ProDave

This looks like your fill loop. If that is a pressure gauge there, open the two black valves at the end of the silver hose looking thing until the gauge reads about 1.5 bar then close them. Then try resetting the fault on the HP control panel

Your system has lost it's water pressure. One of the plumbers will be along to tell you how to top it up. In the mean time post as much as you can of the plumbing around the system particularly anything with something resembling a valve etc.

Don't do that. Post a picture of the insides of your fan and I am 99.9% certain you can just remove the timer module and your fan will work as a normal fan.

Those joists are not very big and quite possibly full of woodworm. My BIL lives in a 300 year old Welsh farmhouse like that. All the rooms have a permanent dip towards the centre of the room and they all move as you walk on them. But the surveyor summed it up verbally to my BIL (not what he put in writing) It was built 300 years ago out of rocks and s**t, it hasn't fallen down yet and unlikely to fall down any time soon. Another friend who had such a house lived the first 5 years with an Acro prop in the middle of the living room because he did not believe the floor above would take the weight of a double bed. It did not collapse when he eventually removed it.

Pictures? Are you concerned with "flex" as in the floors have sagged over time? OR "flex" as in you can see them bend and flex as someone walks on them?

Funny you should mention it but work on my long awaited car port ground to a halt when the snow came with the new year.

And then within a few hours of you getting it home and into your house, it becomes the shape of a banana.

Interesting. I like the idea as it reduces power it also reduces flow rate. My LG is set on needing 15L/min otherwise it shuts down with a low flow error. This variable flow seems so much more sensible. I have no plans to change at the moment, but if my present HP fails, this is the sort of thing I will be looking at when choosing a replacement.

First check the header tank is not dry.

And instead of being up front and saying that, we are going down the renewables route only under the guise of "net zero" We have been sleepwalking into this situation without a plan for what to do when our own oil and gas runs out and no preparation for that event.

Definitely. You want the mixer somewhere you can reach in and turn it on without getting your arm wet when you do so, so you avoid the inevitable cold water deluge before the hot water arrives. Of course it also needs to be accessible when you are in the shower.

It's funny how the cost of new energy infrastructure is added to energy bills like that. I don't recall in days gone by paying a levy to pay for all the coal fired power stations?

In fact, there are subsidies paid to the "community". It turns out our local community council receives payments from at least one of the nearby wind farms. I don't know of the history if how or why these are paid. The money is supposed to be used for the community good. One of the things they spend it on is a modest annual payment to each household to help with energy bills, with a higher amount paid if you are over state pension age.

Yes, that is the issue. the South want the power, and while the good people of Scotland have been having all these wind farms and pylons built (in spite of objections) the good people in the Cotswolds can have their green power without having to see it. THAT HAS TO CHANGE.

AND a failure of planning. WHY so many approved in Scotland, where there is no more capacity and they are the ones paid not to generate, while at the same time there is still I believe a blanket planning ban on onshore wind farms in England where there is the capacity and nearer to where most of the power is needed.

Crimp or solder and then heat shrink insulation.

Which is why I thing they would get the public on side more if it was presented an an energy security issue due to our dwindling oil and gas reserves, and without the silly completely stop oil use targets.

Yes it is happening. BUT if not actually man made we will get to net zero eventually at great cost, and find it makes no difference. So it DOES matter how it is caused.

Yes but I don't want to be the Guinea Pig testing technology that is not mature enough. One day I will have an EV but not until the technology has matured to meet my needs. When changing one of our cars last year, we thought about a plug in hybrid. My logic was it could run much of it's time on the local journeys purely as an EV but with the range of an ICE car. I was woefully disappointed with the pure EV range of what I found, barely capable of doing the 50 mile round trip to go shopping. So we settled for a mild hybrid as our previous car was.

Tell the English planners to allow wind farms on all major UK hills, just like we have in Scotland, that includes Chilterns, downs, Cotswolds etc. THIS is where more wind power is needed and can be accommodated by the grid, but currently not allowed. So those that say we need more wind farms and we need them quicker, start petitioning the UK government to remove the ban on on shore wind farms in England, and then please don't object to them because you don't think they and their pylons are ugly. I agree, a LOT of our usage could be done by an EV but both our cars need to so long journeys regularly and carry heavy loads or tow something. IF ONLY there was a way for us to have a THIRD car in our household, and EV for all those local journeys, but present car insurance, road tax and MOT would not make that cost effective.

We are not "too stubborn" We have been installing wind and other renewable generation for years, and it is working. What the tree huggers want us to do is stop using oil NOW. That is simply not possible. We are transitioning as fast as we can already. BUT a lot of people, including me, are to some extent put off by "we must change or we will ruin the planet" That puts a lot of people off because it is simply not believed by everyone and not actually proven fact. That added to the fact there is no choice but what we are offered (present EV's I am talking here) are in many ways inferior to what we have now. So trying to "sell" to the non believers you MUST have an EV but by the way this EV will not do all your present vehicle does you will just have to accept that. I am convinced if the move to more renewable electricity generation and more use of electricity for heating (heat pumps) was "sold" to the public as an energy security policy due to our diminishing oil reserves then more people would be likely to adopt it. Fixed usage, like home heating, industry etc is far far easier to switch to electricity without being inferior. So that should be the priority. Transport is much harder. We are not there on the technology yet for an EV to have the range, load carrying or towing capacity and refill/ recharge time anywhere close to present ICE cars. So it really irks me that these are the ones being mandated to switch over first. Why not home heating with heat pumps first? That works and is no worse than a gas boiler so why not mandate that switchover first? Oh and if you want the public on board, stop telling us all how bad we are, and start telling us how much good we have done already, but there is more to do.

If doing a lot of work yourself, then things can be very cheap. e.g. My wet UFH for the 2 bathrooms, the pipe and spreader plates were leftovers from doing the downstairs, so all I had to buy to put wet UFH in the bathrooms was a small manifold a 2 port motorised valve and a few plumbing fittings.

@Jothetaxi what work were you having done? New build? Extension? Other? When I employed a contractor to to the foundations and timber frame erection I was surprised that they asked to see my self build insurance policy. I guess in the event of anything similar happening here, the costs would have been claimed on my self build policy?

I don't get this bin storage lark. Our bin store is round the back of the house, where it is convenient for us to put rubbish from the house into them. The night before bin day, we wheel the approporiate bin to the front of the house and place it adjacent to the road for collection, then bring it back afterwards. I don't see what relevance this is to the planners where your bins reside when not awaiting collection?

I wish I shared your optimism. Sadly, the UK is pretty rubbish at manufacturing things now. You only have to look at the pathetic attempts at getting two Calmac ferries built by a shipyard on the Clyde. It didn't used to be like that, and I am sure it can be like that again, but it won't happen quickly.