canalsiderenovation

What are those plants @joe90?

I do tend to check the app most days after the electricity app issues with Octopus - call me obsessive! I did notice a smell on Monday (I'm quite deaf but my sense of smell is amazing) but the wife told me there was no smell. I love being right ? How the two guys could eat biccies and drink tea whilst inspecting inside is beyond me. I was dry heaving with a mask on!

Sorted, it was a stone obviously stuck, lucky the pump didn't burn out but explains the heat when we opened the cover. The covers will be finally be sorted and fixed down this week which will hopefully prevent any issues of bricks falling in.

Progress... Possible issue - a stone! We have been saying for months to fix the things down.

There are here, pumps on but it ain't pumping ....

No just us two and nothing down the loo that shouldn't be.

On it already.... We have been told to turn consumer unit off and someone is due out.

We didn't hold it for long as it was heavy but it was running and the water wasn't going down! We also noticed when we lifted the lid it was really hot to touch

What's this? This seems to be running. Not really sure what this is: And then there is another bit which I'm not going to post pics of as it's full of sh!t.

Let me have a look, some lids are fastened down. With the strange hours the spike is I think it must be something in this area. It may be a coincidence but in the past couple do days we have noticed a real smell in this area too.

No idea what I'm looking at to be honest.

Something odd happened. When we turned off the treatment plant/pump circuit it was 700-800w pretty consistently for an hour. The minute we turned it on it's been at 400-500w consistently for almost an hour. Going to try working through the other circuits.

No immersion kicked in it's off. Yes our PV is working albeit it is minimal as the sky is dark, grey and cloudy - summer has ended! @ProDave I've got this and have plugged it in. We have turned of the sewage treatment plant for the next hour so will start with this.

Yes you're right @ProDave. We don't get the app readings until 24 hours later so it would involve me taking a manual reading of the meter every hour when testing the appliances and hoping the solar didn't kick in the meantime.

Something really odd has happened. We have been using between 3.5 and 5 units a day electricity over the past couple for months. The ASHP is off as the solar is doing our hot water and we don't need heating. On Monday we noticed the meter readings had shot up to 19 units in a day. From the app it seems this spike started on Sunday (see below) at 9:30pm and it jumped to 0.46 when it has been 0.12, 0.15, 0.08 previously. The pic below is midnight onwards when the usage remained static all through the period when we were asleep. I initially thought it was Octopus app playing up again but I took a manual reading yesterday morning and again this morning and we have used 21 units again. Yesterday for the first time I had our ASHP on for hot water as the solar did little and I know it's not the heat pump as it used only 4 units for the hot water so it has to be something else as we would find it pretty impossible to use 17 units of electricity with just the two of us. We have nothing on standby, the heating is still programmed off. How do I find out what's causing the issue? If we continue to use this amount for leccy with no heating on yet I dread to think of the situation come winter with heating! The only things that are on during the hours of the night are our fridge and freezer and sewage treatment plant off the top of my head and the Quooker. We haven't changed anything on Sunday night. Help,!

?? @Ferdinand changing the name is easy but you pay for someone to paint the name on per letter so it needs to be shorter!

I'm not sure in rural Shropshire there is any taste for contemporary art!

It's Roper Rhodes Hampton Moccha. The vanity unit has a solid granite top. The single unit doesn't. Both purchased separate from Facebook marketplace individual people - new but never installed. The whole furniture range and granite worktop including RR toilet, sink and taps was less than £800 significantly less than Roper Rhodes (and we sold the taps and got some Hudson Reed ones).

It is pretty much exactly the same information as it is in the app just presented in a slightly different way. You can still see monthly or daily use and tarrif etc.

So yes we are sorted now. You don't need the app at all but now it works it is helpful for me to see our half hour energy use. Of course our use is currently minimal but when our heating comes on again and the ASHP is heating our water rather than the solar it will be helpful to see our consumption. As their rate outside of the cheap Octopus Go Faster was cheaper than any other supplier anyway it was a no brainer for me.

So, all 90metres of fence panels in front of motorway crash barriers - now complete! The woodstore needs to be finished and the bank will have a few more things planted in it that are being relocated. It's now likely in front of the panels will be grassed for the majority with just parts of path e.g in front of the utility door and parts joining to the patio up to summerhouse mainly because it's cheaper and easier to maintain. We are really pleased with the result. VID_20210808_200242.mp4 VID_20210808_200242.mp4

See through glass narrowboat floor - not sure you'd see much though ?

I think we are going to just paint the wall but then add some photos into acrylic from our travels. We have a few photos onto acrylic - they look amazing. My wife got this one printed for my birthday and it's in our cloaks bathroom. I took it in Colombia and the colours look great.

It's a solid wall it's just if they will hold the weight of the glass. It's unbelievably heavy.

I'm not sure I'd want to look at a reflection of a naked version of me everytime I got in the bath - I'm not that body confident!