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We have a pre plumbed joules supplied ASHP and 300l tank, ana General setup. I have 4kw of panels on the roof, and would like to get a diverter fitted. I rang joules who frowned on it and wouldn't advise how to fit it as their system is all preconfigured and predesigned etc etc.. Has anyone installed one on a joules packaged kit?

I changed our boost to 50% and left it at 60% humidity for now. I did/do have an issue where it randomly does full boost during the night, despite no settings calling for it... Remote digital display had a c3 showing when it did this which the VA tech team couldn't help with explaining why...

I went with 2 Cat6a per TV point, then in lounge 2 behind TV and 4 in the corner of the room and a duct between corner and TV. AV kit sits in corner of room, with wall mounted TV neatly on the wall! Also did 2 per bedroom TV, 2 for kitchen TV, 2 on kitchen counter, 4 per study, 2 per garage, 2 per CCTV point. Also 2 in garden for possible garden room in future (duct under Patio) and 2 front of house in case of electric gates. Working my way through the networking installation atm... I'll post up pics later!

Another one who hates windows, window companies and window fitters. Low point of our build due to multiple avoidable cock ups... Most we had to take on the chin.

I thought we were talking roof windows to wall windows.... And I thought I had an irritating eye for detail!!

Enjoying this project, keep it up!!

Thanks saveasteading. Out of 'principle' (dangerous word...) I feel something is due to us, but then the builder, his team and the attitude they've all had (positive & supportive) since day one forgives an awful lot of sins..... One we will think about over the next week or two as we approach it. Ill post back with how it goes for others.

We approach the end of our contract, builder has been very very good throughout. Never cheap, but has otherwise been professional, diligent and easy to engage with throughout. Very experienced, 3rd generation family firm etc. He is one of the good guys, expensive but worth it However, project took several months longer then it should have. No obvious reason why, just a complicated design and lots of small delays here and there throughout.... As well as builder juggling multiple big projects. Slow and steady. We do have liquidated damages for delays in the contract, to the tune of £15k ish. Initial rumblings from architects (who started off fantastic, staff change meant they've been very disappointing for last 1/3rd of contract) are suggesting builder is saying his prelims from the delays are significantly more then our liquidated damages, so let's just call it quits,as an opening position. I've pushed firmly back to them saying no, his prelims are due to delays, but delays were at least 50% due to him spreading resource thinly across multiple projects. I want to push him on this. (I can't prove though) Now builders experience, when on our side, has proven invaluable. However, now we are going to need to negotiate liquidated damages 'against him' means he is going to be typically outstanding at managing through it.... Against us!! Architects will do the heavy lift, but I'm going to be say next to them throughout to ensure they earn their money. Any tips or advice? How best to counter the argument of his prelims v liquidated damages, call it quits? We're not expecting much back (he has been so good, we feel we got a fair deal without them) , but would like to try our hand none the less!

Thanks all. Yes, I have just turned legionnaires off, felt the simplest solution. For some reason with joules, I can't reduce the hot water from 50degs as that's their lowest coded set point. As for the "economy" mode, I don't get the choice to adjust this for legionnaires, only the temperature, duration time max duration time and temperature. Joules shrugged off the energy usage is "fine", but their technical help definitely felt as a "system is infallible, just ignore it... I'm sure it's fine" rather then actually understand the qwerks.

Just to update this topic. We had set an "on" time for a slot we wanted it to run during, what we also needed to do was schedule the rest of the time as "off". So, 1 to 4pm the system is on and heats the water.. Then we needed to set a schedule for "off" from 4.01 to 12.59... Daft system, but it seems to have resolved it!

We Insulated around internal walls as well, no harm in doing so and might help with thermal bridging a bit! Also more help for any settlement/expansion.

Sorry guys, not sure I can tell. I've got a couple of photos attached, please let me know if it would help to zoom in on any area! It's a standard pre plumbed joule 300l tank, which the plumber and electrician have installed an extra 2 zone valves for the garage/Towel rail.

Thanks guys, I think it might have been the short cycling. It looked to only be using the immersion heater for the legionnaires, which when combined with 15min durations would lead to huge energy usage without actually warming up the water I think?? Either way I've turned off the legionnaires function, to see if it happens again without it on. If nothing over the next week, I'll turn it on again with the duration set to an hour maybe.

We have a Samsung gen6 ashp, just installed. I have set the DHW to come on during the day to maximise the benefit from our solar panels...heat to 50degs only between 1pm and 4pm. It manages this no problems. What I cannot understand is why I find it heating the water outside of these hours. No where can I see a setting which overrides the DHW timer, and the instructions haven't triggered any thoughts from me. It's difficult to pinpoint if there is a pattern to it'll, but I'll look out for this. Legionnaires cycle is now disabled, so it's not this. Can anyone help educate me on what's controlling it outside of the DHW window please? Thanks in advance!

Thanks John.....! I have gone back through the menu and the duration was actually set for 15mins, with a max time of 3 hours (so i figure it will spend 3 hours trying to hit the temp then give up and/or succeed).... so I am wondering if that's what has caused the issue.....It was using 15min slots to try and hit the temp...burning energy but not actually making a material difference to the temp? I have it set to go on again this afternoon, with an hour duration starting at 2pm with a max duration of 3 hours. Hopefully that sorts it??

nope, we are fully occupying the house and I was around all day yesterday. Heatmeiser isn't showing any surprising warm ups of rooms. I was in and out the utility room all day, and cant say I noticed much that was suspicious. I have reset the legionnaires cycle to run again today (12 to 5pm) to see if it replicates it.... but i am still keen to get to the bottom of it!!

normal cylinder temp is 50 degrees, legionnaire cycle is set to boost it to 55 degrees. Cylinder controller is set to ''standard'' mode. Edit; sorry it is 28kw not 38kw. Which is still a lot on a warm, sunny day when the temp wasn't stone cold beforehand.

We have just moved into a new build, with a Samsung Gen6 ASHP, 300L cylinder and a heatmeiser controller. New build with Building Regs +20% insulation standard, meticulously checked by myself during the 2 years of construction. Joules came out and 'commissioned' it last week in the most casual of fashions. They set it up, shrugged off my requests for what I wanted, I didn't fight them for it (because we were moving in at the time) and they went on their way. I figured I would adjust it after the fact. The only thing I have changed since then, is for the legionnaires cycle to be done during the day between 12 and 5pm on a Wednesday, when we are out & to maximise the 4kw of PV we have. It's set to 55 degrees for this (by Joules) on an otherwise 50degs cylinder temp. The last several days we use between 4 - 6kw for the DHW which im fine with...however the first legionnaires cycle yesterday used 38kw (!!!) and as far as I can tell it never hit 55 degrees. I also woke up to an error message this morning (e919) which when I googled it came up as the legionnaires cycle not hitting the desired temp. I simple cannot figure out where this 28kw went..... as the cylinder 'only' hit 50 degrees odd and the heating never came on....but that energy went somewhere. apologies, it used 28kw not 38kw!!

Nope, opened it as per their instructions. They were very casual, and their suggestions was to send me the PCB for me to replace. Turns out not needed, it was a miss wired BMS switch that was simply stopped it turning on at all. Disconnecting this resolved it straight away, then fault finding the wiring showed I'd caught two wires together. All sorted

We have 2 x Vent Axia MVHR, the bigger unit (Sentinel Kinetic Plus B) is not powering on in any capaity. Vent Axia are saying 10 days+ for an engineer to come and have a look, but they were very surprised to hear it had failed as they are all line tested before dispatch apparently. Has anyone had one DoA, any thoughts on what I could try? PCB Fuse looks OK, as do the connections & everything else I can see on the board.... Many thanks,

Went for full planning with slightly modified designs to our extension + existing refurbishment, so materially the 'same'. We kept nigh on the identical floor plan, styling etc just made a roof Mono pitch to compliment the extension's. No issues from planning.

Thanks conor, have you got any pics of how it turned out? Thanks for reminder on planning..... That's a really good point!!!

Hi all, We were originally looking at black slate Z Stone, but our builder has shown us the weight and thickness of it vs the render, and price!, and we are having real second thoughts on it. Can anyone recommend an alternative black/very dark cladding to fit a modern style bungalow? White render, back aluminium windows. We like charred wood but with 4 young children, I can see them picking at it and knocking it about. Any other black tile treatments for external application which people would recommend? ... Thanks in advance!

Thanks very much big jimbo, we'll give it a go!

Yep, we have two small bit irritating gaps very top and bottom, then bigger middle gap. All too big for neffs stupid fillers, to small for DIY kitchens fillers.... Grrrr