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Ha, I received an £18k quote from Jaga and thankfully today a £3.2k from Clivet from the same brief! So think Clivet would be a winner G and J.

Think you're right. I just recalled Clivet do a unit too which can be ceiling mounted: ELFORoom2. Looks a good price based upon the below which I got December last year and completely forgot about. Prices may have changed but relates to https://www.clivet.com/en/products/home-solutions/fancoils/elforoom2 and I got that via their contact form

I’ve seen Megawave can be mounted on ceiling for their freestanding unit too - https://theheatpumps.co.uk/5kw-free-standing-fan-coil-unit-for-heating-cooling.html which will almost certainly be a lot cheaper than Java

Eek. I could in theory do 3x2 sets of ducts for ceiling recessed. Any recommendations for fan coils for that? Would that even work? I did see megawave as the only other recessed ceiling in my travels.

Simply via their website form, nothing fancy ! I’m a bit worried about cost, hoping for 6 units….

Jaga Briza do ceiling mounted fan coils. Currently getting a quote for my build.

Thanks all, and thats really good to hear Liam (well not good, but makes me feel a little better that it is their new policy rather than me just having a more pedantic person!). This will mean more time and money til the first drawdown but hey ho.

Hey, I'm trying to get a self build mortgage with Ecology and used Estimators Online as a service to build out the cost plans. I've been told by my mortgage broker that they are refusing this because it does not meet their lending criteria: "Professional letter headed costings provided by a contractor, a quantity surveyor or architect." Chatting with Estimators Online this isn't something they offer, so feels a bit naff especially as I've seen on this forum that Ecology have accepted others Estimators Online estimates. Has anyone experienced this or got any ideas? Cheers

Thanks so much for your comments. There appears to be no negotiations at all possible with the neighbour and no way leaves which grants us any rights. The running an overhead line wasn’t going anywhere but we had them out on site with my builder and a field engineer and found a solution by putting up a new pole on a tiny bit of land which is owned by Highways rather than any nearby farmer like all the other poles. We’ve separately been having much joy getting water to the site so have a contractor who is going to do directional digging along a different stretch of road, so for not much cost our contractor can run an additional duct which UKPN can tap into from the new pole and avoids any neighbouring land. Cost will be similar in the end to running the cable underground even if we did get permission. Still a huge amount for utilities - probably £35k all in for both - but the mains water is 135m away and new electric pole around 90m, plus they are upgrading the transformer so we can get an 100A supply. Happy to have a way forward in the end

Hey, a year and a half on I was wondering what you went for in the end and how it’s performing? I’m looking to have a network and server rack in a small plant room and my thought was for an MVHR extract as the main form of extracting excess heat (albeit we don’t have your AV stack!)

Hi all We’re a wee bit stuck for getting power to our barn conversion. There is a UKPN pylon directly over the road (rural area, single track road) 2.5m onto another properties land. I have a BT pole directly on my land. UKPN say their current policy is that they can’t go overhead, and the property owner is refusing consent for us to go through the road. The nearest next pole would require an additional 100m+ of cable dug underground to get to us and cost a fortune. Does anyone know any mechanisms for UKPN to reconsider going over the road? Or other suggestions? Many thanks

Hi Jamie, who did you choose in the end? We also need a glazed roof link and there seems to be little chatter on Buildhub regarding this.

Ohhhhh that is very cool on the Shelly front! And my electrician who did the calcs basically warned me to not add any air con to my existing plans 😆 but it sounds like maybe there are ways around that. EDIT: P.S Appreciate your posts around weather compensation (including to another person today!). Doing a lot of reading now into this approach instead

Thanks! I guess the Shelly would just trigger it off or on, but that is definitely a simple way of doing things if I'm happy with the fan speed and that the heat pump can just do its thing. I think I didn't want to rely on A2A for heating as it 'felt' more inefficient than using fan coils given the ASHP would be running at the same time anyway with UFH/UFC. We are projected by our electrician on our single phase setup to be running close to the limit without it so fan coil has much less electric usage. Probably need to wait til we run the calcs but wanted to start from a (relatively) informed place!

Oh interesting. Yes for UFH I certainly wasn't thinking any smart controls from a reactive sense due to aforementioned time lag, but it is the sort of thing I'd want to play around with for automated scheduling based upon data I gather in Home Assistant. For Fan Coils I am more thinking about individual room toggles and cost efficiency with cooling. E.g. turning up the speed on cooling mode only in rooms where we want them, turn them down at night for noise, etc. Your 0-10v thermostat phrasing sent me to this: https://heatmisershop.co.uk/heatmiser-neostat-hc1-0-10v-smart-fan-coil-thermostat/ which has a hub which I can integrate with Home Assistant it seems, so that might be a winner. That's really interesting that you can just leave it fixed at its lowest setting - I certainly seem to be overcomplicating things than necessary - is that the case for cooling as well or do you only use it for heating in your summer house? Definitely food for thought.