Recent content by Lull

So, who ends up doing those lower paid jobs then? Someone needs to do them. But they need to be able to live. Cash handouts are effectively to employers who cannot… or often simply refuse to (due to their own greed) pay their workers a decent wage for work that needs doing.

Thankyou for the responses folks. Is there a decent yet affordable meter you know of that shows both import & export readings on it, preferably on the screen at the same time (no need to press a button to switch between etc)?

Just to clarify, the ones I am talking about were nothing to do with estimated readings. I agree that there’s a lot of confusion out there for *some* people, but that’s not what we are talking about here. These meters were eventually found to be inaccurate - at a fair ol’ cost to the homeowners...

So after getting a small solar array installed under a grant scheme, I've decided to move from Bulb to Octopus to access their Agile tariff and Agile Outgoing (export) tariff. Seems sensible given current export rates on this tariff. Obviously for this I will need a smart meter & have booked...

Sounds great! Whats the rest of your setup like? What inverter did you go with? I'm guessing by your name you might have installed it yourself... but any ideas on probable approx cost to supply/fit a similar system, just as a ballpark?

Really good to know & well worth bearing in mind. I guess the question then is what the payback time might be on a battery system & I wouldn't know where to start with that calculation. What battery setup do you use? What diverter do you use for your water/battery and does it work...

Cheers! The floors will be insulated with Glapor/foamed glass. The original wooden floor has been taken up due to extensive settlement/rot and damp issues. We trained up in Hempcrete installation which remains vapour permeable - to avoid the need for PIR board insulation which can cause damp...

We are in the middle of a deep eco/traditional retrofit of a small mid-victorian terrace in Bristol. We have been going for a 'fabric first' breathable approach with Hempcrete internal wall insulation to improve the thermal fabric of the building (partially completed) A 2.3kWh south-facing...

New to the forum. Self-renovating homeowner of a modest victorian terrace, with various accumulated construction skills and general practical approach, but lacking in time to learn as much as I need to learn to achieve what I'd like to achieve for this house which after 8 years I desperately...