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Underfloor Heating Wet or Dry with Solar panel
Comments (4)Independent of the UfH the use of Solar PV is definitely a good idea. You'll have to significantly oversize it though if you want to make an impact on winter time heating, because the winter sun even on a good day won't give you more than 5% panel efficiency averaged over sunshine duration. Electric UfH is cheaper to install and usually argued to "switch on fast" and to be "100% efficient". The latter two are marketing though - the switch on time depends on the thermal mass (thickness of the screed; set electric into thick screed for heat retention and it won't react faster than wet UfH) and what gets warm fast also cools down fast. All direct electric-to-heat is 100% whether it goes into the water for wet UfH via immersion heater or into the electric UfH. Remember water is the perfect heat store; heat it up during the day and you can still use it the next morning (traditionally, heat it up on economy7 during the night ... how solar PV can change things). Wet UfH has the advantage that you can choose the main heating system. If you're all-electric use a Heatpump to boost what you'd get from direct electric alone. Otherwise use the gas boiler you have with a warm water storage buffer tank (and run the immersion on PV). Electric UfH has its place; a bathroom refurb or a garden room; for a major project, entire floor or all of the house, I'm not a fan. Wet is much more flexible there....See MorePanelling advice
Comments (2)rebuilt our house and looking for advise on hallway and upstairs for what style of panelling. Would look good...See MoreWall panelling advice
Comments (7)Personally, I wouldn't. To my mind it's the absolute opposite of the style of the kitchen. You'd be adding something that just doesn't suit the feel of the room. I think it will look weird and it would look almost like a mistake. I would also hazard a guess, it would also make that area seem smaller and that part of the room more cramped....See MoreAdvice neded to block neighbours' solar panels
Comments (4)A lot of trees are enormous, so what about fruit trees? They are grown on different rootstocks. Dwarf ones grow to about 10 feet or so and there are lots of apples (Malus) which will do the job - lovely blossom followed by fruit. Cornus Kousa is a smallish tree with lovely white flowers. Crabapples are another smallish tree as are Mountain Ash (Sorbus). They shed their leaves in winter but maybe the branches will break up the glare? Whichever tree you choose, check it’s eventual height on the RHS website, as some sellers can be a bit liberal with the truth!...See More
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