JohnMo

I've been fiddling with my system, was on straight WC with a buffer in the system, seemed to work great at very low demands, but as demand went up the boiler started using a way higher rate of gas than it should. So went for a thermostat on the buffer cylinder and used a relay to control the logic of when the boiler fires up. So if the UFH has a heat demand, it sends 230v through the buffer thermostat. If the thermostat is also calling for heat, the relay closes and gives a demand signal to the boiler. The boiler only fires when both the cylinder thermostat and the UFH require heat, if only one requires heat the boiler does not fire up. Set the buffer to 30 degrees and the thermostat has a hysteresis set to 2. Have found that the buffer temp overshoots by a couple degrees, so the hysteresis is closer to 4 in reality. Also I have installed a heat meter on the UFH, so this records kWh consumed, but what is really good, shows in real time the kW consumed by the floor, changing every second. Slight changes in flow temp, show a change in kW being put in the floor. You can make changes to set the ideal flow temp, based on heat loss calcs for the average monthly temp. UFH heating is controlled by a simple thermostat, with a hysteresis of 0.25, but would be better if it was 0.1.

We had an old house and when we converted, our doors needed to be FD30, building control said and approved a incemesant paint and smoke seals around the door/door frame and self closure mechanism. The paint had to be applied by certified person, they would not accept me doing it.

Very much the illusion, hense the tidying, when anyone comes to visit, family or otherwise.

Do you have a wife? I'm in the same boat @jack is sailing in.

If you search on here someone tested cooling on a radiator, it was unsuccessful, as it cooled the bottom few mm only

This isn't where I found the advise to install the extracts above the showers, but says the same thing. And also from Scottish building regs, support guidance for ventilation Sect 8.8, d, states the extract should be above shower head or bath. 2030716736_Buildingstandardsdomesticventilationguidance2CNovember2017.pdf

That looks an expensive night or possibly two nights of heat, didn't realise that stuff was so expensive.

You want the flow resistance to be as low as possible, that way the fan can run at its lowest speed. Sorry can't help myself, some comments on your planned layout. You seem to have supply and extracts in the same room. Your study and lounge, should just have a supply only, not extracts. You don't require supply or extract in cupboards, as they are not habitable spaces. You really don't need the supply in the hall either. The kitchen should really only have a extract. I would have the pantry as extract not supply. Bathroom extracts ideally need to over the source of steam, ie shower or bath. In the bedroom or any room, you want the supply air to sweep across the room, so it needs to as far from the extract as possible, in the centre of the room is not ideal.

Not sure it matters too much where you locate the boiler, as long as the flue is installed correctly. If it's legal or not? But looks a bodge, it's not even straight.

Simple 2 zone controller, one zone heating the other hot water and a thermostat, in its simplest form. £100 or so plus fitting. Then other smart stuff, for more money. Loads of options https://www.screwfix.com/c/heating-plumbing/central-heating-controls/cat831042 Really depends on what you need to control and how.

Just had a quick look at the inverter and noticed its G98 approved, which would suggest that once the grid connection is removed, so is the functionality of the inverter. So its/could be an expensive paperweight in a power cut. Looking at the cost of circa 4-5k with battery, you need to get it right. Hope I'm wrong - but please double, triple check you are getting what you want/need from this, or one p*ssed off wife may be the outcome.

You should also have a switch similar to a generator/mains switch. So when mains power is off, and battery is on you cannot electrocute anyone working on the mains cables down the street.

Dt7 is for a flow temperature over 30 degs, then dt4 below that. Would make the job of balancing easy.

Grundfos Unilift submersible pump? Grundfos seem to make a decent pump. Not tried myself.

PV inverters switch off when the mains supply goes off. A generator does not enable the inverter. So unless the battery will run in island mode and not export a live load when the mains is off, you may be being sold a pup. Well worth checking before you hand over the cash.

Certainly not what heat geek states. And their calculations show. But each to their own.

Mine is controlled from a thermostat if there is a requirement to heat the pump runs. The thermostat is set slightly higher than required room temperature, I just located it the hall. With a heat pump, there is a slight disadvantage running rooms with heating off and others on, the internal heat loss between rooms, means a higher flow temp is required for the heated room, so you CoP goes down. It actually becomes as cheap to heat the whole house.

500m2 is a small hotel. Will be full of rooms you never use, bathrooms you never use but have to clean. Hope you are getting a full time cleaner. You should start with a reality check on what you need and what you want - very different. You can quite easily sink £50k into lightning, the same into smart stuff that will be old news by the times it's built.

AVV - automatic vent valve Dot connectors are the connections on the thermal store - these tap in the inhibited fluid in the cylinder. Its just a 160L vented thermal store, with a indirect heating coil (supplemented with a large plate heat exchanger) and DHW coil. DHW water does not enter cylinder directly goes through a coil.

I would keep it simple either A simple immersion timer or an immersion diverter. The advantage of the diverter is if you have 0.1kW it goes to the immersion, nothing more or less - not the full 3kW demand you would get from a simple sunlight sensor.

A schematic of my system. Have a simple combi thermal store (160L) upstream of the combi (with additional insulation to limit heat loss). Immersion heater connected to PV diverter. You need a diverting valve and thermostatic limiting valve on the output of the thermal store DHW coil. This will reduce gas usage and stop un-necessary boiler firing when the cylinder is above about 45 degrees. The cylinder is also being used as the central heating buffer.

Basically you need a buffer. The larger the minimum output of the boiler the bigger the buffer requires to be. But operating as a single zone would help without the buffer. The more zones you have the more likely short cycling will be, if you have TRVs on rads they need to modulate down not be on/off.

Yep, filling my car in litres, calculate consumption in mpg, and distance travelled in miles, while monitoring temperature in degrees C and building a house in millimetres. And paying for things in pounds and pence instead of shilling and Grote's etc.

No I think they have their own network or sits on another similar to a mobile phone.

Oops should of been 1.5 miles. 5' is way to close for comfort.