ProDave

Hopefully with photographic or video evidence of the offence taking place. you might want to inform the field owner of what your nice neighbour is discharging onto his land. He won't be best please I am sure.

What makes you think building a hipped roof onto a house with gable ends (and likely the houses around you have gable ends as well) is going to find favour with the planners?

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Mine has no buffer, because when I plumbed it I didn't know I should. Last house had UFH from an oil boiler without a buffer as well. Present house has ASHP "leaving water temperature" regulating the UFH temperature mostly. The blending valves on the manifolds protect the UFH pipes from the slug of hotter water left in the ASHP when it switches from DHW mode to heating mode.

I am using my present slack period to start compiling the "house manual" to document everything, before I forget it.

That's a neat solution and would allow your one existing thermostat to continue driving it's existing load and at the same time switch another remote load via radio.

Don't re invent the wheel. if you need to convey the signal from a room thermostat to a remote location without wires, start with a wireless room thermostat e.g. start with this selection https://www.screwfix.com/c/heating-plumbing/wireless-thermostats/cat4600004?cm_sp=managedredirect-_-plumbing-_-wirelessthermostat For just "simple" i would choose this one https://www.screwfix.com/p/danfoss-ret2001rf-rx1-s-wireless-room-thermostat-and-receiver/856jt

We had the "traffic management" nonsense when having our line installed. They needed to access a connection pit in the grass verge but deemed it too dangerous to do that with passing traffic so needed one lane of the road coned off with traffic lights. On the appointed day the traffic management firm came and set up the lights in the morning. They sat there all day annoying the motorists while nothing happened. At about 3PM the lights were removed having served no function other than delay the motorists. Shortly after Open Reach turned up, It was an old school bloke who just parked his van there with hazard lights on while he made the connection in the pit. What a farce.

The biggest issue appears not to be the low down heat loss from your small eaves storage space (even though that is probably bad). That would lead to the lower part of the roof losing it's snow. Instead, it is the upper part of the roof that is loosing heat like it is going out of fashion i.e. the sloping part of the bedroom ceiling. To address that you will need to strip off the plasterboard to first see what is there and then improve it.

If you really can get a new one fitted for £8K AND get £10.8K in RHI payments then it would be wise to do that, but you have to be quick because the RHI scheme is ending soon. the old one would not be worth much, it's the sort of thing someone might buy cheap to heat a garden room for instance?

I would say no in that case. Does the frame not come with a pipe fitted in the exact correct place? most seem to.

My decision was partly on wanting to reduce my energy bills and partly for the few extra SAP points on the as built EPC. Can you do a ground mount sustem or do you have a garage or car port that might be better suited to PV?

It may sound silly but you can avoid that using a sharp drill bit to drill a pilot hole through the carpet.

Pre covid the VOA seemed to visit our site monthly. I met him once, he pulled out a big file with lots of photos and looked up his notes and said "I have visited 23 times" He was regularly looking first to see if we had occupied the static caravan, as soon as we did that was on the register and paying council tax at band A. Then he was regularly looking to see if there was any sign of us moving from the caravan into the house. He did once have a look around the house but deemed it not sufficiently complete to value it, oddly citing lack of any internal doors fitted yet as his reason for "not complete" That all stopped with Covid and the house did not get banded until we got the completion certificate, and it was not visited by the VOA it must have been valued off plan, but at a band that was fair and there would be no prospect of reducing it so we have just accepted it.

Mostly satellite here, Terrestrial is not a good signal. While we do use IP tv for some things, it still just seems so "wrong" to be using precious bandwidth on a creaking poor internet system when that high bandwidth data at keast for broadcast tv is better provided with an aerial.

Yes it beggars belief. THAT was a question to ask when the PIP application was in progress and should have been settled. I would get sarcastic and ask "what would you do if it was good agricultural land"?

My suspicion is the input coil cannot handle the power level that the UFH is sucking out. Do you have any data on the buffer tank? Try slowing the manifold pump to reduce the rate heat is taken out and see if the equilibrium temperature rises? EDIT: Peters idea is tackling the same issue in the opposite way. Try both.

Who was it made the unknown unknowns speech?

I would be interested to know what they have done to make it a trickle. If still not resolved I would move into the caravan and report it as a "fault" Some heavy handed politics going on here with your water company I think?

It was nearly 6 years ago now, but I put my windows out to tender to about 6 quality window manufacturers. My findings were Rationel were actually the cheapest, and the second best in terms of Uw value. Only Internorm offered better Uw but at twice the price. But it does seem a very random thing because people here have reported Internorm being the cheapest. There seems to be no logic.

Experiences like that make you happy to do the lot yourself. Worst "stupid boarders" incident I had was rewiring a renovation. I had laid out the kitchen downlight cables ready to leave in the ceiling void for me to fish out. So I came back, cut No 1 hole went fishing, no cable. No 2 no cable, and so on, no cables to be found within fishing distance of any of the holes. Went upstairs and thankfully there was still a board up in the room above. The &^$$£ boarders had taken the cable I had neatly laid out for all the downlights,. coiled it up in the middle of the room and put the boards up.

Their rep was certainly happy to come from Cumbernauld (Aberdeen office was not open then) when we placed the original order. The builder that build our frame fitted them so it was supply only from ADW and it was the builder that confirmed the measurements.

Could it be that the UFH is simply extracting heat from the buffer at a faster rate than the input coil to the buffer can keep up with? Try shutting down some of the loops so it is only running say half the UFH and see if that gets up to temperature?

We have aluminium clad timber by Rationel, that will be available in the colour you want. The local dealer around here for them is ADW who have a branch in Aberdeen now.

Best of luck but I doubt you will stop them. A cold roof has to be ventilated, and a mouse can get through a hole that a biro pen will fit through, i,e, through the holes in a standard air brick or soffit vent. I used to deal with them with poison no messing and no return. This is why I am such a fan of an airtight warm roof design, the buggers have not got in this house yet.