joe90

Really sorry to hear that, I hope it’s get sorted for you.

I thought all my receipts were the correct ones as I checked they all had the suppliers VAT number on them, however letting Andrew the VAT man do my claim fir me found some were wrong and he contacted the seller to get a proper copy, another reason I was glad he did it.

Yes S.E.s tend to over egg things to be on the safe side, my founds are 700mm on dense clay specced by the BC.

Money usually works ?‍♂️

But can still be used in special machinery, diggers etc https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/changes-to-rebated-fuels-entitlement-from-1-april-2022/check-when-rebated-fuel-can-be-used, so can still buy it for my JCB ?

Definitely not, but it’s being stopped from April this year anyway. Going to hit farmers round here a lot.

I can’t afford a lecky car so guess I need to make my own diesel ?

No, proper valuation after the build was finished (mind the building shit was all over the place, looks much better now!) it would be much higher if in Bristol or the like. I did think it would be E, lucky I guess.

I too am a full plans advocate, best get the detail sorted before you start and no nasty surprises.

Ask @ProDave he installed his own ground array.

Hooray, mine is band D.

Time to think of installing PV Methinks ?

I don’t see why you could not take them with you, simply specified in the sale documents, you can do this with plants!. You may find your buyer willing to pay for them so you can but new ones at your next property. Even if you take them a selling point would be the wiring is in place for PV for the new owner if they wish to use it.

Good morning @zoothorn, I hope your feeling calmer today. Do you have a link to what exactly they propose fitting fir you so we can understand any potential problems for you.

Simply read my post above, not hard to get your head around . I am off to bed, I suggest you do the same before you explode ?

NO, If the heat pump is not running the antifreeze within it (like your car) stops the fluid freezing. If the heat pump is running, the temp is low and the relative humidity is high frost can form on the unit so the unit goes into reverse and defrosts itself by running previously heated water back outside.

NO, you had a split unit (noisy gubbins indoors) and are being supplied a monobloc like the rest of us (noisy gubbins outdoors). Apart from subtleties in software and controls all monoblock heatpumps are basically the same.

Then stop talking bollocks and listen. The only completely quiet heating is resistance heating (immersion in a tank or electric radiators) see, there you go a tank that is quiet. Gas boilers, oil boilers and Lpg boilers all make some noise. Fecking listen, tanks don’t make noises, any heating system, whatever the fuel has pumps and they are virtually silent. Who said that? No it’s not, I have one to stop the ASHP coming on and off too much which is not efficient. No you don’t, you had (what I said soo long ago ) a badly designed heating system that is “not fit fir purpose”, which is why the suppliers have agreed to replace it with a monoblock unit (where all the moving parts are outdoors) like many of us here have with no complaints. How do you know.? Have you read this from the technical spec of the new unit?, mine does not and I am sure @ProDave s does not either.

@zoothorn, wind your neck in and read @Nickfromwales contribution above, I have simply put a timer on the electrical feed into my ASHP. @ProDave will confirm how he did his.

The latter I believe.

Ooh er, a real dilemma!!!, yes that grill would be a good way of filling the gap but like you I wonder the effect of moving air into that gap. Right, thinking outside the box!what if you created an “exhaust manifold” as per diagram below, aluminium pop riveted to disperse the air into that top void ?? you can make it what size you see fit (perhaps my drawing is a bit big) you will only loose a small portion of those two cupboards and nothing to be seen externally.

@Adsibob Ah, do you have a link to the model you bought?

Yes it was poor of them not to specify what was being installed but hey at least they are doing it now. I can confirm that I have a buffer tank and it makes no noise at all, just a tank full of hot water!!!, how big is the cupboard the old inside unit was installed in?, if not big enough how big a job to enlarge it? (You then end up with another cupboard, an airing cupboard! As it will not be filled floor to ceiling!) now I know @ProDave has his ASHP on a timer as he is a light sleeper and I have just put one on mine so it’s not on during sleeping hours (and most likely to frost up) so why not do yours this way?

Yup, have that conversation, nothing to loose, if only to rub their noses in it that you won ?.

So where does your hood vent to? Is it a recirculating type?