JohnMo

With an ASHP to get best efficiency you need as low a flow temp as practical. UFH you can have flow temps in the 25 to low 30s depending on outside temperature. Radiators will always flow warmer than UFH, just because the surface area of the emitter is smaller. A steady low temperature flow with UFH, very stable house temps. PH don't need much heat, but still likely to need up to 10W/m2. So a 200m2 house is going to need 2kW at -3/4 degs. Or 48kWh per day.

There are also units that have ducts also. Here is the plan from fresh-r for my house. Didn't use in the end, but liked concept. Two units, 3 pipes and one forwarding fan, for 192m2

Another view of the world of modern stoves https://stoveindustryalliance.com/higher-levels-of-pm-created-inside-the-home-from-cooking-than-from-modern-wood-burning-stoves/ To give a balanced view of things

Think the clue is the word open. Efficiency of about 10% at heat transfer, normally in houses that leak like sieves to feed the fire. Burn enough energy in night, that I could possibly burn in a month, if I wanted a good roasting most nights.

You have missed my point. Also by the way the Prana unit is not the same as the Fresh-R or Freeair. Neither Fresh-R or Freeair are dMVHR units. You need to study how they work, they are full MVHR units less the huge amounts of duct normally required. Making very practical for retrofitting. You can use the same design principles using a basic MVHR unit in your loft or cupboard. And cascading air from one place to another.

If were me and I am no electrician Budget stretched 3x car chargers, you don't have a car requiring charging, pre run cable, both ends not connected. Outside end in a small waterproof box - all ready for later installation. Outside garden stuff, same as above. Ditch patio heaters as a waste of good electric Find out why a new build needs a 12kW ASHP - use all the money you save on the above fantasies on decent insulation and air tight measures, so are installing a sensible ASHP. No 3 phase required, to run a single phase house!

Not all, but most do - read the instructions, if it shows an external pump between the hp and a buffer you need to add a pump. Pump can be in flow or return, whichever is easier, just make sure it's facing the correct direction. The power and control for the pump will come from the heat most likely

Look in to BluMartin Freeair100 and FreshR, look at the principle of operation, how they cascade the air movement. You can apply the same principles to any MVHR system. Also look into Coanda effect supply nozzle, these will allow air to follow the ceiling to move from one side of the room to the other. Making supply nozzle placement easier.

From the looks of it if you want to run your UFH like radiators, there may be some benefits, running like UFH low and slow, not really seeing anything it can bring to the help out.

They were the best price I found. The quote starts from scratch once you make contact, they CAD up the drawings for our approval and make a full itinerary from there.

Only really needed for a system with steel radiators. But don't see much difference once you get past the sales hype

We used made2measure web based company. All the design documents are on the website, our structural engineer accepted them and added to our structural design certificate.

I had mould in our ensuite, started as a musty smell. Tracked it down to a very minor leak in a water pipe joint behind the plasterboard, which over a number of days resulted in damp plasterboard.

Solar panels are in a slate roof. The flatter roofs are sarnafil

We just found a local plumber, use him to service and what ever else I need a plumber to do. Same plumber is used by a a house down the road. They had a burst pipe when it was -9 before Christmas, no insurance plumber was there in 20 mins at 9pm. Try getting that service from a call centre, that use a plumbers based miles away from you. You may find you are paying insurance and when the boiler fails, they say at that age it's fair wear and tear, your not covered anyway.

I did a Sarnafil standing seam. EPDM the material mechanical fixed to 18mm ply, then seam welded and standing seam mouldings welded. Same effect way less money - 194m2 was £14.7k in early 2021. At the same time I was getting £30k quotes for both zinc and aluminium.

Yep

The is/was a 9kW on eBay.

If they are being hidden - practical question, how do you clean them? How do you know when they are overflowing and washing your walls?

Slightly simpler - they are same thing, except the sticker. Viessmann unit comes with an optional extra as standard, that being heat tracing on the heat exchanger and in the drip tray. All the control is built-in for the heat tracing if you feel the need. Mine is not installed yet, buying materials and work getting in the way.

It's just illegal, so no issues really - that sort of temperature can kill a child and do adults no good either. 1 second at 60 to cause 3rd degree burns! Recent case where child had run a bath unsupervised and jumped in. Not sure if child died or just badly burned, but mom/dad ended up in prison I believe.

Pretty normal, it says to the fan someone is here and I have a reason to run. But if you're dimmed and the fan's are not coming on, that's why you have the mould. Put in lower wattage bulbs, so the dimmer switch has to at a higher setting. Dim lights and fan works.

Loads of zones, means your boiler just can't modulate low enough, lots of on/off cycling uses more energy. On off controls are no use, you would be better with a modulating Trvs, or better still no Trvs and just balance the radiators to match room heat requirements. Try to have just a couple of zones, bedrooms and living space. Manifolds, plenty out there, look for plumbing manifolds. Most the plastic pipe manufacturers make them. Or use an UFH manifold and use the flow meters to balance the flow to the radiators.

Do you have a fan in the bathroom, if you don't the mould will just come back. Even if you do have a fan it is worth checking it's actually moving air. We had a mould issue in our last house, when I put a piece of toilet paper in front of the running fan it just fell off, almost no air movement. New fan required. Builder had just installed a cheap as chips fan, that a few years was good for the skip.

I was buying plumbing pipe yesterday and compared the price to 2020, it is double the price. Not sure how you can keep up with that rate of change and budgets.