Mike_scotland

how do you work out the Heatpump you need bud?

how big is your area you put it down mate? just a few people said to me as my area is around 65m2 maybe best with glue down.

is it glue down?

Hello Group, Me and my wife are at the stage now the build should be finishing up shortly so we are looking at flooring, we like the karndean flooring but we have quite a large area to floor around 65m2 so at £80m2 roughly quoted from a karndean supplier, we are wondering can anyone recommend anything else?, our builder says he could quote us for a Luvanto flooring(not really heard much about this). as it is a larger area we were told to go for a glue down method for flooring incase any movement. Thanks in advance, M

Hahaha true, so would you tank in a walk in shower? But its got a tray? Is tanking different from backer board etc

Thanks Nick - i think its just down to me and the wifes opinion if we want it or not, i worked on sites about 10 years ago and thats what was tiled but it was also nasty stuart milne haha so thought i would ask what the going thing is.

i sit a good living being a tiler? im a painter myself but work elsewhere now as the rates always seemed low

Ok Nod! Well if your saying its the norm its a consideration we will take seriously. What are tilers roughly in cost is it about 35 per m2? Is it more for floors and moisacs etc

Are you a tiler Nod?

Is the green stuff ok or do you need a backer board mate

Any suggestions? It would only be the wet areas were having a walk in shower

Hey group! Tiling wet areas - currently our builder is going to be using green plasterboard but im thinking should we be using some sort of water proof board? Or can you get away with green pb? End of the day tiles should keep it dry but its the incase you dont want everything ruined. Thanks M

6kw sorry. What you looking at for one mate

i am seeing alot of panels around 20% efficiency? does that mean there losing 80% or ?

what cost were you for this John?

Hi Pro Dave I think i remember you giving me this advice before. Where do you get the Cheaper panels? Ebay or something?

my thoughts exactly give them nothing especially at 1/4 1/5th the price we can buy at!

Hi Group, I have had some topics up before about Solar PV but i cant seem to be able to find it again! , me and my partner are building our own house and we are looking for Solar PV, has anyone experiences with this and any costs? we were thinking a 5/6kw ground system as our roof is taking up by quite a few roof lights, although its not out the question. we have some calculations and wondering if a 60% / 40% split is a good starting point 60% being used and 40% going to the grid under the tarrif scheme at about 4-5p a kwh. We got the PVGIS from someone on here and its saying roughly be 4400kwh at our location with a 5kw system, so i worked out if we split it 60/40 we would have about £1300 saved a year based on 28p per kwh which is the forcast cost of elec come april, and £180 back from feed back based at 5.5p. but the key question is if its likely 60/40 split is a smart estimate, my wife works from home so im thinking thats in our favour and im also thinking if we got the washing,dishes, dryer, hot water etc all done at peak times then it should really help. currently we are due to move in come March/April and were all Electric house with a ASHP. Thanks Mike

hahahaaha 100%.... solar it may well be hahaha

So i got a rough quote back from a wind turbine guy a 6w turbine is around 35k!!! Jesus haha

so there estimating a 4400 kwh per year return how much of that do you think we would actually be able to use? is a 60% use 40% sell to grid split reasonably?

i am in Angus near dundee in scotland. i am thinking about having ground solar as the roof of mine has alot of veluxs on it - i have been looking into the concept of ground panels as we have a 100% unshaded facing south garden i used a calculator PVGIS and it gave me around 4400 a year

yeah i agree with that - i think we would try to be very frugal and have washes,dryer dishwasher etc on during the day, maybe a economy 7 type wouldnt be too bad for heating going on at night aswell, really need to see im hoping to be moving in by march!

Hi Bud, im looking at solar! i roughly worked out using 60% of the solar to my house and 40% to the grid at 4p - roughly it would take around 7 years to pay back based on 6k installation fee of a 5kw system producing 4400kwh a year (according to various solar calculator's i have used for my area thats the average) im unsure if im being too nice saying i would use 60% or being too harsh i just thought it would be a achievable number i thought.

im feeling the consensus might be Solar then haha! i think your about 6-7k for a 5kw solar system, i got giving a website/calculator off here for rough estimate of KWH back from your area from the sun and i was at around 3800kw a year.