canalsiderenovation

Does that even exist anymore?

I don't care on covering the sliders and glass gable. Priority due to scarceness of newspapers ? Good point, I'll start stockpiling Amazon boxes. Order a mobile phone case and they will pack it in a box the size of a small child.

It always surprised me when I'd stay in hotels in central London as no-one bothered to shut curtains in their homes despite being overlooked and surrounded by offices, hotels, other residential places etc. I could literally look out of my hotel room into someone's dining room and see what they were eating for their tea and no, not everyone bothers with curtains or if they do have them they certainly don't always use them ? Curtains and blinds aren't in our budget at the moment so we will be moving back in with newspaper on the bedroom window!

Nope. The MCS install cost wasn't worth the extra as we both work from home so are solely doing it for our use. In my case with various quotes it was more than double the cost for an MCS install, some quotes were triple. I know we need to add the fitting cost onto the material cost of the quote above but I can't see us ever getting back £3-£4k plus with SEG it would cost for the MCS install.

We have had a variety of prices and I've been negotiating for a while on materials, spec etc and it started far higher. I've been back and to to various companies negotiating. We aren't going down FIT or MCS so our electrician/builder will be fitting so my priority has been trying to get the materials at a reasonable cost.

This is the quote, the 320w ones are cheaper.

Thanks @Dan F it makes more sense I guess to go for the 320w then I guess. The quote is with a Growatt 3600 inverter and Solid 200 immersion controller.

So, need to make a decision on which actual solar panels for our in roof system of 12 horizontal panels. It's either the JA Solar 310W LW Mono Percium All Black with MC4 or the JA Solar 320W Mono Percium LW Black Frame with MC4. Aside from the watt, there is difference in the panel itself as the 320w has a white backsheet and the 310w is black. Any advice on which I should choose. There is around a £50 difference with the 310w ones being more expensive so negligible.

From what I can gather it is Alto energy who seem to have caused a lot of the confusion but I would have expected the plumber to have known what I was told in this thread. In fairness to our electrician who just happened to be on site as we're meeting on another matter, he picked up on part of the conversation and seemed to know exactly what I was on about and spoke to the plumber.

Well sounds like that is a definitive answer on that point then

I had to google RTFM ? I'm glad I checked before I told the plumber to do this ?

Literally just had a call from the plumber. The penny has finally dropped! I've sent all the information summarised in this thread hopefully he realises what a plank he has been!

Hmmm, what sort of system would do all this in one system? What would be the most cost effective solution?

So, I'm all ready to sort this solar PV and get it ordered but the plumber seems to have his knickers in a twist about solar diverting any excess to the tank. He is saying Alto energy (the company who have designed the system for the ASHP and allow the RHI to be claimed) are saying the mitsubishi system for the ASHP is not compatible for us to have a solar system to divert any excess to the tank as all the controls are built in, something about legionnaires and the tanks having built in controls which isn't compatible and Alto not taking responsibility for maintaining it if we don't have tanks with controls all built in. He had quoted for a Mitusubishi 11kw 1P air source heat pump with 210 Litre Preplumbed Pressurised cylinder (I noted we want to change this to either 300/400 litre now we are having solar as per the recommendation on here). Now I know lots of people on here have an ASHP and a tank that they use with a solar PV controller (iboost, solic200 etc) for the solar to divert to the immersion. I can't understand what the problem is, is it just that a Mitsubishi system won't allow this? Can you advise if there is a particular spec that I can go back as saying works with the ASHP, or what I can say so I can go back and pretend I know what I'm talking about! I'm sure someone in the chain of plumber/Alto is being deliberately difficult..... Any help would be really great. Thanks

So, it appears we actually cannot fit two portrait rows of 6 on our roof. I checked today and our roof is just over 7300 in length but from the pitch to the bottom is 3340 and I believe the panels/frames are around 1700 in height so that messes up two rows of 6. The only other thing I'm thinking is if we can do 12 panels horizontally, three rows of 4. Most people seem to have them portrait though, good idea, bad idea, opinions please?

It may be worth exploring if there are campsites nearby. We found one campsite had a static there that is normally used for holiday lets/warden (which wasn't advertised) and is 10 mins from our house, albeit we may have preferred to be on site but we couldn't get a static caravan over the canal bridge. We managed to negotiate a two bed static for a 4 month term (it's looking like it may be 5 months at this rate) for £350 a month all in. I also did things like find any Airbnbs locally and ask if they would do a long term. If you have a local Facebook site it's worth asking there. We also had a couple of stables/farm places that had worker accommodation that wasn't been used that they would have been willing to let cheaply that were perfectly functional. We both have portable hotspots for work and have successfully set my phone up as a hotspot for our Netflix binge watching as I have unlimited data. Laundry on site and neighbours/parents have done our washing.

Awaiting our glass and ours is a bungalow.

It would be on concrete, I'll check out the stone resin ones. Strangely there isn't much in it price wise but the Pearlstone looks more modern.

We are looking at two pearlstone trays for walk in showers (1400*800 and 1600*700). I just wondered how pearlstone compares to other trays or if there was any particular material we should be looking at?

Just wondering if the Solic200 is a good alternative to the Solariboost Immersion Controller? I've got a cheaper price but don't want naff products for the sake of saving a few quid....

This seems really cheap even for trade. If I were to get trade prices for the materials alone for the system I want are still more than £2k.

I don't know, good point though.

I think so, just need to check what our builder/spark is going to charge for fitting.

So some reduction on pricing and we some shoppinf around. Note we had to change from 14 panels to 12 as the roof was a bit smaller than initially predicted. They have changed the Fronius inverter 3.6 as the Primo will not work with 2 rows of 6 using these panels they have quoted for, instead a Growatt which is compatible. Does anyone have any knowledge of these products/comments on this pricing for the supply of GSE in roof panels etc and diverter for the water to immersion for ASHP?

I'm debating whether to have smoked glass on our walk in shower (the tray is 1400*800) with a flipper. I don't know if the smoked glass would be a bit overpowering with a grey concrete type floor and matt pale grey vanity although we will keep the walls white (only light is a flat rooflight). Does anyone have smoked glass, pics would be helpful please.