SteamyTea

My smart meter stopped communicating within hours of being installed. Took months to sort out, but I got 200 quid off my bill. So do you use secondary timers for DHW/space heating?

I am as well, is yours a proper E7 meter with two separate circuits out of it?

I don't think it works like that at all. The CfD (contract for difference) caps maximum payout, while guaranteeing a minimum amount. This is to draw in investment just as much as making power cheaper. Part of the problem/challenge is to supply reliably, the only way to do this is via overcapacity. Everyday large thermal plants are disconnected from the grid for a variety of reasons, it is not just RE generation that has variable output and downtime. That is a recipe for disaster and would stop major investment pretty quickly. No one saw the need to offer lower rates to those living near existing plants, or a pylon out up in the 1940s.

These houseplants, are they near a heat source and watered frequently? Have you checked for other areas for water leaks? My internal humidity is generally high, but then my outside humidity is very high. Air infiltration only happens when there is a pressure difference, which means windy days. A while back, I looked at the temperature drop in my kitchen when I left a window open, after the initial drop of about 1°C, there was little difference, but it was a calm day (calm down here is Force 6 or less).

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Don't matter down here, we flush it all into the sea. Don't buy any Cornish Coke at the moment as it will be very damp and contaminated with poo. https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cocaine-worth-31m-washes-up-9591410 Same beach that was covered a while back. https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/massive-sewage-spill-filmed-st-7763596

Just a point on the maths. 20/50^1.3 is not the same as (20/50)^1.3 Which is it, I suspect the latter.

Composting toilet maybe. Don't think human waste should be mixed with animal waste.

Hello. My neighbour is from Portugal. What is a VMC?

read that as gimps, keep getting my mucking words fuddled today.

Not going to be far out as you only need to heat at the coldest, and generally wettest, times of the year. As for going with radiators, how much area can you fit, can you easily fit larger radiators (maybe a total of 60% of the floor surface area as you don't totally pipe out all the floor area). How about plinth/fancoil units, they can give a quick boost and some are pretty quiet. Easy and cheap solution is below, it is only Canadians that make it law to take your shoes off indoors.

Do it. Be fun to see how sustainable it is.

I seem to remember that SMA did not allow much end user intervention. This may have changed in the last decade or so. Can you fudge/trick the system by getting a CT clamp (I assume it used one to monitor power flow) to sense the two inverter wires together?

I am pretty sure it will damage it. Plastic deformation does not happen at a set temperature, it gradually gets greater, the higher the temperature, add in a local hotspot, and it can fail quite quickly. Rethink your plans, a wall mounted panel heater will be cheaper and more reliable. Maybe a cheap A2AHP. Just looked at that insulation, it better be cheap as it is only packaging material.

A rich man would use vaseline, a poor man would use lard. @Pocster uses axle grease because his life is hard.

If you tax one area, there is probably a reduction in another area, or a corresponding increase in public services (AKA market failure). These people were already paying council tax on the property, so this is probably not a simple story at all.

Welcome Was at university with 2 men for m Uganda. Which part are you in?

So they were letting this place out, or probably slumming it while they let the main house out, with the rules changing they feel cheated.

I haven't, against popular misconception, I don't really take pleasure in others misfortune.

First two of them are not essential, third is debatable. Maybe look at what you really do need i.e. heat, light, cooking, the rest can be disconnected for several hours without impacting anything.

So how much insulation is in the existing foundation?

Good job they never installed the 300 GW of renewables then, that alone would have powered the UK 4 times over. Oh hang on. https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/energy-transition/020824-infographic-china-solar-capacity-coal-electricity-renewable-energy-hydro-wind

The last coal fired generation plant was switched off 6 hours ago, for good.

I stopped reading when I got to the line that they work like fridges in reverse. Actually I didn't, but there was no mention of planning permission being needed.

Welcome I am not self building, and would be very reluctant to do so. If you look at a lot of the posts, and tease out the fees people pay, you will find that they are often very high. When those fees i.e. ecology, road access, service connections, etc are taken into account, they can be a large percentage of the price on a small project. It is probably why refurbishment is a better option, but even that can incur high professional fees.