ProDave

I had a similar issue with my LG heat pump originally. The biggest issue was mine just had a flow switch and I did not know how much short of the required flow rate I was. So to solve that I bough an in line flow meter. It turned out I was not much sort of the required flow rate. In my case the LG had a pump inside it (does your Samsung?) so I added another pump as well in my plant room meaning both pumps were in series and that gave me enough extra flow to get over the line.

For those finding their address is still not on the PAF, have a look here and see if you can find your house listed: https://www.findmyaddress.co.uk/search If you can find it there you will find it's UPRN, Unique Property Reference Number. How I wish that was widely used instead of the PAF. If your address is not on the PAF it WILL NOT stop post being delivered. The only time it proves an issue is if you try and buy something on line and the supplier only offers "enter your postcode and select your house" Any sensible merchant that allows the option of enter address manually and you will have no problem.

Whatever you do, only fit heating in actual rooms. DO NOT waste effort fitting on a landing or room with no separation from the landing, it WILL NOT be needed. We have to keep the bedroom door shut tight to keep the bedroom down to the temperature swmbo likes about 17 degrees and we have no heating in there. This week has been mild so the bedroom window has been opened at times to keep the temperature down.

How old is it (what is the warranty period) Replacing it with the same is the classic case of doing the same thing but hoping for a different result (the replacement lasts longer) So I would not do that. I would be asking this forum and others what alternative make has a proven record of lasting longer. The fact they are offering you a refurb unit means they have been collecting dead ones and repairing them. Personally I would be taking it apart to find out what has failed.

With even fairly simple extensions like the post above being refused, I have to ask, are you in a conservation area?

If you really want the double fronted, make the left hand half above the garage set back a little with a stepped roof line, making it look right from the start like a subservient extension on the side (probably like has been approved for the house opposite)

Looking at that aerial view I see another detached house on the other side of the road. Was that also built after the original houses on the side garden? How does that one opposite compare in size and bulk to what you are proposing? It looks to me only slightly wider than the original semi detached houses with a single storey garage. If you submitted something like that, and it was still refused, you would have very good grounds to appeal. Just because you have used a planning consultant to get this far, an appeal can be done yourself for virtually no cost if you are just appealing a refused application.

Ask the agent you want to see in the loft. go armed with a step ladder and a camera and post the pictures of the findings.

But I read the question that @Alan Ambrose wants to run the dc cables for lighting. Presumably therefore the ac wiring to the switch and to the transformer already exists. So this is not a new circuit. So he can do most of the dc wiring he wants without notification, as long as it is not not in a special location. Which is why in my original reply I said most is not notifiable.

Part P does not in most cases stop you running 240V lighting cables, so why do you think it would stop you running low voltage ones? Don't skimp on cable size. for a given power of lighting lower voltage = higher current. Many people think they can use bell wire for low voltage wiring.

Yes typical lack of joined up thinking. We need wind farms to meet the move to renewables, so it simply should not be that they are prohibited. I have just been talking to a friend of mine who happens to be a councilor. It appears by a similar state of stupidity, that councils here are still approving wind farm developments, in spite of this document saying they are not needed and will not be connected, because the Scottish National planning framework still says they are and has not been updated. He told me of one councilor being ejected from a planning meeting because he suggested no more should be approved in Scotland.

It has been a gripe of mine for some time that there is hardly a range of hills in Scotland without at least one wind farm, yet all the main hills in S England, Cotswolds, Chilterns, Downs (all of them) etc etc are devoid of any wind farms. I am all for sharing, but while Scotland has been the soft target, enough is enough and the people of the shires need to realise converting to wind power means you WILL see turbines spinning on your hills, you WILL see extra pylons matching across your landscape to connect them. It can't all happen, out of sight, of no consequence, in that distant outpost of the UK that you have vaguely heard about called "Scotland"

So what is that branch pipe coming round the corner then? Your other pipe further along is definitely foul waste with no inspection chamber or rodding access.

Why no more? Because we have enough already, and the grid can't connect more and get all that power down south. So they have decided sensibly, lets build more down near where most of the power is used. Drive around Scotland and it is hard to find anywhere you can't see a wind farm. Drive around England and it is often hard to find anywhere you can see a wind farm.

The report itself seems okay, it is the lousy "report it to Joe public" news article that is of the dumbed down nature. As I say, it DOES highlight Scotland has been the target for so much wind farm, and now there is a document confirming we have more than our target, so please no more. Time for England and Wales to have their share if they want the lights down there to stay on. I will be forwarding this to everyone I know .