Tom

Yep, clearly the better option, thanks for the reality check 👍

Thanks @Oz07, there wont be a skirting board along this side, and the joists run perpendicular to the gap. I could run a circular saw down the gap and cut off the "tongue" of the chipboard flooring, then use a 35mmx22mm strip of wood to fill I guess.

Hi all - we have a mezzanine area that we need to get carpeted and unfortunately the chipboard flooring boards don't go quite to the edge (see pic). There's about a 35mm gap x 5m, which is just too wide to be covered by the carpet gripper strip. I'm unsure what to fill this with, the timber just visible is the wall plate and there are a few gaps that extend in to the ceiling void, so anything liquid will flow into these. What would you suggest? I don't have any more of the woodchip to use unfortunately. Thanks

A lot better. Eh? What makes you think this? It's what they call "sintered stone" I think, basically a mad made stone created with immense temperature and pressure. It's very like pocelain, but better. It's practically impervious to any scratching, solvents, staining etc - unlike the resin composite worktops. The downside is it has to be cut, machined etc by specialists.

You're right there are lots if stone resin manufacturers, they're all probably much the same. Dekton is a very different material though

Just Google dekton worktops and you get lots of suppliers popping up. If you do some on-line quotes you soon get the salesmen coming out of the woodwork, then play hardball 👍

Got a few quotes, including from an on-line national supplier, the latter seemed to get bored with all the re-qotes/questions i was firing his way and came back with something ridiculously cheap. I then took that to our local, preferred supplier who had a price match guarantee - they agreed to it, and the rest is history as they say. Just goes to show how much of a margin there is in these things though, so worth pushing and pushing some more.

We've got Dekton worktops including for an island, and they are fantastic. The initial quotes were eye watering but we shopped around and got it down from £6k+ to just over £2k - and this was for essentially two kitchens and large island.

Thanks both, have pulled the trigger on Intelligent Go and will see how things, er, go 👍

Hmmm, I think it makes more sense, but check my working: with the Cosy tariff it's 8hrs at 14.2p/kWh versus 5hrs (at night) at 8.5p for the Go - so a bit cheaper for the EV tariff and you avoid the premium rate of 3hrs at 43.45p in the evenings. (we only need the ASHP on for 4hrs or so) We have 13kW PV on the roof, so often during the day we import very little/none (and virtually none every day for 5 months or so from spring-autumn), and the night time rate will make a good dint in the import we can't reduce with the PV. Does that seem reasonable thinking?

So, has anyone experience of signing up for an EV tariff if they don't have an EV? Octopus asking for make/model and charger make. I can easy enough find the former, but I would guess i need to indicate i have a "dumb" charger - or is it just easier to say i charge via a 13amp plug?

We plan to add some LED strip lighting to "up-light" our vaulted ceiling. Total run will be about 40m but I think it would make sense to split this up and have several shorter runs that we can switch on/off. It will all be installed by an electrician, so should we go for mains voltage (which would do away with the need for transformers) or is lower voltage "better" in any way? Thanks all

Bats are mammals, soft lad

Correct.

When I was researching this it seemed that this was the new standard for 3ph meters - so I'm guessing any new installation using a new meter should do this. This was based purely on internet research though - asking the ASHP installers/Octopus/electrician was just met with a blank stare.