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Excellent news. Don’t put your faith in any other professional. Check them and check them again. Oh, and what ever you do, don’t forget the final CIL form when you’re finished 😱

Thanks @joe90 but that’s just a posh version of Marvin’s idea and it would just slip of the domed thing. It’s actually not dissimilar in size and shape to the bottom half of an egg.

No prizes to be awarded. I can’t get grips in deep enough to get hold of anything substantial and the domed thing is way to domed for Marvin’s plan to work. The domed piece is on its last legs now but the injuries are invisible when the tap lever is in place. I gave the manufacturer a call and hopefully they’ll send me a new dome thingamajig so that I can cheerfully destroy the stuck one in my efforts to remove it.

Thanks both, I’ll give those ideas a go later and award a prize to the winner 👍🏻

Looks like I’ve had a very slow leak from a bathroom mixer tap for a while and apparently all I need to do to stop it is tighten the brass nut behind the domed cover plate. The domed cover plate screws off, well it would unscrew if the corrosion (red arrow) didn’t have such a death grip on it. Any idea how I can break the corrosions grip on the domed piece without causing any more damage (yellow arrow) than I already have. The domed piece is very thin.

“The only thing coming to my mind over and over is letting down my wife and my 2 young children. These costs, and potentially not having a home at the end, is soul crushing.” I bet it is. As if self build wasn’t stressful enough for us novices.

What a nightmare. I, like you, had no build experience and when I first heard someone mention CIL I had absolutely no idea what they were on about. Fortunately for me I learned how important it was not to f*ck up the form submission from the predecessor of this Forum (not from the architect). It’s a kind of extortion isn’t it? They’ve got you on a technicality. One or two pieces of paper that actually say very little are a bit late arriving with the authority, submitting them now would change nothing but they won’t let you so you have to pay over a hundred grand. They are probably more than aware that it’s a newbie making a newbie mistake. I’m sorry I don’t have any constructive solution but it’s making my blood boil so I had to get it off my chest.

Surely that’s enough to have a pop at the architect isn’t it?

Good God. There must be some redress against the architect? Perhaps one of the architects on this forum can advise as I’ve no real idea what you can do about this frankly nonsense legislation.

If I were you I’d go straight to the planning consultant. Planning Consultants are frequently ex planners (ours certainly was) so it’s all a bit incestuous and they know the right words to use etc. Our planning was accepted without issues. In the same quaint-ish village as us, about 100m away as the crow flies, an application was being submitted for a similar contemporary house that would be tucked away out of site of the locals. One of the objectors actually hired the same consultant that we used to fight the application. The application was refused and it was amazing to read the Planning Consultants submission to object to the application which was pretty much the polar opposite of what she had written to support our application. My only dealings with her was for our planning app back in 2018 and she was one of the only “professionals” that actually did what she said she could do (but no guarantee) in a timely and efficient manner. According to her website she works anywhere in the south, I can send you a link if you like.

Next time then. Straight to the Plumbing Supplies place and restore that God like feeling 👍🏻👍🏻

Have you tried a Plumbing Supplies place instead of a BM? There’s one near me who are incredibly helpful and without whom I would have been lost on many occasions doing the sort of thing you’re trying to do now. They have huge stock stuff and every size and shape and thread imaginable.

FWIW. We have a Brink Flair, so not a dissimilar model to the Zehnder. Ours is sat in a warm loft space on a block of EPS without any kind of fixings. The MVHR has never moved and never transmitted any perceivable vibration.

Why is the door set so far out? It’s going to protrude beyond the timber frame. Our detail involved threaded bar into the slab which allowed a GRP angle to be bolted to the slab that took the weight of the door. That puts the door further back in the frame. I can post some detail when I get home if you’re interested.

Have you got two RCBO’s of the same rating? If so swap those around, that’ll test the RCBO.

That’s got to be worth a chat with a planning consultant. Looks ideal from that image.

I went for the rather more modestly priced Accur8 6in1 circa £120 (which seems to have morphed into a 7:1 for a few more bucks).

Sounds like a Personal Weather Station for Christmas then 👍🏻 Highly recommend for weather/data watchers.

@Lincolnshire Ian I suspect so. We had the same scenario and we had to submit the Section 80. That was 5+ years ago so it’s possible it’s changed but I would think unlikely.

@Omnibuswoman you’re orientation isn’t quite right unless your roof is a funny shape? Either way I guess your east facing array is slightly north of east and your west facing array is slightly south of west. That string of figures that Steamy posted show that at 10:00 the sun was circa 70-80 degrees off the east panels and 12.2 degrees above the horizon. At 14:00 the sun was circa 50-60 degrees off the west panels and 12.7 degrees above the horizon. Some 2 hours either side of midday the sun was close to the west panels and slightly higher so if the arrays are equal the west should have produced more at those times. As your west facing array is larger they should definitely have produced slightly more. Houston - I think you have a problem.

@SteamyTea Ah, that explains it all. ⁉️

We have a standing seam zinc roof with a loft space that is open to below. It’s a warm roof construction, so lots of insulation between the zinc and the loft space and we don’t hear the rain on the roof at all so if your loft is more standard and closed off to the rooms below I don’t think you’ll hear a thing. I wouldn’t do zinc again because of how quickly the pigeons have made a mess of it that doesn’t wash off despite the endless rain. Probably most people don’t see it - I do. That really shouldn’t happen. There are numerous fittings to attach PV to standing seam roofs, I’d have flipped my lid if the solar dudes had tried to drill through our zinc roof.

They look clever/very simple and probably ideal for a low energy house. What are the negatives? Just the relatively low output?

I’ve got all sorts of different Shelly stuff dotted around the house and I’ve never had any real problem with any of it which is a minor miracle as that sort of stuff is way out of my comfort zone.

A Shelly relay may be right up your street, sale on now.