MikeSharp01

That would be an ecumenical matter then. "Rectorial: relating to a rector, which can be the head of a university or school, or a member of the clergy" oh I see, rhetorical would work butter there.

Where is the sensor, I dimly recall it has to be no more than 300mm above the floor.

You will need a survey to either way so get some quotes before completion if you can then get it done afterwards. Make it independent of any contractor.

It is amazing what @Onoff can find buried in his garden, Still Kent is a bit like that we have an old one with a structural lid, thanks goodness, under our drive I keep throwing stuff in through the manhole and it just keeps subsiding away of not sure how big it is. I do know it is bypassed now to the main sewer and we have lived here for 30 years so unlikely to be anything dangerous alive down there!

Nope, as I understand it provided they are temporary there is no issue.

That is a key motivation for me.

Yes but you must realise that we have a better class of excreta here in Kent, so much less work to process and they need to keep the price of water down to remain competitive - we mostly drink Champagne.

Curiously since seeing that Sounthern Water have been granted a 50% hike in our water bills I have been looking at doing something similar. Perhaps not 4000l but probably 2000l I can cut our bills massively given our rainfall and roof area it should work for us.

+1 for Norrsken here, great job and great service.

Are they inward opening or outward is the large flat side on the inside then?

We designed ours to have the ProClima Tescon Profil tape on the frame face 10mm and then hidden by 12.5mm Plaster board, to be fair we also asked the window company to fit the tape on the outer of the frame but they said they would not do it because it would get damaged in the fit.

Welcome to THE forum for people like us! What is your build method, Brick & Block/ Timber frame / ICF / SIP / .....?

Yes and in some senses this is natural because the world is getting more complex with myriad new technologies being pressed into service for our delight (not always). This has two effects, firstly it means that the spread of jobs gets wider and so more specialised. If you think of a small circle's circumference and then about the span of a human mind you might get round a proportion of it but as that circle gets bigger with increasing technologies so the human span gets to be a smaller proportion. Secondly because technology is growing so fast you cannot expect your Granny to have much, if any, real understanding of it let alone ways of navigating through it this does not diminish their ability to be wise. In my view to cope with the increasing complexity tacit knowledge can be boiled down to a simple set of what I call bumper stickers. They work everywhere, not just on bumpers: Everything is a system. (Input / Process / Output) Everything is connected to everything else. (A change anywhere makes changes everywhere even if imperceptibly small.) Those who neglect History are destined to repeat it. (Learn from the past.) We are where we are. (Look forward to the future while learning from the past and keep moving.) The S curve is the pattern of everything. (New ideas come, grow and slow because their carrying capacity is exhausted - be on the look out for the next S curve.) Investment challenges change. (The more you put into an idea / thing / approach the more you get wedded to it - keep an open mind or run into a wall!) Thank the early adopters because they allowed you not to be one. (So learn to take a punt on new ideas sometimes and bask in the adulation!) Thought for the day x 7

Yes for many things they are. The graduate apprenticeships are 4-5 years long depending on the provider but they are expensive, in terms of day release, for the employer. The uni fees are all paid by the government out the levy income.

And it appears they don't! Not had it myself and it looks like this mob just went phishing - Good spot, .

Does that breach any regs I wonder and if you are having a big party would it not make sense to have a second one accessible without going through a bedroom, perhaps look at a Jack and Jill arrangement. I am also with @JohnMo in respect of sorting it now and then leaving well alone for the build.

Yep - seems so, do you think they have gold plated heat pumps? Still you have to feel sorry for them when your personal security bill is $24 million! (Mark Zuckerberg) - that's a few click throughs on Facebook and you still have to pay everybody else.

Sounds like a word we should all be clear on the definition of - just can't place it .

Ah the techno feudalist future on the march! A commentator once likened us to maggots thriving in the filth of a social media-driven, tech-obsessed future. Tech billionaires look on, grinning, as we wallow in the muck like pigs in excrement. Wonder if the plebeians of Rome or the medieval peasantry were so taken in by their equivalent of the oligarchs.

Informed by what / whom. Of that 1.4m how many will want to learn enough to inform themselves. They will rely on their installers.

Bring in the future homes standard immediately, allow the house builders to avoid doing it and quadruple the CIL levy if they do. The problem with be that house building will slow up as they can no long just throw them up so that impacts the completion targets - these feedback loops are a pain.

As things stand this seems to depend on several factors. A few of us have applied for and been granted more than 3.86 ( In our case 6.9kW) on a single phase. I think it might relate to pressure from HMG to get more PV and how many others are installing or have installed PV on your leg of the local sub station - which is kind of mad because although I might be granted 6.9kW because there is no uptake locally if, all of a sudden there is they could exceed the limit even capping the late adopters at 3.86kW.

Yes and it needs fixed.

@Jeremy Harris Can I ask a question about your SAP? Many on here have real issues with SAP not allowing a high rating if you have direct electric heating of DHW. Your set up does have this in effect, with some PV, but I guess that your SAP was worked out on your ASHP. Have I got that right?

Great news - do you think they are lurking on the side somewhere .