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Maybe access the office from the hallway, and have the closet as the entrance to the toilet?

To be fair this is fairly similar to the drawings I gave to my builders when they did my extension.

I like the fact you have steered away from the more modern digital drawings in favour of traditional hard copy.

perfect spot to hid the plumbing gubbins

Is this like the grown up version of vodka and redbull??

Just to be clear... it’s not to scale.

I was thinking it could be a completely stand alone system (temporarily). So connect the end of the UFH loop up to each other with a pump and willis heater. You’d also needs an ev and fill loop. please see my CAD drawing below ? (drawn with my finger on a phone after a bottle of wine - not my best work ?). Hopefully an actual plumber /heating engineer could tell you if this was ok.

I was thinking about you heating situation, could you rig a temporary loop up with a pump, a willis heater and a small EV? Cheap and simple until you dig up the floor in the other room. It can’t cost more than £100 and take less than a day to get running.

I’m guessing a bit like this from a quick google search

Coor... look at that lovely insulation in the roof... that must be helping keep that fridge nice and cool!

And I would expect this to happen. But this is not the same a Zoots house. He lives in it and has things generating some heat (if not very much) and this heat is not staying to keep Zoot company. So, is this down to just lack of insulation or is it air leaking?

Yeah I completely agree, hence me trying to ignore the current CH issue for a second. As I feel there are 2 parts to tackle: 1) the on-going saga of why the ASHP isn’t doing what we expect. 2) How to stop any heat loss when some is produced - even background heat would keep a house above 10*c in my experience.

Ignoring the central heating problem for a second... why is the house sooo cold? I know lots of it is an old stone cottage, but surely there must be something stealing all the heat being produced, whether it’s the CH, wood burner, fridge/freezer, cooker, body heat, etc. Can it be simply lack of insulation, or I’m guessing a lot of “air leaks” /drafts. I assume you’ve got double glazing everywhere and fairly airtight doors? Im only comparing with my house before renovating, which is about 300yrs old (so no insulation) with only 2 small night-storage heaters, I don’t think it has ever been below 14*c ... when we just put another blanket on top of the duvet. Do you have economy 7 electric supply? Maybe get a couple of night-storage heaters. People regularly give them away for free when renovating.

Yup... that’s what I’d do too!

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Mine spent the day frosting and defrosting.. on either Thursday or Friday (can’t remember which now everyday is Groundhog Day). It only took a few minutes to completely defrost, but with so much moisture in the air it only took about an hour to frost up again. With all the frosting a defrosting, it had icicles about a foot long.

Does it needs filter?

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/e9ht6u/bro_tip_wear_a_period_pad_to_keep_your_nuts_warm/

If it helps, I have seen my ASHP frost up for the first time today, it’s defrosted 3 times that I have noticed.

Exactly my thoughts... it’ll be fine for the time being and at least there will be heat in the bathroom. I guess the UFH will just need a blending valve and pump to make sure it doesn’t get too hot.

That sounds like a risky google!!

Can’t remember... possibly related to your tenants boiler inspection by BG?

Yeah sounds sensible. You can then just put back the extracted round bit with a bit of ct1 or something, and then fine fill.

Oh also, I had a moment not unlike yours where I was really annoyed by something the builders had done at a previous house so I just started opening up holes with a hammer... this is not the best option, it was a bugger to fix later.

@Onoff did a great example of this in one of his posts. Circular hole looked like a nice easy way to go.