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JohnMo

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  1. Maybe, but maybe not and most likely not. If it worked no one do large coating, they would just get of tins of emulsion. Or use a proper airtight paint. Builders sand, cement and lime, is an easy enough task. It's flexible enough to withstand a bit of building movement. Took two of us, just under two days, to do 70m by an average of 3m high.
  2. We are in a poor reception area for smart meters, but octopus are coming out to try a booster on the 26th. If that fails the only other option is E7 and they will program that in manually to the smart meter. So I just just give the two readings monthly.
  3. A big bank of sand. Our bore hole (for water) is about 34m deep, the first 20m+ was just sand and soft sand stone, then about a metre of clay, then sand and stone, then hard sand stone.
  4. 9 x 1m spikes screwed together to form one long spike. Pretty much dry sand, water table about a long way down.
  5. Updated every 30 mins from national grid. Everything now goes through the gateway panel. Meter feeds direct to gateway and then from gateway to CU. Battery feeds in to gateway. All the PV also all goes through the gateway. Biggest job (which I unfortunately volunteered to do) was to drive in the secondary ground spike, as a secondary earth is required. Was expecting a metre or two (in sand). 9m later we got 160 Ohm (200 Ohm required max). At 7m we had 750 Ohm.
  6. The leaf, if you click on it, it shows the report carbon intensity of the grid. The flow to grid goes in and out.
  7. Slightly different graphic, cloud come over, now taking from the battery and PV to support house load while heat pump is running.
  8. Battery now up and running. Installer had a few issues commissioning, but all seems sorted now. Current status of the house, with heat pump on cooling duty and slight cloudy day. So generating 3.29 kW, heat pump and house is taking 1.83kW, 1.48kW going to battery and tiny but taken from grid 30W. Currently the battery is at 25% charged.
  9. If you look at the image you provided, the panels are not integrated, they stand on the top of the seams. You use rail less standing seam clamps.
  10. I assume you know your build method? Read up on passivhaus build standards to get an appreciation of what is good or bad.
  11. Need a big leaky house for that size heat pump - (3P). If you need that big a heat pump, is a heat pump the correct technology for your situation?
  12. Full inverter output which I think is 6kW continuously and 7.2kW peak.
  13. So after a couple of false starts the battery is being installed. Went with the Givenergy all in one, with is rated at 13.5kWh and allows a 100% at that capacity. It also gives a whole house uninterrupted power supply in the event of a power cut and allows my PV to function in a power outage. There Is a hope he will install it all today, but think he will be back tomorrow finish off, he has just been called away - typical. First difficulty was getting in the upstairs plant room (through loft hatch) luckily I had installed a winch for the DHW cylinder, so we used that. The gateway unit, controls the power flow, batteries, mains power, consumer unit, PV, vehicle charge point all connect to this. This will be located directly above the consumer unit and meter. Needed to run a new earth spike to the unit and new cable for a stand-alone generator, these are inserted through the J tube going under the house. Battery and inverter, without access, trim panels installed. Had to move MVHR pipes, as the unit is free standing.
  14. Does anyone install them now, we are getting E7 it will be through a programmed smart meter, even though our smart meter, will be dumb, as we cannot connect to the radio link due to very poor signal.
  15. You were sure you needed a new boiler at the start of this thread. Many ways to skin a cat, LLH or 4 port buffer is one - they are the same thing, one just a bigger volume than the other), 2 port buffer or volumisers are another. Before you commit to a LLH, have read up on them, heat geek is a good place to start. Unless designed and installed really well can be less efficient. I too would install weather compensation, but suspect your head and wallet have already gone down the multiple zones and thermostatic valves route. Must say you are asking a lot of questions to a lot of people, I will get my coat at this point, and leave you to it.
  16. Not sure how I calculated the previous posts. Must have had a decimal place wrong or something. But also the floor temp would be closer to say 23 at the perimeter not UFH flow temp. So for a building regs detail, with a 50m perimeter. The heat loss is for the total perimeter. 0.1 X 50 x 17 x 0.2568 = 22W or 0.5kWh per day. For other detail I referenced 0.1 X 50 x 17 x 0.1435 = 12W or 0.3kWh per day.
  17. For this one 208w. I used something like this but with a 70mm upstand.
  18. I would assume on that drawing the exposed area is, a block width X perimeter X temperature difference so say 35 (if UFH) less 6. 0.1x50x29x0.2568 so 375kW for building regs
  19. Read plenty of reviews, from high humidity countries (like the UK), I did and dismissed the idea, cost v reward wasn't worth it. The OP cooling power is more realistic of what to expect. The more humid the air to start with, the less effective throwing water at it makes.
  20. Is just a con, even more so when you just change a part number, and upsell a £5 item (which cost pennies to make) for several hundreds. Puts you off the brand altogether.
  21. No underlay otherwise you are glueing to the underlay which is a bit of waste time and expensive glue. You either float on underlay or glue not both. Glue is better for heat transfer.
  22. On a gas boiler its a resister for natural gas to lpg conversion. At the beginning of the thread it mentions it Repeat of the above h too slow doing the response
  23. Don't ask, you won't get the answer, you're not looking for. But before you do any insulation, make sure it's done in a way that doesn't damage the building fabric.
  24. Immediately after formal issue of the completion certificate, I believe
  25. True True, but if your min modulation is 7kW and the heating required for your UFH is 1kW, your boiler run is very short, hence it short cycles as it's designed to. Doesn't mean its efficient. And back to your original question.
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