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I don't think my 4.4l V8 range rover is much slower and I bet it makes a nicer noise whilst doing it. Do you have a tow bar? 😆

SAP is about calculating energy use not about sizing the actual heating system or emitters. But the new standards for heat loss and system design do use aspects of SAP (e.g. designed or measured air permeability). You do need a heat loss calc and system design.

We have received a predicted energy assessment and a BREL compliance report today. Will I find the numbers I need in there to help size a heat pump? I can’t see anything re heat loss amongst the headings. We are meeting with an installer tomorrow. Over heating stuff is to follow.

With you on that - last place we used white mosaics in the bathroom. Every time I went in I could see every single uneven tile. This time it’s 600x600 tiles for us. High end of quality isn’t about where you shop for your kitchen to my mind, it’s about how thoughtfully the room is designed and how skillfully everything in it is fitted. Buying things that won’t date too - I never want to refit the kitchen again in the new house. I think quality is things that feel solid to touch too - so fire doors throughout with decent metal handles, quality taps that feel tactile. Just finished geeking out looking at Hansgrohe catalogues and working out what bathroom taps to get.

Yes , you are probably right. I managed to get mine wholesale. I forget that bit.

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I looked at these but they were quite a bit more money than GSE I think

No idea about how NG operate but I emailed the SPEN area engineer who got a junior engineer to reply and we had a verbal agreement in a couple of days to double our existing 3.68kw G98 limit. Submitting the G99 form was just to formalise things...and take some cash off me!

I don't feel like I've cut any corners. There's genuinely nothing I would do differently even if I had a bigger budget. (Actually there is- I'm never tiling an entire room in metro tiles again!)

I totally agree. Its just people with limitless money, want things that nobody else have. Stupid Mansory Rolls Royce for £800k

Has anyone gone through the process of upping their export limit? I have an 8kw inverter limited to 3.68kw. I suspect my G99 was done (by the installer) on the fast track, hence my 3.68kw limit. I want to reapply to get it upped as they have done some work on my local network (and to compensate for the lower export rates). I've been going round in circles as everything on the website (national grid) is either the g98/G99 fast track - which assumes you are notifying of a sub 3.68kw system or the G99 full route which assumes the system isn't yet up. There doesn't seem to be a button or form for "here is my existing permission for this system, can I up the limits please" Anyone got any pointers?

I am sure mine does that, easily, since I put a RamAir sticker on the back.

EV. Skoda Enyaq x 85 SportLine. AWD, 175kW DC charging, 82kW battery, 0-60 in 6.6 seconds etc.

That is a proper price. Gets the dirt off just the same as a £10k one.

Wow. My entire bathroom cost £700.

It's an option, but more hard work than connecting directly into the access chamber!

I have no idea what that is, looks like an car.

Just y off an existing branch

Id say marketing gimmick used for the bling elements.

FFS that system seems to be a disaster waiting to happen. Way to many stages and attention to detail, especially when you are up on a roof in a 30 MPH breeze, which is pretty normal down here.

I'm not sure what you mean? MLCP pipe is absolutely suitable for hot & cold supplies and at 13mm insulation thickness it's good enough for your purposes, but if it's exposed to external temperature it needs to be minimum 19mm insulation. Here is a link to maincor's technical brochure about MLCP: https://www.maincor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Maincor-MLC-Pipe.pdf You can then also buy the pipes that are designed to be buried and are preinsulated and ducted as complete units, either with one pipe or 2. Here is maincor's sheet on that kind of pipe. https://www.maincor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Maincor_AUSTROFLEX_2025_web.pdf The issue is that with water regulations you shouldn't really embedd the pipes unless you absolutely have to. So use some ducting and thread MLCP pipe through the ducting to the outlets. This is high quality stuff.

I built a vanity unit for an en-suite that was £12k. I'd call that high end. It was made of Wenge, marble, included lights, and a shaver socket. Another had a feature glass panel between Two rooms, that cost £120k. Obviously my vanity unit looked fab, but the glass wall thing looked tacky. Russian Mafia money.

I did some work in a place that was 120Million. It had some sort of very fancy Airstream door, that prevented any smell from the swimming pool, entering the rest of the property.

always try and fit, unbranded items. That way you can say they are handmade. One off, and seriously expensive. I think it was that Northern monkey @nod who said that all the people who viewed his house only ever asked about the boiling water tap.

As this is a lighting circuit, there are so many possible ways of wiring it, all perfectly correct, that it would be impossible to give advice without further information and pictures. This bit is in capitals intentionally because I have lost count of how many times I have said it, but still I need to say it again and again. BEFORE CHANGING A LIGHT FITTING OR A SWITCH, TAKE A PICTURE AND MAKE SURE YOU CAN IDENTIFY EACH AND EVERY SINGLE CORE IN SOME WAY, MARKING THEM IN SOME WAY IF NECESSARY, SO YOU CAN ALWAYS GET BACK TO HOW IT WAS BEFORE YOUR BROKE IT So lets start with pictures of what you have at the light fitting, AND pictures of what you have at the light switches. There is no "standard" of what to do with a 3 core cable where you want to use one as a neutral but none are blue. Bizarrely wiring regs don't address that. One school of thought was use the black as neutral, as black used to be the colour for neutral a long time ago. the other school of thought is don't use black as that is too confusing so use grey as the neutral. We are in the strange position now, as black, that used to be neutral is now the colour for a line cable, and blue, which used to be the colour for a line cable, is now the colour for neutral. No wonder there is confusion.