ProDave

Do other services need to come under the road? We found Scottish Water gave a cheaper quote for the road crossing, so they did it and we laid in a duct for the electriciy. See if you can find a local contractor that has a minor street works permit. and see if they can mole under the road and install a black electricity duct. That would be chepaer than closing the road, traffic lights and digging the road up. We ended up with the connection pit open and a duct from the connection pit all the way to my meter box and the electrical connection them came down to about £1000

Under a fridge would be a bad place to put it.

Any small relay with screw terminals will do. The ones I used were made by Finder and I bought them from CPC but when I looked another time I could no longer find them.

I would recommend you use a switch fuse with an 80A fuse in it. Then in the unlikely event of the fuse going, there is a reasonable chance it will be your 80A fuse that blows and you can easily change it. If the DNO's 100A fuse goes, expect them to ask some very awkward questions about what you have been doing to blow it before they will replace it. Over that distance and with an an 80A fuse, 16mm would do, but agreed 25mm would be better. Leave it a bit over length at the meter box end to allow some room to reconfigure things when you build the garage.

Would be interested to see the breakdown. I would have expected less, e.g surely only one road crossing is needed etc.

ebay is probably easier. You can search for an item and then have it notify you when new items fitting your search description are listed. You can also include distance from your address so you only get to see stuff within travelling distance. I don't "do" facebook but every time I have looked is seems so confusing and haphazard and you see something one day and it's nigh on impossible to find it again.

I used 3 coats of the 2 pack varnish that Howdens sell (sorry I forgot to not the actual make of the stuff) Super finish and very hard wearing. I doubt you will have a problem once it is dry but very stinky stuff to apply, so wait for good weather and all the windows open.

Looking at the last picture, the incoming supply to the shed splits to the sockets and lighting with no fusing. I would expect at least a fuse or mcb for the lighting circuit. I am not familliar with Dutch wiring, but there must be the equivalent to our Fused Connection Unit?

Or a bit of flex just connected into the back of an innocent looking socket. I am no longer surprised or shocked at the horrors I frequently find.

If the shed has a feed large enough for sockets, then it should either have a mini consumer unit, or at the very least, a Fused Connection Unit with a 3A or 5A fuse for the lighting. What about RCD protection? This shed could be a lot more dangerous than you think.

Make sure you have notified the planners that you have started the development then your planning is locked in for good.

I just sat the relay on a convenient ledge and cable tied it there so it could not fall off.

Or was he just testing the local reaction? I would go and have a chat and say look old chap, site it somewhere where it cannot be seen or heard from our house, and I will raise no objection.

My conclusion is up to a typical 4kW PV system, it is very easy to self use all that you generate. So a lot of what we generate goes into the washing machine, dishwasher, or tumble dryer, not into "heating" the house. So what. as long as it is used somehow, it reduces what we have to import and pay for. What can't be used goes to DHW and then only a tiny bit gets exported. It is only above 4kW of PV that it becomes hard to self use it all and battery storage might make more sense. @SteamyTea post highlights the difference between the extreme ends of the UK. After our brief warm spell, it's been back down to 3 degrees sitting under a cold grey dark sky (Harr) up here, so there is no way we can turn the heating off yet (though last week it was not doing much work). Our heating bills with the new house up here are pretty low. I bet they would be stupidly low if this house was in the warmer climate where @SteamyTea lives.

Just be VERY careful you don't miss any re application, or ammended application, don't assume it will have the same planning application number.

It took them many weeks on my new connection to contrive / find a working pair from here to the exchange. The delay resulted in my connection fee being refunded. It's not BT but Open Reach who are the ones that let it all down.

Don't set the window out quite that far. Our situation is slightly similar, 200mm insulated timber frame with 100mm wood fibre board external insulation and similar render. The windows were bought with aluminium external cills iirc about 130mm deep. So the windows were set so the cills overlapped over the wood fibre board enough to allow for the render. Some pictures to explain it: Here is how the window sits in relation to the wood fibre board, so the windows sits partly in the timber frame (brick wall in your case) and partly in the external insulation (EPS in your case) The windows are fixed with several galvanised plates pre drilled with holes (someone will tell your the correct name?) first screwed to the windows then screwed to the frame (again that will be screwed to your brick walls)

Well done. Sometimes when you identify the faulty section of cable you never get to find out exactly where the problem was, as it is often easier just to re route a new bit of cable and leave the old one in place. As you say, another option is to feed the two ends of the now broken ring, each with a 16A MCB as two radial circuits.

This is what I did. An old desk fan, a big sheet of cardboard, a lot of duct tape. A manometer to measure pressure difference between in and out. Measure air flow passing through the fan with an anemometer to calculate a rough idea of the leakage rate. And go round the house looking and feeling for leaks, I found very few. What was really interesting with the fan going is how the house depressurised, and if you then went and opened a door or window, the massive whoosh of air that came in to make up the pressure difference.

Unless there is a really really tight planning restriction on the ridge height, I would simply raise ground floor FFL 100mm to add extra insulation. Extra wall insulation will mean slightly smaller rooms. Can you live with that? The BEST thing you can do to make this energy efficient is pay very careful attention to ALL the detailing, particularly air tightness.

It must be a regional difference in the way things are done. Here, it is normal for the sole plate to be set lower than that, and for at least one of the 150 by 50 timbers to pass without break under the door, usually with a bit of packing to get the door height correct with regard to finished floor level.

Yes we went away for a 2 week holiday last September. Not had any heating on before we went away, and it turned cold while we were gone. And with no occupancy and no incidental heating, the house was 12 degrees inside when we got back late of an evening. Heating on and WBS at full tilt warmed it up a bit for us to have a meal and go to bed but it was 2 days before the house was back to proper temperature and the UFH could then relax a bit. This might be the one and only time I would concede that having your heating contollable over the internet would be useful, we could have turned it on 2 days before our return. A feature of very well insulated houses is they hold their heat, so take a long time to cool down. You don't want the rate of heat input when the heating is on to be too great otherwise the temperature will overshoot. So it is set up to only heat the house gently and that works well to maintain a comfortable temperature throughout the year, even when below -10 outside. What it is not good at is heating the building quickly which is where having the WBS as a second source og heat helps a lot.

This one does not have an overflow fitting. https://www.screwfix.com/p/basket-strainer/97562

Standard strainer waste https://www.screwfix.com/p/stainless-steel-strainer-waste-1-bowl-90mm/9411k That's just a cheap no name version, you can pay a bit more for a decent make like McAlpine.

If your tank is within a certain distance of a watercourse it MUST be bunded (this would apply to us if we had oil here and applied to our previous house)