Big Neil

I was thinking about reducing installation complexity and also the balance of cost. Is the cost of buying, installing and maintaining an ASHP to charge the sunamp actually any cheaper than the extra cost of electricity if not using this option? As JEremy mentions the cost may be marginal between sunamp +ASHP vs just ASHP. I just wandered the just Sunamp powered off the mains/solar option

Electricity. It confused me to be honest, but look at the first post by Jeremy there, and he says that's how he does it.

Seems then that there could be significant value to stacking to the height that those guys would do, then pay to get them in to check prior to pour and manage that day.

Gotcha. Big Sunamp for hot water then What about cutting the ASHP pump out of the equation, such that the source for the UFH is just a low temp Sunamp. In both running cost and initial investment terms how does this workout Vs just the ASHP for the UFH and a Sunamp for the hot water?

As usual i probably should have been clearer, what i really meant was in a situation where the sunamp unit is both the soul source of hot water and also used for the UFH. All god things to know anyway, so thanks. I'm not sure I fllly understand the need for both sunamp and ASHp. I've read a number of the threads relating to both and it just confuses me a little at the moment. tank and ASHP i get. Sunamp by itself, I get. Sunamp and ASHP - can't quite understand

Maybe they are 'invisible' - Strong gusts of air pumped up at the sides in proximity sensors are tripped, to blow anyone back on to the stairs if they start to fall. That would be proper GD tech!!!

Evening All. Does anyone charge their sunamp purely off the mains/pv/windmill etc, as opposed to also involving an ASHP? At the very least has anyone (i imagine Mr @JSHarris definitely has) done the calcs to show the cost of doing this both ways?

I think it's this comment here that neatly describes the biggest reason most people now get married. Obviously as you mentioned there are some logistics which simplify when you get married, but they're nothing insurmountable. It has always seemed odd to me when you mention having to explain ones relationships in hospitals, that it isn't enough to say ; "imagine us as being married but having just not had the wedding itself".

I don't really see the point in marriage anymore other than as a tradition. It's costly to do, difficult to get out of and easy to break. And people often don't give it much respect. I am a traditionalist though and married as a result, but i'm sure i'd be broadly as happy with the missus if she wasn't a 'Wife'!

I think it's an american system but the Viega one looks quite neat.

Convenience? Say you need to repair an issue with your kitchen cold feed you could still get water from your ensuite or your bathroom or wherever else if you have individual isolation points, where to isolate the whole manifold means you'd be without ANY water.

so i got the figures wrong and I suppose it can't be (https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/eco-homes-wales-sustainable-housing-britain/) Any idea what if anything you'll be doing with most of the land?

Hello Cake, Are you one of the people on that scheme where you get the land for nothing but have to build a property that generates at least half it's own energy and half it's own food within 10 years? I vaguely remember reading something about it in the telegraph last year some time?

I did read some google conditions a couple of years back for an app (speed trap mapping if I recall) and the implication seemed to be that if you give an app or device permission to access location services then the data that is generated from that action is legally the property of the likes of google etc. The argument I think being that it's not YOU who is being tracked it is the individual 'Licensed' piece of software on your phone. Tantamount to the same thing of course, but if i've understood that correctly it's quite a neat loophole. Can't say i'm surprised. Amazon people aren't generally paid very well. They probably just see it as an ancillary benefit.

Good answer - thanks. so then @jack. Are there pictures of your install about? Which cabinet did you use?

Evening all. The components in a consumer unit are din rail mounted i believe, loxone kit at the very least when talking about home automation kit is. I've found an amp by 'legrande(??)' which is also mountable on DIn rail. So my thought ws this. Assuming one can also find a patch panel and ethernet switch which also are, is there anything to stop all these components from being mounted in a single cabinet. You know, for the sake of tidiness and the like?

Create real interest by putting ownership of systems in the hands of more people. I could just as well have said 20 per house...

Must be a 'crap' link, it's not working. Could be my 'shit' phone though

no no - away and down is where you want poo going - (sorry, will stop being childish now)

Sounds like a game of Mouse Trap - but for turds!!!

Me next to the massive stack of brochures largely grabbed to make sure slimey bell end salesmen left me alone. Got a Nibe bottle opener though, woohoooo. Did anyone see that Lewis deck stuff, currugated metal used for intermediate floors as a base to pour screed onto?

Just got home fella. Definitely big. If you saw a VERY large frame wandering around with a dirty karrimor backpack and a blue t-shirt with dots. That was meeeeee Some residual anger there maybe. I deliberately didn't talk to any window salesmen. Wandered around with my earphones in. Chatted to a nice bloke on the Stamford stone stand though.

And now having seen a queue, the lemming in me is making me stand in it.

Thought I had to cancel, currently sat waiting outside hall 9

I think there is a current link on the insulhub website for free tickets should anyone need