SteamyTea

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.

Someone on here put their ASHP on a flat roof. Bit if searching should find it. Was @Marvin

I cannot answer that as I know nothing at all about that ASHP, or the combi you currently have. What I can say is that some days it will be cheaper.

The SA may need a higher input temperature, so it can kill the CoP.

Try paying 8 quid a cubic metre for water and waste. That makes it a lot less arbitrary. Then watch up country folks let their dogs shit on the beach, which I pay to keep clean. Give people 40lt of 40⁰C a day.

Yes, or just the I door pump if a split system. That would not be very large and any noise would be outside.

Oil is probably one of the cheaper options.

Just skimmed though the thread. Can you build a shed outside to hold some of the gubbins. A well insulated shed that is.

Has your MVHR pulled in the healthy smell of particulates from the clean rural air yet.

You could just do it properly and fit the right size bath. You can get kits to add bubbles to your tub, and other body parts. https://www.whirlpoolexpress.co.uk/insitu.htm

A car is limited to 74 dB, so something don't seem right.

Just to make it confusing 1 ng·s−1·m−2·Pa−1 ≈ 0.0174784 US perms 1 kg·s−1·m−2·Pa−1 ≈ 1.74784x1010 US perms

You cannot have a claim of ownership if the person that sold you the goods does not have the capacity to pass that ownership on. Life would be a joke if anyone could sell anything not belonging to them, and the person who passed over the cash can just claim 'I paid for it'. If that was the case, then I claim to have bought the whole of the UK, and I am about to send out the ground rent invoices. So pay up.