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    They’ll definitely be on channel 4s streaming service. All ones I’ve seen so far have been in England, but may still be useful.
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    Yeah shower every morning, very rarely have a bath
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    104L per day for just me, 62m2 living floor area. According to the report for sustainability, we should be aiming for around 100L per person per day, so i'm not too far off
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    Just seen this, gives me a solid 30% off everything. Agreed TP aren't the cheapest for most stuff, but with the code, they're looking very good. Use code: DEADLINEDAY Even works for things like Velux windows, but they don't stock all the sizes, and sods law not the ones i'm after!
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    How the other half live hey! Great find for us normal folk though lol
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    Have you been watching the George Clark and Charlie Luxton (C4 and More4)? They've been doing programs about this exact topic. From what i've seen the rebuild costs are always much greater than anticipated, as something always throws up a spanner in the works. Remember everything has to be to building regs, and they have the final say. That concrete floor is going to have to come up for a new modern insulated slab for a start, i'd bet that will be the best part of £7k there alone. P.S This is assuming you are converting it into a home...
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    Looking at your photo, i'd say the yellowness is more to do with ambient lighting, the island is much whiter on the photo. Obviously get the island replaced, thats technically not right, so shouldn't be a problem. You can always paint the walls in a warmer shade to cool the worktops down, use cool white lights (which are recommended for kitchens anyway), and let it settle with you a bit, and the wood floor will certainly help. Don't judge it until the room is complete, paint can change alsorts.
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    Maybe get in touch with someone who paints kitchen cabinet doors as their job, they will use a sprayer and may be able to better achieve the finish you are after.
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    Kitchen brands tend to use big name paints, farrow and ball and little greene, found this… https://www.littlegreene.com/marine-blue
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    Does this mean you would only put that bit on the door which is in front... Look at the greyed out door, and the finger pointing. Rear door has this on it
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    Beyond me...greatful they weren't an option when i got them lol
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    Your mechanisms look to be right compared to diagram, whats on the next instructions?
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    Thats the soft close mechanism, looks like the bracket screws to it, and then it and the bracket screw to the door itself. How have you fitted them?
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    I have a set of these, the doors are so hard to get right, didn't do soft close when i bought these, but I can tell you that I ALWAYS forget to click the clip (its like a lock i think) on the top of the doors into place, which seems to be the difference between not working and working in a lot of cases!
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    OK that doesn't sound too bad with poor sun amounts and losing Sun at 6pm (remember shading on even a single panel if they are all connected to a Single MPPT will kill the output on all, double MPPT will help keep this to a minimum, or solaredge to maximise each individual panel, but obviously i don't know your setup), keep an eye on it and see how it goes. You are quite a shallow angle too which might have a bearing on it, 30 degrees plus is much more favourable, and it can make quite a difference (as we experience in winter).
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    Have you got any shading at all on any of the panels? Whats your daily production values for the last few days? Friday I generated 17.28kWh Yes, i would expect a good amount of W even on a cloudy day, you have 2kWp more than me. I couldn't tell you what mines producing at the moment, I need to connect it back to the internet after moving the switch the other day, thats a mission for tomorrow i think!
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    Doesn't sound right to me, though depends how thick the cloud is I guess. Would have expected more than 1kW peak since install, I had that earlier and its not the brightest day up here, mines only 4kWp. Can you contact the installer? Inverter settings all as they should be?
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    Give us some more info... How many panels, what direction and angle?
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    Looking very sharp, bet you are glad you've got the render in place now! ? Have some not so good memories of narrow boating when i was little with my parents, throwing up all night with 'sea' sickness! Yep you read that right lol
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    Yeah its still as good as the day i bought it, does the job brilliantly. Mine is also pointed at the ceiling, and nothing on there so far.
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    From memory isn't it always preferable to have an airgap inside the partition, i.e. the insulation shouldn't full fill, so that any sound can reverberate and be absorbed.
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    One other thing to consider is the two types of bifold doors, there are top hung and bottom hung, the better ones in my opinion are always bottom hung, where the weight all goes on the bottom of the frame, rather than hanging from the lintel, this may help to reduce deflection also.
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    Seems an expensive product also. How about https://www.airstop.co.uk/product-page/isowindow-feba-soft Depending on how hands on you are, this would be easily done after their installation, before plastering. Out of curiosity, how much was your windows quote, i keep looking at adverts for idealcombi, look nice windows, well designed.
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    The top opener window should certainly have the ability to lock with it open slightly. It should have one of these (the gold bit) One slot is fully closed, and the other is vent.
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    im not too sure with tilt and turn, mother in law has them and I think hers has a lock on the turn, if you take a photo of both parts of the locking mechanism with the window open I might be able to suggest something
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