Nickfromwales

They don't look like M20 from the pics?

Get a mobile welder in to fix the bolted leg to the steel it’s bolted too. Nuclear bomb proof……. At least we’re relevant here

My clients in Oxford couldn’t, but as you say perhaps that was a planning issue. I struggle to comprehend how ‘they’ can let ‘you’ move into a house that does not have basic amenities and safety systems / electrical etc not installed and certified. Seems open to abuse. Does remind me of one architect, who designed and built his own SIPs passive ( certified ) house, where I went out to survey for a full M&E install, and he said “we’ve been ok without heating, hot water and ventilation as we’ve only ‘just’ moved in”. A quick glance around told me they’d been in for a year or two minimum. 😐. Viva 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 !!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BABY-BELLING-table-top-Oven-w-Grill-2-Hotplates-Mains-NOT-13A-Good-Order-321R-/255428899934?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l6249&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0 quick grab. 13a are available.

But a Baby Belling and that’ll do for now. 13a plug!! Job done.

https://images.app.goo.gl/8eNgqUQqUnhhaw6v6 'A' student lol.

We're getting there. It was showers in an HMO I think my mate was working on. Memory is shot to shit these days. Thanks for this.

Sleep is for the weak. I want the answers on my desk by 08:00.

You will need a sink, and a cooker, plus some worktop to be habitable. The LPG should have been done by a Gas Safe Registered installer, so you should be able to find that online. The norm is for the GSR'd fitter to register online and simply forward an electronic link to both you and the BCO. Same with electrical. If the kitchen is completely absent, you cannot officially be moving in, or practically tbh. Hot water? LPG combi? No hot water no moving in. CO1 and smoke detection system working? If not, you're not moving in. For shower, just buy 2 cheap disposable shower curtains from Wiko's and you're done.

Surely an SE spec'd all this? Has obviously had 'input' to get to this stage.

Yup, lol.

Yes. A last resort, but an option to get someone out of the cack maybe.

I'll try and speak to my friend and see if he can state what he did / how etc. Agree, there's the square root of feck all info jumping out at me either.

I'll be honest I've never done one, but was explaining a problem to a sparky and he mentioned it to me. I thought it was a handy get-out-of-jail card when tipping the max load scales. @ProDave @Onoff ?

https://www.omnical.co/products/hager/ed183/2295794 It was a domestic sparky that made me aware of them tbh. Well he was domestic and light industrial iirc.

You'll be very surprised what will run off a 100A supply. Do not forget about diversity when calculating your max loads ( but I assume your sparky would have already done that ). If you are really struggling, you could always fit a load-shedding relay which would stop ( for one eg ) the induction hob and the EV charger being on simultaneously. That would bag you a spare 7kW.

Before both I was fitting UVC’s. None have ever had a single complaint. Since SA………too many to count.

Or just line up the disingenuous, self-serving two-faced useless bastards against the wall.....and......

A SA relies on an expansion vessel too, and if not regularly inspected and maintained, and it failed causing the SA to fail, you'd be outside the warranty criteria. If you cannot do that test and inspection ( drain down the cold system, read the pressure and adjust / top-u as necessary ) and then refill the system, annually, then you're resigned to paying someone to do that for you, ( so a SA is not "fit and forget" either ). I'm fitting UVC's in highly insulated homes, ( my clients are building all the way from airtight and well insulated, all the way throuhg to one we did recently which exceeded PH certification and attained ZEB credentials ) and, to date, no reports of major side-effects at all. Any issues at yours @ProDave? I design all my clients plant spaces to have MVHR extract point(s), to manage the stagnant heat normally found from the DHW device, but also any other equipment which emits waste / latent heat ( albeit as well as MVHR will allow you to ), and to capture that heat for re-distribution to the house via the HR element of MVHR during winter. In the summer, with the elevated incoming cold mains temps, you can easily revert to a lower set storage temp ( al-a @ProDave and others ) to minimise the impact. Bear in mind also that modern UVC's are VERY well insulated and have quite low standing losses ( around 1-2oC per hour max ) which reduce further when the stored temp is closer to ambient. @Jeremy Harris only had issues from excess waste heat when he chose a thermal store with an open F&E header tank ( a combination store ) vs an UVC......which he then swapped out to reduce losses. However, I imagine that the annual service ( inspection ) of a SA would be cheaper than a full G3 UVC inspection, but once you ask a professional to attend ( a call out ) then you're already into that fee regardless, so I cannot see the differences ( savings ) being huge. It would be more cost-effective if you had, say, a boiler or an ASHP service person coming out annually anyways and they were asked to check either 'whilst they were there'. I imagine fees would differ dramatically dependant on postcodes.

We're being taken for a ride with wayyyy more than just bloody energy prices. Just puppets dangling from the strings of the elite............

Specifying the correct unit for the application is paramount to successful ( and economical ) ownership. Then the type of controls you marry up to it and how you heat and discharge it requires a lot of understanding of how the units 'behaves'. I got called out to a property to see why a SA "approved installer" project was leaving the homeowners without DHW. The capacity was decided at 'size 12' ( aka Thermino 300 ) on paper, but the installer allowed himself to deem it fit to install 2x 6's instead. Same capacity, so what can go wrong? One unit was on grid and the other on excess. Great in the summer, but when PV generation went to the floor they were running on a 6, eg one not huge bath and one shower and zero DHW left. More a problem there with design vs the product itself there, but an example of how ( even at the time when the internal controls were inn play, so not an early unit ) there was still a huge void in the correct design and implementation of these units. Sadly for the homeowner, they ran with this design and finished the house. That meant no opportunity to get electrics and plumbing altered, so both units needed to be changed to a 12 IIRC, ( plus a lot of money ) to resolve . What they should have had was 1x 12 ( core DHW ) + 1x 6 ( pre heat unit on PV ). The 'problem' is with a SA you cannot add a second immersion and 'super-heat' with PV excess, you can only heat to its stated max PCM temp capacity and no more. An UVC is able to take an additional 30-40+% of 'additional' charge ( dependant on what your minimum / set-back temp is set to ) which makes it great for use as a heat capacitor / battery with zero detriment to longevity. Cost uplift is just the cost of the second heater, and no additional footprint, or major plumbing / electrical works. CONSIDERABLY cheaper option with better results too, imho. With 400-500% cost increase to consider, its just too expensive a trinket for most now.

Sadly the inevitable cost of replacement pumps will push you even further back on the breakeven. As you say you've already got the system anyways, be mindful then to maintain it and keep the sump strainer / filter clear and routinely check the cold feed sensor to make sure the pump NEVER EVER runs dry. That's instant suicide for the pump and bye-bye money.

You struggle to get discernible answers about gas combi boiler features in the plumbers merchants TBH. Drop the words "phase change material" in and watch the poor buggers melt......

But SA are still not selling to the public then. They’re purposefully divorcing themselves from the mammoth number of enquiries and deluges of email regarding their products, and that then falls to the “approved” folk.

Yup. And less pressure on you to out-perform the guys waiting to close the areas off later downstream too