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There is no easy way to get there from here. Used to be able to fly from Newquay to Gatwick for a few quid, but those days are over. There are a couple of members that are building down Saltash way.

@ian192744 What is the floor, food and external wall/window areas and how many metres of this skirting rad do you have. I have a similar problem in that I cannot realistically fit UFH downstairs, but the layout of my small house may lend itself nicely to skirting radiators.

I really do not understand why people are bothering with hydrogen as a main stream domestic/light industry/commercial fuel all the studies point to it being inefficient and costly.

I never stop in Bristol, I just carry on for another 3 hours. In any direction, except west, obviously.

This is what happens to my E7 heated cylinder over an average day. The element is as close to the bottom as it can be. Temperature probes are at the top and the bottom.

Rowe's sausage rolls for me, 2 of 3 quid, and they start almost twice the size of Warrens'.

Some inverters have a diversion relay built it (SMA did). But crude, but can be used to power a contractor to power what you like.

Get a 2 string inverter and wire it so that the shaded modules are on the smallest string.

Where is the element? Top or bottom of cylinder. But how much if you are on E7 and run the ASHP on the day rate, which may be close to 25p/kWh now.

Was Devon's planning department, not Cornwall's.

Highlight the text you want to reply to and a pop up will appear that says "Quote Selection". Wind direction may be important. If rain is hitting the wall and getting between the wall and the flashing, it may be getting in and then finding a path. I had an ongoing leak in a downstairs window, took me two years to find out that it was cracked render 3 metres away. It was the wind direction that gave the game away. It only happened when a proper SW hoolie was a blowing.

Welcome I used to live in Bucks, still have family there. Now down in Cornwall. Regarding planning, have a word with @joe90 and the disastrous experience he had with the Devon people. You have picked a bad time to look for plots down here as there is renewed interest in the area. And some places are trying to to stop development for emmets and dreamers. So conversion or bungalow gobbling is probably easier overall. Have you considered buying a very cheap place to live in while you search and build. There are still some very cheap areas, and compared to most of Bucks, much nicer. Regarding all the technical stuff it is all very basic technology and calculations, but you can, if you want, make it really complicated, but it won't work. There is no such thing as 'Thermal Mass'. There are materials that have different densities with different specific heat capacities and different thermal conductivities. It is the combination that gives you the supposed thermal stability that people crave. Or just rely on the Atlantic Ocean, that is pretty stable thermally. Takes months to change by 3°C. Yes you are. Find a plot where you can build a place that gets sun from all angles on it (well not North obviously). Remember that it is hard to grow trees on the North Coast and it is windy. Don't get hung up on construction type either, some places have embraced timber frame (there is a large manufacturer of them in Redruth) and others are still sticking with brick and block. Me to, and stuffing my Honda into a Cornish Hedge on my way to the chippy in Bude. Head down to Penzance, it is still affordable and not a bad town, but make sure you are upwind of the heliport. And regardless of what @pocstersays, we are not all pasty munching morons that have married our cousins, but it is sometimes really hard to be accepted. Move fie miles and you can be an outcast for decades.

There are a number of reasons that it may be leaking, hard to tell from your picture. So a number of questions. Does the roof fall away from the wall/corner where you get the water marks inside? Does it leak every time there is an good amount of rain, or only sometime? What is above the wall, is the gutter in good condition? As it is a kitchen below, is that causing condensation? How is that pipe sealed to the roof? What are all those circles in a line, bolts/screws?

I have one, got it by showing my Part P certificate.

Welcome @Onoff is the font of all knowledge about bathrooms and kitchens. He has worked on his for years.

You need to be care here, the 'high temperature' may come at the expense of efficiency, the CoP, or because it uses a normal resistance element to boost temperature. First thing to do is a decent heat load analysis, then you can start to look at the cost of fitting a system. It is a bit like buying a suitcase, small ones tend to cost less, but if they are not large enough for the job, they are useless.

Welcome. First thing is to find water leaks, then air leaks. Then insulate, then think about heating systems. If you can insulate internally, this is often messy, but you can do it in winter. The more thickness of insulation you can fit the better.

Quite often some of us on here have measurement issues. But I would have thought the builder would not have wanted to work that close to the neighbour.

So would I. @Dave JonesJones has an odd skew on costing and environmentalism.

So it will be a timber framed place then. Good choice.

Just make them terraced.

Just buy a place in an area you can afford. It is always easier to get a different job closer to your new home.

Why, PV is probably a cheaper option. Probably best to have some idea about what size it will be before getting a suitable cylinder. Other plumbers are available.

Can't help that think that LA is not the way to go. Li xx are pretty cheap, or would you have to buy a different charge controller. I also wonder how efficient DC charge controllers are when the battery is charging up the last 20%. What is the embodied carbon and energy in a LA batter? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130308111310.htm

Drove past the Tattoo Parlour just now, door was open so I assumed they were working. As I got closer, I could hear a Kango pecking away. Well hard women get tattooed there I think. Or the builders were in.