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Not at the moment 🤣

It isn’t a barn, it’s my house…. 🤣 I’ve been glueing up the cracks over this summer and have felted over others in the past, but it is 30yrs past needing replacement, really. It needs doing, even if I only have 3 more years here.

Interesting.... I've got a lorry body full of paint to get rid of

Apparently they are in Belfast, but my sales contact is based in the republic.

I might have to 'fix' the leaking roof on my rental farm property where I currently reside (yes, it's a requirement of my tenancy, yes I'm ok with that, before anyone asks)... This is a shallow pitch roof in big6 asbestos. Does anyone have experience of overcladding with tin? If the landlord is OK with that, it would be my preference, instead of complete removal. I don't need another pile of asbestos to dispose of, I've got enough of that already. If it needs to come off, then so be it, the roof will probably be replaced with insulated industrial tin.

Brookvent in Ireland are the UK distributors, getting these out of them has been like getting blood from a stone... Awaiting an order update...

I must admit, they are pretty, and that outer ring is very satisfying to operate...

I get that it’s a sales pitch, yes, but a move to r290 is a good thing. It’s a better gas, it isn’t patented by Honeywell or whoever, it has a low gwp, and it delivers comparable performance with a low charged weight.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/opinion/f-gas-revision-far-more-than-a-climate-victory-for-europe/ Popped up in my Google feed this morning, seems an interesting point of discussion…

Yeah, I think I’ll stick with the Siemens.

‘Smart’ controls are not required…

I'm going with HiLine E-Flex, 32mm duo. 20m kit (I need between 15-17m), for £750 25 + 25 /90mm (ingoodnic.uk)

The more I look at this 'stat, the more I think it will be just the job. Datasheet attached, it has adjustable upper and lower limits (ideal, stops the wife turning it down to 10deg to turn the heating off, like she does at the moment. Stops sister-in-law turning it up to 25 thinking the place will heat up faster), and either on/off or PID control. And it's under £40... A6V10954415_Room temperature controller with 24-hour time swit_en.pdf

Back to the thermostat choices, this one looks ideal. Has a nighttime mode with programmable times and setbacks, and a simple to use dial display. It’s either this, or a nest gen3 with the smart scheduling disabled. I suspect the nest will look nicer on the wall.

Step 1. Get my wife to contact BG and move us to a credit account in my name… I suspect this will take ages to do and be impossible to get right.

Planning a 2-3 degree setback… rads sized for 45 flow at -4 so we should be hovering around 38-40 on the WC at normal winter temps.

Probably, but I need to get off prepayment with BG first, then start the long winded procedure of getting getting a smets2 installed and a new octopus tariff in my name. It will be used for ev charging though, I’ll probably need close to 30kWh/ day for my commute.

Yes, my wife will expect a wall thermostat and does like a night-time setback. We have a simple Honeywell analog stat at the moment and I need something equally simple, with a dial. Considering the Siemens, or a Nest. I can’t expect her to go into the heat pump controller and bump the WC curve up a notch if she’s too cold. Ideally the heat pump controller would support load compensation for adjusting the WC curve, but I didn’t buy an Ecodan, so I’m stuck with what I’ve got. My unit is supplied with a jumper on the call-for-heat terminals, I’ll just wire that back to the stat. My unit has a quiet mode which limits the extent of the compressor and fan vfd range, but it has no idea about room temperature.

Ignore me, my wife doesn’t want the option of cooling (the narrow minded fool 🤣), so it’s back to loosing wall space to oversized radiators. Still, a bit cheaper I suppose so I can’t complain.

Room thermostat with night setback, or standard thermostat and use the ‘night mode’ on the heatpump controller to limit the operating frequency of the fan and compressor during night time? It’s something I hadn’t considered up until this point. My heat pump controller has no knowledge of room temperature, unlike LG, Samsung, Midea, Mitsubishi. This is with radiators in the house and ufh in the new extension.

Interesting…. Thanks for the info

Gledhill make a decent product, I’ve just swapped in a stainless vented into my off grid place. Nice cylinder….

Best photo I have, but you can see it went down nice and flat.

Concrete, straight off the readymix truck. I think it was 10mm down rather than the 20mm down we used for footings

Tall, skinny buffer, is basically a low loss header. The grant one with the integrated backup heater is the best option, or just make one up out of fittings.