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What's the test, a flood test?

One for all the big white block fans: That'll sit nice on your rendered coffee table!

It pays to have every detail in writing!

Have a word with Colin: And he'll direct you to Aldi/Lidl!

I'd have gone with "Hope your bastard wet room corner falls aren't enough and you end up spending a fortune on folding glass doors or worse an unsightly enclosure!" Not that it's worrying me!

If they haven't and you weren't there to see it done and take note of the materials used you've only yourself to blame! ? Hopefully they did something like this: https://www.ikogroup.co.uk/2013/07/24/iko-permatec-hot-melt-waterproofing-system-installation-video/

Erm...that looks like felt not asphalt. Asphalt is boiled up in a bfo pot and trowelled on to form a seamless continuous layer. What did the spec say?

I thought this was going to be a seamless hot asphalt type thing this time around?

Not an issue, SA will pay to beef your structure up! ?

That's a bit unfair on the installer, poor choice of words maybe? More a case the installer shouldn't have to over specify. The installer doesn't decide / stamp the rating.

So is it the case that an old model, smaller sized Sunamp PV worked "better" than a new, larger sized UniQ because of limitations imposed by SA on the new range? If so SA should have said a long time ago they were redesigning for a mass market and that to achieve similar results to the old PV then go up a size. The customer now has to bear the cost of the uplift due to the value engineering that's gone on? Taking the long term view then tbh, IF the tech works I'd live with that and another £600 or whatever for a couple of units. I'd always be thinking though that I've a dumbed down model that could have been better.

Did he remove all the old stuff, clean and reapply? What silicone did he use?

Not any more, all gone!

Presumably it's feasible to plumb for a TS/UVC in such a way it's a quick swap if SA ever sort the issues?

Picked this little tool up at the motor factors. Far superior at removing silicone from the tiles than the Stanley bladed window scraper type: £2.50 for the tool and £2 for a pack of 5 spare blades (both + VAT).

FFS you spend money on stud fiinders like I do on silicone!

Did you pay by credit card?

Only DeWalt I have is a GIANT router. Beast.

As I say I'll probably take this, the second one back. Can pull the trigger now and nothing. Have to give it a damn good whack to get it to go. Brushe or some other loose connection I guess.

Space rich, cash poor people like me do!

Think bigger, like part of the basement!

A great pity all this. I imagine those who have gone the Sunamp route aren't short of a few quid and are happy to pay for good tech at a slight premium. Couple that with foresight, investing in the long term and looking for self utilisation rather than export. Pity the new SA isn't really maybe aimed at them but the mass market. I'd wonder at less physical sensors maybe to keep the costs down leading to possible localised overheating of the PCM if the PV input is "rushed". The previous "wet" heat transfer system allowed for a more gradual, distributed heating of the PCM without killing it. That there is no quick fix suggests SA are sh!t scared of if they did that they'd have a whole lot of new, peed of customers with completely buggered units. With nothing of worth coming out of them this conjecture will only continue. So...you're all digging out for these grand designs...how big a hole would be needed for a simple, heavily insulated thermal store, heated by whatever means available, to equate to the efficiency of a SA unit? The Yanks seem to do it all the time on their solar sites.

In case you want one of these in the shed?

Just thought he might want local isolation by the machine.

One of these: https://www.screwfix.com/p/jg-speedfit-ug603b-mdpe-copper-adaptor-25mm-x-15mm/25716? Bit of 15mm copper pipe Then one of these: https://www.screwfix.com/p/pegler-washing-machine-valve-15mm-x-/25555? ?