Kelvin

@ToughButterCup Your house looks beautiful particularly so compared to the cottages next door with their crap extensions . It really does blend in to the landscape and looks like it’s been there years. It’s mostly just envy I expect. We have very few neighbours and we’re on a rural road. But there a fair amount of passing traffic.

Estimators is pretty comprehensive and not very expensive, certainly compared to a QS. The output struggled a bit with a timber kit as they added items that’s part of the kit but you can obviously take them out.

Timely thread. Something i need to add to my action log and start thinking about. The slight difficulty is our windows will be clear coat on the inside so we either need to match the timber of the windows or be quite different. I quite fancy a stone of some sort

Depends on your usage. It wouldn’t suit us right now as my other half is away a lot. But your average driver does very few miles per day or the car spends it’s time mostly sitting outside. I could charge it on a cheap night time rate and then discharge it into the house when the sun isn’t shining.

I know all of that but you were specifically talking about V2L not V2H. While technically the same operationally V2L doesn’t need bi-directional chargers which is what confused me. V2H does of course but requires islanding protection etc just as V2G. Of course you’d only be exporting to the grid if the rate was worthwhile and certainly higher than the electricity cost to charge the battery which wouldn’t be easy to achieve if you used a lot of public chargers.

I’m a wee bit confused then. Why do home chargers need to offer bi-directional charging for V2L? According to @Nickfromwalesabove we’re only a few years away so it must be in someone’s strategy somewhere.

V2L and V2G are two different things though which I’m sure you know. With V2G you have all the same challenges with islanding the house in the event of a power cut if the car is plugged in. I am in two minds still about installing battery storage in the house. It doesn’t make much financial sense as the numbers don’t really stack up. Because our EV supports V2L we could install an emergency circuits in the house with some lights off it and provide power to the private water supply plant so we have water. Then wait and see how the market develops.

They don’t really but it’s pretty good they spotted it. Having the whole system accurately report in one place is handy unless you’re bringing that together somewhere else.

It should but not convinced it will. Ours has V2L and technically supports V2G (well it obviously has the inverter) Whether they ever update the software to support it is an open question. Few of the current generation of EVs even support V2L which really ought to be a standard feature. Given the current state of the PV/battery storage industry and the relative complexity of getting it all to work successfully I think we are quite far away from plugging your car into your house as an additional power source/storage. I’m trying to future proof our build to allow us to do just that if and when it’s available. I reckon we are another generation of EVs away.

My problem is our site is very open and by a road. It’s on a slope though so some things I could keep hidden down the bottom. We are putting the metal garage up first primarily to use as the welfare hut but we can store stuff in it too.

The house next door is called Woodside Cottage because it’s a cottage beside a wood although there’s no wood and it’s not really a cottage.

We weren’t very adventurous with the name. The Longhouse. Cos well it’s a Long house.

The VMZinc is £175/m2 including matching zinc rainwater goods.

About the same from a local timber yard. That price has been stable since last June.

How big is the roof to vary by £30k?

Sorry I thought it was clear. The Evohome. Fitting a system that kindof sortof works is worse than no such system at all. Imo

Yes it’s surprisingly dear. It’s the labour I expect. Remember it includes the Lindab rainwater goods which were about £4000 of that.

I’ve just received a quote and the difference between it and zinc is marginal £18m2. I’m waiting on more quote’s hopefully next week. Greencoat - £145m2 fitted including all rainwater goods.

Got our new address confirmation yesterday from the street naming team and confirmation from the Royal Mail it’s been registered. Nice way to finish the week. I might post myself something and see what happens to it 😂

Didn’t you get a guide with your quote showing you the size? Could you make the temp supply your permanent supply point?

Got the VMZinc sample pack through. It’s a bloody gorgeous material. I don’t know why I buggered about with other materials for 6 months

Definitely take you up on that offer. I’ll send a pm with my number and we can maybe have a call to discuss?

Yep. Very obvious in our previous house as the downstairs north facing daughter’s bedroom was the poorest performing too. Our neighbour’s house was a small single storey barn conversion with mono pitch roof. Two external walls facing east and west. Fully carpeted. Less than half the size of ours with similar heating costs. It’s given us a quandary for the new house though. We are tiling the whole of the downstairs except the family/cinema room which will be carpeted for as much acoustic reasons as anything else. It’s north facing with two external walls and flat roof. In practice it’ll probably be fine especially if I leave the hifi on 😂

If it’s VM Zinc for example they have their own membrane

Is it just those bits or is it like that all over. If it’s just those bits fix it yourself without the Tetris approach and move on.