JohnMo

Think we are well capable, but politics gets in the way - one party does the speak and sells the idea, puts funds in place for after the next election, they get booted out, the next lot comes along and says that's a shite idea, have some austerity instead, we're (the nation) is skint. Repeat...

Basically to Peterhead (NE Scotland), then via a subsea high voltage DC cable to pop out the sea, somewhere beneath Drax power station. Assume there will be an AC to DC converter station at Peterhead and a DC to AC near Drax.

You have a slight issue, with the compressor stations that boost pressure along the route. You have to have ab electric cable diverter around the compressor stations and exit and entry points for the cable. Not sure it's easy to manage that plus the safety risk of liars of pressurised gas, high voltage electric and entry and exit points for oxygen to enter the system - sounds like a massive UK wide bomb waiting to happen.

My view and experience with MVHR is don't expect any cooling from it. Chilling slab is an all day affair - low and slow wins the day. Maybe better, once house is warmer than outside open all the windows, when outside is warmer than inside do the opposite. Keep floor temp cooler than 20 all the time, boost floor cooling if room get over 23. Leave the MVHR to do it thing, no place for home assistant, just set it up at commissioning and leave to run.

Photo showing rear of unit and piping, lagged with primary pro insulation. 2 x antifreeze valves (warranty requirement) and 2x isolation valves, then flex hoses and then 28mm pipe. Final wiring scheme Seasonal switching between heat and cool. Reused light switch, hardwired to UFH controller and ASHP wiring centre, located by UFH controller. Single zone with jumper across zone terminals, so always on. Secondary set point, wired from UFH controller via an EPH TR1-TR2 Two Way Wireless Switch. A call for heat or cool selects Smart Grid SG terminals, and give a demand for 2 degree uplift in heating or a reduced flow temp of 2 degrees in cooling. (Manual had wrong wiring diagram for this, wiring terminals and functions didn't match, so trial and error approach taken). This function uses the humidity sensors within the UFH controller to give a cooling safety shut off. It allows background cooling setting (19 degs flow temp) and then when house increases in temp it steps to 17 Deg flow temp. In heating mode, summer house stabilises at 18 degs with normal WC settings, so boost is used to increase to 21 when we use it. Communication cable to outdoor unit. Pretty simple wiring overall. If I didn't do cooling there would be no additional wires, just a Comms cable. DHW is still being done by immersion. Overall heat pump just seems to run, no on off cycling.

I had a flow meter error over night, so it stopped the heat pump, but interestingly the circulation pump continued to run on off every 15 mins. Checked the strainer all clean, reset the controller and it all restarted fine. Maybe some air still kicking about. Checked the control status log and it shows actually flow rate against an internal estimate of flow rate when it thinks it should be doing 20L/min it's actually doing 19L/min. Which also aligns well with the heat meter. So don't think there is an issue with the flow meter. Heat pump now playing catch-up and running flat out flow rate up to just under 20L/min.

Or running system at a long steady temp (lower), so the pipes expand and contract less often

Pipes at 16 degs you should be ok. If you are getting any condensation on the floor you have big issues. Nope. Will do very little.

No issue, but do not cool below dew point. So keep flow temperature at around 16 degs or higher, then you can leave on 24/7.

That's the heat pump up and running 4.5 hours from switch off to switch on. Been running for a couple of hours. It seems to testing how the heating system responds. It's keeping return temp, rock steady stable but adding and reducing load, first hour slowly ramped down to 1700W output, then ramped up to 3000W. Now its got a cycle time between peaks of around 30 mins. Pump flow rate is also slowly being decreased at about 8L/mine it was at 20L/min when it first started. Before and after, Haier unit quite a bit bigger and heavier. Issues during switch on, an error code E12 - Zone 2 mixing valve temperature sensor Twzone_2 abnormality. So zone 2 switch off for now. May revert to my first idea of doing smart grid switching for second set point. Will sleep on it

Physics of a house energy out (lost to atmosphere) is the energy required for heating. A simple adjustable hysterisis thermostat, such as Computherm Q10RF or one with WiFi access if you want, use that to control House temp and switching on/off of an immersion relay. Get a wireless thermostat, then you can move to best place for the house temperature setting. Set the immersion in buffer to a set temperature, say 37, driven from the relay. Any 20A relay will do.

If you have issues just email them, they are super helpful. It's worth using a CT clamp on the diverter valve power feed, then the data is split for heating and DHW. Also unable auto cooling detection while you through the settings.

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I just use a Sangamo PSS2 time switch. Paid £17 for it. Connected direct to CU dedicated fused outlet, then 2.5mm² cable, to an isolator switch near the cylinder, then direct to immersion - all standard stuff, any electrician can fix, any day of the week, with bits from local electrical factors.

Still think you are making things way more complex than you need. Main water cylinder top immersion, if you are a low water user just use that set the thermostat and a charge window. If you are a heavy user ignore the top immersion and set thermostat on the bottom element and use a simple immersion time switch. Hot water sorted now get on with your life. Change from £30. Buffer immersion - depends what you empty the buffer into, UFH or radiators. But just do simple. You don't need any of this "smart stuff" I doubt very much you really do and doubt it will save a penny over a sensible simple to run system.

I would be very careful deleting, as your warranty will very likely be void. Almost every manufacturer states you must have a strainer of a given mesh size. So add the filter to catch all the rubbish, but keep the strainer there just in case and keeps your ASHP warranty.

Wind wonderful stuff, just charged the battery from the grid. In Singapore, there a law which means "for the greater good" so basically NIMBY's, just get ignored. We on the other hand engage with them and listen, which just encourages them to be more vocal.

I lived in hot country where AC was a must, the thing that drove me mad after few months of the novelty, was the continues breeze. But looking for something else the other day I notice Haier do a coanda effect wall mounted room units. This encourages air the follow the ceiling (rather than being shot towards you) and then around the room when in cooling mode, heating mode does the opposite air is direct down to the floor https://haierhvac.eu/sites/haierhvac-eu/files/2024-06/Haier_RAC_Catalogue_2024_ENGLISH.pdf see page 31 If the aircon stuff is as good as the A2W appears to be it will solid and well made, plus a very competitive price point.

I decided to change this wiring and use zone 1 and zone 2 control via 3rd party thermostat control. This gives a few advantages Heat and cooling is switched manually, so use a simple light switch to trigger seasonal changes, it's connected to ASHP and UFH controller, so both are always in exactly the same mode - this is hardwired. Hydraulically the system runs fully open, zones is purely for different running points and flow temps. Zone 1 terminals are fitted with a jumper wire, so always on pure WC, so runs in heat or cool depending on seasonal switch position. Zone 2, is a wireless switch controlled by UFH controller, in winter it allows me to boost summer house temp (only if needed via manual setpoint change on UFH controller), increased flow temp being buffered in to house slab (been doing this for the past year, works well). In summer it allows two set points for cooling, 19 degs flow background via zone 1 temp, if house goes above 23, it moves the flow temp to 17 via zone 2 setpoint. It also includes control set point for humidity, so if house goes above 60% it removes boost function via zone 2 (this will require tuning). A further advantage is zone two has its own WC curves for heating and cooling. Certainly for heating it allows me to fine tune the boost temp uplift required at different outside temps, for summer house which runs a fan coils and not UFH.

If you go Greenwood CV2 or CV3 you just need mains power to the fan, nothing else. Then set to smart humidity control and it sort everything else out. If you don't have existing fans get the electrician to tap in to lighting ring main to powers, they draw a couple of watts. For dMEV to work correctly you NEED vents in dry rooms, AND door under cuts.

Depending really on if you want to grant harvest or not. I haven't bothered. One plumber should be able to do ASHP x2 and UFH and radiator upgrades. Just be sure you aren't being sold a pup, when only need a 6kW or less heat pump and they want to sell you a 12kW one. PV and battery should be one contractor. ASHP and plumbing another.

They are not even that size. Well confused me when I first started buying timber.

Yep But not BTU's or inches for that matter.

Our foundations were complete in the November, walls up by Christmas, was f...ing freezing. Many a morning we would have to bail out the water accumulation before we started work proper. But ICF walls allowed concrete pours even in sub zero temps. Roof on in January. Then it was 99% dry even without the windows, just still cold. Our main issue was the floor was insulated before the walls went up, had 100mm concrete above the insulation, so if there was a sub zero night ,the house floor remained frozen all day

Isn't an insulated concrete slab better, for anything. At least you have only ground temp (6 degs) below you rather than a ventilation void that can be a cold as the air around the house.