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this should not be an issue. if it is then I'm in big trouble! as are many others on this forum as the in-roof trays are very popular if building a roof from scratch.

the membrane is fitted horizontally. ours was fitted to the external OSB of the timber frame. we then battened and counter battened on top of the membrane. we're also having vertical cladding e.g. I do know someone who mistakenly had the Glidevale silver membrane and were having a shadow gap so they applied the black membrane on top of the horizontal battens which meant they didn't need to paint the battens. but they did check with the manufacturers of both membranes to ensure that there would be no issues having the 2 layers of membranes, which there wasn't but if you're doing that then I would advise checking with the manufacturers of your chosen membrane(s)

yeah. I know. but the beauty of the Squirrel Pod system is the expandability. so it's trivial to plug in another couple of batteries to double the capacity when funds allow

we used Tyvek UV Facade (https://www.dupont.co.uk/products/tyvek-uv-facade.html) even though in the end we didn't do a traditional shadow gap and went for a tongue and groove shadow gap as we didn't fancy painting all the battens black to hide them through the black cladding!

@pocster you are fabulous. 23kW storage! brilliant. sadly our finances are dwindling fast due to the stupid material prices at the moment and so I've had to cut back our battery storage to a measly 6.4kW for now. but the system I've purchased is expandable so I can add extra batteries at a later date to give more storage. but 6.4kW will do for now I think. I look forward to the day when I can attain the level of your awesomeness.

why wouldn't you? it's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. 😉 <goes off to update the electrical drawings to ensure there's a cat 6 cable to the kitchen island as I think I forgot it!>

I’ve recently been trying to find a supplier for our new connection to install a smart meter. I phoned a number of suppliers and their response was that they weren’t taking on new customers due to the state of the energy market. so I would suggest phoning everyone now to find anyone who will install a meter and the switch to your preferred supplier at a later date once you’ve made that decision.

probably not

@Adsibob. have you thought about guests? the managed switches give you the ability to configure a guest wifi VLAN so that when people come to visit you don't have to give your private network wifi password and give them a guest password that you can then easily limit bandwidth for and it also keeps them separate from your private network for security. it's little things like that that are often overlooked when going for the cheaper/simpler options.

Our scaffolders were the same. A small local family run business who were extremely helpful and pleasant to have on-site.

there are quite a few on here. stick around for a while and you'll get to know them. 🙂

why pay when I can host it for free? plus, it's only for the 4 golf majors each year. so a total of 16 days. 😉

well, as an example, my brother wanted to back up some of his data from his graphic novel he's writing and so I setup a VPN on my NAS and added firewall rules to the Ubiquiti setup to allow this to happen and now he's backing up remotely to my NAS. another tinker was when I was hosting a live leaderboard for a golf sweepstake with my mates. so, again, configured the web server on a VM hosted on the NAS, configured a firewall and port forwarding rule on the Ubiquiti and it all just works. so I only really need to tinker when I want to add something. but I am a geek. 🤓 in most normal circumstances the things I do won't be necessary. so once you've setup your wifi networks (private and guest) everything else is excess and won't, generally, be necessary. but I love the fact that it's there if I want to. e.g. configuring a separate VLAN for home automation, or CCTV devices to talk on. Ubiquiti gives me that power if I want it. but if you don't need it then as @joth says, it might be best to look at something less expensive and easier to use.

welcome and best of luck with the rebuild. we love seeing photos and watching peoples journeys on here so feel free to update us and ask questions along the way.

at least it didn't take that from the grid and you can replenish the PW2 from the Solar PV.

I find my Ubiquiti setup very much fit and forget, right up to the point I need to make a change it all just works very well indeed and then post change I can just forget about it and it just works until the next time I need to tinker. obviously, tinkering is voluntary so is very much a fit and forget solution. in my opinion that is. I am very technically minded though so might not be everyone's cup of tea.

and does the price include scaffolding to get to the roof or are you expected to pay for that yourself? if scaffolding is included I'd say it's reasonable to be fair. it does seem from other posts on here that prices have gone up recently most likely due to the demand for solar pv due to the rise in electricity prices.

yeah. us too. luckily we will be able close the balcony slider and admire from the safety of the filtered MVHR house. 😁

the sedum roof is looking particularly lovely at the moment with the different colours

we have the Zehnder Q600 (not commissioned yet though but it is installed) and our designers configured it for 92mm ducts to give a larger flow rate to ensure we had the correct ventilation levels in our house which is quite large! couldn't have done it with the single unit with the smaller ducts and I really didn't want to buy, install, maintain 2 x separate units.

yep. it certainly is. I've had my PV panels on the roof since late last year. I still don't have an electricity meter or the consumer unit installed so don't have the inverter connected up yet. so I've basically wasted 8 months of potential SEG payments. and on a 10.5kWp array that could've been quite a bit. but these things happen and life's too short to beat yourself up about it.

In a couple of months when the sun has stopped shining maybe other 'not so potentially dodgy' PV companies might not be as busy and then you'll get one of them and know you've made the right choice! FOMO is a killer and is really hard not to give in to it but you have to try hard. something better is often just around the corner. 😉

I argued this with the GI company we used and they were adamant that we couldn't zero rate the ground investigation. in the end I gave up arguing and just paid it as I couldn't be bothered to go searching for another company.

I would suggest that they add nothing especially for the cost of £5k!! just go direct, if you're both in employment then it should be pretty straight forward. the reason for the extra interest rate and fees is due to the risk the lender is taking on a new build as if it all goes wrong they'll be left with a partially finished house. when I was researching I found buildstore really expensive on the fees side and ended up having Handlesbanken referred to me by a friend who self-built and they've been great. Ecology were also on our list.

yes, I believe it is. you can also get crushed concrete 'cobbles' at some places https://robinsofherstmonceux.co.uk/supplies/aggregates/