Gone West

Just thinking about it logically, I would turn both off and see what the effect is.

We're trying to keep up. https://www.beba-energy.co.uk/solar-panels/thanet-earth/

We didn't use decoupling mat but did use flexible tile adhesive. The concrete had been down five years before we tiled the downstairs and we didn't have UFH.

IIRC it was a rodding elbow and I drilled a hole in the centre of the rodding cover for a 50mm 45 degree bend which I bonded on somehow. It was eight years ago so the details are a bit thin I'm afraid.

In our downstairs wetroom we were tight for space and I used a short, straight WC connector into a 90 degree bend with a 50mm AAV vertically off the bend.

I think it depends on how obvious the work is, that you plan to do. Are you detached, do you have nosey near neighbours? Most people don't know the difference between Planning and Building Regs. If you think there's a good chance someone might dob you in, then be careful. If not then I doubt anything would happen.

The wind has never moved it. I've not tried hosing it because I didn't want water going in the vent slots. I have brushed it with a broom and it was ok. To a degree it is held in place by the slot in the fascia. I won't be altering it for the time being.

Nope, makes it easy to remove though. 😀

Ours are fitted like that where the 1970s cavity wall alterations were made. Apparently our uPVC soffits replaced asbestos ones as well.

The twin cylinder softeners like Harvey, etc regenerate when required by switching over to the other cylinder. I had different models in the different houses I lived in, in the SE. They were all ok. Fortunately moving to Cornwall means I don't need one any longer.

Congratulations, and well done for sticking with it.

I can second that. We did, though, get some cash back and a nice hamper for all the hassle they caused us.

I thought you could make ASHPs quieter by making them bigger. I don't know if that is because of larger fans spinning more slowly or thicker sound insulation inside the casing.

We've only lived here for the last four Augusts. Wonder why so many people come to Cornwall for their holidays.

I don't know how much, but when I looked at the display it was reading 60C. I'm going to replumb the place so hopefully will have a better idea in the future.

Three years ago I bought an old bungalow that had a 4kW PV system fitted in 2012. It also has a Genersys 1.4kW solar thermal system.

No it's not. I get over £2k a year for FiTs, but I wasn't really aware of the whole REGO payment scheme.

I'm registered with Good Energy for my FiT payments and hadn't heard of this, so I had a read, very interesting. https://www.goodenergy.co.uk/business/insights/fit-rego-boost/

We didn't have ours fabricated, it came as a kit of a million bits. Is this what you had in mind?

Around here oil is 62.45p/l. One litre of heating oil contains 10.35kWh and allowing for burning inefficiencies will reduce that to 9.32kWh. So 9.32kWh for 62.45p is 6.7p/kWh. My current electricity cost is 23.03p/kWh so an ASHP would need a SCOP of 3.4 to break even, so borderline as to whether it's cheaper than oil to run. For me, in an old house, it would be much cheaper to upgrade the existing oil boiler than to fit an ASHP.

I closest I've ever found to that look is Jacksons Retaining Wall, although 90mm or 140mm, so not brick sized. https://www.jacksons-fencing.co.uk/fencing/landscape-products/jakwall

There isn't much on here that I've posted, just a thread about TS v UVC and a thread about what to do about old stone walls and IWI. I'm not going to go the whole hog on IWI just something to help raise the temperature, a bit, of the surface of the old stone walls.

@lookseehear It's amazing how similar our properties and heating solutions are. Ours started as a pair of 1840s sandstone and cob cottages. In the 1970s they were knocked into one and the cob first storey removed leaving a sandstone/rubble walled bungalow. This was then increased in size with a concrete block, cavity walled, extension. Currently heated with an old oil fired Aga, we will be updating to an external condensing oil boiler heating a thermal store connected directly to the radiator heated central heating. We already have PV and solar thermal to help heat the TS. It will use a plate heat exchanger for DHW. The cavity walls, 70mm, will have EPS beads CWI and the 600mm stone walls will have hempcrete type IWI. The cold loft will have 400mm insulation. Good luck with your project.

Well done on producing a stunning house. I thoroughly enjoyed watching GD for once.

At our last place we wired out heat and smoke alarms, which had battery backup, off the lighting circuits. It was all signed off ok.