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If you go for 2 single phase HPs they can likely be wired on separate phases so you'll use 2/3 of your 3 phase supply;) Your spark will sort that out and hopefully balance the third phase with other house loads, as best he can. On the sizing of your heat pump, if its sized for -2 as ours is, it will rarely be running in those conditions. This winter we've had -2 for 1 night, zero for maybe another 4-6 nights and the rest above zero. With a single big unit, especially if it's oversized, you'll likely hit its modulation limit quite often and see short cycling so youll be paying higher bills for the life of the HP. I'd seriously think about getting an independant heat loss calc done from the likes of Heatgeek just to sense check the size of HP needed.

If you haven't started in earnest yet... I'm thinking that the old boards will be bent and twisted especially across the width. Laying new in the same direction might cause a few lumps and edges. So I'd be thinking of a thin layer of board first. Maybe underlay will suffice. An expert may say otherwise.

As an ex Submariner i can say that quite a few visitors do ask where the portholes are. We did have a fish tank built into the junior rates dining space wall which made people do a double take.

One quick question - what platforms does it work with - ie phone as an app or windows PC with browser?

As @saveasteading id just give it time

20 years time, just like fusion.

So just drill a hole in the board, just big enough to pass the cables through. Not a massive hole, just big enough, then seal around the cables once the board is paid.

This arrangement happens all the time in England. Conditional Contract or Option Agreement are the standard means. With a conditional contract, you exchange contracts at an agreed price subject to, in your case, obtaining planning consent for erection of a new dwelling etc. There will be other constraints to cover time allowed, appeals, fencing and boundaries, access, working times etc. Once the conditions have been met you are obliged to complete the purchase.

My go to for removing anything kind of stain is WD40. When I was fitting stairlifts we used to use it all the time to remove oil stains from carpets. (in some cases it worked a bit too well and highlighted customers generally dirty carpets...!). I've also used it to remove blood, paint, mud, sticky label residue. It is excellent for cleaning scissors that are gummed up with glue after cutting air tightness tapes. I've also used WD40 to clean paint off UPVC window frames, and cooking oil from a favourite shirt after a culinary accident. For carpets the application was: - Test in a discrete area first! - Spray on WD40 (gently dab into the weave with a clean tissue (blue rag) and leave to work for at least two minutes. - Spray on a strong mixture of washing up liquid and water and dab of the stain with another clean tissue. (Do not mix up the tissues!) - gradualy change to pure water (and more clean tissues) - Repeat until the stain has gone. Brilliant stuff!

Irrelevant. Even if there were zero reduction in CO2 emissions, my position is unchanged. Even if arguments that drilling won't be practical or profitable are correct, then either: Oil companies won't drill even if granted licences, in which case the argument is moot. Or they'll drill, lose money, and presumably stop drilling when it becomes clear they made a mistake. In both cases, the end result is drilling doesn't continue. I don't actually have strong beliefs either way, but I do believe that non-experts (including governments) shouldn't be involved in decisions about whether something is practical or profitable for a company. There are, or course, plenty of other factors that governments should weigh in on, such as safety regs, environment, tax, etc.

If you can afford it, I would buy both. Then you can have more time to decide which half is best to build your house and sell the other. You might even be able to impose conditions on what is built on the other plot that way. Or just build one. Someone here bought a "double plot" and has only built one house and has a much bigger garden and no adjacent neighbour. He could likely sell it at any time but unless he needs the cash from doing so why would he?

New kitchen and there will be an island there so the feed is for under plinth lights, sockets on the island etc

What sort of shaft comes out of the valve (with the plastic knob removed) THAT is what I would be looking to buy / make a tool to fit. Applying more torque to a stiff valve via the plastic handle is likely to break the plastic handle. Bypass the weak link and drive direct on the the (assumed) metal shaft.

yes and with some controls they're intelligent enough to balance load between 2 units to keep them both in more efficient operating conditions, or separate dhw from ch.

Yes I think that's it - they live locally so won't want anything they don't approve of.

Either or, whichever is easier for you. I'm happy to be fully transparent about any issues or problems as well as suggestions for improvement but email certainly helps me to collate them into relevant patterns. Thanks!

Yes sadly we have been closing our refineries because they cause too much pollution. Instead we export crude oil and import refined fuel shifting the pollution to another country so we look good. But lousy for energy security, loss of employment, and of course globally it makes no difference to pollution. We just kid ourselves closing our heavy industry saves the planet.

BBA are an authority that certifies building products (the most common/accepted one, but technically speaking not the only way to prove that a product meets standards). UKAS are the authority that certifies anyone that wants to be an authority in testing/certifying/calibrating in any market. They basically check that organisations have the right governance/systems/processes in place to be trustworthy. So e.g. you might have a bolted structural fixing that has a BBA certificate, and install it with a torque wrench that has a manufacturer/tester calibration certificate from some other UKAS accredited organisation. It looks like the BBA issue is a paperwork technicality - likely BBA just need to update some documents or it may be that their corporate restructure means they're technically speaking a different legal entity and therefore need to be reaccredited by UKAS even if nothing much "on the ground" has changed. So I'd imagine it will be resolved before too long.

I pay >£1.8k for a decent (PH certifiable) MVHR unit, or more if it’s above 300/325 size.

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve made it so!

Hi folks. One of our legendary system admins @TerryE gives up a huge amount of time, unpaid as a volunteer, to keep the forum running (done almost entirely behind the scenes). Others do so also, but this time we’ve a friend in need, and it would be wonderful if we could return the favour. Please see the following, and if anyone can design and print a small item, it would be a big help. TIA. Thanks for looking.

They have not even hinted where the first SMR power station will be built.

Shall we have a sweep stake about how much it will really cost to get the first GWh out. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/great-british-energy-nuclear-and-rolls-royce-smr-sign-contract

Rather minor reduction though. The shipping of petrolchemicals is very efficient. Probably the biggest problem would be processing, it is not a case of drilling a hole and piping it directly into the gas grid. Having grown up on oil refineries, I can tell you that they are not nice places, and very smelly.

someone here might even be able to do it.