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If you really want a half day job, get yourself one of these. Aquor water systems, also comes with an angled tap with an on/off bit. Never freezes, you just take the thing out of the socket and all the water dribbles out. The half day is spent trying to locate all the plumbing bits needed to convert from a US format 1/2inch NSF to metric...... They do look the dogs though

You need entangled bits.... Go quantum - few bits in the postbox entangled with some in the house. And hey presto the latest in postbox sensors. Powering the entangled bits on the street might be an issue but in the house must be a breeze...

Done - we're very local @CemCet, so if you want a more detailed discussion, hop on the number 1 bus and call in. DM me if you are interested. Simon

Ha! We're also black corrugated tin! So reception inside is dire.... We used one of the pucks you linked to - but mounted on top of the pole for the TV aerial which is on the back corner of the garage. I'm guessing it would work just as well mounted on the roof somehow - the instructions show it mounted on a truck roof, so a similar structure to a tin roof. We only needed it for the 4G signal, so only got the version for mobile signal. I bought extension cables from Amazon wasn't easy to compare and contrast with and without the extension cables @JohnMo but we do get a good signal. Just trying out a 5G router since our local mast has been fixed (took EE since June to sort it out!!). Tp-link seem to be the ones people are using. I tried the Archer NX200 based on info about the difference with the Deco but with our setup (we have Google Nest mesh wifi) the Archer wouldn't work because it can't be put into Bridge mode. I think the problem is down to the way Nest and the Archer handle NAT. So the Archer has been returned and a Deco should arrive today. The 4G router we used was the GL-inet 4G (Spitz I think it's called) - which works fine and GL-inet are better at having a router that is properly configurable - their 5G router is twice the price of the Tp-link ones though, so that's why we went with Tp-link. I guess if the Deco doesn't work, it'll go back to Amazon as well and we'll then have to decide if £400 is worth it for the much higher speeds of 5G.

Here's a recent one for a plot just down the road from us... Condition 10 The residential unit ('unit') hereby permitted shall be constructed as a selfbuild dwelling within the definition of self-build and custom build housing in the Self-build and Custom Housebuilding Act 2015 (As Amended): i. The first occupation of the unit shall be by a person or persons who had primary input into the design and layout of the dwelling; ii The Council shall be notified in writing of the persons who intend to take up first occupation of the unit hereby permitted at least two months prior to first occupation. [In order to comply with Regulation 8 of the Biodiversity Gain Requirements (Exemptions) Regulations 2024 and the statutory biodiversity gain condition required by Schedule 7A to the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended)]. But some small print after the conditions states that according to the Self Build Act, the permission doesn't require a demonstration of BNG He'd have a heck of a time though trying to sell the plot as a plot with planning permission....

Given the huge resource here - would it be possible to integrate Notebook LM or another AI tool into the search results, in such a way that as well as the list of search results, an AI summary is given. This would be extremely helpful. I'm thinking something like the paragraph you get above the list of reviews on Amazon - the AI there gives a good summary of what the reviews say.

Is that an ASHP throne I see there? Better not show it to ours, in case it gets the hump and wants us to build one for it.

same here..

Have a look at stone warehouse - basically AFAIK longstone quarry in Derbyshire. We've had black granite from them - not sure how small they go.

The guy building a couple of doors down says his architect will handle it. Given he's on his 3rd pretty picture architect, I strongly doubt it. I've tried to explain how it's easy to do and also the consequences of not doing it but.... Could be little windfall for the council coming up!

We used key clamp poles and joints. Simply whacked two lines of metre long poles into the ground, then built the frame from there, with a couple of bits for fastening other material to the poles - round clamp with a tail with a hole in it - between each pair of panels. Standard PV module clamps, can then be fixed through the holes. I found a commercial product on-line and simply used their plan. Great thing about this method, is you can set the angle of the panels to suit your needs. We set ours at 45deg which pvgis showed would give us about the same annual kW as a shallower angle but would give peak output in the spring and autumn and higher output in the winter. So output spread more over the year, rather than peaking in the summer. When the sun was shining yesterday we were getting 4.5kW from our 6.5kWp array.

Not sure if this is fixed already but try posting on the open energy monitor forum - there's a lot of discussion about Daikin's on there. More about getting them set up properly but there's a lot of experience.

Why not use white square section downpipe with the pipe inside and some lagging shoved in.

Our installers came out to re-do the outside insulation on the pipes - as in do it properly, instead of using cheap materials. They agreed to do a service while they were here - the plumber asked for some warm water. He then washed the outside of the case, checked the pressure dials and had a quick look inside - service done - glad i didn't pay £100 for that!! Talking to the supplier, when the unit has occasionally thrown an error, they said, just find a local ASHP installer, or look for an airco installer if the system needs recharging with gas.

Congrats - a bit faster then ours but that was a few years ago. I laughed about the 'need to sit down'. We were on a trip in the camper van in eastern Europe somewhere when ours came through - we were so nervous opening it. Had a weeks worth of celebration from there on in.