Alan Ambrose

For anyone else reading this thread, I make that £36.3K total i.e. £291 + VAT per m². Alan

@Johnnyt Errr, with the various drone, solar planning and Google earth shots, I can't quite figure out which way is up. Google earth & solar planning - North is up? Drone shot - up is South East? Alan

>>> East - west split for PV will be plenty useful enough, and that’s what I’m doing. My ridge runs S - N. I expect a very long solar day. Yeah, we also have an existing little barn which is '15 degrees more SW facing' i.e. the ridge is about 345 degrees (NNW-SSE) and we like that orientation a lot. We get morning sun on the front and evening sun on the back together with no S-facing windows so we don't overheat. That's what we are trying to emulate on the new plot plus adding some solar panels. Alan

OK, v. good info and thanks everyone for the quick feedback. Alan

Ah interesting, thanks. Alan

>>> Can you not design the front at the front, just to please the planners, but have other sections of house orientated to do what you want. That's actually a bit tricky as the plot is long-ish and narrow-ish. The questions is: are there actually some 'rules' somewhere or is it just convention? Alan

Hi, I have a question I have not been able to find the answer to after a few hours of Googling... It seems generally accepted to design with the principal elevation of a new house parallel to the road. Depending on the compass direction of the road though that doesn't work necessarily very well for the best orientation to the sun for solar panels and shading etc. Ideally, for best sun direction I would like to orient the house about 45 degrees to the road. Are there some 'planning rules' somewhere which might prevent that? TIA, Alan

Hi, I don't claim to have done an exhaustive market analysis - but I just replaced an Uponor UFH set-up (the thermostats / controller / actuators) with a Heatmiser one that is app-controlled. Works fine. Alan