joe90

What a load of bollocks, this place has given me no end of good advise, advise that would have cost me dear (if I could trust the source). I and others here are benefitting from genuine knowledge from either professionals or people that have discovered (many through ill fortune) how things are done or how they could go wrong. Frankly I have never met such a genuine bunch of helpful people. Although I have only met two of the members I almost feel like MOST are my friends.

As above, stick with it, get the appeal in, yes a consultant might be good as they tend to understand the complicated policies (mumbo jumbo language) better than us lay people. I found the appeal office very helpful. (And we won hands down ?).

I went for laminate kitchen worktops and porcelain floor tiles to avoid any possible staining problems.

Frankly if you are removing the overhead power let the power company deal with openreach, I think if you tell them the tel line is redundant it will go with the poles.

The lecky will be above the tel line so you don’t have to get close to power cables. If I remember right (from my days in BT) The pole will belong to the power company and open reach will have a wayleave to use it, but hey their records have never been good so as I said no one will ever notice if it disappears.

Just get up there and cut it down, no one will even notice, if they do then deny it.?

Thanks JH, I think I need to get it fired up using factory settings (as SWMBO keeps telling me it’s Septemberish, I.e. chilly) and see how it goes, I may pick your brains regarding curves once we settle down to using it. I will also consider using E7 or E10 once we know how the house performs.

Right, after putting it off I finally got round to reading up and understanding what I need to do, but this has led to even more questions. The carrier user interface installation and user manual only talks about heating, cooling, sleeping or away modes (no DHW mode) but the front screen has a “sanitary hot water” symbol?. Also the user interface has timers and thermostats that are programmable so presumable I don’t need the single channel timer but I guess I still need the UFH room stat?. I was interested to see it dealt with cooling as others have said they needed to reverse engineer theirs to do this. Frankly I am right out of my depth with this so would appreciate some guidance. Here are the two installation pages ?

Smartply is what I lined my warm roof with, all joints glued with expanding glue, yet to do a house pressure test but I am very confident it will perform well. I looked into this (on another forum) a few years ago and some there held the view that OSB was “draft proof” but provided a breathable boundary that was “healthy” for the house.

I looked at a brick suppliers website and we decided on a few to look at, company sent sample boards for nothing (brick slips really) and this enabled us to make the right choice. We are soooo pleased with them.

Well I have double glazing and we get that on east facing windows.

I am not a professional but did my appeal myself based on plain evidence and common sense, we won on all points.

Someone on this or another forum was supposed to use slate from a particular local quarry so he sent a sample with the name of the quarry written in pencil on the back, it was accepted by the planners but he admitted to us it was Spanish slate!.

Come on guys, with all the knowledge on here of how to reverse engineer, alter heating curves etc etc can no one work out how to do this on an ASHP .?.

At the risk of repeating myself from another thread on ASHP running it surprises me that on DHW mode the unit does not run till it’s about to start defrosting then simply stop. This way you could get the max DHW temp which on a good day could be 50+.rather than limiting DHW temp to worst case scenario?

We went to committee and previously I had spoken to a couple of the councillors and they told me they would support us. We had our three minutes (wife did this well) then an objector (who we knew would object)had his say and he told lies, sorry, he made statements that were not correct. I tried to demand that I could refute these but was told we had already had our three minutes. Planning officer then told lies, sorry, made statements that were wrong, and I could prove it but was not allowed to respond. Every councillor voted against our proposal and the councillors I had thought would support us could not look me in the eye. I was told off the record that the councillors were told to vote against it. I went to appeal with evidence of untruths and won hands down, the appeal officer even told the planners they were not abiding by their own policies and pointed out their inaccuracies. You dont need to ask me what I think of planners do you. ?‍?. (That’s the nearest I could find to a cowboy).

Mines not far behind. Hum, bit more work required I think. Yours is looking fab (jealous face).

Not in my case. All new builds in this location are bungalows, local builders tell me the council have a fetish fir bungalows. We wanted two story cottage and cited several hundred year plus old cottages nearby that are two story. Thrown out by planners but fully accepted by appeal board ?

My garage although built under permitted development was included in the house planning permission (gained after it was built) so VAT can be re claimed.

I built my garage first under permitted development as a building existed before we demolished (although our stroppy council fought me on that one as well). And it was something to do while i fought the council over our planning application (and won ?). It was the right thing to do as it gave me safe storage, and somewhere to work.

I disagree. Yes sure if you want to sell it and make maximum bucks but most of us self builders here want something we are comfortable in. For me it’s a brick cottage, we have nice views over open countryside but an “architectural creativity”, no way hosay.

Any luck Dave? (I am getting worried as I hear horror stories about people’s ASHP and I am yet to fire mine up ?)

What a lovely piece of work, something to be really proud of, I know I would be. ?

After looking into this myself I used mirror mate to mount mine on timber but if I remember correctly it says one of the surfaces must be absorbent so not sure if it would work on tiles?

I am very much hoping I sell it before winter. I had to move it across site during the winter I bought it, the wheels bogged down like you said, I had to drag it a meter at a time with the back actor on my JCB dragging the wheels through the ground not over it!!!.