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There are two completely separate issues, you need to separate them. 1) does the system used need a drainage field to provide secondary treatment? I would not personally install such a system now. 2) whatever system you install it produces water. that has to go somewhere. Assuming it is a treatment plant that has no requirement for secondary treatment, then that could go to any of the different forms of land drainage, or it could go to a watercourse. Local bodies like the Environment Agency or SEPA in Scotland often need to licence a discharge to a watercourse.

Can you get a certificate of lawful development for the existing garage and use that to then rebuild it with one the same size?

So an article about a landscaping earth bank, without so much as a single picture of the offending earth bank? Qwality journalism. Sorry to hear of Sarah's Cancer. Hope the treatment works.

WHY on such a large site have your permitted development rights been removed? I would be appealing that so you are once more free to build PD buildings. It depends what you want to do with the space, my favourite if just storage is a static caravan.

And now I have a new riddle to solve "SMS messages from certain senders not being received via wifi calling" This is SWMBO's phone. she is with O2. The basic problem that triggered this chain of events was the O2 signal at our house disappearing in early December never to return in spite of them saying the fault is fixed. So now we are both 100% reliant on wifi calling for anything to work at home. Today SWMBO was trying to get a verification code by SMS to log onto a service. It did not arrive. she then went out, when she got to town, the messages had queued up and she received them. That's strange and while we were discussing it, she received an SMS from someone else. So it can receive them via wifi. So why did she not receive the others. So i sent her an SMS. No that one did not arrive. She sent me one, and it did. So it would appear on her phone when at home and connected via wifi calling she can only receive SMS messages from some people not everyone. Anyone care to work that one out?

Too busy pondering the elephant in the room.

Take the frame apart and glue the bottom member to the floor with your chosen adhesive.

Just be carefull that looks like it has potential to remove a finger if you don't treat it with respect.

Perhaps Ian could describe what he wants to cut and where?

We have the very cheapest wooden 2G velux windows. No condensation on the frames at all not even in the en-suite after a shower and at our colder outside temperatures. We do get some condensation around the edge of the glass, so I regret not choosing 3G glass, but on the other hand this thread suggests I would still get condensation there?

Yes you need someone with a flue gas analyser to set up the burner. Money well spent.

In what context are they saying it is "notifiable work"? In England and Wales the wiring comes under Part P, so at least some of the electrical work will have to be done and notified by a suitably qualified electrician. And at least part of connecting an unvented hot water cylinder will need to be signed off by G3 plumber. Other than that you can do the lot your self. As I am an electrician I did it all apart from the very final water connection, testing and sign off of the UVC by a suitably qualified plumber.

Making progress on this. Initially the rebuilt PSU did not power up, and the TIP32 got very hot. So left it for a while. I had a another look today and found another short circuit SMD diode, a power device this time. Rather than look it up and order one, I surface mounted an ordinary axial diode. Now we are at least partly in business. The PSU powers up, it appears to have 2 outputs, one that stabilises at 5.3V and the other at 21V. That would tie with a logic supply and the 21V is for driving the dozen or so 24V coil relays. On power on the backlight to the little LCD display come on, the lights behind the pushbuttons flash once on power up, as do 3 LED's on the main board, but no text on the display and no apparent reaction to pressing any of the buttons. I guess the next thing is go and try it back in it's box and see if there are more signs of life with everything connected.

No our bathrooms are never "damp" and the towels stored on the shelves in them are dry when you pick them up. As others say, the constant air changing with the MVHR results in a very nice internal atmosphere the air is always fresh and dry, but not too dry. A properly insulated house with mvhr, just forget all notions of "damp" you had from old houses.

I am reminded of the old Tithe Barn in the village I used to live. A large 600 yer old structure that while superficially okay, was leaning, the roof was warped and leaking and a lot of rotten timber. It was sold for something in the region of £200K to the Astom Martin Owners club who stripped it bare rebuilt the frame, re roofed and re clad it all under the watch of English Heritage as listed building. The restoration cost many times the purchase price. Look at the building in this link, not the cars https://www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x4876955c67ed843f:0x89ea14e1091ccede!3m1!7e115!4shttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipPl32oFKQj4QtfNm0nxNi0YyIZFVbOCbEBtAhKW%3Dw242-h160-k-no!5sAMOC+barn+drayton+st+leonard+restoration+-+Google+Search!15zQ2dJZ0FRPT0&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipPl32oFKQj4QtfNm0nxNi0YyIZFVbOCbEBtAhKW&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFnOD-wMr8AhVsSUEAHaNaDuIQ7ZgBegQIFxAC I know yours is probably a different scale, but money pit is still what springs to mind.

Unless you have deep pockets, this is one to look at, not buy.

Nothing is zero maintenance. No 1 is grass and buy a lawnmower. Anything else is buy a backpack sprayer and some Gallup XL (Glyphosate)

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This is where I keep hoping for someone that knows this ASHP comes along. On my own LG therma V heat pump there are easy "user controls" for target hot water temperature, and (if you use the built in thermostat room temperature) But there are also settings for "water leaving temperature in heating mode" and "water leaving temperature in hot water mode" Those are far more complicated to adjust being "parameters" not settings. What we are trying to achieve with your heat pump is the "water leaving temperature in hot water mode" to be about 55 degrees and hot water target temperature to be about 49 degrees. Remember these might be called something completely different on your heat pump and god knows how you adjust them. The water leaving temperature must be set higher than the target temperature of the tank or it will never get there.

I wondered that, but they are such low power even if one went rogue, I could not see it upsetting reception that far. Definitely half a mile away from home I still get no reception on either. I need to get over the brow if the hill for things to work. I do wonder if the O2 mast that went off in December and supposedly has now been fixed is the problem, but nobody seems interested in investigating.

The plot thickens on the "poor signal at home" issue. (now solved with wifi calling so just academic interest) Today i have been out with 2 phones, old Sky ()2) sim in one, and new 1p (EE) sim in the other. Neither gets a signal at home in spite of both networks saying coverage should be good and no known network problems. Go about a mile away from home up a hill a bit so I am looking down on the local town, both phones get a signal and work fine. I have the app Network Cell Info lite on the phone that us supposed to tell you things like what network you are connected to what band and what signal strength. When "out of signal" on the phone it gives some really weird readings like sometimes the signal strength pointer jumping up to maximum. I am wondering if there is a local interference issue rather than a "fault" with one of the networks. Just musing possibilities, a portable spectrum analyser would be handy.....

That is a good set of intentions and one we look forward to watching and helping with. Start each topic in it's own place in the forum. but just to burst your bubble, you will NOT get to a "bill free house" you can only hope for low bills.

That's a system boiler not a combi, so opening the hot tap won't let off the pressure. That EV is for the sealed heating system. The water should already be turned off. There is an over pressure release valve on the top of the boiler if you remove the top cover, you can manually open that to let off the pressure. But the pressure already looks very low.

Scholmore Click is my favourite range. Decorative https://www.toolstation.com/electrical-supplies-accessories/decorative-switches-sockets/c806?brand=Click+Deco White https://www.toolstation.com/electrical-supplies-accessories/switches-sockets/c660?brand=Scolmore+Click Never had trouble with the Click fittings good quality for not much money. Schneider is another make that gets good reviews. I have not personally rated MK as "quality" for a long time.

Does the heat pump not have separate outputs for hot water and heating? If you really can't find a 3 port 2 way valve, you can get one normally open and one normally closed 2 port to work from one output.