FarmerN

Our planning permission specified a ridge height, relative to ground level, but no datum for ground level. So we raised the ground level by 500 mm, no questions asked. The bungalow we knocked down was in a hole, always flooded near front and back door, and no nearby houses as reference points in our case.

Might be worth trying a Patio Sealant, though they are designed to stop stains getting into stone. No idea if it would do what you want, and might only last a season.

Also Octopus cosy, rarely pay more than 14p/unit but also have battery so increases amount of time we can use “ Off Peak”. Maybe allow 2p/unit for inefficiency of going through battery. Lowest COP in winter was 5 ( GSHP ) so a cost of about 3p/kW of heat or less. No sure what sort of COP ASHPs average in winter. We used 1800kWh electricity via heat pump in 6 months October - March for hot water and heating for our 200SqM new build bungalow, kept very warm.

We did our drive way with permeable Marshals paving, but it slopes away from to house , it sounds like your slopes towards house, so will require a very good drain channel. Ours does work well in light rain but we get run off in very heavy rain and in the gateway that gets most traffic/mud it is starting to seal after two years. Marshals say it does not clog. https://www.marshalls.co.uk/landscaping/tools-and-support/permeable-paving-suds Paving we used- https://www.marshalls.co.uk/landscaping/commercial-paving/products/tegula-permeable-paving

Flemish bond ,pattern of laying expensive to match with a cavity wall, involves half bricks.

Pointing almost as important as bricks. Your picture looks like a lime based mortar. Bricks look like a non standard size. For our build used Furness bricks, Natural Orange, with “weather struck” pointing. Our builder built several sample walls with different mortars and styles of pointing for us to choose from. Furness bricks sent us a list of builds, using their bricks, in our area we could go and look at. https://www.furnessbrick.co.uk/clamprange Took us ages to find the builders merchant with a big display, found one with over a 100 different bricks. https://www.huwsgray.co.uk/branch-finder/huws-gray-brick-specialist-centre-llay?srsltid=AfmBOooEFD64AmY0O74nf7f4WBMuWxwa7IFkcH1dfvjX8aSZYIeKeboo About 700 on their web site, but that’s in N Wales a long way from you.

Time to Shut the windows untill outdoor temperature is lower than indoor!

Thanks for your reply. Yes now cooling incoming air! 0% Bypass Auto setting Outdoor air temperature 27.5C Supply Air 26.5C Extract air 26.5 C Almost identical to yours. So apperars to be working as it should, I was just surprised to see a small degree of warming overnight. House while warm is not yet oppresive.

The figures are all taken from the MVHR unit display I presume the sensors are all in the unit within plant room. I am not aware of any remote sensors.

Unit Currently showing Extract air 25 C from rooms Outside Air 21 C into unit Supply Air 22.5 into rooms Bypass 100% 230 CuM /Hr for a 210 Sq M bungalow

It was a very large 1890 built unimproved Farm house, took a lot of heating.

The display on my Zehnder Q350 shows the incoming air at 17.5 C but air entering rooms at 20 C. Seems odd to me, is this normal or do I have a problem? Set on 100% bypass ,cool temperature profile, Bypass on Auto. Surely the air should be coming in at outside temperature? 5am and still 17.5 outside in a rural area.

5 Kw Wood burner running 27/7 from 1st Nov. to Mid April used about 8 cuM of home produced wood. Stove would be shut down on low burn a lot of the time. Now GSHP UFH etc but still light a stove for 1-2 hrs in winter , don’t need it but it’s nice and we have the wood.

Birds will go for foam and rubber , from blue tits to carrion crows. Friend in Ireland had Hooded Crows ripping rubber seals out. We have had Carrion crows attacking their own reflection on bedroom windows.

870mm is fine to open a dishwasher. At 1100mm can open dishwasher and draw in island at same time ,to unload dishwasher, but not walk between when both are open. Not sure how it would work if it was a cupboard instead of draw. How valuable is the space on the other side of the island? Space for dinning table ? Compromises as ever.