Is it a viryanet workforce management system?

No because you need the Cooper S

by downstand , do you mean the boxed in steel beam protruding into the room space?

If so – I’m most likely ok to accept that on the basis that having the ceiling flush would probably add quite a lot of cost.

Correct – thats the downstand and the issue!

Depends if you are happy with the downstand. If its a problem it’ll add cost

TBH cat 5e is probably enough. It’s gigabit so unless you need to be streaming 4K tv or more it’s fine

Guess it depends what your long term plan is. We have 4* cat5e and twin coax to each major room / location to support AV traffic. We also have some locations set up for ubiquity access points so we should have a strong structured and wireless network without contention. All runs back to a couple of comms cabinets that hold the various home automation server, broadband, heatmiset hub etc and a big PoE switch

Not yet, it’s dismantled in the garage at the mo, plan to clad it in cedar shingles and see how it goes

Diameter may be an issue. Why top heavy ab issue?

Does seem a mite toppy, but the labour calculations above don’t stack up. I expect there was also one or more site visits to measure up. That’s the bit of the service your also paying for… if you measure it and they fit then it’s t&m if they measure up and fit (at their risk) then it’s a service and they can charge to the value they choose..

You can have carpet as long as it’s low tog rated

Use a normal saw, but let it do the work. Lots of light cuts rather than hacking away really hard

So the room volume is circa 250m3 – and we run on oil, we’d like to be able to supplement when the heating is fired up or not – so summer evenings, spring / autumn times we’d like to supplement, as we do now with the open fire.

We have a Firebelly Fb1 – nominal output 4.5 – max 6kw.

Looking at a panoramic jobby because it’ll look epic –

Maximum Space Heat Output: 10kw
Nominal Heating Output: 7kw

Its at the bottom of the double height space so we will I guess lose a lot of heat upwards – but will sitting say 3-4m from the stove at 7kw just burn us all to bits?

Who buys these massive stoves if not? :-)

Triple glazing, insulated plaster board, newly insulated slab, and 400mm in the loft.. but it is a basic 80’s build

That’s kind of the challnge in itself though. We don’t have times when we will use the stove – but that said. We probably should do, as BR states it’s not just decoration and we have a wood.

Maybe my utopian view of sorting out the tech and sizing of the stove is overthinking it. Just go large and remember to turn the heating off (down)

Wonder if the answer is one of these by the stove Fibaro Motion Cats eye placed near the stove – then if it detects the heat is on then we can then tell the Home Centre to tell the Heatmiser to put the UFH to set back temp.

Suspect that’s what BR has in mind ? :-)

Or just learn how your UFH works and make sure it’s programmed correctly?

Fair challenge – do enlighten me, we’ve gone with a Heatmiser set up for the UFH – the concern I have is that by its nature UFH is not very re-active it can take a couple of hours to heat up or heat down.

So my concern being if the Stove trips out the thermostat then we’l still have heat pouring in from the floor and stove – therefore the size of the stove needs to be well thought through otherwise we’ll bake.

With that in mind how would you set up the UFH? How quickly does the stove heat through? 15mins / 60mins? if a large stove is slower to heat that would better match the heat profile of the UFH?

Tamiya and build it together – its half the fun!

Seems about right to me then – there are a few online calcs you can try – from memory our downstairs space was circa 10kw to heat which seems proportional to your space.

Windows may be describing the pane performance, not the pane and frame performance – may be worth a check.
1.7 is a normal/good double glazed average figure from memory

I think the Calcs are right – but unless its a new build I’d question your U values.. I’d also query the temp gradient assumption to the floor – whats the ambient soil temp? won’t be the same as the air.

I’d also question the areas – you have twice as much floor as ceiling. This seems unlikely unless its partly outside?

Similarly you have 24m2 of windows and 27m2 of wall – is it a conservatory? or are a large amount of windows in the roof?

New build then judging by the u values? Decent quality windows and properly insulated cavities and floors for that.

Get the clubby – two bikes in the back fairly easy with the flat load space.

Just remember to use an even number of crossovers

Just remember to go digital..

That’s looking pretty sad to me. Deffo time to look for a new triangle.

I’ll look out the window later

Merc 250bhp
Cooper S 175bhp
Vee Dub twin forties and sports exhaust 70bhp…
Mini thou minor engine work… 75bhp

570bhp + strimmer

That’d be 5 in the fender hrdlx, 3 in the black star, 2in the english muffin, 3 in the fatman and 2 up me wiggler. That’s 15 + spares. Do I win?

Not much in the way of tracks and trails to explore then? Not really looking for Gnarr just great scenery and some exploring.

6ft tall – Niner Jet Carbon large size. Like me. Its a big bike.

Walking is fine. It’s a bit of a trek btwixt penygent and the others and a bit of a drag back from the last peak. But it’s nice day out

I only play real tennis. None of this Wimbledon stuff.

I struggled to work this out recently. I was running 22/36 on the 26er. New 29er is 26/36. This made bottom gear much much higher. The net effect after a fortnight is I got much faster. I’m also a bit fat and slow. It’ll be ok.

Have you tried riding it with the clamp slackened? might start to ease it on its way?

Spark is a fine machine, i’ve just decamped to a Niner Jet Carbon. Its a more sophisticated suspension set up than the old Spark and it climbs like a mad thing. That said I’ve not tried the 29er Spark…

I foresee mcflurry in the near future. A mans insides may struggle with that in one go.

Depends on who you communicate this to… could also be termed a random act of sabotage depending on who consumes the row :-)

You could put the post down a bit?

I’m feeling we need a forum meet up here where we all dress as clowns in the OP’s woods. Probably best not to tell him tho

Giant asparagus ?

ashies sage advice

not war of the worlds. That’s scary at night.

You could take your own axe and wave it around. Odds of there being two axe waving loonies on the same footpath must be lower right?