MikeSharp01

Car parks a great idea just add a structure over it and cover with PV it need not be fully waterproof although gutters might be nice.

Just read this in the paper- looks good in principle but the devil will be in getting the grid to accept all this adhoc generation (well not adhoc from the big farms). We are just working through or G99 request to get as much of our 6.8kW out into the street on one phase. There is no solar on any other homes in the road so I am hopeful they will allow it

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We did a good deal of work with the PHPP / design to get our are overheating days / % down. My wife was / is worried about it so we also installed some passive cooling, in the form of, what my wife describes, as the rat window at the front of the house - opens at ground level with some rooflights high up at the back of the house with no doors in between thus creating a good draft even on still days and are intending to cool our slab with the ASHP and have a small heat / cool battery in the Upstairs, only two bedrooms, supply side system so we can do a little to cool them if needs be.

On reflection I guess that some of the energy generation will come from ASHP. At a COP of 3.5 you are, after all getting 3.5kW out for each 1kW in. This sort of challenges the 'solar generation must exceed' idea although looking at my calcs above assuming I use all my solar to drive the ASHP at 3.5 COP then we do get there assuming the PHPP package is not already factoring in the COP on the ASHP.

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Yes you are right Joe and to be fair I have not read the details from Octopus - but I just looked at our PHPP numbers for our PV, installing it today we were, our primary energy need is projected (by PHPP) to be 114 kWh/m2, Our Treated Floor Area is 139m2 so we would need around 15000 kWh. Meanwhile our current PV setup is projected to produce around 5000kWh/m2 so we would need 3x our current 16 panels. Which is sort of mad given that we perhaps have enough roof area for an additional 8, and would need 8 phases to take away the 21kW generation @ peek any way. So this feels like it aimed at the big builders who can build a solar farm next to the properties - feeding the home individually and dealing with the electricity infrastructure costs needed to make it possible. Jeremy did it with the Fit tariff - he generated more money than his electricity cost not enough electricity - he only had 3.8kW on the roof IIRC.

Sorry to see this. Looks like very poor woodwork, poor painting and poor sealing, which is on the inside face, allowing water past onto the middle sill where it has been sucked up by the side frames and soaked into the sill itself - my guess is that its was a very drafty window - more so now.

We have put two 4K (8K to the very local) HDMI and two CAT6 cables and a terrestrial Arial cable to each TV point and fed the HDMI, only cost £150 for the cables, back to the media panel - not really sure why but it seemed like belt and braces. We can stream the same image / sound to all the TVs in synch (nearly) via the HDMI.

Yes but if you own the field - you can cash in big time - yipeeeeeeeee...

Because A is the telephone network standard and B is the Network standard. In the end though as long as both ends are wired the same it will work it's just 'not the done thing'. Get a decent push down tool is my best advice as the cheaper ones don't do the stub cutting well , and there can be RF implications if they are not cut cleanly - although I doubt this is the problem being discussed here, in my experience.

I was not aware of this. Sounds like a plan - need to read up on home assistant - did a bit last year and have a setup running somewhere was not sure I wanted to use it. So I guess that's the first discussion- to HA or not to HA - that is the question whether it is nobler....

Ah, sorry - it was just I had used a couple of these: https://www.findernet.com/en/croatia/series/22-series-modular-contactors-25-40-63a/ and they may fit in your enclosure. Also f you want off the shelf then you could use a din rail mounted diode setup like this one https://cpc.farnell.com/camdenboss/cim-4w-dioca/4-way-diode-35mm-din-rail-module-common-anode/dp/mc02830?srsltid=AfmBOooS2bLnk8DoI0qYraRRMra3jWc8mtBLjb2h384Kn1RY4MJeeKtCecQ and just wire the diodes across the contacts.

Wish there was an RpiHOME equivalent of this - I know there are some initiatives out there but it would be good to support our local listed company!

Are the Finder 22 series not already classed as contactors? Snubber sounds like a good idea all the same.

The Google elephant - if you put in ASHP and planning (included Sevenoaks & Canterbury) and its the top answer! Which also tells you something - we (here) are talking about this more than anybody else!!!!!

Ah a bit more due diligence done and I find that the planning committee here millstone Manor (Sevenoaks) have asked officers to find out what other councils are doing about ASHP! So they will find East Herts and we will get it to. Not that it's a problem here as we are 50m from our nearest neighbours window but it does look like council's are floundering around a bit.

Hi @JamesPa you went through a lot of this in 2022. You are clearly more knowledgeable now and it is clear that this current bit of work shows how variable this is across the UK. I cannot find anything on either of our councils (home and build) Web sites referring to ASHP one of them does not mention them in their ,(our) plan to 2040 published in 2023.

When / if I replace our loft HW tank in millstone manor I intend to stand it in the bottom section of a plastic barrel, I have one for the purpose standing by, then duct this via an overflow pipe out of the roof and latch shut off the mains via a sensor in the barrel, there is already a valve that does this when we set the house alarm so we don't need to worry about turning it off if we go out, I can tap into the alarm system to control it.

Our build is in a private road, it is a not a public right of way (although technically a no through road you can walk through the end but not drive), we are responsible to the center of the road and there is a fixed (ish) width. I would watch out for future owners building a gated community but after that there is no law to stop someone walking up / down it anyway - as here. HOWEVER given the pa-lava @garrymartin is having a footpath that connects to the national network sounds like a very good plan and might aid planning issues further down the track.

Cynical moi🙄

That means it IS accessible by walking, cycling, crawling, and public transport so there must be more detail somewhere that says that walking can only be along pavemented roads or less than some notional distance, that cycling must be along designated cycle paths etc, public transport must include taxi's & rickshaws not just buses and soon to be self driving cars which I suspect will be a subscription service of sort - if they ever perfect them for the general case. I'll get my coat 🙄 or just get back to boxing in the soil pipe.

Seems like a sound and pragmatic principle to me. I am also an exponent of the idea that you can either spend time saving money or spend money saving time AND, for me, often times its just fun to give it a go after extensive research to ensure success while having a backup route to the professionals if needed. Occasionally we do a job twice once in house and once via the professionals, EG the air test, many here do their own to get an impression of the air tightness but we need a registered outcome so had to have a professional do one as well. We ran ours got a result (.29 on the PH scale) the pro came in and got it as .2 on the PH scale so we weren't that far out and on the right side - very pleasing even though I doubled the 'cost' but learned a lot along the way.

Yes suspected you had thought of it - respect for the very thorough work on the research around the sustainable travel. Keep on keeping on.

Found the site on Google maps - perhaps a long shot thought you probably had already, is there any chance of getting a cycle path across the fields down to Copcut lane as from here there is a cycle friendly riverside path into town under the A38 which then connects to the primary and middle schools reasonably closely.