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Can the Sunamp A1-A2 connectors drive this ASHP directly? i.e. in my setup I just need the ASHP to run to charge the Sunamp whenever the Sunamp needs charging nothing else to do.

If you have artificial lights you'll attract less spiders than having a glass area. My garage window is forever getting covered in webs. I'd also be concerned about security of a pair of larger French doors compared to a brick wall. Also you can't put a shelf or hooks on a pair of French doors.

Interesting.. I have an external garage pedestrian door as well as two large car doors. The car doors are have electric openers. We hardly ever use the pedestrian door as it is so much easier to just press the button we are nearly always carrying and go out the car door even if we are walking or gardening etc So in my experience save the cash and use it to fund automatic openers

Looks lovely!

Thanks for tip to avoid the plastic! Really appreciated. The weather and birds will get into our open porch so hence we are looking for a low maintenance weather resistant solution - so thinking to avoid wood currently.

Our open brick porch has a pair of triple glazed (yes I know that is daft) windows that need finishing top and bottom without losing too much of the frame. Has anyone used plastic bullnose window board: http://www.kentsdirect.com/product/inside/hockey-nose-window-board-cover-150mm-2384 If so does it look ok, or is it super smooth characterless plastic? Can it be painted? Any other ideas? I had some old 30mm tiles cemented in but SWMBO had them removed before the cement set as they covered the window frame too much.

What is decrement delay please?

No mention of efficiency though

I've 8.8kW panels limited to 5kW export via solaredge inverters and power optimisers. The max generation I've seen is 7.7kW i.e. the house was consuming at least 2.7kW and the rest was being dumped/sold to the grid. More panels and different orientations helps extend the useful working time of the panels over the day and the year. If I could I would move a couple of my panels from SW to NW to grab more of the summer setting sunshine and reduce my import further. Though it seems moving panels is not allowed under the MCS scheme.

Surely a drone landing pad on the roof with an insulated chute to delivery the parcel to the home office/kitchen is better long term?

Main intake filter? I have external cowls with grills which are connected direct to the MVHR unit. The MVHR unit has built in filters but VentAxis are saying my problem is there are no external filters. Is it usual to have external extra filters (i.e. some sort of filter box for the incoming air before it reaches the MVHR unit?) My system was designed by a well known supplier of ventilation units and an external filter was never mentioned.

3 weeks in: loving it(her) Mo Mo Mrs Mo, as my son has called her, is doing a great job. Some great features including the alerts to my phone when she gets stuck or falls out of the cutting area. This is the trickest bit of my lawn a 22 deg slope on a corner. Currently once every few days I have to reposition her when she has been unable to back up and has fallen out of the zone - optional extra rough terrain wheels might help but I'm trying to avoid the extra cost atm. My 1100m2 lawn is looking fine with cutting period set to 8am to 4pm and I've just dropped the cutting height from 7/10 to 6/10. Roughly she does about 3 hours work before popping back to her home to have a 40-50minute electric juice snack. We've painted some bits of the lower body green, added some eye lashes and her name, along with some extra mods, to make her less nickable - though the useful GPS location function and security pin code should help. Had to clean the wheels of mud a couple of times - but that was my fault for letting her go to work when the lawn is still missing grass in places and it had rained. Apart from when she tried to mount a roller I left on lawn and she tried to climb over some bricks I'd put down as a 'wall' to prevent her getting to some fresh top soil, we had no major incidents. We zip round the very edge of the lawn using a light electric mower and use the supplied electric strimmer (also awesome) to finish off around the tree bases that she can't reach. (About 40 mins/week). So other than that, lawn cutting is a thing of the past for me ?

Looks like thermostats 4 u has closed. @JSHarris could you kindly provide the model/manufacturer please?

Dismissed it in the end. As the LVT supplier was also unsure of it

Rather than a liquid screen final layer before the LVT tiles the fitters want to put down Xtrafloor® Flex Pro ( see https://www.xtrafloor.com/products/underlays/xtrafloortm-flex-pro ) which is like a floating mat with a sticky topside that the LVT goes straight onto. So much quicker installation time. Anyone know of this product as it is new to me so trying to understand its pros/cons Thanks Paul

That would be very kind and appreciated if I can't work it out. I've tried remaking one end will try the other too but visually seems ok

That's the little tester tool I have, indicating no connections at all.

Got approx 30 ethernet cables running around the house and down the garden. Slowly bringing them into use, 10 working great, 20 untested but one is not working t all i.e. ethernet cable testing tool gets no response from far end for end pair. As it happens this is the longest run of approx 40 metres and I can see the cable at 3 points along its length or at least I think I can see it - I can't be 100% sure it is not another cable. Luckily this cable is a slightly different colour to the majority of the others (being Cat5e instead of Cat6) and both ends of the supposedly same cable are the same colour so it 'should' be the correct cable. So I want to confirm it is the same cable along the way and if so try identify where the fault might be in case it is patchable. Question how can I trace a fault on an ethernet cable without buying yet another tool or ideally not cutting the cable? I've multimeters, radio wave detectors, ethernet cable tester, Raspberry Pis, metal detectors, A/c and joist wall detectors and I've just ordered a multimeter with a square wave output, plus various electronic components gathered over the years. I'm thinking of injecting a signal in one end and seeing if any of the above will pick it up but am open to any other ideas.

Sales rep recommended larger 430x due to a tight corner on a slope, should be fitted in a couple of weeks - if I can get enough grass to grow by then

My JG wireless thermostats have been doing this funny light sequence for 3 days now: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13sm_EGJdqf8t5KgTOKHehP8YsbTIHtZdyg/view?usp=sharing They show the correct temperature for a few moments, then show 10 1d, then 9 1d then 8 1d then 7 1d and then revert to showing the temperature again. Note the icicle symbol top right has also disappeared. Can't see any mention of this 'feature' in the manual Any ideas?

What failed?

Not even unwrapped it yet! But hopefully in next couple of weeks should be plumbed in.

Our barn conversion to holiday cottage coming on nicely. We've use foil backed insulation in roof, triple glazed the windows and the walls are 3 bricks solid with an internal plasterboarded shell. All nice and cosy but the GSM phone signal can't get in! 4 bars of 4G outside but no signal inside. If I was living there then I'd get a Vodafone Suresignal thingy - plugs into the router and acts as a mini 4G cell. But as we will have guests using many different mobile phone providers I could do with a multi mobile provider solution. Is there such a thing as a light pipe for radio signals?

No rain here for all of June and still none in July so lots of solar pv generation ? But lots of dust on my panels now. Any advice regarding cleaning - wait for the rain, hose them down, brush the dust off? Thanks