Gone West

Do OVO get the RHI payments or are they paid by the Government in some other way.

Read it at your peril.

Sorry.

Why do I keep thinking of Zoot's thread.

'Fairly key' is a bit of an understatement as far as installation is concerned.

That is not something I would contemplate. I would improve the doors, windows and insulation but is there anything wrong with the five year old boiler and tank. I think having an ASHP fitted could well involve a lot more in running costs and there may be issues finding ASHP repair companies. Welcome to the forum by the way.

We had a self build account with Jewsons and the manager gave us a list of all their stock items with the reduced price we would pay for each item.

The book I mentioned explains balancing radiators and all aspects of CH in simple terms, it isn't highly technical.

I'm not sure he wants to get all technical, just to be able to understand how things work and why.

@zoothorn This is a book I had many years ago which I found very useful for explaining all aspects of CH. Can't go wrong for £2.98. https://www.amazon.co.uk/yourself-Central-Heating-Orbis-library/dp/0856138436/

Don't know if they do telescopic shallow bottle traps, don't see why not. They are better than a P trap. https://www.screwfix.com/p/floplast-shallow-bottle-trap-white-32mm/14737

Any chance with a shallow bottle trap?

Where has the air tightness figure of 5 come from. It seems a very poor level.

Did you do a full plans submission to building control. BCOs are very different in their approach to checking but it's a bit of a risk if the SAP says PVs and he looks for them. My BCO was relaxed about our build because be hadn't dealt with a Passivhaus before and was happy to accept a PHPP assessment instead of an as designed SAP.

There're Rehau lift slide triple glazed doors.

So the answer to my question is, no, because they would have to be included in the completion certificate and signed off by an electrician. The SAP and EPC is just a desk exercise but it may show up if you sell the house, but then is there anything to prevent someone removing PV panels if they don't, for instance, like the look of them.

If you didn't want the cost of installing a complete system and you didn't like the look of on roof panels and it was only being done to improve the SAP rating.

Don't know how feasible this is, but in this situation has anyone just fitted a couple of panels temporarily to get the SAP rating and then had them removed. Does anybody check that they are connected. Relatively easy to fit if you have a single storey extension roof.

We have south facing triple glazed sliding doors and decided not to have solar control glazing. We are happy with them as they do provide solar gain in the winter and the sun doesn't penetrate very far into the room in the summer. We could easily build a brise soleil if it caused a problem.

It's a pitched roof.

Yes we have Schneider switches and in the kitchen we have them engraved.

It's a Fakro which can be opened.

I've played around with FindMyShadow which is quite good for basic, when the sun would be hitting the glazing. I wanted minimal solar gain through my bathroom roof window so asked for the best glazing for reducing solar gain without cutting out too much light. The g-value of 0.32 with triple glazing seems a good compromise. https://findmyshadow.com/

I watched my mates house having a silicone DPC injected back in the 70s. It wasn't ' a bloke with a mastic gun', it was a compressor pumping the liquid into the bricks under considerable pressure for quite some time. My mate didn't have a damp problem afterwards but he did a lot of work on the house and it might have been something else that solved the problem. In a Victorian cavity wall house I bought back in the 90s there was damp on the internal wall for about 0.5m up from the floor. The reason was the soil level was above the slate DPC. I lowered the soil level and the problem disappeared. If the water hadn't seeped up the bricks how did the wall get wet above the soil level? Not being awkward, just my observations.

Not that bright really. One used to come and try to attack it's reflection in one of the upstairs windows when I was building our house. The windowsill had flecks of blood all over it every morning. In the end I had to pin strings across between the reveals so it couldn't land on the sill. Only happened on one particular window.