SteamyTea

Welcome. Bucks is a nice county, have family there. Rather than think about the heating system, have you looked into the energy requirements of the house. Without knowing the heat demand it is hard to recommend anything. You may find that improving the overall U-Value is cheaper and easier than a more complicated heating system. Domestic hot water (DHW) and space heating really shoudl be kept separate, they do different things at different temperatures and at different times. As you are having a flat roof, have you totally discounted having photovoltaics? And how do you intend to get a 100% watertight roof?

Why does it need the internet to be set up? And why does a designer have to come. Sounds way too complicated for what is, after all, a domestic appliance.

what I would give for a bit more warmth

I listen to Radio 4 on Digital, so 40 years and 3 seconds behind the times.

So do I, they make a room into a corridor.

Cause it was Prep School, prepped for what had to wait till I was older, and moved to Oxfordshire.

I escaped Essex when I was 10, think I missed my bets years down there. Having said that, the South of France and the Caribbean where petty good. Just a shame I was sent to school in Kent!

Looks like a 1970's office intercom. "This is Carson your doorman".

So comes with the brick layer in the tub then, cool

I was, on your timescale. Truth is I hate going up in the loft, it is depressing because of all the junk up there.

I shall try and find some pictures of mine. About time I did Mk3.

Yes, it should be decimal fraction wall area, not percentage though. It does not take into account shape of wall and if it faces the wind/sun. But they are minor details at this stage.

I think this is an idea opportunity to make a cheap MVHR unit. Not that hard.

Be worth knowing how he works out his quotes

Perfect. Can connect these to it.

Have a large breakfast or a decent lunch before food shopping. My freezer is a my local corner shop, a 24/7 Tesco Extra. Been known to buy a frozen pizza and a new router at 6AM, fantastic.

Simple, plug in some monitoring equipment. Works for me.

Maybe be worth a couple of very small fans on timers, see if things improve. If they do then you know it is a local problem and not a general one.

Pointy can go too far though.

And one of my all time favourites

Just the ears? Brundel's Jordan wasn't

Danske Bank will do a 95% LTV at 5.4% (initial 5.19%). I am starting to get the feeling that property prices are set on what they can be rented for i.e. they sell at a price that, if rented, the mortgage is covered. So if building to rent, just throw up a cheapest build you can get away with, but maybe allow for easy future upgrades i.e. easy to fit external wall insulation, MVHR, PV, under floor heating.

Anything with your best mates, the Great Crested Newts, in it would do surely.

Sound like those two examples are shitehouse companies and should not be dealt with. There really is no need for bad customer service these days.

I should really have said rough sleeping, rather than homeless. Many people are homeless i.e. B&B, hotels, etc, not many are actually rough sleeping. My solution would be to have a mortgage tax that is independent of the interest rate. It would be set so that mortgaged property is 3 times median wage. That could be set locally fairly easily as a house does not move. As long as people know what the tax is based on, and why it is there (to keep house prices affordable), then I cannot see a problem with it. Might also raise some useful revenue if it was administered via LAs.