Dave Jones

yes the panasonic ones do, we leave ours set at 21 in the winter they heat in the summer they cool, the heat pump decides. It's all automatic for the fancoils.

look for a heat geek certified, they are the best about it seems. https://www.heatgeek.com/heat-geek-elite/

if your going for LVT will need smoothing compound.

panasonic smart

you can diy and get the grant, just need the company who supply the kit to sign it off. thats what we did.

photo below taken when it was 35.2C outside according to my weather station, ASHP running at 16C (dew point was around same) bedrooms remained at 21C during peak heat dropping to 19C once dark and the fan coils clicked off. Would never be without them again.

we have the neff pop up as we didnt want to lose space on the hob for integrated. Works amazing it pulls every bit of steam into the extractor on the mid setting. Island mounted so completely flat finish.

look at the scale of your approved planning drawings, a pencil line thickness is likely to be at least 600mm!

get the roll of electric cable before you dig and lay it as you go. if you have bends it will 100% snag in that horrible felxi duct. Otherwise use sewer pipe instead of the flexi and it will be a breeze to pull through.

point being summer heat pump use is free anyway with excess solar. so its only winter where planning/arbitrage is needed.

get your local councillor round. not the parish one, the county one.

rarely see kitchen tiles in high end builds anymore, bit like purple baths! stone splashback behind hob with upstand round the rest and thats it. We didnt bother on ours and have no issues.

its normal no matter how many times you clean them while grouting you get a film left. as long as the grout was decent can just jet wash it all.

if a grab can reach over that wall it would be gone in 20 mins if you had the soil in a heap ready, could drop a digger over the wall using same.

get a 5 tonner. more bank for your buck than a little stealable one. Can lift a ton bag. Has reach to load a 8 wheeler for muck away. Many many times quicker than a 3 tonner.

7p from 11:30pm to 5:30am only time our heat pump is on during the winter, the eddi fires up the immersion as well taking the tank to 80c so heat pump isnt wasting time on DHW.

octopus didnt ask me to prove i have an EV just that we had a car charger they could talk to, which we have as every new build has to have one.

first job is to do heat loss calcs for your home to see what heat output you are going to need. It's not that difficult just time consuming. here is a free one https://www.changeplan.co.uk/heat_loss_calculator.php once you have that then its just a case of sizing a heat pump and emitters. You can add cooling as well for example by using fancoil radiators. Upgrade the hob to induction and get yourself a nice outdoor kitchen from the saving for blazing steaks on!!

have a look at the souber morticing jig. awesome for latches and mortices for bathrooms etc. https://www.ironmongerydirect.co.uk/product/souber-dbb-latch-and-lock-morticer-jig-247397?vat=1&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22180738972&gbraid=0AAAAAD-uRIQje6OxgetEy6Z0ydNuIsa50&gclid=CjwKCAjw1dLDBhBoEiwAQNRiQWtOV_tGpyOKeZWa4gobYSOvg-wZOLnMWdsIUpfy1oxzcyZrxEs3WxoCo9YQAvD_BwE I bought the offset addon for it to dot he secret hinges. green mdf track sawed down makes much better and wider stops than the crappy 25mm paint sticks that come with liners.

whats behind that wall to rear, looks to be a unit/shed there . Any access for a grab wagon ?

horrific. Notify your home insurance and let them know the council may have made your home no longer weatherproof. They will be on it. https://www.wienerberger.co.uk/tips-and-advice/roofing/what-are-bonding-gutters.html

interesting! Tell more. We installed our own and I asked octopus about paying for export and they refused without a MCS cert.

how much did you pay ?

yesterday was hottest day of year for us 34C outside the ASHP in cooling mode consumed 8.78 KWH in the 24 hour period. Given the solar was 30kwh still a very large surplus. Can't beat free cooling.

the issue with plumbers is 99% of them have no clue how to system design a ASHPO for efficiency. Any of them can throw a kit together using same principles as a gas boiler. This is one of the reasons they have such a bad rep. If you see a roomstat anywhere you know for sure its a shit install.