JohnMo

It gives you an instantaneous reading, just a simple hold phone in front of flashing led. You could glue the phone to your hand if you wanted. Not it would help much.

There's an App "my electric meter", that does the counting for you, and give you an ongoing consumption. It just used the phone camera and allows you set to set the imp/kWh rate for your meter.

Yale and others do a window lock, so the window can be open but cannot be opened further.

It's likely the worst CoP will be in winter and better CoP in the spring to autumn period.

Just looked at the datasheet, the average electric consumption is stated as 550W, the data sheet says it has a 7 hour charging time to heat cylinder. 0.55 x 7 = 3.85kWh per day 300L of water to heat from 30 to 55, requires 8.73kWh - so a CoP of 2.7. Direct immersion heating would cost 2.7 times more. This assumes the water temp drops that low before charging, if it only goes to 40 it only needs 5.24kWh, so CoP drops to 1.4. Electric cost at £0.3/kWh, is £1.15 per day. Gas at 0.0733 is (assuming 80% efficiency) is £0.77 per day.

Info from users of SAHP's is a bit thin, not easy to get anyone to talk. They are either rubbish or the best thing ever. None of the data sheets, comply with the norms of a heat pump, so very little info there either.

Why not look elsewhere, we found a local manufacturer, windows made to our spec from scratch.

I had the ICF blocks there, but they all got moved, so were rebuilt the next day. I thought I would get ahead, but didn't. The insulation was done prior to the ICF blocks being placed into position.

Not sure where you are getting your prices. Insulation Celotex 100mm sheets £37+vat https://www.insulationhub.co.uk/product/100mm-celotex-ga4100-2-4m-x-1-2m/ Not £13k, but £2.6k I did the insulation, UFH pipes and finished floor concrete, prior to the walls. Way easier, just pumped the concrete in. Filled the UFH with antifreeze mix and pressurised.

What's the return temp to the heat pump when in DHW heating mode? Is the return path heating the buffer as it flows back to the ASHP?

You don't need to full fill space with insulation, it then acts to transfer noise. 70mm will be better, so it has an air gap. The material you use (wool or whatever) needs to be able to self support it's self between the studs, so it doesn't slump over time.

My stub walls are 365mm wide, consist of 150mm concrete blocks (inside), 100mm thermolite block (outside), 115mm void. Void filled with 100mm PIR spray foamed into place. To give me continuous insulation from the roof to below below ground and below my floor installation. This with a 70mm upstand on the inside wall before screed should limit any sideways heat loss from the floor.

Your prices seem well over the top. Our foundation, consists of the following for 194m2. Level site Reinforced strip foundation (2m wide at front of house) 70m perimeter. Hardcore and blinding sand, DPM. Stub walls, 100mm PIR insulation in cavity 160mm deep reinforced slab over whole area 200mm PIR insulation 100mm concrete finished floor. I install the insulation, contractor did the rest £36k. U value 0.09. If your buying sand and hardcore, buy direct from quarry, about half the price the builder merchant charges. You need an engineered design, based on your site.

A 2 port buffer doesn't require to be heated first, as the main flow goes direct to the heating, anything not required for heating will the heat the buffer. Once buffer is up to heat the heating will be drawn from buffer as the ASHP return temp will be satisfied.

dMEV goes in a hole made in a wall same as a normal vent fan, but has built in supply and extract with heat recovery. No need to access to any inter floor spaces as there are no ducts.

I would really investigate the insulation and airtightness, get them all to a very high standard. That size of flat will only need next to no heat then. The heating requirements should so low that the house will take the excess heat from the flats connected to it. You should be getting your heating requirements down to below a 1kW for the whole flat. Install dMVHR for ventilation. Electric UFH heating in bathroom,with electric towel rad, on a timer. Simple panel heater or storage heater in the living space, immersion heater on suitable tariff for hot water, or air source Hot water tank. But take air outside, not inside.

Great, thanks

Not sure if this is the correct section? I have a central heating pump started by a flow switch. But want to start a second pump about 10m away with no wires between and a very difficult route. Looking for a wireless way to connect the second pump (pump has main power next to it). Or more precisely tell it to start when the first pump starts, without a wire between the pumps. Though about a pair of Shelly relays, but not sure how to go about it or if there is anything else I can use. Don't want to rely on having internet, unless I have to.

Generally taken on here as snake oil. You need an unvented air gap either side to get quoted performance, by this point you are taking up as much space as mineral wool, which cheaper.

You will need an accumulator, it doesn't need to be big, think ours is 50 or 70 L. This will ensure water comes out of the tap, when you open the tap. Otherwise you would have to wait for the pump to start before water came out the tap. Plus the pump would be stop starting every time you open the tap for a couple of seconds, so wouldn't last very long.

On a borehole pump the accumulator is there to do two things. 1. it gives a pressure that ensures water flows out the tap when you open it. 2. It limits how long you pump runs, a pressure switch will shut off the pump, when it's pressure is met. The pump will not start again until a suitable fall in pressure occurs. Storage tank. To give you a 2 bar supply pressure the storage tank would need to be 20m above the highest outlet in the house. So a pumped solution is the way to go. The borehole pump can be quite small low head pump and it pumps between high and low level switch in the storage tank. It does need to do this quickly. The tank can be above or below ground. The storage tank will need a transfer pump that charges an accumulator, then is filtered/ treated prior to going to the taps.

If you do intend to go thermal store, with an ASHP, you need to ensure you have either specify very large coils, which may not be practical, but better to have either internal or external plate exchangers for heating the store and for DHW take off, size to suit the flow temperature from an ASHP. You need exchangers that give max of 2 degree approach temp (difference between heat source supply temperature and the secondary side outlet temperature). If you are heating the thermal store at ASHP temperature it will need to be larger, but heat loss should be similar to an UVC as it will be at a similar temperature. Boiler stove adds complication, and is only worth the expense if you intend to use a lot. On only when really cold may be a waste of money and effort. Just install a non boiler. To save £100/year, from the boiler stove you would need to heat a 400L cylinder from 35 to 70 around 100 times a year. Assuming your wood comes free. Keep it simple, cheaper to install, easier to manage. Spend the money saved on insulation. Aim to get the heat demand at or below 15W/m2, then your UFH flow temps can be sub 30 degs all the time.

I forgot that one, we had loads of wild life surveys to do and wait for some squirrels to finish nesting first.

Basically what I was told that we could do anything that does not require planning. So we did access to site, some tree removal, laid hardcore, flattened the site where required, ready to do foundations without actually start the foundations and get the equipment to site.

Doesn't really do justice again.