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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61996520

You know what, I just can't be bothered.

Again, no, it's with Good Energy.

No SEG, ours was one of the late FIT installs.

No, you're on the right track, but seems you have the opposite info to us. Our home display now shows the amount being exported at any moment (it previously showed zero when exporting) whereas our online account only shows usage, not exports. We're on Octopus Go.

Sorry, missed that.

Surely that is not strictly accurate. The rate of heat loss when the differential between the tap's tank is at 98 degrees and the surrounding room temp is 20 degrees will be greater than when the tank has cooled to say 75 degrees.

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Last week our display unit indicated that it had been updated and since then has shown a 'live' figure for kW being exported when there's excess PV rather than just showing a zero. Anyone else noticed this? Was hoping it would mean the hourly/daily/weekly export amounts would now show on our Octopus account (online) but nothing as yet.

Stunning - house and location.

Interested that you quote air quality as being your priority. That was exactly the objective with our build and, as you rightly say, to aim for only 4m3/hr/m2 seems a missed opportunity that could risk that priority. We achieved 1.6 and the mvhr has provided an air quality that has dramatically improved my wife's life (she has a degenerative lung condition and severe allergies, both of which are exacerbated by airborne particles). Our build is TF so i can't advise on yours, but there are plenty on this forum who can probably point you in the right direction. Best of luck with it.

Our LA required a minimum of 22 metres separation on upstairs facing windows between our new build and an existing property on adjacent plot. And yet the same LA has permitted national house builders to erect new builds in the same Borough with upstairs facing windows less than 9 metres apart. Go figure 🤔

Did you mean isn't?

It was a cheap Titan gun from Scewfix, and I've just checked the size if the staples and they were actually shorter than I recalled, ie Tacwise 22mm stainless divergent.

No problem.

I doubt that you'll be able to secure it with a hand stapler, there's too much 'spring' in the Actis. I cut 1 inch squares from a roll of DPC membrane and used them as a pad to fire circa 40mm staples through the Actis with an electric staple gun. I'll dig out a pic and post later. PS. Without the DPC pads the staples tear through the foil.

Yes, but these are recycled units and of a reduced size/capacity to the original fit.

I happened to be reading an article on Autocar about the recycling of EV car batteries and they mentioned the use of Jaguar i-Pace batteries in these units. https://www.pramac.com/product?id=16571&folder=367 Anyone come across them / have any idea of cost?

Yep, that's the stuff 👍🏻

It was a Hanson product back when I used it, but I heard it's no longer in their stable?

That sounds like a good price given recent cost increases as it's only about £150 more than we paid for 123m2 circa six years ago.

Not yet, but (conveniently) one of my daughters has since met and settled down with a guy who specialises in laying LVT. Only trouble is he's so good he never has any time to do jobs at 'family' rates 🙄

Trusting a so-called professional installer to put a level float of latex screed down before laying 130m2 of Karndean flooring.

I received and completed it yesterday. There were a couple of questions where the options offered didn't cover our circumstance - plot locating as Dave found also, but also there was one there were 3-6 month and 12 month plus options, but no 6 - 12 month option 🙄 Still, if it helps others to make a decision about whether or not self-building is right for them then it's a worthwhile idea.

A step in the right direction provided that; a) it's enforced, and b) tests are conducted independently. Let's face it, if new homes have to be heated by heat pumps in the near future then they're going to need to do far better.