time to get the room to the required temperature and it's fairly poor under some materials such as laminate and carpet. It also has a heating / cooling cycle of around 9 hours.

In theory, the best of both worlds is ufh downstairs and thermaskirt upstairs just to keep the ugliness of radiators away.

Is that your setup?

Yeah

 

[englishpremier]

It's a bit late now, but i was wondering why didn't you build the internal walls from brick rather than just a bit of wood and plasterboard.

Surely the sound proofing is horrible, and you hear everything that is going on in every other room of the house?

Looks good though. Excellent work.

 

[Firestar_3x]

EVH, how are you going to cool all the stuff under the stairs? With 12 double sockets worth of gear running thats going to create some serious heat.

 

[dr_volki]

nice thread

hopefully i'll get there once
currently trying to save up mopney for a house

 

[Kutter]

EVH, did you use moisture and mold resistant plasterboard in the bathroom ?

 

[Deleted member 651465]

for such an awesome fit out I'm surprised to see your power setup under the stairs, especially as you are opting for a 42u rack, surely a UPS and PDU setup would be better on every level, all the sockets on the wall made me cry a little inside, rip them out and shove one or two 16amp commando sockets, then enjoy a monitored, filtered and redundant feed.

other than that, I'm jealous

It did cross my mind, and that's certainly how we did it in work for the clubs etc, but I was mindful of what would happen should I sell the house. The cables and back boxes are surface mounted for this reason (easy removal). I didn't like the idea of a UPS and a big battery under the stairs.. bad experiences.

It's a bit late now, but i was wondering why didn't you build the internal walls from brick rather than just a bit of wood and plasterboard.

Surely the sound proofing is horrible, and you hear everything that is going on in every other room of the house?

Looks good though. Excellent work.

Well, it's only the upstairs that has partition walls.

Where the layout upstairs mirrored that downstairs we did carry through the walls. For example, the bathroom walls etc, but where it didn't we just stuffed the cavity with superglass acoustic insulation. Time will tell how that works.

EVH, how are you going to cool all the stuff under the stairs? With 12 double sockets worth of gear running thats going to create some serious heat.

The plan is to have it all enclosed with push-to-open hidden compartments (to give the illusion the stairs are simply closed). However, it will be vented, and possibly an extractor fan linked to a temperature sensor.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Just a quick update to show the tiles in the bathroom and ensuite.

White gloss tiles on the walls, three quarters up behind the bath and completely enclosing the shower area. Dark grey ceramic tiles on the floors, both in "brick" pattern. Both sets of tiles cost £9.99 per squ meter

 

[Dr House]

Can I ask what sort of Cat 6 cable did you use? I have been looking online and there seems to be a massive price range.

Do you know a good place to buy it?

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Can I ask what sort of Cat 6 cable did you use? I have been looking online and there seems to be a massive price range.

Do you know a good place to buy it?

I can't link to where I bought it as they would be classed as a competitor

It's low smoke zero halogen (purple sheath) CAT6 that you can buy in boxes of 305m, cost around £64 per box if that's any help.