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It may bring you presents if your unlucky.

After 10kL it's got some legs. You need to dial in the sales crap and procure pumps etc yourself.

All I need is a recent photo of them and their last known location.................

The boiler has no sensor on the return to measure temp - only sensors are in the HEX and after it Don't get me wrong here I've no complaints about the boilers ability to run stable flow temps comparable with a heat pump - ie sub 30 deg C - it's just the modulation spikes where I can't understand the reason that drives me slightly crazy...... I'm not going to say on a public forum what my next action will be but with a spare MBU and some very very techie friends/work colleagues who do this stuff for a living you can guess My bet is the program/boiler logic is very much IFTTT based and I reckon there is a line of code that is squiffy - 99% of users running more conventional flow temps or not monitoring the boiler in the same level of detail would never see the issue - I'm the 1% that does see it and it annoys me because whenever it does it the boiler plumes and I know that's heat/energy leaving the house having not been passed into the water circuit

That's interesting - why do you say that?

electrical symbols are a fairly standard set of symbols. My Architects Pocketbook lists them and they were what I used when I did my drawings as an Architectural Technologist.

Extract from a tender drawing attached. Not sure where the list of symbols comes from. We marked up a drawing ourselves with what we thought we wanted having been told there would need to be an electrical plan to quote against. Our architect, and I guess many, did not offer any kind of lighting design service. Architect did put us in touch with an M&E specialist that I had a chat with but ultimately decided to do without. He seemed to cover the full monty of building M&E from a full life cycle perspective, i.e. considering maintenance as well as design and install. e.g. How are you going to clean your rooflights if you have a roof you cannot stand on, and no window to climb out onto the roof from ? As said above the plan tends to change with first contact with the enemy, but as with the military only a fool has no plan and it is the planning process that counts and helps as you see the shell and make changes. We ended up with our own directly contracted sparky and his quote had a cost per switch/socket type breakdown, but in the end it got messy and we just paid him as we went on a time and materials basis. BIG TIP - Make sure you marry up your lighting plan with the structural engineers beam and joist plan. I think almost no-one does this, we didn't. But you can't put a downlight into a steel beam, or a ceiling speaker into a joist etc. Can get bloody complicated staring up at the actual beam and joist layout and trying to work out how the hell you can distribute your lights sensibly. Got the chippy to modify some joist work to make room for lights over the worktop. Had a LOT of seperate lighting circuits and switches and roughly twice as many downlights as attached. Made my own numbered list of lighting circuits and stuck a square or oblong of alu tape on the wall where we wanted them with circuit number for each switch. I think lighting is difficult - lumens/sqm, beam angle, colour temperature, CRI, circuits, layout, dimming, CCT, baffles, plaster-in, led tape. PS don't forget garden lighting.

Unfortunately not. When the tenders came back, it quickly materialised that we can't afford to do the outbuilding. Instead we defaulted to buying a static caravan and are currently living in there on-site. Caravan cost £5k delivered and getting it set up with electrics, water and drainage cost c£2k. Still a considerable saving compared to renting. Plus am on site so can pop out between meetings to view progress and attend site meetings easily. If only... got one neighbour who would notice and dob on us. Figured easier to play by the rules.

My guess is you won’t pay elsewhere in the country currently, but I’ve not looked into it properly and the journalism is pretty poor!

Currently got plans for 10,000L but considering adding an extra 5000L. Will be using for toilets, washing machine, garden.

https://downsizegeek.com/elon-musks-6789-tiny-house-finally-hit-the-market/ Don't think it has made any difference.

The wood of the flooring is actually an insulator, just not a great one. I'd look at laying XPS boards under a glue jointed (but floating) floor. Typically you'd see a batten screwed down the the concrete, laid over a DPC strip, and then the oak flooring would be nailed down to the battens. You could add more insulation in between the battens, subject to you having that 25mm or so of head height to be able to sacrifice.

Agreed, the building of houses is in the dark ages, and, essentially hasnt really changed. Reasons could be discussed forever, but it is what it is. I agree, if someone invested serious cash into a properly big plant to make houses, they would clean up. But for some reason, the building game has completely avoided the normal competative behaviour that drives innovation in other industries. Like automotive, as you say. The doors in my house only become truly weathertight if i lock them. If i just close them, they dont cut out all draughts, like every UPVC door ive ever seen. Yet, on my car, when i close the door, its closed. No water, no drafts. Completely perfect. To use just one example. Id buy a factory built house over assembled on site any day. Though it sounds like current manufactured houses are a bit of a cottage industry if this thread is anything to go by.

I imagine we have less wild beasties here than in NE Scotland… a cat’s about as dangerous as it gets here. Or maybe a rabbit…

I assume you put battens inside the pir layer? 75*25? Did you have any issues with keeping them straight to hang the plasterboard?

Plus these individual hobs will modulate with thermostatic control, so will be all switching on / off sporadically and independently. 32a is a boatload of juice to use up in fairness; I say this whilst considering the amount of homes I've serviced over the last 30+ years that have only had a 60a fuse in the supply head, feeding the entire (sometimes sizeable) residence.

Maybe @Dillsue can shed some light on this, he is in the PV business.

Well worth a listen. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002tf9x Britain is turning electric, but the shift to renewable energy will require a major rewire. Business and Economy editor Douglas Fraser follows the journey of power generated on the north coast of Scotland to the socket in your living room, to discover the scale and the challenges of re-hauling the near century-old national grid. From windfarms in Caithness, pylons in the Highlands and huge undersea cables transporting power from Aberdeenshire to North Yorkshire, Douglas looks at the environmental and financial impact of the planned changes to the country's energy infrastructure. He also asks if Britain can meet a future surge in demand for electricity to power electric cars, heat pumps and AI data centres, while achieving its ambitious net zero targets.

I'm more worried about more wild stuff coming in for the night.

Well, they certainly know how to charge! That much i do know. So, does this mean if you are in a different part of the country you dont pay? If so, thats bonkers. The cynic in me says this is to cash in on the forthcomin plug in solar. Maybe im just too cynical.

^yep doesn't look like it's UK- wide

Our current main bedroom is the same… bungalow, doors onto patio and no other windows. In the summer we often sleep with the doors open. No intruders yet, but the neighbour’s cat has joined us for the night a few times

You'd say an induction hob with multiple rings doesn't have multiple points of utilisation? It's a moot point really though. I have 25 years experience in this exact area, doing this sort of thing every day of the week. If someone wants to ignore my opinion, and that of the IET On Site Guide, then I don't think I'll even attempt to change their mind.

Yes on concrete / screed in an older house. SLC beforehand No it had a dpm, then an underlay and then the flooring. All the joints were glued so it just floats as one large floating floor.