MikeSharp01

You do need to measure the floor temperatures, get a cheap IR gun. (the one below is about £50 from Screwfix but you can get a lot cheaper, 1/3rd the price, versions from amazon). Have you replaced the floor coverings since the Oil boiler? If you have then the flow rate thing will need to be tackled see posts above but also you need to watch out that you do not overheat the floor. You can also work out the TOG value of the laminate, which will give you an idea, along with a bit more working out, just how much to increase the flow rate and / or the delta temperatures across the system.

Keep on keeping on and all will be well, all the best.

Which model is that? We are looking to install the Cool Energy CE-iH6+ which delivers 1.85-6kW @ 7 degrees and at -3 degrees 1.2-3.9kW which is about bang on for us where we need 1.139kW according to their calcs.

I think of PFC as Power Factor Correction assuming this the possible reasons are all over the place but as @Michael_S says could be a mains glitch that took it out of range. If so it probably will not recurr but if it does you will need to dig deeper loose wire or something that causes the motor a problem which I suppose a high speed gust of wind right up its axis might well do.

Interesting! You need to pack it round underneath with as much PU as you can, get some wood along the top of the beam + down the side of the flange at the top and foam fill all the voids down the sides. The fixing of the ridge tiles can still be done with cement as you would be fixing to wood.

Welcome to THE forum for people like us. Very sorry to hear your story and here to offer help and support, probably best to start a new thread to unpack it all and we can start helping with advice and confidence building.

I guess he means making sure the heat pump (HP) can also cope with making domestic hot water (DHW). If your house heating needs 5kW then a 5kW heat pump won't be big enough, on the worst days, if the HP also has to make DHW because all its output will be needed for heating. The important thing is that this may only be a problem on the worst (coldest outside) days of the year when you could either accept a slight drop in heating while the HP is making the DHW or use the Immersion heater to make the DHW or get the next size up HP, or much bigger if you need loads of DHW see other threads here, to let it cope with the DHW.

Our concern was the suitable distance! We were worried that if we did not get close to the source of any particle laden steam / air it would allow said air to get dispersed and so deposit its load around the place and not into the grease sock - hence we went for directly above the hob. We have yet to commission it all all so won't find out until then

I thought about this approach but decided I wanted the grease in replaceable filter in the MVHR and not more thinly spread everywhere so we have an MVHR extract vent with a grease sock directly above the hob.

That is correct, you need to account for your costs.

Another approach might be to find an installer offering the MCS umbrella scheme. Here the process is that they do the design work, you purchase the bits and install them and they comeback commission it all. I our case they are charging a basically fixed fee, might vary if they have to do more work at the commissioning phase. They apply for the grant take there cut and hand you the rest.

That's an interesting link looks like the blog at the top is about on the money!

I did it with RPi Pico W talking to my Growatt. I send the data out as mqtt messages which I then read anywhere and log the data on a remote pc direct to mysql, the Pico is not great for logging.

Insulation weights very little and anyway the holding capacity of plasterboard screws is limited by the plasterboard not the screws because the screws just pull through it. 40mm will be fine just make sure you have plenty of screws.

It struck me that it may have been used to try and straighten the ridge - pull everything along a common line or at least pull out the larger bends =- which may only have been a few mm. It is also possible that it was used to keep everything together while the roof was put on, so when the structure was it it's weakest, and the intention was to remove it but never done.

YES Claude can't, even Git copilot won't do it with you asking it to / confirming. Not used Claude code so cannot say for sure, but a colleague does and I think it only does it with automated workflows and associated commands not because this code looks like worth a push.

Yes.

Ask Claude of course.

Welcome to the forum -p sounds like a fun but very challenging project. If you follow the work on here done by @nod he bought two plots. I guess there are Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) issues that you should look at with great care before you break ground!!!!

But the token limit is still there! Token limits are somewhat meaningless because it depends on the tokeniser approach (Byte Pair Encoding - BPE, Wordpiece and perhaps directly code aware tokenising, etc) which in turn might lead to a striking difference in the semantic outcome EG more statistical vs less statistical (they are all just statistical). For code it can be less granular than for direct language because it can tokenise for the coding languages syntax so each syntactical element (if, else, for ...) can have its own code which drives much faster processing, and of course, much larger contexts - still not large enough for larger projects. If your coding style is consistent enough EG naming conventions, structures etc or has a domain specific corpus (EG you always doing things around walk on glazing) you could customise your own tokeniser but you would probably need to use an open source model for that or get very clever, not saying you aren't, to go in that sort of direction with Claude by perhaps pre-processing, using much shorter identifiers and avoiding any rarer characters. In the commercial sphere you want it just to work. Oh and don't forget to turn off the 'train from conversations' privacy box or we will all be learning from your work, but hey that is one of the problems of the LLMs they eat their own output!

I already did, many times and many of my students have mastered the same trick I think it's sort of least to most prompting. Still prompt engineering and styles of such are evolving all the time so you may be the inventor of a whole new approach!

One guesses - yes it will need rectifying as it will eventually clog / silt up. Interesting video though - I kept waiting for the screen to fill with contents of a flush coming at the camera.

So not quite the whole project - rather just the proof of concept for the code. Projects start from Inception and travel all the way to recycling so way more than the coding in the middle - coding they do very well projects they don't do at all - well at least not end to end. Requirements Engineering is defo not their strong point - awful, they have no way of eliciting they can only draw from what they know and they don't know what your average stakeholder (old name for anybody with an interest in the projects outcomes) wants / would like / does not want. When you have one that does the whole project I will be much more impressed.

Great work @nod and a great contributor to the forum, when will you actually be starting the next one?

Any small holes I had I filled with ORCON F but to be fair we have thousands of screws holding battens against the airtight membrane and we got a 0.3 (BC test) (0.2 on the Passive House scale) for our air tightness.