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It's maybe not the most efficient way to organise things, but only really needed for extended heatwaves. Reducing the humidity will definitely affect how it feels, but also lower the dew point that would allow you to drop the water temp running through the floor without worrying about condensation, so you could get more cooling from that system. Time to insulate those pipes! Waste of money heating/cooling the loft.

This has been quite commonly done by people on this forum building highly insulated homes. Idea being you design the home to be a stable temperature and the slow response can be used to your advantage by loading in the heat when it's cheapest and letting the floor buffer the output over the day. Putting coils anywhere in a 150mm+ slab is not going to lead to a fast response anyway (need a insulated screed for that) so burying the pipes lower also minimises the chance of damage later and debatably is easier to install. I can't remember all the arguments for this method made by others off-hand, but do know that after reading thoroughly here I'd been persuaded that I'd likely go that way if/when I come do this. (dependent on installation sequencing).

A dehumidifier could do the same job and they are pretty cheap. Wouldn't the ERV help even in these conditions, slowing the rise of humidity caused by outside air vs a HRV which would just dump all that humidity straight inside?

They have API integration to inverters. On those with full integration I'd guess they have full reporting from the inverters. But they also support less integration and I think they can still support those because when signing up you give them permission to access the 30min readings from your smart meter. So they can see how much you export within those high reward periods (and this acts as verification for the API integrated case).

Yes this seems weak and prone to failure but it is an extremely common technique used by lots of providers. I think the calculation is that it's so vastly cheaper and quicker to install vs major street works that even with the inevitable repair costs they'll still come out ahead. Street works cut through normal fibre connections pretty frequently so even if you do it properly it doesn't mean there are no problems. This form of trenching is only used for the last short length of cable feeding a handful of properties. From there it will connect into a properly buried duct somewhere (usually rented from BT) to go back to the central station. This means any damage only affects a very small number of customers. All domestic Fibre to the Premises in the UK is using whats called GPON (or XGPON). GPON has I think 2.5Gbits down, 1.25 Gbits up shared between up to 64 customers, though I think the usual install is limited to 16 or 32 premises using passive splitters. The Telco will be able to add splitters as needed if they aren't preinstalled (though doing so likely interrupts service for the 16/32 premises on the connection so they will probably do the work overnight). XGPON is 10gbits down and 2.5gbits up IIRC. Newly laid networks may well be using XGPON and older ones GPON.

How wide is the plot? Just because your boundary fence height is limited doesn't mean you couldn't put something taller a bit away from your boundary. boundary fence, low planting, path, high planting/fence, sitting area, high planting, path, low planting, fence. Will fit in a 4m wide seating are if plot is 8m wide. Landscape designer will likely have lots of clever ideas for this that will be cheaper, easier to maintain and likely look better than a sunken area.

Might require a bit of DIY or employing a carpenter but if you put the medicine cabinet to the side but the mirror front on sliding rails you could slide the mirror out to a central position for shaving/makeup/whatever when needed. Edit: Or the inside of the door to have a mirror on it too and 180o hinges.

Not sure the details on how to evaluate existing stock has been published yet. All seems to be focussed on new homes for now with the intention to replace rdSAP in the future.

Have you tried putting the sink against that wall instead of the toilet? You might have to change the approach to the bricks (mirror where the nook is). Putting the toilet there means reducing insulation for the hidden cistern I think which could be something to avoid.

That's quite a dark and moody nighttime render. Worth doing one for the morning view as well. You look like you have plenty of space for a wide sink/table to put things on. As for space, suspect space around the toilet is more useful in case of aging/disability than around the sink but in a room that size everything is going to be a trade off.

Just looking at other peoples experience. It works until it doesn't and then randomly decides to delete a load of stuff. Don't give AI access to your main machine. Give it a VM with controlled access. Regular backups beyond the control of the AI.

Nice little benefit of moving the sink and mirror near the window will be that the mirror will much more reflect the light from the window and make the space feel a good bit brighter/larger I suspect.

I didn't get to the point of talking to them. Just reading the planning permission that had already been granted. Was a while ago so can't really remember more than I've said already. Edit to add: If you are subject to those restrictions be worth checking that your quotes haven't assumed you are (if the companies are used to working in Barnet they may have assumed).

Just been reading it now. With everyone forced to use the same calculation engine and the defaults being designed to be 'punative' the incentives for accurate data entry go up a lot. How that translates will be interesting. Definitely going to increase costs and I'm sure plenty of lazy accessors will try to find ways to be lazy but will probably lead to more accuracy overall. Going to be annoying from a scheduling point of view if you have to specify a lot of this detail early in the design. Pipe diameters, length, flow rates per outlet, make/model of mhvr/heatpump/hot water cylinder/etc.

I doubt cutting internet cables would be a big enough shock (there are too many). But a week without working internet would likely do most people some good. (Any more and logistics start to break in really bad ways)