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I’d say ‘no’. The top coat needs to go behind the gutter as well. Perhaps they’ll take the gutter down when they render. Maybe it’s just a ‘test fit’ of the gutter...

It really doesn’t seem to run much in the dark. The evidence seems to be that when it’s used it reheats instantly, when it’s not used it doesn’t. I’ve absolutely no idea but perhaps it won’t reheat until it’s lost 10 or 20 degrees? Our energy usage would seem to suggest that the Quooker is doing nowt overnight and then kicks into life when you start using it. Regardless of all that, it’s way way way more expensive than a kettle and in the grand scheme of things only saves a few seconds/minutes throughout the day but when, one day, it fails we won’t be replacing it with a kettle.

@Simplysimon yep, they do and even in the winter the feeble sun is normally enough to reheat it.

Oh, and congratulations on that. At last eh!

We leave ours on. Did turn it off a couple of times overnight a while back but then it took a while (sub 1 minute iirc) to get back up to temperature when we turned it back on, so gave that a miss. Pretty sure ours isn’t reheating every 15 mins but it’s out of earshot so don’t really know for certain but looking at our energy consumption through the wee small hours it looks like it does nothing - if it does do anything, it’s insignificant. It does take 4-5 seconds to produce boiling water first thing in the morning though whereas through the the day when it’s being used fairly regularly it’s probably more like 1-2 seconds.

@DragsterDriver good grief, that looks grim. I would have thought those photos alongside the independent report would be good enough to go to the Small Claims Court with, not sure you’d need expert witnesses, just images of how it should be done. Have you got someone lined up to replace it?

For certain, it would have helped. Never mind, I’m sure you’ll find loads of other stuff to do with it. Great toy.

@Conor mine looks pretty much identical, providing it’s compatible with your laser I wouldn’t hold back 👍

I got tons of use out of my DeWalt laser and the matching laser receiver. You can’t see the laser outside on a good day but the receiver can, and beeps low or high frequency depending if you’re above or below the laser line, there’s a visual indication as well. I did my drains with it, sat the laser on a solid surface, attached the receiver to a bit of batten that I’d marked showing the depth the drain needed to be for every meter away from the house in relation to the (random) level of the laser. There may be smarter ways of doing it but it worked a treat.

@Temp thanks very much for Posting that, much appreciated. My issue differs to the majority of those posted in that mine has tripped under load, and the firmware is up to date. I’m fairly confident that my issue is caused by my high incoming mains voltage, so I’ll either have to junk the Shelly or get a big old drum of cable as suggested by @dpmiller Neither option appeals!

I think I meant kW. My understanding of the line graphs is that you can see how much power was being consumed at a point in time and underneath the x axis it shows how much power was consumed in total.

I did that a while ago as my PV was occasionally tripping out and the advice was that a high mains voltage may be causing it. DNO did a week long survey which showed it was high but within limits, the limit being 253V. They told me that if they wound it down for me there would be problems with low voltage at the other end of the line. In a nutshell, I think I’m stuck with the high voltage.

@PeterW This is a ‘normal’ days charging: Below is Saturday, I woke up early to find that the Shelly had tripped off for ‘over power protection’ every time I turned it back on (via the app) the kW’s increased rapidly from 3.1 to 3.5 at which point it tripped off. The same happened a bit later in the day until it finally stayed on to complete the charge: it’s back on now, supply voltage is 248.6V and the Shelly is registering 3.4kWh

@joth I think I'm getting it. Just for clarity, the Shelly replaced the timer in a fused, timed, spur. The relay in the Sunamp controller which is downstream of the Shelly is doing the 'heavy lifting' as I see (and hear) it. Does that change things?

I find it very useful, but not at all vital. I don't understand what I'd be changing there as the Shelly 1 and 1PM are identical apart from the 'Power Monitoring' aren't they?

Hmmm. Think I'll give that a miss, ta. I guess it is, but it's been working fine for months, no 'overtemp' shutdowns, just the 'overpower' on a couple of occasions, but I've no idea how hot it gets. I fitted it on a recommend from @PeterW, which I hope I didn't misinterpret?

We have a Shelly 1PM controlling when our Sunamp charges, normally overnight. On two separate occasions now it's turned itself off due to "overpower consumption detected" (as reported on the Shelly app and by email). I've check the resistance of the Sunamp immersion and it's 18 Ohms. I think that's 'normal'. I checked the mains voltage in the wee small hours when it tripped out, and in the couple of minutes that I was monitoring it the voltage varied between 249.9 - 250.9V (it's now hovering around 248V). The Shelly 1PM trips out at 3500W. If my Googling is correct, when the voltage hits 251V the Watts will exceed 3500 tripping off the Shelly. Does that sound about right? I realise the DNO can pour 216.2 - 253V into the house and as we are right by the sub station we get the upper end of that range. So, to the main question, is there a small voltage regulator out there that can control the voltage to the Sunamp or will I have to get rid of the Shelly? Are there any other solutions?

Well, if you couldn’t convince her with a Miele I guess all hope is lost! Just out of idle curiosity, what is it about a gas hob that your wife prefers over a high quality induction? About the only thing I can think of that a gas hob would do better is wok cooking.

We used packers on the low spots and cut out the batten on the high spots. We were counter battening so any gaps in the first layer of battens didn’t pose a problem for our cladding, not sure if that would work for you though?

I spent hours researching those and came to the conclusion that, domestically, they were not a good option. I was researching pre Covid so I didn’t see that ‘virus’ reference, but it was all about the fact that air was spilling from the extract into the supply - which was what I was trying not to do, so didn’t go there in the end.

Lets face it. They make the rules.

Our down draft recirculating hob can be reassuringly noisy on its higher settings. It doesn’t stay on the high settings for long and soon just becomes a part of the general kitchen hubbub. Are you listening to your noisy hood in an otherwise silent house? Now you’ve got the recirculating kit you may as well live with it for a while and hold off drilling that big old hole through the wall until the noise really does become an issue. I’d hazard that it won’t be.

+1 to the induction downdraught hob, trumps a gas hob in every way (except price I suspect) and is so much easier to clean.

A match made in heaven?

@saveasteading Can’t find the one I bought but it was something like this Came in a protective case full of Wizard magic that stops it sticking to stuff when you don’t want it to (like the inside of the delivery van).