recoveringbuilder

Reading just under two bar @ProDave yes @PeterW it does have an internal hot water coil

Yes @ProDave that’s right it was working although not quite right but we haven’t changed anything, there is a pump on the boiler and yes it’s working but because we’re hearing a gurgling at times we’ve been bleeding it and getting a bit of air out

Yes we’re getting a bit of air out of there and some at the pump on the boiler

Yip no cover where the wires connect in, and yes again it’s in the same flow as the ufh and rad feed

Yes uf and rads go up the side through the one pump

Greenflame installations up in granton on Spey

Cover is off as hubby was working the valve manually when the stove got to temperature in case it wasn’t working, he has been trying everything today from 8.30 this morning and still at it, there is some gurgling at the pipe coming to the auto bypass valve??

Yes that’s ufh and radiators @PeterW

Pictures on, store only at 19.5 degrees although stove has cut out at 78 , yes that’s the controller

Stove is sitting at 78degrees and has switched itself off but as you can see the water in the tank is only 19.5degrees and this is with the ufh switched off don’t know what other pictures would help

No further forward, we spoke to installer over the phone who went through various things and explained the lk 160 controller and the part it plays opening and closing motorised valve when required so we thought we’d give it another go but no still no good, temperature at the manifold barely reaches 35 so the room stats never get to their required temperature, the stove does heat the water and then cut off but there is no dhw, the other thing we’ve noticed is that when we turn off the hot tap the tank makes a funny vibration noise, any ideas anyone, I’ve texted installer tonight but so far no reply @Nickfromwaleswondering if you have any words of wisdom

The flow dial on the manifold dropped by 10 degrees when the radiators came on , we have ended up turning the whole thing off tonight as this is going to cause a divorce in this house! tomorrow I am going to call the installer and demand he comes back and sorts this out as I am absolutely fed up of my hubby obsessing about it all the time

Blending valve is at 45 @Declan52

Tonight we have no hot water despite the stove being on most of the day, the house is warm around 19 but there is no hot water coming from the taps, also as soon as we put the radiators on upstairs the temperature to the ufh dropped 10 degrees, beginning to feel we’ve wasted a lot of money!

@Declan52our stove is the PFP18

We’ve still not got this system sorted out @newhome, can’t really get to grips with it at all sometimes when it’s been on for a couple of hours the water is roasting but at other times it’s not even hot enough for the ufh, I emailed the installer on Friday and told him we were having problems and his answer was give me a call but hubby is getting so angry now he doesn’t even feel like speaking to him, so I await his temper to calm down and make that call!

Well done getting in! We’re in too but it feels a bit like camping, sofas set up in the room that is still waiting for the staircase which was supposed to be last week but now will possibly be this coming week, can’t really get properly set up till that’s done but you seem to be quite comfortable, enjoy!

What will happen in this scenario then; our last house when built was valued at 450k , it had with it the garden ground plus another acre of land. When we sold it 8 years later we only got £320k but we kept the acre of land and now have pp for two bungalows on it, the 320 was used to pay off small mortgage and buy the cottage so our principal residence, we are now selling the plots valued at 85k each although I doubt we’ll get that , so the question is will we be liable for cgt on the plot money?

We got a letter from the street naming department of the council just after our pp was granted, took us a few months to decide on a name but sent it in and a week later it was approved and then appeared in the drop down menu for the postcode, all free! wish we had our bins right enough but don’t want to draw attention before completion certificate and end up paying council tax?

@newhome no the pellets are fine and the ufh is not continually calling for heat it just seems to be the temperature at the stove, set to 70 it heats up , goes into slow mode then as the temperature at the stove drops it ramps up again and this is more or less continuous, can I ask how you know what temperature your different parts of the tank are at?

Hi @Declan52 it’s just on all the time so whenever the temperature drops at the stove it ramps up again, it very rarely goes off altogether, it’s an 18kw insert stove heating a 500l bio Quattro thermal store, we’re really quite lost on what to do with it and very disappointed in the installer who after a great start seemed to just come in that day and do what he had to do without fully explaining it to us, the thing he has left us to get installed is an LK controller and he hasn’t put any temperature gauges on the tank, so this tank has all these pipes and what not coming from it and we don’t really know what they’re all for, tried looking for information online about the tank and all it says is your installer should leave you with a full understanding of the system, he’s a couple of hundred miles away the only person we could get who was registered with the energy saving trust and although he is quite accessible on the phone it’s not easy to grasp over a phone what’s what! I think we need to get the controller wired up ASAP but again thought with the amount we were charged for his sevices he would have done this!

When we did our pp application and had to do the advert in the local paper the only house within the need to notify area was ours so we duly received a letter from the council informing us that we had made an application!

Tonight we have moved in to the house, it’s not what my idea of moving in would be there’s stuff everywhere and still no staircase as we await it’s arrival sometime in the next few days, but we have a bed a sofa and a fully functioning kitchen and toilets hopefully I’ll get sorted out before Xmas! The move today had to happen as we spent a sleepless night last night in the caravan with minus whatever degrees and the gas stopped functioning properly, I’m told it doesn’t freeze but stops doing what it’s meant to so the decision was made to just move in. our other problem just now is the pellet stove, that’s a fortnight it’s been on and has used half a ton of pellets, the installer having been very good at the beginning suddenly more or less left us to it in terms of how to operate it most economically and didn’t install the controller saying we’d need to get our spark to put it in and we’ve not been able to pin him down as he’s so busy, I’m hoping @Declan52 is going to read this and come back to me with some advice on operating, we had the stove set at 70 degrees which was what the installer left it at but it just kept on burning up more and more pellets very rarely going off, we decided to lower it to 60 but although this saved on pellets the water wasn’t hot enough for a bath. We haven’t been heating the house to a great heat only 16 degrees with the ufh but tonight we had to up it and turn the radiators on upstairs as there seemed to be cold coming down into the ground floor from the mezz, don’t get me wrong I’m warm enough but I’m worrying about the cost of the pellets as we could end up using a ton a month at this rate! Any advise gratefully received!