SteamyTea

Get Zoot and EpsilonGreedy to ask the questions of them. Then you know there will be no communication.

@Johnmo you have just published, for the world to see, some of the environmental laws you have broken. Good stuff.

Advertise it as a camp site. Set the account up in your neighbours name. Then shop him to the council.

My house used to have them fitted in the bedrooms. I find that 'small click' more disturbing than a fan. It is like the delivery boy knocking on the door during an afternoon nap, an unexpected sound that raises me from a good slumber.

We have a couple of good plumbers @PeterW and @Nickfromwales that are pretty good at diagnosing problems, and an electrician @ProDave that often sorts out control problems.

The Guardian link mentions Celotex and Arconic.

You can calculate it from the flow and return temperatures, but then you have to have a guess at flowrate.

Right. This seems very similar to someone else on here who had a problem. If the flow pipe from the ASHP is getting hot, there is not a problem there. I seem to remember that they had the manifolds plumbed in back to front. Try a search on the site and see if you can find the problem.

Well not from you. Are you asking who you need to ask a question of. You need a question to ask. Otherwise we are all just guessing.

I used to have 2 hour lectures, but there was less than 10 minutes information in them. I feel the same has happened here. A Robert McNamara moment. What is the question you are asking? This is not the same as who you should be asking it of.

Why, apart from nuclear, which price wise is out of control, RE is the cheapest form of new generation. Only the odd quirk that it has some 'green taxes' on it that were there to pay for the phase out coal, and pay for the 'eco' grants/subsidies, that the price between natural gas and electricity is so large. If we put 2p/kWh onto domestic gas heating, and once the larger usage of gas in most homes is taken into account, there would not be a huge difference. The idea that RE generation is expensive is a decade old now. If we lowered our planning criteria, i.e. no new wind on land, then it would be even cheaper. I drove up the A5 (TerryE country ish) today. I saw a sign that said 'No Wind Turbines Here'. It was so old that some trees had grown in front of it.

Because it is so variable, design it the other way around. How many kWh/day (or week, month, year) do you want it to use and what peak power, the kW.m-2 can you live with. Remember that there is a difference between delivered energy and primary energy.

Some are better than others. I had a really quiet one for about 15 years, it eventually went pop last year. They are not too bad, and I do have it within 4 foot of where I sit, fine in the living room, and it can heat up near enough all the house.

I have something very similar from The Range. Cost a tenner I think. They are pretty good for a 400W heater, but you can hear them.

Exactly the point I am making.

I don't think the smaller homes, as a complete package, cost the developer any more. They would just offer less for the land, or ask for more land. They are supplying to a price point, not to a size point. Not really the point I am making though. If we transition from natural gas, to alternative heating systems, we need space to install the kit. It is no good designing a house for a relatively small, wall mounted combi boiler, then it all being a surprise when you find out you need to fit a DHW cylinder and a buffer tank.

Welcome Have you thought of knocking it down and building closer to what you want?

May be worth specifying the problem, apart from living on the Hertfordshire-Cambridgeshire border. I think a Kingspan unit is a rebadged Carrier unit, so most air-conditioning companies should be able to help.

Lack of PV on the roof. The Wood burner. The other occupants. Bottled Gas hob. Lack of sound insulation between rooms. Apart from that, it is a very nice house.

Mother's Lament. Wonder how Eric Clapton thought about this after his son fell from his apartment balcony.

Are you French? I totally agree with your approaching, except using the word 'holistic'. Houses are just engineered structures, 'system' is a better term I think. There is less misunderstanding and no room for hopium.

I am with her on that. Should be able to float without touching the side. Will just have to use the harbour until I have a large enough house.

Over the last 50 years or so, we have got used to a lot of things getting smaller, the main exception is vehicles, ships and aeroplanes. Our homes, in the UK have definitely got smaller, so small that a sub 50m2 house is not unusual. This is causing a problem when it comes to fitting all the energy conservation measures needed. It is not unusual for people on here to say they do not have the room for a cylinder, or a HP, MVHR gets wedged into a loft where it is hard to swap the filters. Roofs with odd angles and protrusions that will make a PV installation difficult, or even pointless. So when you comes to design your dream home, forget what has happened in the past, and design with these consideration in mind from the start. It will save you cash.

Same here. I am the opposite. I don't like showers much (maybe a reminder that I went though the British Public School system), so have a bath. Has been know to have 3 in one day. My bath is too small.

It is set for an average household, not an individual one. They do surveys for this sort of thing. It is very far from arbitrary.