MikeSharp01

That will make for an interesting balancing and control scheme. Sounds like you have done all you could - have you checked the penetrations to the roof have all sealed & flashed correctly and that any moisture getting into the ducting (condensation / wind blown rain) can get out / is otherwise dealt with safely?

The very definition of hysteresis🙂.

This feels like the age old challenge of trying to navigate past the technology wins that proprietary systems want to make so as it keep you in their fold all the way through. While I get the basic business logic of this idea for the companies concerned (Loxone / Honeywell / ....) it makes very little sense otherwise for several reasons. Firstly from the overall efficiency point of view as none of these companies do it 'all' and they always end up needing / offering interfaces that allow the bits they don't do to be sourced elsewhere - it is in fact classic defender mentality at work. Secondly wanting a sophisticated system does not / should not equal getting a complex or chaotic one. Open source thinking like MTTQ & node RED, similarly maker technologies like - RPi / Arduino, do allow the construction of accessible systems albeit without sophisticated documentary support and, thirdly, in the era of IoT I am not sure that many of the proprietary systems will last. As it will be expected that your whole automation system, and its component sub systems, is / will be just a node on the IoT and should be open to a conversation just like you and I could have and will be demanded by the likes of Alexa and what will follow. KISS is still a great concept - Keep It Stupidly Simple. (Yes not keep is simple stupid as I would not wish to insult anyone.) Eventually, given this is likely to be mass market - as we all demand better control of our energy use, in the end, once the adoption curve starts to play ball, the 'VHS' solution will emerge and most of these systems will fall by the wayside! No one will be buy an actuator that does not expose its capabilities and control parameters on the IoT or, for that matter, a sensor that does not do the same. Then the technology winners will be the ones who make the higher level stuff (software) that allows these things to work together and offers a robust self documenting interface anyone can use / understand.

Tidy enough job.

Maybe you could slightly reframe the problem! You could rearrange the cupboard doors and make room for the pucka thing. EG Just fit a post, the required depth, to the wall and put the hinges on that or perhaps have concertina / bifold doors on the cupboard.

Wonder how all this works with shadow gaps? Layer of plaster then the gap forming strip on that then the rest built up to the strip? Then there is the ones with the LEDs in - respect to plasterers🙂.

LED lamps can develop several.of ours have in the past.

Where are they now one wonders?

Yes merry Christmas one and all - time to hit the cans.......

Looks like a job for some nifty lead work and / or some fine cutting of the ridge tiles to make a 3 way junction.

Have a good one then.

Yes - but don't get any of it on the gears or the grease in the pack (unless it is a lithium based one) - the vast majority of plastic gears are not happy when lubricated with petroleum based lubricants. This site knows what it is talking about.

Very 'Now'!

This might be some sort of Cornish cultural appropriation as 'Bird' (meaning girl / young woman) was around in the 14 century although tracing its use up to the 1960s when it seems to have seen a resurgence looks tough. Naturally in the hands of @SteamyTea , in the way that bulls**t baffles brains, it could mean almost anything - but we digress from the core topic of this thread. Back to PHPP - which tells me what our home should need (Treated Floor Area TFA = 140m2): Heating Demand = 9.993 kWh/(m2a) & DHW = 22.4 kWh/(m2a) (Based on 2 person occupancy)

Looks like fun and why would you not like your bird? (or is 'bird', not the rather old school (c 1300) word meaning 'girl', something in Cornish I have missed)

Commiserations, that's 10kWh/m2 more for DHW than @ProDave, assuming a COP of 3, and he is three occupants IIRC🤔

It will as you will get a much more efficient boiler today - we did the sums here and came down to a modern 27kW boiler from a 32kW 30 year old one and still we use a lot less gas than before.

Everything is connected to everything else and not many people are thinking through the 1st order consequences let alone the second and third order unintended ones. We need to get our head in order so as to steer a path through this lot.

Yes but this could be a combination or one or other of the heating or some other heating factor such as occupancy. I still think it is curious that the room temperature rises when no heating is applied, in the period before heating is applied and if the same effect is occurring after heating is off then the overshoot may be for other reasons. Having said that the rate of change in the 11:00-12:00 period is higher (approx 2.6 degrees in little over 1 hour) than that in the 16:30 - 21:00 slot (2 degrees over 4 hours) which may indicate, or at least allows for, a combination effect although the somewhat odd time base of the chart with 3 and 4 hours between ticks maybe distorting things.

It is interesting looking at your trend. The room seems to heat up without the heating running between around 5 and 9:30 in a small way and 11:00 and 12:00 in quite a significant way. I wonder why that is - occupancy perhaps? If so then your building is doing pretty well as I see it? Do you also have MVHR?

It is a common enough conundrum and I am sorry you have it. Perhaps you could tell us a little more. What was it that you think was done incorrectly and how do you know it was done incorrectly IE are there any obvious consequences? How did you pay for the work cash, bank transfer or credit card? Each of this carries a little more information and in the case of the credit card some protection.

PS the wire coming from the pole over you land, is that going to feed your build or go over it? If it will go over it then you do have a case to have it moved / buried as I believe they are not allowed to run an open cable over a property. If they have to move that then some of the tensions in the whole system around that pole will change they will have to deal with that.

By the looks of the picture it is not staying much as it is so loose. Two things, firstly you should have a wayleave for that stay, if not you can apply for one and then, revoke it and I think they have to take it away unless they can show it must remain (not stay - did you see what I did there?). Secondly I cannot see them moving that pole unless you are prepared to pay for it and you are looking at both a very big bill and a heap of disruption. Having said that we have been working with our DNO (UK Power Networks) for 4 years trying to get a stay slightly moved so the wire does not go through the roof of our cycle shed! Frankly I would look at moving your entrance, left or right, it will be much simpler and a lot cheaper.

Yes and curiously that includes the tax take to HMG so once we all go EV that tax take will need to transfer to EV recharging and as the electricity base price is now almost the same as for diesel ,accounting for the relative efficiencies - but not the value of longer distances on one refill, the cost to charge your EV will need to include the tax and all of a sudden it will be more expensive than diesel. Everything is connected to everything else - thank the early adopters who will have had cheaper motoring - but not for long.