ProDave

Was this an official room in the roof or a DIY conversion of a loft? Out house is room in roof with the same level of insulation applied to the loft rooms as the normal rooms and they are just as quiet. A velux window will give rain noise in a heavy shower, that is all.

Our plot has no planning. So I made a formal offer to buy the plot subject to planning being granted. The offer was accepted and there was an 8 week wait while I waited for planning in principle to be granted and the purchase proceeded. Land might be cheaper in NI but is it really cheaper to build there? Perhaps just moving to a cheaper bit of Scotland might be easier?

January reading was due. Submitted. Then they asked for a photo of the generation meter as they had not been for 2 years. submitted and acknowledged. Nearly 3 months later and no payment. I can;t complain just yet as their contract states they will pay "within a quarter" That will be up soon (and the next reading due) then I WILL be complaining.

My finding is definitely the room with spreader plates heats the room less well. So for a given UFH flow temperature, less heat goes into the room. So that must mean, if I cared to measure it, the return temperature from that loop would be higher than from the rooms with the pug mix, so less energy has gone into that room. Pug mix is cheap and easy, you just need to make sure you size the joists for the extra dead load they have to support.

Hi and welcome. The planners down't care about cruck frames or straw bales, they just care what it looks like. If the exterior meets their expectations, no reason why not. Building control may be a little more interested in the details.

But that in room display is really just a toy, it is not the official meter (though some people think it is) Talking of SSE, I have not yet received my FIT payment for the meter reading sent in January, and looking at other forums neither have a lot of other people. Something about being taken over by ovo?

No data, but I can confirm our main floor downstairs, UFH in a pug mix is better at heating the rooms than the utility room that has UFH pipes and spreader plate, all running at the same temperature.

And related to that, just how long can the energy companies continue selling to consumers at a loss thanks to the cap? How long before none are left or we are back to one nationalised CEGB?

A TV should not need an instruction book. If it is so badly designed that it is not possible to use it without reading the manual it is a fail. "If all else fails, rtfm"

I am sure in some places there is a need for a 21st century "slum clearance" program to rebuild these old houses that are impossible to upgrade properly. But who pays? The EPC system was introduced expecting people to demand an A+++ house just like they will only bay an A+++ washing machine, but it has been largely ignored. I am still of the view that houses with a poor EPC should be worth less than those with a good EPC, to reflect the high running costs or cost of work needed to upgrade them. I saw a flat near here advertised with an EPC G07 I think that is the worst I have ever seen.

"Electrifying" does not solve the problem if the extra electricity needed comes from imported gas. It would in fact make the problem worse. There is no quick fix for decades of continuing to build lousy houses and decades of a dud energy policy.

He is demanding payment in Roubles not Euro's so it could get "interesting"

I (and several others) concluded a while back that if you have treated mains water and an unvented HW tank, there is no need for a legionairs cycle, so turn that function off, and connect the PV diverter directly to the immersion heater on it's own circuit and not via the ASHP. That is what i have.

Unless you have gone to a fixed tariff there is nothing you can do. It depends a lot I expect on what happens in the eastern block between now and then. I would be very surprised if it goes down.

It seems counter intuitive but try swapping the meter input and output and see if that reads properly.

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When using that as a GENERATION meter, the "input" from the inverter goes to the left hand 2 terminals and the right 2 terminals connect to your consumer unit. We really need that photo is is not clear from your description how it is wired.

Post a picture of the meter and how it is connected. It would not be the first time the installer has connected a generation meter backwards.

If your deepest trench is 750mm I would first be digging 2 trial pits in the lane next to the 2 garages to determine their foundation depth. If >750mm then happy days, just notify them you are not digging deeper than their foundation and PW act does not apply. I think this is going to be a difficult connection, you want to get all the services in in one go, and you need to start by digging a trial trench at both ends to find all the services. If they are not in the same place at both ends then assume they are not in a straight line. The lane is going to be out of action while you do this, so you need the cooperation of the other owner or you need a lot of road plates to keep it in use during works.

Don't put it under the stairs or any built in kitchen unit. In a well insulated house it is arguable if it is needed at all in the hall, we have none in our hall. BUT the one BIG fault with that layout, is it puts one manifold at the back of a kitchen corner unit. that will have to be a butchered kitchen unit and even then will be very awkward to get at. Move it so both manifolds are under the stairs and can be boxed in easily and easy access. Manifold 2 would be right down at the low end of the stairs and also be pretty inaccessible. So put both manifolds nearer the high end of the under stairs space.

Immediate thoughts. He didn't raise the PW issue until you ere about to start work, because up to then it did not matter. The concern is the service trenches could be as deep if not deeper than the garage foundations and very close to them. You really need to find the locations of the services. 3 lots of water, gas electricity and possibly telecoms in a 2.5 metre road is probably going to be cosy. You don't want to put a digger bucket through a gas pipe. What have the individual utilities actually said about connection points? A drawing would make it all a lot clearer.

Some of us managed to jump onto a fixed rate that is no worse unit rate than the post April cap, but at the pre April cap standing charge. And fixed for 12 months so will protect from a further cap increase in October. I never ever thought I would think electricity at 27p per kWh was a "good rate"

My heating requirement is about 2.5kW when it's +20 inside and -10 outside. I fitted a 5kW ASHP so it can do 200% of my heating. That's mainly because there are very few ASHP's less than 5kW but any smaller and it would be too slow at heating DHW. In practice it means the heat pump has an easy time and could cope with a lot colder.

Simple answer is they will work fine, as long as they are sized correctly to meet the heating needs on the coldest winter day. No problem with our ASHP here in the Highlands. We do have a wood burning stove as secondary heating, but that is more to do with the abundance of free wood.

I pity the sparky tasked with fitting the fan.......