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hI Bob, did you ever find a cure for this, I have exactly the same symptoms. Batt checks out at 3.1V so not that. Keen to find a fix as I see s/h one is now £189.99 on ebay(!)

Neither, it was called "paper felt" and AFAIR was sold as an underlay for foam backed carpet. Is good for stopping the dust rising between gappy floorboards too. The screwfix product you quote looks as if it might do the job as it claims to fix steps of up to 3mm but I have no personal...

See the Solar page here https://camelot-forum.co.uk (but currently seems to be offline), various home-made tilt schemes discussed at length there. In the UK the usual angle for a pitched roof (~35 deg) is so close to the year-round optimum that it is not usually worthwhile to fit panels other...

You can get replacement breakers for most Wylex boards, circuitbreakerspecialists.co.uk sell reclaimed and tested ones. Or you could simply add an extra CU (garage unit) on the meter tails with a Henley block.

The calculator here should help. In the UK you will not get enough from an array on a N facing roof to make it worth while installing. Even E and W facing roofs are a long way from optimal.

I would suspect the grill element circuit as you say this has recently stopped working. Presumably this is the part you replaced. Was it a double element or did you replace only one half? Often the grill element is part of a complicated circuit which heats the top oven from above with the two...

You say the loft conversion is "recently finished". I would complain to the builders that the floor does not meet a reasonable standard of workmanship (it doesn't) and in particular it does not meet the requirements for laying the Quickstep planks on top of it, their underlay will not be...

Improved condensation?

Same with sliding patio doors, we wanted them as a lockable exit route and looked at 5 or 6 before we found a mfr that would do it.

The kit you show is for temporary use outdoors where the condition of the cable can easily be seen and checked. The seller's advice in the Q&A that the flexible cable may be buried is not correct. You describe a permanent installation hidden under duckboards and in a buried conduit, so it...

Doubtful. Under the FIT scheme most people have 50% deemed export anyway so the marginal electricity is completely free, the gas is not. Under SEG you get paid for actual export but at best say 7.5p/kWh, heating water with a gas boiler is going to be more expensive (and less efficient and more...

One of the best ways of using the surplus power that would otherwise be exported and lost is to fit an immersion heater diverter if there isn't one already.

A 32A cooker needs its own cable and circuit breaker so yes.

I already divert all surplus solar power to the hot water tank, but using a heat pump with a Coefficient of Performance of 3 would mean I would effectively get 3kWh into the tank(s) for every 1kWh the solar panels generate, leaving more for other purposes. Anyway what I am proposing above is to...

Not quite that simple. I am thinking in terms of a large buffer/thermal store say 300 litres because we mostly need heat in the mornings and evenings and there is little heat demand in the house during the period when there is most solar PV available. The plan is based on doing most of the...

I have a 3.68 kW PV system and would like to use it to power a modulating heat pump of about 5 - 10kW output in such a way that during the day it only draws as much power as would otherwise be exported. One installer has said you can do this with an Eddi. However from example 14 here...

We have a working installation with an old Sky dish (with a rectangular cross-section support arm which the LNB bracket plugs into). I now want to replace the LNB with a quad one, but commonly available types e.g. the Visiblewave seem to come with a non-compatible bracket. I have read that the...

Interesting. Current thinking is (as flameport suggests) just to spend £25 on a bi-directional meter like this https://www.cef.co.uk/catalogue/products/4353342-100a-sph-solar-generation-meter-with-pulse-output-import-and-export. As well as being cheaper, an advantage over the hildebrand or...

Are you using it for measuring solar exports or is it just co-incidental? If it does what I am hoping for could you post a screenshot here so I can see what I would get from it? Many thanks

Thanks, looks promising but I can't confirm from their website what the actual functionality is, it all seems to be guff about the downloadable updates and 3-yr warranty! Anyone else tried one?