MikeSharp01

Just watched it, Ali - they spoke about it on the show and I froze frame on window and it looks triple glazed.

Somebody has to be - great up there.

There are companies all over I guess but your SE will tell you what they need and you pass this to the soils company. In our case we just told the soil testing company that the SE wanted a survey and they knew exactly what was needed. They chose the sample points and the depth to go. In our case 6m down in two places. Cost was £970 + VAT and he came from spalding to east kent so might come to you. Message me for his details he may know someone up there if not able to do it himself.

Nick, if you are still out there, is that boiler classed as a 'storage combi boiler' I wonder. Looks like only the efficiency is taken into account and heat losses from storage combi but still reading (page 24 of 234)!

Not sure just looking through the manual on the trail SAP software I have (From Energy Design Tools) to see what effect it has. I guess its like all of life, its about optimising the compromises!

That would solve part of the problem, the local water supply is excellent I measured it at over 50L minute on a 25mm pipe, I am still thinking that I will put a SUNAMPPV in line with it so I can get the PV excess stored but not clear how we control the two working together although the sunamp does say it works with combi boilers. I guess you just wind the output temp down from the boiler and recover it from the sunamp but as the sun amp wilts I guess you need the combi to work harder or can you line them up the other way around and deliver the output from the sunamp at the input to the combi? PS does the size of the boiler affect the SAP calculation, must check that!

Actually it might not be a Combi as I am struggling to get a one that can deal with 2 showers at once so might have to go back to a thermal store and a tiny boiler for just the air battery, the three towel rails and one radiator.

Has merits but the run is so long that even with very small bore pipework it will take a long time to get HW to the bathrooms / kitchen and the flow won't OK for 2 showers so have to stick with boiler in the house somewhere.

Am trying to source a length of gas pipe to carry the gas supply from the meter, in its box in the utilities building, under the garden and into the house. I understand I cannot use the plastic pipe as its beyond the meter but I am wondering what the alternatives are to this pipe system as it works out rather costly for a 25m run although I can get away with the smallest ID pipe as I am running the smallest boiler there is (11Kw I think) for DHW only! Any thoughts or ideas?

Do you mean model railway?

Magnetic base rotabroach, a decent sized cutter - 50mm (65mm is biggest most of them will do), some oil and word with your SE about where best to have holes will sort it in no time, save hours of running round and meters of pipe and cable.

How was this resolved, Terry, in the end or is it still ongoing?

A but just remember what it must have been like for the man, was a man probably, who had been using a wheel brace when he was introduced to a pistol drill. Wonder if he thought ... That mealy replaces my elbow grease with electricity which is expensive and not that reliable. Tempus fugite ?

This Parrot is not dead mearly sleeping.... however the saw that cut up the wood for the coffin is also now that small fraction nearer falling of its perch. Roll on brushless technology

Great news, now the positive & creative work really begins and you can start to enjoy it.

There could be any number of reasons for the difference but its most likely to be down, obviously in a way, to the glass & its coatings (did they put them in the right way round - inside out?) and the interstitial gas Argon (approx two thirds the conductivity of air) / Krypton (approx one third the conductivity of air) / air. Things might also be worse than you think because measuring the surface temperature of glass with IR can be upset by reflections from within the room. Ah and there is also the fact that the old units might have degraded a bit, in terms of gas fill since 2003.

No its part of the freeview scheme.

There is another twist here I had not spotted but once you move from householder applications all the fees go up so every change / condition acceptance or review costs a lot more. In our case a householder getting a condition agreed £28 non householder £96 as soon as you use an agent architect or whatever you cannot be a householder unless you handle all the communications.

They are 150mm apart user the slab and they then go into standard layering through the garden down to the utilities center in the front garden. I chose 25mm for phase 1. It's only a garden room with a loo and shower so does not need 32mm. Will use 32mm to phase 2 the main house.

I dimly remember that. In my day, my first mobile phone was still several years away and I was one of the first 1500 people in the UK to own one, engagement was like getting a bike for Easter and not being able to ride it until Christmas. There were highlights though - Saturdays spent in Heals choosing furniture (most of which we still have), dropping into Peter Jones to choose a 'dinner service' - some of which we still have, commissioning the rings - both of which we still have, evenings dancing at the Ritz, the sanctity of ones club - Malden and District Society of model engineers, booking the venue - Woolwich town hall - not so trendy then, making the bed - I mean carpentry, 'weekends maintaining our independence', 'weekends being Mr and Mrs smith'. Through all of it however I cannot recall any discussions about towel rails or the definition of a radiator. I don't know, the youth of today...

What! Did I miss something? I thought all your @recoveringacademic permissions were in place - what of the wombat survey, the pissed as newts, the old gold mine on which you intend to build. (Sorry if my brain is a bit be-fuddled I have been through a whole bottle of Red this evening to ensure I just don't care who wins the US election until 'a whole new world' - tomorrow at least.)

Got it all done today, despite being very cold to start with but the sun came out and warmed up the water duct, pushed all 50M of 25mm pipe through the duct, no draw string needed just a good dolop of silicone grease, took about 20 mins of concentrated effort to get it through (protected the end with duck tape). Then I just laid the three ducts ( water, electricity & comms) in and started to cover with type 1, will finish Thursday and start with the polystyrene insulation and former for the slab.

If they claim it is powder coated and it isn't then they should take it away and power coat it given they will need to clean if back to the bare metal for this, there will be considerable expense along with transport for it from you to them and back. Is there a drawing somewhere, if there is and the measurements are not close again they should rectify. By the time you have finished it will be cheaper for them to get @Rattyjohn, or a mate of his, to make them a new one and powder coat it. Don't be bullied, you have the evidence already in the form of the photos so I would knock it back directly, before you have even got it if thats an option.

Yes I did. It's going to be interesting because I will have to thread the pipe and then roll it up for the most part as the ditch for the services cannot be dug until the existing house is finally cleared which I cannot do until the phase 1 slab is done. Let you know how I get on.

Would need to seal it for air tightness purposes. Anyway pipe and duct coming tomorrow.