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Hi Been reading this forum with interest, and seems to be plenty of people with real world experience of ASHP I am part way through the rebuild of a barn, which will be pretty much open plan on the ground floor of around 95sqm, with a tiled floor and UFH, upstairs will be 4 bedrooms, and probably radiators As per building regs, the insulation will be upto spec. Have pretty much discounted oil or gas, and looked at GSHP and decided it wasn’t for me So am thinking ASHP will be the way to go, but a few questions/concerns! The property has 3 phase electricity I intend to have a log burner in the main living area I also plan to have a fast charger for EV I would prefer to have the pump/plant and potentially tank positioned away from house in an outbuilding apprx 10m from the house , is this an issue? Should I overspec the pump to reduce noise? How would solar panels help with the solution?, if at all?, I hear that the technology for panels is changing over the next few years? Would a sunamp battery play a part or be beneficial? My main concern is around the upstairs maintaining a decent temperature, are radiators the way to go? Also Water temperature needs to be sufficient for my partner to have her hot showers!, and wondered if ashp can achieve this without additional heating? Any advice, ideas, input would really be appreciated thanks in advance Russell