canalsiderenovation

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!

We would have to get a new piece of glass cut as we can't drill the piece we have as it is toughened. In my last house I had a piece of clear glass over the sink which I had cut and drilled and just used mirror screws/caps. When I changed the colour of the walls I just unscrewed it and painted behind it but this was only a small piece!

We don't have proper bath/kitchen paint as we only had everything sprayed/mist coated before moving in to avoid the pink plaster look for 12 months. We will get it done properly decorated next year with all the woodwork etc we have a few screws that have popped etc (likely as it was plastered in winter, cold weather, heating on etc). It's more for splashes up the wall which SWMBO tells me occur when cleaning the bath/rinsing with the shower head or rinsing conditioner off hair (I just do that when I've finished in the bath and take the two steps to the shower)! You may be right and that a better paint makes all the difference. I don't think the glass we were trying to make good use of is going to work..

Exactly this! I was sceptical but we love it. We did go for a matt textured version which wasn't dissimilar to the sort of tile we would have had. I don't like the gloss versions of wet wall/showerwall.

It would pretty much cover the whole length and about 600mm above the top of the bath. It doesn't need to be to the ceiling rather just enough to account for splashes up the wall. Good point about the walls. I'm sure the green board was used in the shower area but we have the showerwall panels over the top. I don't know about this wall though.....

Yes you can see, not like clear glass but it's not completely opaque. It's so heavy we managed to move it from outside where it has been since Xmas into the house as we were going to try and get rid of it but it nearly killed us! but I quite like the idea of glass but there is the issue of fixing it to the wall and the printed mark too which I presume can't be got rid of. May have to look at pricing up a piece of glass instead.

It's got this mark printed on it.

In our ensuite we have showerwall panels Urban Concrete in our shower and we definitely don't want the panels on any other walls as it's 'too much'. The bathroom cabinets are a grey colour from Roper Rhodes and the vanity has a granite top not dissimilar to the Urban Concrete. We need something on the back wall of bath but aren't quite sure what. Tiles are a definite no as it has to be easy to maintain and clean and after showerwall I'd never have tiles again. We somehow acquired a piece of smoked glass which is from a walk in shower. I think when we got one shower ex display it got put in with it accidently and we are thinking it could look pretty smart as a splashback. It's 200 x 116 and will fit along the back wall behind the bath nicely but it's around 4mm thick and large. I'm guessing it can't be drilled as it has the triangle printed on it so probably is toughened?? Thoughts and advice on using this and how to attach smoked glass to the wall?? Is there some form of bracket we could use? It's a solid wall. Wall behind the bath: Showerwall: Vanity:

Yes gas fridges aren't recommended for boats now, not sure why and where I read it on Canalworld forums. Still waiting for wife's uncle to give verdict on fridge but I think it's knackered, light on switch inside but no noise when turning temperature from 0-9. Having seen price of decent 12v fridges we are going to explore getting the inverter sorted so we can get a conventional, small fridge. We just need to make sure it is the right type of inverter and that any conventional fridge doesn't cane the starter and leisure battery and look at the solar too..... It did have an inverter until earlier this year until the Boat Safety guy found it to be non compliant and cut the plug off it so hopefully it can be sorted soon. Indeed it is, hopefully when the garden is sorted and we have a proper patio etc it will be better! Good god! Our neighbours warned us about this. Our tank isn't that big but it probably wouldn't take much to sink the boat, it's one of those 'bladder' types - think of the sort you use when hiking but a lot bigger!

Not that I have noticed. I'll double check later.

Cheers I'll have a look. Generally Waeco is recommended on boating forums but they ain't cheap. We have my wife's electrician uncle taking a look at it first incase we messed with something when we were cleaning it. Power is getting to it as the light is on but it isn't going cold.

Well the fridge broke a couple of hours after we set off so we had no fridge but we had some tins and pasta so coped ok. Just need to check it over. It's only 12v so any replacement fridge isn't cheap! The inverter was taken off as it failed the safety so rather than replace it to get it to pass the boat safety it was disconnected. 12v is fine for us as we can charge our phone etc and the solar charges the leisure/starter batteries. The oven/grill is old but functional and works.

Indeed it is! No, it is a Midway 265 boat built by Piper in 1999 (the first one). Not ex hire, privately owned and we know it's history from when it was built as we tracked down the man who built it.

It's a four birth complete with two double make up beds, wet room with shower hose from sink and kitchen facilities. Table can be put in between those chairs which make up a bed. That pulls out to make a double bed too.