JohnMo

The good thing if you do change the mixer for an Ivar, there are plenty of adjustments and fine tuning you can do. You can actually reduce the dT down quite a bit, think I managed to get the dT down to 5 degs across the valve. The mixer may be gummed or scaled up restricting internal parts moving and you are getting under and overshoot or generally worn. I moved to an ASHP and as I only have UFH eliminated the the pump and mixer all together.

I'm in the same boat, no MCS installs, my build started with 3.1kW of DIY solar have since added another 3.6kW of DIY solar and a self installed ASHP. No grants or long loans bothered with. All in about £9k. Have also added a battery, so no export anyway. During summer, once battery charged, ASHP will be on cooling duty.

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I have an Atag boiler, they are quite impressive. They are advertised as opentherm, but like a lot of companies they are not fully opentherm, you may need to use one of their controllers to get all the features.

Do you have the something to read the earth potential (think that's what they call it). You after 200 Ohms reading or lower between it and the live and neutral. My spike went down 8 or 9m to get the reading correct.

Mine looks like it goes into the changeover switch, and seems to the joined to the existing earth. So I suppose the earth route can be the original, the new and or both.

I just used some decent pair of industrial scissors. Best purchase ever, used them on loads of stuff on the build.

I think if manufacturers weren't constrained by costs things could be different. For example my ASHP is the same external casing for a 4, 6, and 8kW units. Will be a lot of part sharing going on, instead of dedicated parts for the large and small unit. My unit isn't small, but it's no where near the size you are referring to, the 14 to 16kW versions are that size, but 4 to 8kW are 828mm tall and 924mm wide. The 4 to 8kW being more typical of the size being installed. Pretty sure the 4kW, in a dedicated casing could be made a lot smaller, even as a monobloc.

Cannot see why that would not work, also if you use the refrigerant to heat the cylinder, (divert it before the plate exchanger) that is around 80 degs. Cascade control schemes are nothing new, my ASHP is already pre-programmed for it.

So agile has two export tariffs, an agile type and a fixed cost type.

Is import or export? For export you can be agile export or fixed price. Import if you have a battery would be direct to battery, they wouldn't know or care about it. Even without a battery you would be self consuming or exporting

He could, but not sure it would change or stop short cycling when only running UFH. He needs water capacity, to dump heat into, which is what's missing.

Mines been in use for a couple of years, no issues - except to top up the air once a year, when the filter package is being serviced. Mine is outside in an insulated shed.

Just looked at my boiler pump (32kW) and it max head is half and flow at max head is half the one installed.

We have a borehole and have the very thing upstream of the filter system. Couldn't agree more

@SimonD I started in the same place - wife demanding, we be able to run 3 showers at once, because it would be required. The system I installed could just do that. Only time 3 showers have run at once is when I did the test. Since then only one shower at time, used, irrespective of how many people are in the house.

@SimonDThere are no actuators. At the start of the thread there is a photo of the manifold. Still don't understand how a pump that size (25-80) is expected to cope with only two circuits of UFH pipe, with a demand flow rate of 5l/min, without causing a bucket load of flow related issues.

So a small update and stats Have now added the battery inverter to home assistant. The main reason that I got home assistant was to automate the charging on cheap rate, but only charge by the amount required, based on how much PV generation is likely the next day. GivTCP is the app running on Home Assistant, this connects to GivEnergy Inverter via an API, it also looks up the solar forecast from Solcast - another API. Dont get E7 for a couple of weeks, so running generated solar only. Have updated the Home assistant energy page, which looks like this, this is todays stats On the GivEnergy Cloud, there is the same data, but the forecast data is also represented. Fine tuning the Solcast page for my array you make small changes to angle and direction to fine tune the forecast compared to actual, but its not too bad from the looks of it.

We had both addresses, no issues.

Secondary circulation loop, if you just want to get the shower hotter quicker. No need to add more energy to the system.

I wouldn't class any of that is landscaping really. That's all stuff you have to do and should be done prior to a building be classes as complete.

People with big houses and loads of showers, once you get the water supply issues sorted, you may need to start looking for a cleaner to keep all those bathrooms clean.

Simple fix a 2 port buffer of around 25 to 50 L capacity (closer to 50L is better), across the flow and return loop to the boiler or across the flow and return from the UFH, where ever is easiest to install. No need for low loss headers or 4 port buffers and additional pump (s). Parts list Two Tee pieces, A buffer or volumiser https://www.theplumbshop.co.uk/products/expansion-vessels-intermediate-buffer, these are cheap enough, you need to insulate yourself. Two isolation valves

Not definitive, but the choice of how ASHP circulation pump runs would be an installer selection option. So could be either or. But to add confusion some control schemes work by having a thermostat the buffer, the thermostat being a run permission for the heat pump, in this case the circulation pump would almost definitely be off, while the buffer is not calling for heat. Unless you know you are connecting everything up, having a buffer not having a buffer it's all very academic, and doesn't make a jot of difference

Every day a learning day. So had a dig round the internet to find a drawing of the layout in fig. 4 more applicable to a UK cylinder with a dedicated recirculation loop taping point. See below. The bypass and return valve would be a globe valve or similar to allow accurate and repeated flow control. This setup should allow a continuous flow of water through the cold port of the mixing valve