Gone West

If that's the case why can't you use clear plastic hose?

I had a repair carried out on my softener under guarantee and the Harveys plumber looked at the overflow pipe and the only comment was that it should be a straight pipe from the softener to the waste. Mine curved round and he altered it to be straight.

My water softener overflow and drain both go into a waste with the overflow at the bottom RHS and drain at the top RHS. The BCO didn't say there was a problem and it's worked fine for three years.

They are OK and that is what I used in my house. The BCO was quite happy.

There was some discussion years ago about phthalates in vinyl flooring as they were possibly carcinogenic and as a result you can buy vinyl flooring that is phthalate free. I don't know if that is what you are referring to.

Is that right? I didn't know there was a minimum U factor of 0.1W/(m²K) for roof construction in a PH.

Yeah, this was nearly 20 years later. She gets all the good jobs.

You do have to be very sure about the ground conditions when digging holes. I certainly wouldn't do that around here.

I get Wendy to do work like that. She is my go to person for narrow holes and trenches. This was at our last house back in the 90s and it was only 2m deep.

You could try https://www.sennocke.co.uk/ They offer all types of cover.

I'm no expert but I thought if you're using two different heat sources with very different temperatures you should use a thermal store. Don't know if that's what you mean by a buffer tank but buffer tanks are usually much smaller. I'm not sure how well thermal stores work with ASHPs.

I don't have to any more, thank goodness. I used to say 'it'll be years yet' and I was never wrong and no one was ever disappointed.

Is it sealed or like charcoal so if you lean against it comes off on your clothes.

I'm sorry, I'm obviously missing something but if the studs are 145mm deep and with external racking why not 145mm of insulation?

I have a 350mm I-beam timber frame with Icynene spray foam. It's very good for heat insulation and airtightness but it's not cheap and there's a lot of tidying up required afterwards. 130m2 floor area, two storey, and it was just under £10,000 for walls and roof about five years ago. I can look up the details if you're interested.

No I didn't mean that, I didn't notice it had that type of long edge. Is that how they're joined together length ways or something.

Can't you make an outer frame with mitred corners and then board up to the frame.

I have a Genvex Combi 185L which is a ventilation system with a built in EASHP which heats my DHW and provides warm air which supplements the normal heating provided by electric towel rails in the bathrooms. The towel rails keep the bathrooms at around 24C and the ventilation system transfers the heat around the house. This type of system only works for space heating because the house is very highly insulated and airtight.

I asked for oversailing cables to be moved so I could build my house. I didn't mention specific poles but they came up with a scheme which involved moving poles and they showed me and I accepted. It was with UKPN and eleven years ago so maybe they are getting more stroppy now. If you just ask for the cable to be moved they will have to remove that pole.

There's a similar type by Joule, don't know if it's a copy or not.

Yes exactly my point. What happens if another part of the ASHP heating system is not aesthetically acceptable to you because it is as a result of it being a low temperature system. In that instance it may well be adequately sized but not suitable because it's a low temperature system. If it weren't for the governments intervention in paying people to fit ASHPs in old properties I doubt there would be much interest in ASHPs. They are not the panacea that the government would like to think they are.

The ASHP may be correctly sized but for many reasons it may not be possible to correctly size the rest of the system in order to heat the house effectively. I may not want quad panel radiators sticking out into the room or walls covered in single panel radiators in order to meet the heating requirement for especially cold periods. Designing a heating system is more than just the physics.

It doesn't look like a new setup, so has it always been poor. How long have you been using the system like that. I would measure the pressure and flow rate.

Our oil boiler in the old bungalow lasted over 30 years.

Perhaps the PRV is not working correctly. Doesn't the PRV have a block with a threaded hole for connecting a pressure gauge. Without knowing the pressure I don't see how you can find the best solution, maybe adjusting the PRV first just to see if it's working.