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OK...in the cold light of day I just ventured into the stable and cleared the blocks off of the ST panels. 1 panel is intact. On the two damaged panels 9 out of the 24 tubes are totalled. The rest look to be in good order. Are these replaceable easily (soldering job?) I'm seeing spare evacuated tubes on eBay etc.

I don't want to take this off track but is that a viable swap out for an oil boiler in a draughty old house. At that sort of figure I might well consider it.

Does borehole water not come up at a temperature where useable heat can be extracted?

Put in a GSHP loop at the same time?

Could you bank it facing South and use as a heat store?

I think that Paul Camilli chap has a massive thermal store and a battery system. If there's too much PV to charge the batteries it diverts to the thermal store.

Wind turbine? Compost heating? Biogas plant? Planning any livestock? Much land to provide greenstuff to feed such things? Got a lake? All fun to play with but you need to be hands on and like tinkering. Back up gennie a must imo. Start of with a super insulated build with attention to shading in Summer to lower your energy needs as much as possible.

6x6m. You can see it was a low backed structure at one time and has had the walls raised with whatever brick/block was available. Roof has some iron / steel tubes in a bit bigger than scaffold poles that have bowed. Floor slopes dramatically back to front. There's a dividing wall down the centre that wobbles when you push it! All I've done is clad the front in a bit of feather edge to make it less unsightly.

No as they are stainless steel. And I'll say it again keep whatever wire/wool scourer away from the copper pipes. Just wrap the pipes in plastic.

One plus out of all this and I'm really struggling to find any is the missus's attitude to the stable block has changed. Whenever she complains of my tools lying about I get "You've got a double garage, a shed and the stable!" I've been saying for years stable is unfit structurally imo to store/work in & needs to be demolished and rebuilt. Her most recent idea was to put all the kids toys and keepsakes in lidded plastic boxes and store in the stable. When I said the (bowed, asbestos) roof leaks so badly and there's running water on the floor she said we could put a tarp over it. I gently suggested yesterday that had she stored everything there this wall would have come down on it all! As an aside she ventured into the bathroom the other day and remarked how quiet and draught free it was in comparison to the other rooms. I said "That's because I try and do it right!"

@Nickfromwales, amazingly it's decision time as to how I stick these tiles to the ply! 18mm deck / 12mm sides marine ply. It'll be tanked with Aquaseal membrane. But do I go the flexible adhesive or "silicon" route? Seem to recall you swing both ways on the subject! If flexible tile adhesive then I guess 6mm notched trowel and butter the backs. If going with "silicon" do I do all 4 sides of the tile (to minimise water ingress under the tile) or "20p blob" it and rely on the grout? Then the grout, traditional waterproof, flexible grout or colour matched silicon? And what's the deal with filling the bath with water to do this? Cheers

The conspiracist in me wonders if these issues with the product have been influenced by an outside party, with maybe a "Grand Plan". Customer base loses confidence, figures go down and the product moves abroad... Still no comment here from SA???

Have you paid by credit card? If you bought based on the concept of the old unit I can't see why not. Maybe ask SA for a statement to confirm or otherwise the many assumptions being made within this thread. If they refused to give it I imagine it would be all a credit card company would need to refund you if they wouldn't anyway.

I kept digging for a Chinese link: https://interface-online.org.uk/case-studies/sunamp-heat-batteries "In 2017 Sunamp and the University of Glasgow's School of Engineering have partnered on a £2 million project linked to clean power and heat generation from the China-UK Research and Innovation Bridges programme, a joint UK China initiative under the Newton Fund developing solutions for agri-food, energy, healthcare, and urbanisation".

Is there an issue with the UniQ and ASHP? I only ask as I've recommended SA to three people; Two wanted it specifically to store excess PV where they're currently exporting it to the grid. The third has already specified it on his new build plans for use with an ASHP but no PV.

HWMBO from Swansea said to do it like this albeit with Sika EBT or CT1 rather than the mixture of the two Evo Stick products I've used.

@Olly P, just sent (just remembered ) those mower PDFs to you via email. Regards

Erm...the grey wall tiles come up where the sink is going and you hit the white trim where the narrow full width shelf is that spans across the sink and bath. To the rear of this shelf is the "3 high" mosaic upstand. There is deliberately no horizontal grout line where the mosaics come down onto the shelf. If that's what you mean?

Sorry still not getting what you mean. Humous was the best bit followed by the cajik.

You've lost me...bath and wc are on opposite walls...

In the absense of anything resembling dinner and powered by a bag of Lidls crisp's: I decided to put the other underside trim on set exactly 30mm apart. I'll cut 28mm wide tiles and whack 'em up. Going with the plain grey I've decided. Looking like it's kebab o'clock!

I was just about to mention China. Money to burn, they'll make Sunamp an offer they can't refuse for the patents and it'll be another British innovation lost.

Glad that's done, the poxy little 25mm rips that nobody'll ever see...unless you're lying in the bath... Lost my mojo now so ? to combat the dehydration. SWMBO unfortunately suffering from Cantgetoffherarse Playingcandycrush Allfuckingday Watchinglongmireitis...

As long as it won't rust...