joe90

You need to read the fine print on your local councils terms etc on council tax, they are all different.

Then what harm can it do 🤷‍♂️ Worth a try then you can report back here with your findings, can’t do any harm.

Well my build was contentious, 4 refusals and won on appeal but my PD rights were not removed. If yours have not been withdrawn then use them 👍

Oak, my favourite.

At my last house I made my own, worked well.

Bring it on……

That’s doing it properly, I have come across so many not cut back, just the skim feathered to the lining giving a rounded surface fir the architrave to fit too 🤯.

With the pump ramped up a bit it appears to be fine now, time will tell.

I think it all depends on predicting outages, I don’t think we will get many (hopefully) and a small genny is always handy.

By that I take it you mean the VAT claimers?, if so I must disagree with you (on the whole). I missed claiming some of my VAT because we had to move in, the clock was ticking but some outside work that would have been covered was not yet done. On previous threads there have been quite a few cases where the VAT office have lost their case and had to pay up. Let’s just hope that this forum can guide people to do what’s best.

No flow meter 🙄, pump sounds normal tho! I have just ramped the pump up to max and it appears to be running!!,!, compressor symbol now on 🤞 I will let it run fir a bit and report back.

Yes, it wobbles, starts but turns off after about 3 minutes (as if something is instructing it to abort!) the symbol on the command unit never comes on which I take as “it’s not reached it’s operating criteria” 🤯

It appears now that it does not matter if the ASHP is feeding the DHW or the UFH, the ASHP fan starts, the compressor starts but within a few minutes it all switches off again. The command unit indoors has a symbol that shows if the compressor is working, this never comes on. I have tried lowering and raising the pump speed to see if it makes a difference but no. Can anyone recommend the next course of action before I have to get an ASHP engineer to visit 😞

As a retired builder who has fitted loads of skirting I agree, usually plasterers sweep up from the floor leaving thicker plaster at the floor level, it got to the stage where I told plasterers to make sure this did not happen and I finally found one that understood (and he became my go to bloke). I also don’t like proud plaster around door frames, makes fitting the architrave difficult. (Rant over)

+1 now we can instantly see usage and not wait till the next bill, plus the extra cost recently!!!

A change over 3 port (I know you don’t like them,!,!) Yes I will do this after I get some heat into the floor and prove it will run fir a few hours at least That was my thought, without dismantling loads of stuff I can’t get to where a heat exchanger “might” be. However if the UFH continues to work ok I have proved the fault in the DHW cct (and not the ASHP thankfully) 👍

I pulled some insulation off….. but spooky it’s running the UFH with no problem 🤷‍♂️, makes me think it’s not the ASHP (phew). You can’t see it but there is a smaller “cylinder” behind which has some frost on it.

Ooh that’s interesting, turned off DHW (turned down stat and switched on immersion) and running the UFH it appears to run, will give it more time ………

My ASHP is built like a modern car, very difficult to work on and cramned in, so difficult to see let alone feel pipes.

Yes, first think I checked. I don’t have flow meters 🤷‍♂️

Right, sit rep…..,I removed the temp sensor to see if that would start it, NO. After a couple on minutes the compressor tries to start but only for about 5 seconds then stops again 🤯.

Hi Nick, last years problem was UFH problem and buffer tank plumbed wrongly 🙄. It’s started again after a while turned off (to stop draining the DHW tank of hot water) this small 4KW model has no led,s to show error codes, they exist only on the 12KW model apparently (busy reading info on the net). However, the pipe running out of the compressor does seem very hot, and has a temp sensor on it, could the compressor be overheating ?

Recently noticed the ASHP goes off (outside unit) but the internal pump still runs. DHW calling fir heat to drive the ASHP but after a short while the unit just stops. There is some frost on it but why would the unit turn off rather than go into defrost mode. As I and others have said before the command controller is horribly complicated but I believe it’s set up properly. So with the internal pump going the DHW is loosing heat via the ASHP being “off”. Our ASHP has no internal pump just the internal one driven by the comments unit. HELP

Spookily enough I think mine is playing up a little, DHW tank is demanding heat, pump starts as does the ASHP but the ASHP stops after a while and the pump (not in the ASHP) continues to pump, looking like it’s pumping the hot water back around a stopped ASHP so loosing heat not giving it. Will have a poke around in the morning.