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Yes Dave, I know please reread what I said - "Cant do much about energy and food inflation but killing consumer spending will help" Consumer spending absolutely plays a big part in this - all the extra money sloshing around post covid vs collapsed supply chains drives prices up across the board. As I said originally, killing consumer spending will 'start' to bring inflation under control. Little can be done about the war and its impacts on energy and food prices. A recession will 'arrest' the growth in inflation - not sure how long before it will start to go down. The BoE are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

Good. I'm hoping for a good old fashioned recession to tank prices and bring labour costs down. The sooner people stop spending, the sooner inflation will start to come under control. Cant do much about energy and food inflation but killing consumer spending will help and maybe give the BoE second thoughts about raising rates. Purely selfish I know🤷‍♂️

Nice one bud. That's a stroke of luck being able to get that job nipped so quick👍

How did you find it in the end? Its easy enough but I found it repetitive and tedius. Cutting PIR insulation is a horrible job - gets everywhere.

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I fitted one and achieved 0.2ACH. The technical docs say you don't have to fit one, I saw it as erring on the side of caution. If doing a build again, I would still install a VCL. I think @SuperJohnGfitted one with his SIP build too.

Wow. That's a fair old mark up given the size of your house and the quantities involved. I'm not gonna lie, I'm hoping for a good old fashioned recession to brings prices down. I still have the garage and garden room to do. Well too expensive at the minute!

I paid £5/m2 for boarding and £4.50 for Skim I believe. Did you try Kris?

I'm no joiner, I just screwed a lot of wood together as a frame, first layer was pallet boards for the floor followed by OSB and then lino. Walls was more OSB, counter battened and then clad with some cheap fencing. Roof was OSB with some plastic corrugated stuff. Got a free window and door - voila! Also got the spark to put a light and some sockets in there. I had the tall fridge/freezer in there as well as the washing machine & tumble dryer. Was a game changer in making van life tolerable.

Pretty sure Brexit happened around the same time as Covid kicked in, then a war which although not global, is certainly having a global impact. If you want to stick your head in the sand and imagine that Brexit is the biggest pain point or that everyone else in the world is tickety boo right now, that is your perogative. I know suppliers that stopped trading in the UK just after December 31st, guess what, several months later that trade resumed once they had learnt and understood what additional hoops needed to be jumped through. Trade will do what trade does regardless of paperwork. If the financial justification is there, people will make it happen. It's a bit boring when folks take the lazy option of laying all woes at the feet of Brexit.

I would say it is a combination of all of the above. Folks don't talk about how China locked down the country recently and are hell bent on a zero covid strategy - that seems to have flown under the radar and was likely the main driver in the last few months. Perfect storm - supply, demand ....one goes down, the other goes up and we're suddenly buggered. This is not limited to PV, supply

Not at all. It would be naive to suggest it isn't a factor, equally it is patently obvious that the total collapse of supply chains and the war are the primary causal factors. The impact of brexit is small potatoes next to those shenanigans.

This made me laugh. So what about 1, 2 and 3. Clutching. I just don't buy the idea that brexit is the reason the PV market has imploded. I bought my solar panels a few months back via ITS, they came from Europe. There was a mistake with the sizing when they came so they had to engage with the supplier to identify what caused the problem and then have suitable replacements shipped across. Each time it took about 3 or 4 weeks to arrive. Since then, energy prices have exploded globally, China has locked down hard again for Covid. So, now everyone worldwide wants solar and China is not shipping goods again. All of this is to do with the collapse of supply chains, as evidenced by the fact that there is a severe shortage of pretty much everything at the minute. I ordered a handmade metal 'post office' style postbox months ago. It has so far taken 5 weeks longer than normal to get it done - when asked why,....'supply issues'. Where I work, a tender was pushed out for the manufacture of some items made from steel. Months ago there was interest, a contract was awarded, the last meeting I sat in they admitted there is already a 4 month delay due to the lack of available steel suitable for the job. I could go on and on. Stop trying to link problems to Brexit.

To put my first floor UFH use into context, my house U Values for walls, slab, and ceiling are around 0.11, windows triple glazed, MVHR and ACH of 0.2. My house is well insulated. I do use the first floor UFH all the time when my heating is on. Our upstairs is around 21 degrees with downstairs around 22 degrees. Moved into house December and UFH was turned off at end of Feb. The UFH upstairs does work with carpets and is particularly useful in keeping all of the tiled bathroom floors feeling nice and warm. Whether you go with it or not, its down to yourself. It annoys me when folks suggest there is no purpose to it. Can you make do without? Of course. If you fit it does it work and add tangible benefits - of course. Ultimately it comes down to weighing pros and cons which is a subjective decision.

Ignore the naysayers. I have it upstairs in a pug mix but this additional weight was accounted for in the joist design. You'd be surprised how effective low temperature UFH is, folks like to say it doesn't work with carpet. That's is patently untrue, as I have a mix of carpet and tiled floor - it works. I take the view that by including the floor area upstairs you are effectively doubling the emitting area so the amount of work each m2 has to do is significantly reduced. In cooling mode you are doubling the amount of heat that can be pulled out. It will cost a couple of grand, when you are spending hundreds of thousands building this is chump change that is soon lost in the noise.

PV is another victim of broken supply chains coupled with rising demand due to the hammering that energy prices have been subjected to due to the war. So Covid and War are the two primary factors here. I've been waiting 4 months for a solar edge immersion controller - it is what it is.

To be clear, I voted Brexit and I would again tomorrow if asked to.

Love it when people start pulling out the Brexit card for all the woes going on at the minute. It simply is not possible to quantify the impact Brexit has when thrown into the mix with all.of the other issues. Anyone with half a brain and a minute to consider can see that the biggest issue driving nearly everything has been Covid. The world's supplies chains were so interwoven, with deliveries working to a 'just in time' schedule that everything is now suffering. The supply chains collapsed, nothing was manufactured, nothing was shipped and as soon as lockdown ended every Tom, Dick, Harry and Jill had unspent cash sloshing around just itching to spend it. Demand was such that the reawakening supply chains could not and can't cope. Throw a war into the mix and we are fooked. Energy bills goes nuts, costs to make things goes up, costs to ship and deliver go up.....in a nutshell we are on the world's shittest roller coaster with no option but to hold on, suck it up and hope it ends soon. Brexit is not to blame. No doubt plays a part, but absolutely is not the causal factor of all out woes. The entire world is in clip.

@AndyRP i used one willis and also put a filter in, will have a look to see where i put that in the circuit. it was only a temporary setup for me to get the UFH working, to make sure the slab was dry before tiling and to find a loop as i needed to chisel into the slab to put a supply in for the island. Worked fine getting heat into the slab and warming the house up. I wouldn't use it long term though as ASHP is my go to for UFH & DHW.

What you have drawn is exactly like my sunroom roof. I used the sandtoft 20/20 tiles and the lead flashing goes up to the underside of the cill, about 50mm between the two I reckon. BC ain't complained🤷‍♂️

Explains why I had 8 on my order with there being two per join. @DukeOfTarp have you checked your order schedule to see if they were included? Installers cant fit them if there werent any present?