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Our bedrooms are a little cool at this time of year and I did consider a heater in the MVHR vent into the main bedroom (the others are rarely used so a little oil radiator for occasional visits would suffice). However I did toy with the idea of a wet heater running off the DHW tank (as it’s very near the MVHR unit) and could run on thermo syphon with simple gate valves to turn it off in summer. When sorting out my workshop I found a wet radiator (no idea where it came from but brand new) it has 15mm copper tails so plumbing would be easy and I could make an airtight box to mount it in, like I made my own manifold and silencer. (Sorry @djcdan if I hijacked your thread ?).

Sorry Russ but you did put 150 ? which as we both said with re bar as stakes will be solid as a rock.

So Archimedes is an idiot now, says it all really.

Perhaps but people should do their homework But @canalsiderenovation don’t have gas Only IF you pay an inflated price for having it fitted

A bit difficult with no mains gas available (or do you mean LPG ?).

Ah! That’s not going to help. (Do I remember a certain person using all the hot water in one go ?)

As far as I know any neighbour disputes have to be declared when selling.

Spoil sport ?

As an aside, our build used a lot of electricity for the first few months and I put this down to “warming” the build up and drying out. Ours is set to 20/21’ now.

When I had my planning fight with the council we submitted an application with the ground floor what we wanted and the upper floor not but was going to appeal on the upper floor design, reason being we could build up to first floor level whilst the appeal was going ahead. We won the appeal so built what we wanted on the upper floor. So I don’t see why you cannot build up to the roof whilst waiting as you are not disturbing the bats with your work!.

We don’t have your wicked sense of humour ?

Ground cover plants are good at holding earth on a slope. ? thinking about this, I remember years ago being told that black mild steel is best fir this application, should be cheaper than drawn mild steel and is used by major gardens such as National trust, RHS.

@Russdl Do you have a welder? Good way to hold the edging is short lengths of rebar driven into the ground the side with the highest finish, below the top, every couple of feet and tack weld the sheet to it. It ain’t going anywhere.

Ground cover plants are good at holding earth on a slope. ?

My kids grew up in a house cooler than that, 21’ max, and I grew up in a house much colder than that.

Don’t think I explained that very well, the “border” does not have to be flat across its width, at the widest point a slope of 4” over 36” is not a lot, parts of my garden slopes more than that. P.S. I am making steel circles in my lawn to plant trees in (like NT gardens).

Can you not grade the garden triangle so it’s a constant 4” below the path where it meets the path. I really like metal path edges (good enough at national trust properties etc). is the garden triangle lawn or planting?

Depends on the set up, my ASHP only has one temp setting to deliver heating and DHW, I set it to 47’ which is enough fir DHW, it heats a buffer to 35’ for the UFH and a mixer on the manifold brings the temp down to 25’.

What is your path made of? How wide is thin?

Nothing in mine, purely self supporting.

@Jilly I completely understand as an asthmatic but a room sealed wood burning stove must be a small percentage polluter compared with an open fire?

This was discussed a lot on the old green building forum a few years ago. Even wings of insulation in the ground outside to shield the heated ground!.

Not sure it would work in a draughty house even as ventilation or worth the expense.

if installing MVHR you need a room sealed stove, they have a ducted air input pipe extending to outside so it does not use indoor air.

GSHP involves a lot of work, lots of brine, pumps etc indoors so noise levels higher. Like many here I have a small ASHP, installed it myself (basic plumbing skills), virtually silent, copes all year round. (And I bought it cheap on Ebay).