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Window meets the size/area requirement...

Its a fixed window. House is all but finished. Not interested in finger pointing, just hoping for a solution that doesn't involve major works.

Im having some push back from BCO regarding my lack of emergency escape windows on the ground floor. The family room and the study are the issue. BCO happy to turn a blind eye to the study, because its "only a small room" as long as I remove the door. However removing the door for the family room is not a solution, apparently. The way I see it, there are 2 means of escape from the kitchen (front door through porch & back door) Using the BCO's metric shouldn't every ground floor room require an escape window. What can I use to gently persuade and leave him thinking he's still the boss?!

Great, will take a look

Is this a thing? From my limited wanderings in Config Ive only seen 3C. Can already think of a couple of uses for 4C in my set up

Looking for any advice on challenging the Valuation Office for Council Tax banding. I had a call back from the valuer who dealt with my property this morning, I asked a lot of questions... Was told to just submit an appeal, no evidence needed as it is a recent valuation and so it would get looked at again. In more depth. Was told EPC's are not an accurate way of determining size of property and so are not used Google maps are not used to determine size of dwelling or scope of alterations No site visits are made Despite each tax band having a very specific property value, eg Band F £120k - £180k . No figure is reached when determining the value of the property. So not possible to know if you are just inside the band, or comfortably in the middle. From what I could find out, only 2 forms of information are used: - plans from the planning portal, in my case hand drawn and although beautiful the accuracy cant be anywhere near as good as CAD. - sold prices No consideration is given to adjoining property, in my case semi detached neighbour is Band B, Ive just been given F Unfortunately the gentleman I was speaking to made his excuses to end the call, with many questions unanswered Is the curtilage of a property considered? eg Small house, large curtilage with outbuildings etc could that have a similar value to a large house on a tight plot. When looking at local houses to demonstrate Im in the wrong band, is it a waste of time looking at houses that haven't been valued recently and have had lots of extensions? Should I just be looking at new builds and newly valued? I read on the forum previously that highly insulated properties with thick walls, mine nearly 500mm, was a good point to raise as floor area is reduced compared to older style build methods, is this still true?

I have similar but larger Solis inverter, religiously followed the strict instructions initially. But after a few grid power cuts, the inverter seems quite content to power down and reboot in any AC/DC order. Maybe I've affected the longevity of the machine but I doubt it.

As an update to this, the manual makes no mention of PV diverted power, the second wiring option is for a 24hr timer function only. On/Off and not for granular 'excess' power Thankfully Sunamp have been very helpful. They acknowledged that i should have had a model that accepts PV through a diverter and have sent me a new controller. The Sunamp now charges top to bottom instead of bottom to top, as such the in and out pipe work has had to be reversed. Working well now though. @ToughButterCup I'd check your installation is ok with Sunamp, they were adamant an eHW should not be connected to a diverter and said it would effect longevity and capacity. Must be the eHW +iPV.

Another vote for FuseBox. They do a frame which allows the CU to be recessed. Looks 👌 https://www.gil-lec.co.uk/fusebox-afmf18

Nice touch. The Touch Pure have the little LED downlights that are good for a little illumination in the middle of the night. Unfortunately I don't have any switches on the landing/hall. Would be really nice to hack the Loxone presence detectors for this but my software skills are lacking!

Hi @joth when you say low level markers at night do you mean using the LED's inside the presence detectors for illumination? During commissioning, I noticed the Loxone ones have a few different LEDs inside to indicate status. Would be really neat to use these as lighting at night but am guessing it would involve hacking them.

Why do you need an expensive Ubiquity switch? I would've thought a cheaper unmanaged alternative would suffice and then add the Ubiquity WAP's

I have similar requirements to @Adsibob and will likely follow @JonJump advice and fit an unmanaged switch in front of my router with 2 decent ceiling mounted wireless access points. Currently looking at switch options and it seems that most 19" rack mounted POE options are all managed. Is that the case? I'm looking for 24 port total but only really need a handful POE. Currently have all 16x cat6 terminated and patched ready for the next step..

No, hasn't been used with any type of diverter yet

Thanks Russ. I feared that might be case. Another mark against the eejit that spec'd the thing. I wonder if there's an option to upgrade the controller 😕