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I know . All the great men in history were mocked . Only after their demise was their ground breaking radical excellence acknowledged.

Well - this ignores some things . You could end up exporting at 35p a kw - like I do . I estimate I’ll earn £1000 a year from that . What no one seems to understand ( I do - I got a pw in 2020 and was mocked on here for ‘ a waste of money ‘ etc ) . Electric consumption is meant to double over the next few decades . Price will vary of course but ‘cheap’ days are gone ( bit like boe rate ) . Also when you have a battery you naturally are more ‘aware’ of usage e.g turn the (expletive deleted)ing light off . My ROI ( EV 4000 miles per year aswell ) is around 6/7 years at this point in time . If roi is everything then don’t do it . What do people want ? A return in 2 or 3 years ? . Yet buy a 300k house , mortgage for 25yrs and ultimately have bought it for a million quid ….. New Tesla for 80k , roi ? That nice holiday ; roi never What’s important to 1 person isn’t the same for everyone . I could just (expletive deleted) it have no battery , pv , EV and go on another holiday . Next generation can deal with it “ not my problem “. That view is what governments largely do hence issues with nhs / housing etc. Etc.

I use to own a property in Florida ( very nice it was ) ; until the recession (expletive deleted)ed me . I could never understand in the sun shine state no one had solar yet even at that time a few early adopters existed in the U.K. ( not a sunshine state ) had pv .

I agree

I went through this . Bought cheap ‘speaker’ wire off eBay all good .

AI will keep me as an ex software engineer. You and everyone else is (expletive deleted)ed though .

Ideology against reality

AI fuelled robots ( as dopey media like it ) will have killed us all before then .

I also wonder Labours views on this ( assuming they get in of course ) . Of course one party is pretty much like another I.e choosing the best turd .

Think that may be a while ….

You are a bad mofo then !

What about gas though ? . Just about everyone’s boiler is one . I know the concept of hydrogen gets kicked around - but there’s no efficient method to produce it on the scale required . What about millions of humble gas boilers !???

Agree . But what earth do we do with old housing stock ? . Bar some magic technology that doesn’t exist . Millions of leaky , poorly insulated homes . It does indeed require a think tank to inform the government that this ‘plan’ isn’t going to work .

‘Green’ you know carbon neutral / net zero / whatever Most of us guys building will insulate , ASHP , pv etc. etc . Because we understand the benefits and accept the costs but also associated savings . My neighbors have a (expletive deleted) off massive house and are minted . They have zero interest in better insulation or pv . Yet can easily afford it . Less wealthy people can’t afford it nor would want a loan . LL’s will be forced to epc c for rentals but not millions of privately owned homes . So how do the majority of old stock homes get upgraded to meet targets ? It’s simply not possible ….

Shouldn’t be to difficult to ‘retro’ fit a battery . The cheaper dc ones will need to be undercover . SolarEdge and Tesla are fine outside ( that’s the reason I choose them ) . In terms of size required - depends on your usage and how efficient your place is to heat . In winter I almost manage off 22kw of storage .

Bum

You need to grow a hairy pair . 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪👃 ( I think the last one is meant to be a nose 🙄😁 )

Now I’m wondering should I have some trap at the end of the perimeter drain outside to allow water out but not air in ….. ??? erm …. 🫤

Note to self then - as mine has unsurprisingly holes in it 🤣

@Thorfun can’t remember if you have an internal perimeter drain ? I *guess* you would want to cap that as it would be an open pipe to your external sump ???

Don’t sweat it . Need to do mine soon - wonder if you can bribe the tester ? 🤔

The other issue / thought here which I touched on is risk . If @Big Jimbo has all land / build costs covered I.e not mortgaged / borrowing to the hilt - then ‘pressure ‘ is less . One of the reasons my build took so long ( apart from being slow ) is I could not take the risk of borrowing. So it was build with cash when I have it . Base rate therefore not an issue on my build . Not suggesting @Big Jimbo takes 10 yrs though …. Though time can equal asset appreciation……

That would also be a caveat . Market drops for whatever reason you either sell cheaper ( perhaps still do ok ) or hold . The last recession ( you know the REAL one ) ; whilst near to bankruptcy I didn’t sell our house in a collapsing market I held . It took 10 yrs before it was ‘worth ‘ selling . It was the right choice for me - with hindsight!!!

I knew someone selling their house (2.6mill ) . Drove some shitty car . Took that off site and hired some (expletive deleted)ing sports car ( like 120k - I know nothing about cars so can’t even tell you what it was ) . It was in the driveway for all viewings . It gives the impression a. You are loaded b. You expect the house to match the motor c. You ain’t no mug and aren’t going to sell your property’cheap’ An illusion ? . Yep . All the HA etc. you don’t bother with - but you have cabling available for all this . Can’t easily add it afterwards. It’s shows ‘ thought ‘ towards potential buyers . My 8k front door has finger scan entry ( SWMBO can’t use it 🤣 ) . But every single visitor goes “ is that a finger scanner ? “ . Simple but memorable point ….

For the minimal cost put cat 5 in everywhere . Wireless speed / range can vary . Equally more things on a WiFi frequency less bandwidth for all . A cable though ; 1 for you ; 1 for me - limitation will be your connection speed . 5 4K ip cameras on WiFi ( for example ) … going to be tricky ( subject to fps / compression method etc. ) . WiFi bandwidth imho is for ‘mobile’ things e.g phones and the odd laptop or technology that relies on it e.g zigbee Even if you want wireless everywhere then you can put wired mesh routers at discrete points for best ‘wireless’ performance.