CalvinHobbes

Temp Thank you, the more I understood and thought about what you said it's brilliant. I dont know if we can put it against the house though, maybe we need to come out a bit and use 2 x 4 or strips of scaffolding in between? Then later on we can get this down on top of the subbase https://www.mcmonaglestone.com/products/14mm-rose-gold-stone-chippings-tonne?pr_prod_strat=pinned&pr_rec_id=dc9ca52c5&pr_rec_pid=9597265084743&pr_ref_pid=9597264527687&pr_seq=uniform Again, thank you!

We have some damaged scaffodling board so i was thinking of ripping some lengths and treating it then using it as a border with the bigger gravel beside the house and 10mm on path followed by another board. Would that look ok? How do the boards sit upright? How are they secured?

Hi we have the house up and ramp entrance to porch. Driveway is gravel because sisters site is up to ground level and hopefully will be tackled soon. We really just want the length of the house at the back with some surface we can walk on and not spend a fortune. Hard ask I know these days. Have a groundsman gonna come and clear rubble, do dropped kerb etc. But he suggested putting 20mm gravel in back. its about 7ft between the house and the hedge and about 50ft long. Any suggestions other than 20mm gravel? Our budget is tight. Climate is wet so saw some 10mm granite stone, far nicer in a stately home with I think 2 x 4

So you mind that Qube house that never sold. https://www.colliersni.com/development/the-qube/CNRDEV145/ I passed it today, scaffold up and rust on windows.

We weren't using that much! And that figure seems to fluctuate dramatically despite there being no identifiable reason for the grid load displayed in the app. What happens is that the battery reaches full charge and then immediatly dumps all the power again into the grid load despite their being nothing to justify the figures displayed. The heat pump is not running, we not charging an electric car and the electrician couldn't work out why it would be indicating the readings.

We have a 12Kw Pv system on a 3 phase supply, Pylontech batteries and a Solis inverter. We recently got the batteries hooked up but since then the behaviour of the system looks odd when displayed on the Solis Cloud app. The battery seems to start discharging as soon as it reaches full charge and dumps everything into the grid load. We get spikes indicating large power consumption randomly, even though there is no obvious cause, and always results in the battery depleting. Then there is the exporting to grid and charging at the same time!!! (Pics attached) The grid load figure just seems to be a sum of PV, Battery and Grid as opposed to the actual physical power usage. It's just the sum total of all three power sources! We have asked the installer to look into it but I was hoping someone here may have a good understanding. I understand that the CT clamps might be the issue but the installer insists they are correctly in stalled and not reversed. Is the position or sequence in the meter cabinet critical??? (Attached a pic of the CT clamps in the meter cabinet with clamps circled in red) Thanks in advance all

Husband thinks he said there was refrigerant....we will check. Thank you all so much.

Yes, trying to save money but I mortally detest fighting with cement paths/pathing. We need a long path at the side of the house next to the hedge and a terrace at the back. We saw a historic house it done and thought, is it possible or sensible?

I thought the pipes going in and out of the ASHP should be insulated and that a kit came with it but I was told not for this kind. Is this correct?

Fair, I am probably catastrophising. Putin has wound me up.

Yes but you need fuel for the generator, that can be an issue too.

No, tbh we initially put the panels on just because the scaffolding was up and it seemed silly not to. It wasn't in the budget (what's a budget *manic laughter) So it wasn't that planned.

Thanks, yep PIR it is then.

Hello, so we have just under 12kw of panels on roof, an 8kw inverter and on Monday 5.12kw x 2 batteries are being installed. All this talk of Putin and war is making me think of putting in a few sockets next to the inverter. What is the least expensive way of doing this, can it be an automatic switch? I just don't know what to ask for.