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?, my glucosamine tablets.

It goes really well with Gaggenau appliances as well!

Had a replacement boiler done on a rental and it was £400. No pipework alterations just a straight swap

I have done this before with a stop bead and also adjusted a normal angle bead to suit the angle. I do not think there is a specific bead as there would be hundreds of them to suit every application. Hope this helps

Hope you can get it sorted @ProDave. Just when you are nearly finished as well, fingers crossed for you

We also bought Siematic after having one before. Yes they are expensive but they last for years and are top quality. You get what you pay for and in our case we decided to go Siematic again.

Just thought I would show some pics of our timber treads in situ. We are really pleased with them and they are very solid. The second pic shows the top of the stair treads were they meet the oak flooring on the landing and it is a perfect match apart from the different make up of the wood detail. The wooden treads and wooden flooring are completely different manufacturers so we are really pleased with the colour match

Kw, kw, kw. ? Not like you to be touchy. Stick to winding up @epsilonGreedy

Really pleased with the Panasonic but then ASHP are new to me so have nothing to compare it with. It is performing as well as can be expected and our elec usage is pretty low. Yesterday we used 10kw for heat and HW for a 330m2 house. I cannot get over how the slab holds the heat for hours and hours. I know this was meant to happen but when you walk round in bare feet many hours after there has been no heat input and it is still warm is great. The controller took some getting used to but now I have got to grips with it. There are no schematic drawings in your post? I will post some pics later of the install.

I have just had my Panasonic 9kw ( not Tcap) fitted before xmas. I had a plumber friend to help with the pipework and I did the rest with help from people on this forum. It was a bit nerve wracking at first as although I have done most things in my build the thought of damaging my ASHP was always at the front of my mind. What i will say is if you follow the pipe layout as per the drawing it is very easy to do. Connect up the wiring as per the diagram, turn it on (everything crossed) and hope it works which in my case it did. My now new habit is to check with my controller to see how the system is running and check the energy monitor as this is what self builders do!!

This is what we did with our Passive slab. I ordered a full load and used the rest as pipe bedding

Like a snakes wedding!!

Yes the product is expensive but we have used Gaggenau for quite a few years and the quality is second to none. The oven(Gaggenau) we had at a previous house we took with us when we moved as it was in as good a condition as when it was new and then it was 13 years old. We like the product and to us it is worth the cost

It will be fine. The extractor is really powerful and auto adjusts for all sorts of cooking

We moved into our new home at xmas with a Gaggenau hob and built in extractor and it is brilliant. There is a mesh filter in a housing right next to the pans and this goes in the d/washer and then there is a charcoal filter in a housing in the cupboard to absorb smells. The extracted air comes out above the plinth in the island unit. We love to cook and thus have fishy/currysmells on a regular basis and the house is small free but we also have an mvhr system so I am sure this contribute to the air smelling fresh as opposed to a normal house extraction system.

How do you decide what speed to set the pump which is on the manifold? The pump which is inside the heat pump controls itself although you can alter the flow rate. At the moment it is running on speed three but that is how it was when it was turned on. TIA

Sitrep on the oven guys. Finally had a look over the w/e and decided to try disconnecting the earth ( I have a fair bit of elec knowledge @ProDaveso I knew what I was doing)and try heating the elements one by one to see if it was moisture that was causing the problem. Well it worked even though the oven had been in the new kitchen for over 12 months I still find it hard to understand how there was still moisture in the elements. Great news though as these appliance repair engineers can charge and guess who is flavour of the month with SWMBO!!

Not on mine either

I have fitted my own ASHP with the help of a plumber (and buildhub) and it has cost me around £6000. I had quotes of £12/13000 and nearly choked on my porridge! My £6000 was for a brand new 9kw Panasonic Aquarea with HW cylinder and associated valve and pipework. I put my own heating pipes in the slab and kept it all one zone and it works great. It has taken me two/three weeks to understand how to run it and how it interacts with my house but now I am getting the hang of it ( thanks to @joe90, @jackand @ProDavefor giving me advice on their setups). My advice is do your homework and KISS like most have on here. Like Dave said treat it like a boiler and your plumber will have no reason not to be able to fit it. My Panasonoc came with a simple schematic to explain the setup and the controller is really easy to use. I am only up the road from you if you want to see my system.

We like free! I am retired also and next job is the garden having finished plastering today. May wait till it warms up a bit though. Just put up my bird feeder so that is sort of gardening? (Being outside!!)

You have tooooo much time on your hands!!

When I questioned my B/insp over this issue he just said if wind can move this building we are all in trouble!!

We moved into our passive house just before xmas and are still adjusting things to suit how we live. I notice you have shut the heat off to the bedrooms, how has impacted on your energy consumption and the comfort levels in the bedrooms?

Why would it have moisture in the elements?

We fitted two ovens in our kitchen which was lucky as one did not work so had to rely on one only. Just to explain we bought a load of Gaggenau appliances from Ebay ( over 18 months ago) and all have worked as expected. I tested them when I got them home just to see if they switched on which they did. The kitchen was fitted 12 months ago and we moved in this xmas. The oven in question turned on ok and my son did all the settings and everything was tickedy boo. When we came to actually use the oven it tripped and due to the time of year I left it until now. So today I got the oven out and had a look at it. The oven is on a 4mm radial circuit and that circuit works fine until the isol switch is made. I have a flex that I can connect to a reel so I could isol the oven and see if the fault is from the oven. I connected this up, L and N only and it works ok. Just by luck I decided to try and connect another cable that had an earth cable and this then tripped the CU. So just to clarify, oven trips when hard wired and when isol the radial circuit works fine. When I connect a bit of flex up just using L/N it is ok but when I connect L/N and earth it trips. I tried the extension reel with the flex on both sides of my CU and it still trips out so has anybody got any ideas or is it a case of getting engineer out as I could ring Gaggenau tech tomo but I am not sure what they will say over the phone apart from getting an engineer out? My mate who could find and fix the fault is not back from France till June so I suppose I could wait till then although SWMBO might not be as keen on this idea as me!! You can see the oven is brand new and never been used, was all wrapped up when we went and got the thing but obviously there is no warranty. We saved a massive amount of money overall so it is not the end of the world if we have to go down the engineer route. TIA