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Ah, an overlay system. We had one in our last place, lift up carpets... Lay 35mm (ish?) Insulated trays with pipes cut into them. Thin screed over the top.... It did work, but you could feel the pipes / no piles warmth through the screed. Slower the rads, quick then normal UFH screed in response time. We didn't regret them.

With the greatest of respects, this micro management is probably saving you the cost of a pint a month. Set the dials to 'e' and worry not! Focus on draft proofing and reducing usage!

Next week is looking lovely and dry, warm & breezy... !

What's the plan for drainage?

We have a 300L tank and a 12kw Samsung gen6 ASHP. Family of 5, 3 young kids. Large insulated hot water circulation pump timed for hour morning, hour lunchtime, 2 hours evening. Joules set it to 50deg and a 24/7 on cycle, with it reheating if it drops by 10 degrees. I changed this so it only heats up hot water before we need it. Joules said this would be less efficient - but why do I want 50 degrees sat that all night?? So current timing is: 30mins in the morning to heat up enough for breakfast washing up (gets to high 30s) 2 hours mid afternoon to maximise solar PV (gets to 50degs), and ready for 4.30pm dinner time for kids, our dinner time, bath time for kids and means we have approx 40deg water for showers. The luke warm tank cools down over night. (lows 30s by morning) Disinfect cycle once a week or so - manually engaged when we need more hot water or sunny day! This has been Ok over the summer, but now that it is getting colder, wife wants hotter showers. I was going to add an extra 30min temp boost 6pm ish to get it up to high 40s for showers. However... I am now thinking I might be better off putting the hot water on from 8am to 7pm (ish) all day keeping the tank at 45degrees and being done with the faffing. Reheats when it drops below 35degs. But I am keen to see what everyone does does/any thoughts? Thanks

Hopefully they hold them to account! Not building the underground carpark, to then tarmac over the external green space for car parking is a significant change.

95% probably wouldn't notice anything amiss with it, but he got the bond levels wrong. Cheaper to plant something there and hide it, then ask it to be taken down and started again....

We had a gas boiler randomly coming on when no demand for heat, and traced it back to a failed zone valve??

Forget extra insulation, just stick in cheapest air con unit you can find!

Worry constantly! That was preraking them up, then we put a layer of clean compost type over the top. I'm still finding the occasional one though... Just keep walking and looking for them.

The contraption we used. It did a half decent job, but the dry weather means the ground is very hard.

Both look fairly heavy-duty for a spread load. What are they holding up on said shelf?

Hi All, We had our ASHP installed in our new build about 3-4 months ago, diverting us from a gas boiler we were also considering. Since then we've had numerous delays with windows (breakages & their replacements) and usual build headaches. My builder/installer has still not applied for the grant as we haven't been able to get the EPC & Air tight done due to missing window boarded up. We moved in a month ago, but still dont have building control sign off & prob wont for a few more weeks. I cant see any mention of time limits etc for claiming the £5000 grant, but with it being so much money I wanted to see if anyone else could advise? Thanks,

Can't do in ceiling and drop it down?

Remove rubber and paint with colour hammerite paint! Did this job weekend just gone myself...

Mortar coloured cikione works well, esp as plastic acros can flex!

Ongoing projects is ALL we know. This shit never fecking ends!!! Am I laughing or crying? It's complicated.

Few £100 to get the roof properly tidied up, gutter cleaned out, then stick a few large buckets of water down the down pipe and forget about it!! Our garage down pipe disappears underneath our single garage and just magically appears 20m in the verge. Has survived for 30 years without any obvious intervention before I arrived and tidied it all up. Thats not something I'd lose sleep over.

Can't say I'd lose sleep over it, not much you can do now either way.. Either drainage rods/drain snake to get to the blockage or just have the drain pipe drain onto the roof! Are there any large trees or sources of debris that would make a block likely?

I think for ours it could be heat buildup. They were very warm to the touch and because ip65 they are sealed in a tube. They were also 5w (or 6w?) downlights bulbs so more powerful then your average?

Thanks dpmiller, that's a really good idea and one we should have tried!! On that train if thought, also setting all the time periods during the day to force the boost to trigger during the day and monitor that... See if it kicks the random night boost into behaving itself. That being said, I spent an hour replacing the pcb they sent over this morning, hoping that it resolves it! Not changed any settings other then low flow during day and V high boost. Also not connected any of the external switches. See how it goes over the next week then will start resetting it up or see if anything kicks the boost in when it should have.

Thanks! Having turned it off for 30mins and turned it on again, all seems fine with it and it's generating a normal amount for this time of the morning.

Inverter has been off for 20mins,just turned it on and all is fine! Generating again, but still odd! I have replaced both led bulbs, one had come back to life (other did this before it fully failed) but when I replaced then the 'working one' was very warm. Not too hot to touch but 'this is quite hot for a LED'. I haven't replaced a bulb for donkeys so not sure if it's normal for LED spots? Edit... The other bulbs in the light fitting are just as war.!

These thoughts had crossed my mind!

Also don't over look the possibility plant rooms can be noisy & directly over a bedroom could cause annoyances!