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Passive cills .. or not?

mrsWhippy · 2017-03-02 09:11:18

Hi, Does anyone have any experience with Passive Cills? We have them in our BofQ but not sure if we're going to keep them in. The alternative is limestone, which comes in at the same cost, or regular concrete cills, which are about 1/3 of the price. We will have a 200mm pumped cavity and are aiming for airtightness of <1.…

02-03-2017 9:11am

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mrsWhippy

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Hi,

Does anyone have any experience with Passive Cills? We have them in our BofQ but not sure if we're going to keep them in. The alternative is limestone, which comes in at the same cost, or regular concrete cills, which are about 1/3 of the price.

We will have a 200mm pumped cavity and are aiming for airtightness of <1.

Obviously performance is key but if we can achieve almost the same through detailing, I'm sure the limestone would look much better for the same money.

Cheers

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#2 02-03-2017 6:17pm

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Powder coated aluminium cills?

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#3 02-03-2017 9:02pm

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