Nickfromwales

Seasonal is a 'nicks term' for a buffer that you can have come into play when using the gas boiler, but not when using the ashp. It could also be set to come into play when the heat battery in the mvhr is set to work. Can also provide a bit of stored, pv-generated excess energy for DHW preheat, but the latter wouldn't be the sole reason for fitting it, more a handy bi-product of fitting it to 'tame' the gas boiler. Again, a solution unique to the problem / remit. Edited to add : sorry for the bum steer, just typing whilst leaving the house

The air battery would deffo not be suitable for use with the gas boiler. That would, when run independently and used solely for space heating, even be a bit 'small' for the ashp. Sizing correctly here will be paramount, or fit a 'seasonal' buffer and all these issues disappear.

My mate came to cove a bathroom for me and stood on the corner of the £380 bath. Took it clean off. Ended up arguing over it and my mate wouldn't accept liability. Needles to say he didn't get paid for the coving but still hurt my wallet as the bath was fitted and fully furnished with 4 tap hole arrangement and sika flexed in place . 3 weeks later the replacement arrived ( holding the entire job up as I couldn't final fix the vanity run as the bath had to go in first ). New bath arrives and I set about fitting the feet and plumbing the 4 hole set back in. Part of that was fitting pipe clips to the chipboard underbelly so I could have the bath set tested and pre-plumbed with the isolation valves and supply pipework at the front of the bath for access, prior to fitting. I ask the ( lazy bugger, sacked a bit later down the line ) apprentice for screws and on the 4th screw I hear a pop. I put a screw through the clip, through the deck and through the bottom of the bath. One odd screw in the selection box that wasn't supposed to be in there and I just fired it home in my haste to impress the customer with their nice working tiled bath. ? Another bath ordered, 3 weeks delay again, and £760 + 2 days labour down the tubes. Haven't heard from the customer since. . I didn't ask for a reference.

. All good stuff. Cheers.

It's in the link above .

Can we have a pic from behind ?

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That would be best achieved with a medium sized buffer tank, but have it switch out when the Ufh is served from the ashp so you don't get the associated buffer losses all of the time . All depends if the heating load is well matched to the ashp output, eg a larger ashp would still short cycle to some extent, but with one sized appropriately that would be reduced to a point where it was not an issue / design concern. Rom what I have read here and on EB though, it seems favourable to have a bigger than necessary ashp with a buffer and labour the HP far less with few / no defrost events. Others who stayed in college longer than me may be able to offer some further clarity on that as it not my forte. ( is that how you spell forte, or is it forté? )

Ahh, gotcha . OTT then by a long way.

British Gas boast that their 30si WB is for a large flat / small house so I doubt if that's a problem tbh. I used to fit the Baxi 105e and then 105He as "hi flow" combis and they were 30kw iirc, and is not fit a thing lower than 28kw if you have a bath, even in a treehouse. . And hot water you'll get . Is that the Vaillant ?

Two boilers is a bit ridiculous TBH, unless you have a swimming pool or a 12 bedroom 6 bathroom house?

I'd favour looks over price for the sake of £10-15 more per fitting . Fabric first, but the finished look is everything.

Yes, another case of the left hand and the right being disconnected . I'm mostly retrofit ( refurbishment work ) so a pita. I'd have thought that making fire boxes out of FR plasterboard whilst at the first fix stage would suffice where space is limited, but fire hoods, as above, would be another option just annoying that these units don't appear to have been scrutinised / approved by our regulatory overlords. .

I too am a convert. Those flat panel Led's have an amazing dispersion and seem to light the room from everywhere. I put 5 of the 9w ones in the apex of my boys attic room and jeeee-sus they're like having your X-ray taken . They really do make you wonder why you'd ever fit a regular spot again, but I don't know how you go about using them below a habitable space for fire regs etc. Anyone? Jason, I'm loving the way your kitchen run is framed, I'll be showing that to my future customers, looks very neat and does away with the shitty dust magnet gap always left between the unit tops and the ceiling. Who's idea was it? And more importantly, who did the design logistics getting all that in snug and neat? ?

His mind is a complex labyrinth, and some cogs and levers. ??

Barney, you just put the 'Tool' in Toolstation.

I'd go with resin filled for anything subterranean TBH, as heavy rain could easily see these junctions inundated with rainwater. You cant bring an exposed flexible cable up the wall I'm afraid. It'll need to be in a pvc conduit at least so it has a degree of mechanical protection beyond its PVC / PVC sheathing. Do you have the lights already, and can you remove the supplied flex so you can replace it with SY Multiflex / similar armoured cable. ? Oh, and welcome to the forum. .

PMSL

A family spare room? Otherwise your in Storage Giant for a small air conditioned / ventilated unit ( so your nutsack remains attached ) .

Warm the outside of the brass with a hair drier and see if that gets it shifting.

"She had straight hair and curly teeth"

Please update accordingly .

Especially after you've barrow'd your own screed in too

It's easy to achieve, but labour intensive & 'logistically' more problematic vs liquid screed. My 'dry' screeder uses 8' and 10' straight edges to smooth the screed and I'm not exaggerating when I say you can paint it green and play snooker on it. He sets out pads of screed using a laser and then infills and smooths between them like dot to dot. He makes it look easy

The sooner you buy it and get it fitted, the sooner you'll be renting it out and generating income to repay these outgoings . If the bathroom is small, then I'd go all white as colours can look busy / overpowering in a small space making it look smaller than it actually is. .