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SteamyTea

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  1. Did you buy @pocster's walk on glazing?
  2. Do these people do anything. I have done some work for then in the past. https://www.monodraught.com/
  3. I think most will. we have a strange rule when claiming RHI, that cooling mode has to be disabled at commissioning. This does not mean ASHPs cannot cool. RTM and see what it says. (if you need to cool your house, something has gone wrong in the design)
  4. Be about 3 tonnes of water. Storage heaters would take up less room.
  5. Is this the dungeon door. Are you inside the room or outside it?
  6. Is it in here, page 15. Tell the vendor that it is a non RHI installation. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.daikin.co.uk/content/dam/document-library/declaration-of-conformity/heat/air-to-water-heat-pump-low-temperature/ehbh-cb/EHBH-CB_EHBX-CB_4PEN383118-1C_Installation%20manuals_English.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjc_I6svfHuAhWdQkEAHfyWBjYQFjAEegQIFBAB&usg=AOvVaw2zhfl3ZrOUkvtQGRsPArBy
  7. Excel and Google. Someone like @PeterW will know more about the intricates of the actual set up.. But 45°C seems high if it the flow temperature into the UFH, probably fine for radiators.
  8. Calculating the heat losses between each room of the house, as well as any losses to the outside. From this the heat emitter sizes, and at what temperatures, they will operate best at, can be calculated. From this the heat source can be sized correctly. It is the same as going an external wall, floor, window, door and roof heat loss, except some rooms will have different temperatures i.e. living rooms and bedrooms. It may seem a bit of a faff, but it should help with setting a system up.
  9. Which may be called Disinfectant
  10. Two things, how much insulation do you have under the floor heating and do you have a buffer tank fitted?
  11. I think the only risks you run about only heating some part of the house is that you run the risk of short cycling and you may have to run the flow temperature higher. Both of those will hurt your CoP. Have you done a room by room heat loss analysis? This may show you what flow temperatures are optimal. On @ProDave's point about having radiators on part of the system. The power they can deliver is a function of the surface area and the temperature differences. If they perform well at say a flow temp of 40°C, then this should not be a problem and the UFH should have a temperature blender to reduce from this. It really does depend on the system design. Do you have a buffer tank fitted?
  12. Not yet, but my phone must have.
  13. I can. It can use historical usage patterns. Does your system have a buffer tank?
  14. Why wait, this house will be around for decades. Aim for an overall U-Value of below 0.15 W/m.K and airthighness of under 0.75 ACH@50Pa (get a test done while you can still fix things, a test us less than a bathtub). If you are going for underfloor heating, design in 250mm of I dilation now. And integrate shade free PV into the roof
  15. I think 100mm of celecotex gives a u-value of 0.22 W.m-2.K-1 If your UFH is running at 35°C and the void under the block and beam is at 5°C, that is ~7W.m-2 or 0.16 kWh.day-1. Keep adding in floor insulation.
  16. Basic swimming pool sand filter and a UV steriliser, or ozone injection should be pretty cheap. Make it large enough and it should help with the storm overflow. If you are digging holes, probably not that expensive to fit in a few tones of storage.
  17. JFGI http://www.woodbin.com/calcs/sagulator/
  18. I still think that BuildHub should open accounts at most suppliers so we can all get discounts easier. Mentioned it before, but it goes against the 'no commercial involvement' mentality. Could help with importing stuff from the EU if it was a company. Oh hang on, most on here voted to leave.
  19. Does a kitchen or bathroom 'pay for itself'? You are where you are, so just start costing them out yourself and don't look at any MCS registered fitters. You will find that without registration, and even allowing for half the PV being exported for free, it is still viable as you will not be importing at 16p/kWh. Norfolk is a pretty good county for PV production. Just make sure the angles are optimum (look at PVGIS) and there is no shading. Look on eBay for ASHPs. Check out roof integrated PV, it is better looking than red tiles. The rainwater harvesting is interesting, can that be used instead of SUDs if that applies.
  20. All that aluminium to make flat plate solar collectors and UFH spreader plates from. But, as it is not an Avondale, not worth it. (I was the production manager at Avondale, terrible place that relied on workplace bullying as a motivational tool, I walked out)
  21. Good healthy natural smells. Can't possibly be anything nasty in them.
  22. May be s way to sort the problem. Cause a decent leak, flat beneath will need to have ceiling removed. Then the problems can be sorted out.
  23. I got some ointment that may help.
  24. Flippers, I need some new ones.
  25. What size shoes do you have?
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