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I couldn’t remember where I saw it previously.. a quick google returned this ?:

I was looking at doing this a while ago (ended up doing standard under-counter due to complications fitting the consumer unit etc in as well) .. I thought the easiest option was to make something on site.. this was my inspiration:

Still waiting to see your blog on this build ?

I personally think you are easily 50% under, you prices are very sporty for a 4 story building even for someone in the trade with all the contacts, discounts and experience that brings. You may get to water tight for that budget. Did you price for the glass on the terrace (not sure if that was in your breakdown)... I’m guessing they are a big chunk of cash? Where do you put all your materials? For example when all your blocks or steels are delivered, where are they placed until they are used? Is there space for scaffolding or do you need a different solution? exciting time and quite a challenging site ?

Haha... I had a place like that once, 12 Victoria terrace houses all connected with one open loft space. You could pop up through your loft hatch and visit any of your neighbours through theirs! I built mine up so it was ‘secure’. my 1930s semi was just like your photo above... I left it alone.

Yup... used to make the outdoor plumbing more subtle and classy...

That last pic reminds of the eBay puzzle advert that’s on TV at the moment, can you just buy something that fits the hole you have made?

Christ! nice simple job made a nightmare by that bath panel. I guess you needed arms like mr tickle to get in there!

Mine certainly doesn’t have line of sight. Seems to be fine at the bottom of both gardens approx 30m in each direction. One way is through thick solid stone walls and the other is through cavity walls (with foiled PIR). I will say that the mesh unit I have in my shed / office needs to be near the window to pick up the signal from the house... I don’t know if this is due to distance, or the fact that it’s completely lined with PIR and foil taped (much better standard then the house is). Id say buy one and try it out, if it doesn’t work return it. Mine was only £100 from currys, but has a max speed of 100mbps.

Turned out it came out without any drama. Job done.... hopefully. Just running it back up to temp now.

Loving the progress... we all love pics! I’ve always wondered about insulated rafts, especially built on a slope, what stops them sliding away? Obviously they are quite heavy things when built, but some heavy rain would worry me. ... I would picture my house disappearing off down the hillside and out too sea. ?

To continue your analogy, you won’t be able to make your supertanker handle like a ski boat, so don’t try. Use it in the way that it’s able to operate. I have an old and predominantly poorly insulated house and an ASHP. The heating isn’t responsive, but it is good at keeping a steady constant temperature. So I had to move away from thinking of the heating working like it did in other homes with oil or gas boilers. My set up seems to be fine once up to temp, as my house is always at 21.5*c (even if away). It’s worth noting the amount of people who first turn on their system thinks something is wrong because the house is taking days to get up to temperature (some times 1 degree a day).. but that’s fairly normal. I thinking @ProDave said it took his house a couple of days to warm back up after going on holiday for a couple of weeks (in the dim and distant past).

Oh and to compare, oil used to be about £1000 a year.

No PV. Annual bill is about £1400. DHW is by immersion and cooker is electric... plus it seems every single electrical device in the house is left switched on permanently ?

My house has UFH downstairs and radiators upstairs from an ASHP (albeit undersized for the job, but that’s another story). It works fine, even in the very cold spells. The challenge is the that the system is slow, so you need to plan ahead... I just keep the house at a constant 21.5*c but others here have some very smart systems which consider weather forecast etc I’d happily have an ASHP again in my next project.

I’ve got a 250L UVC and a 4kw ASHP... 3 of us use a shower (high flow waterfall showers) every morning... and we don’t need to rush, my daughter can take 15-20 mins. But if we have visitors (not happened in a year now tho) we need to leave an hour for it to warm up again. Don’t get me wrong, I do miss the convenience of on demand gas or oil combi boiler.. but the low running and servicing costs does help.

I’d do this too... better off doing it correctly now, rather than a solution that will always feel like a sticking plaster.

That’s crap if it’s really the reason for failing. The radiant heat from heating manifold shouldn’t do that should it? Considering it’s designed to be on part of a vent system that could see 90-95+*c. Still, either way, it’s great customer service! Will be interested in what the route cause is.

Unfortunately not.

Oh great joy! Thanks for the heads up though ?

There is only the spring and the flap/disc that moves, I assume it was that part that had failed if it was letting smells in. I didn’t think I was... I said it should be good quality as it’s 3 or 4 times the price of other tundishs.

So lesson for today... After a few occurrences of water leaking in the loft (splashing out of the tundish), I replaced the tundish with a Hotun and re-did the pipe work. I then investigated the reason for the water passing through the tundish. 1) checked the expansion vessel - it was down to about 2.5 bar so I thought “got it”... didn’t fix the problem. 2) Next, must the the immersion thermostat... replaced it even though it tested ok... nope not that either. 3) today, only tepid water temp in the morning... bit more investigation... looks like it’s the Temperature Relief Valve that’s dumping the hot water when it reaches about 50*c. So ordered one of those... fingers crossed that it sorted.

I’ve just fitted one... seems nice quality piece of kit, especially compared with a “standard” tundish.. but it should be at 3 or 4 times the price. How did yours fail?

Don’t know what ‘set the water hardness’ is, so nope not done that. What is it? Yes we do fill the salt regularly.

I think that would easily be physically possible... I think the hinge side of my bifolds (short 3 panel) could easily be a slide side. No idea if there is a locking or security issue, or whether anyone would make it.