ProDave

My suggestion. Don't be in a hurry, bide your time working out exactly what you want and drawing your plans and designing the house you want, before you go back to planning. With the amount of people now appearing on the news saying we need to remove obstacles to building and projects should not be delayed by bats and newts, then if this really is government policy then by the time you have your plans ready you can argue "The PM says we should not be delayed by newts" if indeed you even have to argue it as surely the planning policy must change to suit the governments mantra? That does not stop you being sympathetic to the newts when you do build, it should hopefully just avoid you having to pay someone to say blatantly obvious things about how you are going to safeguard them.

Do you want to convert it yourself and continue living there, or are you just wanting to sell and go somewhere else and trying to work out how to get the best price for it? Auction might even be a way?

Your architect is also clueless. He talks of a warm roof make up, but then mentions a ventilation gap which would make it a cold roof. Which do you want? Some sketches or pictures showing the roof construction and timber sizes is needed to have a meaningful conversation. If the current panelling is just fixed directly to the L&P ceiling I don't see it makes a difference. Or are you saying there is some kind of gap between them?

I looked at that. I mostly watch tv via a satellite box, but it only has 2 tuners so can record 2 things or record one while you watch another channel. Occasionally there are 3 things I want to watch at the same time so I let the box record 2 of them and watch the third on freeview (via the normal tv aerial) but our freeview signal is pretty poor and sometimes unwatchable. So this freely app to easily watch live tv via the internet looked a good idea for that situation. BUT it is not available on a firestick. WHY? it makes no sense whatsoever.

I would try it without first. Water won't flow through the UFH pipes if the UFH is not demanding any heat so no harm done.

Pipes expand when they heat up and contract when the cool. The clicks are where something along their route does not allow them to expand smoothly so they expand until they have built up a bit of pressure like a spring then click, they jump along a bit. So make sure everywhere a pipe passes through a joist or is clipped in place the pipe can slide smoothly without restriction. So big holes in joists. loose fitting pipe clips etc etc.

Yes that is what we expect to happen.

I think the point and what started the thread is the radiators are not on and the UFH on it's own was not triggering the boiler to fire. Not surprising now we have found that disconnected grey wire.

The edges of that dry hip / ridge system are flexible and are supposed to be shaped to fill in the steps before the tiles go on. Some are even adhesive so they stick down.

We can only speculate if it was deliberate, or as is often the case, installers just don't understand UFH. I went to "fix" a neighbours install that had been fitted by a local "renewable energy" company. They had it set so the UFH manifold was running 24/7 even when the heat pump was scheduled to be off, i.e. the heat pump and UFH manifold were not electrically connected to work together. It had been like that for about 2 years before he called me to work out why his heating did not work as expected and was somewhat random.

There is no other choice if the OP wants the UFH to work without the radiators on.

That is looking likely why it was disconnected, but that does not help the OP, he wants the UFH to work on it's own. When he gets it working then if there is a lot of short cycling then we can discuss options to make the UFH work as one big zone all on or all off.

Yes, but the point I was making as there are other grey wires with other functions, make absolutely certain these ARE the grey wires from the motorised valves before you connect your UFH grey wire to them.

Crucial question. Is there a difference in ground level between the 2 sides? i.e. is it a retaining wall? If it is a retaining wall it is the ground on the higher side pushing the wall over. If not then it is inadequate foundations that are subsiding. If the plan is to take the wall down in a few years I would do nothing, and if it starts to lean a lot more take the top half off earlier than planned.

Treat it as a space heater. Keep it simple. We have a stove, only 5kW and it is decorative, fun and simple. The main reason for having it is the ample availability of free wood that would otherwise be "waste" that we would have to deal with somehow. I have said many times, if I had to buy wood, I would not have a stove. Trying to heat water with it adds considerable cost and complicates your normal heating system.

Clearly that grey going nowhere is why the call for heat from the UFH does not work. You say the black from the UFH box goes to the same connector block as all the orange wires from the 2 port valves. That is good. (it is not clear in your photo which one that is , i think the orange wires are looking more like brown in that photo) So the grey wire from the UFH box needs to connect to the same terminal block as all the grey wires from the 2 port valves. Make absolutely sure you are connecting to the correct set of grey wires before connecting the wire from the UFH into them. and make sure power is off, depending on the boiler this might be switching a low voltage or might be 230V

This terminal block. The right hand pair should power the manifold circulating pump. The manifold circulating pump should turn on when any UFH circuit calls for heat. Does that happen? The left hand pair of contacts is a relay contact that should close at the same time. This pair or relay contacts would normally be connected in your case in parallel with the switch contacts from the radiator motorised valves and that would give the call for heat to the boiler when UFH requests heat. Do you have anything like a multimeter to make any measurements? Can you follow the cable that contains those black and grey cables and see where it goes and photograph whatever junction box etc it connects into?

That's a good point. My ASHP has switched outputs for heating and DHW so I wired normal motorised valves from that. I could have applied that logic and used NO and NC valves and powered them both from the DHW output. Or I could have used a 3 port 2 position valve, and achieved the same result. But logically from a plumbing point it is exactly the same thing, it would just have saved having the DHW valve energised for a large chunk of the day. I think my point however is, as long as you avoid the dreaded 3 port mid position valve, then the plumbing for S plan or PDHW is the same. PDHW is just bringing gas boilers into the 20th century and doing what ASHP's have done for ages, allowing different flow temperatures to heating and DWH.

The problem with heating water with a WBS is that it is an uncontrolled heating source. That adds lots of complications and regulation issues. You don't want the stove kettling and you must make provision for some always on dump load. And any controls must fail safe in the event of a power cut. I would just keep the stove as a source of heat only, as a stove.

Surely the plumbing for a PDHW system is still S plan, a mototised valve for each of heating and hot water, but only one is open at a time, and you can have different flow temperatures. That is exactly how my ASHP works but I still think of the plumbing side of it as S plan.

Post some close up pictures of the wiring inside the Wunda box with it's cover off.

But you mentioned the Humax box, If all you want to watch is available from that (live or recorded) then put it in a cupboard where an aerial connection is available and use the 2 gadgets I linked to to connect it. Most of my "set top boxes" are in the under stairs cupboard.

You have proved at 0 degrees outside, 4kW of heat is only just enough when running 24/7 It will sometimes be colder than 0 for several days. Your heat pump can't do heating 24/7 or else it will not have time to heat your hot water. And do you really want it on 24/7 (we prefer a quiet house at night) So i would say a minimum of 10kW ASHP. MCS don't work on real figures so just their own way of calculating, and the last thing they want is to have to rectify an under specified system so they probably take a cautions approach.

You can get a wireless "video sender" and then put your Humax in cupboard something like this picked as a random example https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/296798670157 Then to enable you to control your Humax, now hidden away in a cupboard an IR remote contol extender https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235946596471

I would not do that. The 10mm straight to the EV charger and only to there. Feed the other 13A outside socket from a different source, even a spur from a nearby ring final, in 2.5mm