SteamyTea

I have often wonders that.

I seem to remember that it was something that came in a few years back It may be an MCS thing. Does the 17th say anything about suitable positions. Wording like that is often a catch all. But all the same, I am not sure that putting an inverter in potentially 60° C is a good idea.

That should make it easier, as long as you know what the questions actually mean.

May be worth starting a list and asking people to put numbers against them. Then can get an idea. Just saying 'near impossible' just makes it a more interesting challenge.

The architect that designed my house had no idea either (and it was an architect). They then reproduced it hundreds of times. More seriously, we tend to know what we like, so we can take pictures of them easily now. Then play about with sketches and models. Both skills that are easily learnt.

I don't see that as an answer, it needs a bit more fleshing out. I am a reductionist. If I don't understand something, I start to break the problem down into smaller parts that I do understand and can create solutions for. This may sometimes look like stabbing in the dark, but it eventually gives an answer. So rather than 'I don't understand any of it' answer. Find the bits you do understand, and see where they fit into the bit that you don't understand.

Take a picture of a house and trace around it. Not being facetious as that sounds. I think this is a major problem. I do not understand why 'our' councils are so difficult.

Isn't that like saying that accidents are caused by bad driving. It never address the real problems. So maybe I should have asked a different question. What area of self building do people not understand?

I think you are not allowed to put inverters in a loft anymore. This may just be for normal ones. Amy be worth someone checking up in the latest edition of the electrical standards.

If that was the case, then they would pay the price. Split over the who development it would be peanuts. I think part of the problem is that some are still rented from the council, so when they say they have paid off their mortgage, what they mean is that they have paid off the 25% (or whatever) they owed on the joint ownership. It would also be a bit strange to think that a house on a derelict housing estate is worth the same as one on a thriving one.

I have slept on this, but I am wondering why self builders use an architect. We all know what a house looks like, and what we like. So what is the 'big hole' in self builders knowledge that makes them use an architect? Is it lack of drawing, planning, structural, artistic, materials, plumbing, decorating, electrical skills etc etc? If the most common areas can be identified, then it is easier to give help.

Things are done different down here. Some think they actually own the sea.

What we called the ones at the old Excelsior Hotel at Heathrow. Wish I had known the 'real' name, would have changed it to Pillocks (which I think is an olde word for cock).

If architects are there to give 'vision', surely they should charge a similar amount as fortune tellers at the end of a pier. About a tenner.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/detailed-analysis-of-fires-attended-by-fire-and-rescue-services-england-april-2017-to-march-2018 Let us all know what is says.

That it was a business. In the end I think the brewery paid out, but he is no longer the landlord if the pub.

A Northern Irish mate of mine, who just happens to live in Scotland said something similar. But for other reasons. He actually said he would live in a treehouse and smoke cannabis until things changed. I shall mention fitting a sprinkler.

Get the book quick.

They rented the place, so landlords choice. And a rather large war came after. Because they are dishonest and morally bankrupt.

DHW storage is an odd thing. The cylinder rarely goes below 30o C. If you then heat to 48o C, that is only an 18o C lift. Assuming a mean temperature in the cylinder of less than 48o C, say 42o C, then that is an even smaller lift. 200 litres of water will require 2.8 kWh. Which is about a baths worth. I found that my 200 lt cylinder, heater to 50o C, was adequate for 2 people. When I had guest, I just turned the top element on, adding in an extra 1.5 kWh per person seemed fine. So my guests cost me 60 pence a day.

When I first came around I never noticed your modules. May have been different if the roof had red tiles on it, but then, that is a Norfolk thing.

The Queen has a turbine at Windsor. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-16276225 Not sure how far it is up to that hippy housing development, but lets us say it is 600 miles round trip. If your car does 50 MPG, then that is 12 gallons of fuel, 55 lt. A litre of gasoline has around 9.5 kWh of energy, so that will be around 520 kWh. To offset that with electrical energy from a turbine, it would have to produce 60W of power for a year. After that, your are quids in.

Some people modify central heating water pumps. Never seen one being used, just read about them. But if you have an old washing machine:

Noisy too. Fitted a 3 kW SMA to a 3.5 kW array. When it was at full chat, the cooling fan was very load and 500W was coming out as thermal energy. It was fitted (against my advice) in a spare bedroom. If possible, stick the inverter on the coldest side of the house.

Good old wikipedia has loads on turbines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_turbine Don't think this applies as, they just refer to it as turbine efficiency. Think it is do do with the uncompressability of water. Though agree that with small water turbines, the efficiency is rubbish.