scottishjohn

yes but this is up front -not sure I could get that with a house not habitable at this time maybe worth a a try if things get sticky

just a silly thought If someone would like to pay to build my house and they can have it 25 years or on myself and wifes death by that time i will be96 she will be more than that anyone heard of this sort of funding I have already had estimates of plot value this is all assuming the quotes I get to build it are beyond me estimate for plot 400k now so if it costs 800k to build you get a free plot as well at the end

my guess is they are wanting a claw back if you build more than one house on the plot EG if inten years time you decide to divide the plot and build more houses they are wanting a cut of the . Ilooked at one plot where they wetre wanting an uplift of 30% ofr every other house buiilt on the the land within 10years my answer has simple "no way jose"

its not just panels ,but alot of battery storage needed and maybe a gen for winter as well more work needed to see which is best beatring mind I do not have 30 years to get installation costs back +beneift from savings

Ihave been told ,but not confiremd that they may even let you dig and give you conduit to lay and just pull the cable through and connect . that would suit me fine --but need to revisit the quote stage soon

could well be different now --

Hi, from reading it would appear that FIT is now dead and gone is this correct.Iam starting to try to work out what do for power . Ican get a grid supply --guees from last quotes a couple of years ago , £15+ but if no FIT --one wonders on going totally off grid ? thoughs and any info very welcome no problem with space for panels either on roof or ground house faces s/w

any one a aet of regs frp placement of septic tank or treatmneplant and all minimum distance for house and dimensions for a leak filed

that does not suprise me If you add insulation to cylinder that will trap any heat loss of the cylinder between it and your better insulation . more important is how much heat can you feel on outside of the insulation layer , that is now your heat loss . so it would be important to make the room all this heating plant is to be very well insulated ,unless you are happy with the heat adding to your background house heating input.

cpc farnell £2.79+vat per 5 litre half the price of all of my local builder supplies get it before they change the price

no I don,t and tongs would neever grip securly a 2-300kg odd shape stone . slings are working fine

this mornings pictures of dumper and attaxhment

i gave it a real test today and moved a tote bag of sand --no problem certainly a lot more than a 70year old and his wife can lift off and then replace onto the repaired wall LOL

dumper converted and working well consists of a kwickstage upright 10ft with a length of thick walled steam pipe tack welded to the scaffolding pole brackets ,so I can reclaim the pole when done and bolted with brackets to the dumper at one corner -so i can still use it if needed in the mean time dumper can still tip fully ,pole end is close to ground when tipped It lifts every stone i have tried so far with no bending or even flexing average granite stone size I have been moving about is 700mm x 350m x 350mm. the capping stones for my big long wall. taking down wall to repair and rebuilding with morter ,not just dry so far 12t of sand 70bags of cement and only about half way will post pictures at some point

please supply name ofr bore hole company by message if you like and how long ago was it done

a bore hole is going to be 10-15k

at 4k to get mains --then I would get it cost of tank and pumping and uv lamp --at least -which needs changing every year then an acumulator + boooster pumpto give you mains pressure in the house -or your tank qwill need to be inthe loft and all you will get is gravity pressure --no good for showers or any modern type boiler or ASHP but start with getting your water tested --could be lots of other mineral impurities that would need replacable filters etc

If I had an old harvey frost hand wound landrover breakdown crane that would be good as could bolt ot dumper --but I don,t

I only need to lift approx 3-4 ft from ground for top of wall so trying not to get to complicated and spend a week making something obviously I can as I have all engineering facilites mig tig ,lathe miller -etc etc -- but not a site 9miles away transporting dumper will cost

good idea if i had space to get landrover sieways across the road with space to manouvre --but no I,m plotting on some way to use my dumper ,which has swing -side tip maybe a scaffolding pole out front of it with swivel and lifting straps - tilt the dumper bucket to raise and lower the stone and swivel for fine postioing . rummaging about at my garage to see what I can find +buy some web slings

looking s/h "lewis pins " or something to lift my granite stone around -new ones start at £200+ rebuilidmg the long wall and its got lots of big granite top stones that I cannot lift -wall is 100+yds long and as I can only get at one side --the other side is a 40ft drop --I need something to attach to a digger to lift them I cannot even find sensible priced stone tongs and no one to hire them from

sorry ithought you were using it for UFH Ido not know

I maybe be wrong but if you used UFH piping rather than water pipe it has an alluminium core which will make it hold a bend ? no need for formers? or if you want to std water pipe hit it with the hear gun at the corners bend it round a half moonformer made from wood and it will stay bent when it cools

I maybe was not clear the solar system was pressurised and also the 3 coil 300 litre tank was running on mains pressure so 3 coil and unvented so from bottom to top solar coil ,ufh coil dhw coil and lpg boiler connected to main volume of tnak at approx half way and top only thing i would change is to have some sort of baffle inside to stop mixing effect of flow of lpg boiler when it came on ,so solarr part stays as low a temp as possible and can take any solar input there is if using pv+immersion heater there would be little stirring effect as that would be at the UFH coi level and the heat would just rise and would heat down from top with no pump involved

system I had which worked very well was pressurised with an expansion vessel I never had a problem in 15 years the failure point was a stupid plastic auto air seperator valve which was mounted outside on the panels on garage roof -which failed when a sensor went down and temp in system must have been close to 150c to melt the plastic or maybe it was other way round temp these unregulated panels could have taken plastic air valve first and then kept rising until sensor failed I obviously replaced that with a metal one and new sensor and it ran for another 6 years till some tubes started to fail ,but to be fair they could have started to be damaged when it got over hot 40tubes and 300litre tank is not big enough to abosrb all the heat the sun can throw at it, even in scotland --so If I go that way again it will be larger storage so I cannot boil the tank on any given day and keep away from silly temps yes it looks good seeing the panels knocking high temps ,but better to have larger storage and never get close to boiling you do not need water for DHW or UFH at anything like those temps I was using a mixing valve on my tank so the whole tank could be max temp and then mix with cold on output fromDHW coil down to 55c taller the tank the better if taking dhw and UFH form same tank -as heat will always rise so DHW coil is at top of tank ,or you could use 2 tnaks and divert as required ,especially if using solar PV to run an immersion heater or heaters