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Unless your LPA can issue some extra-statutory concession (they do have some considerable discretion when it comes to enforcement) then the mechanism ...
Hence why I added 'Of course, if nobody is likely to complain, you may well choose to ignore this.' Lots of minor developments are done which need p...
Just bear in mind that permitted development rights apply only to installations by an MCS contractor to MCS standards (a closed shop by regulation whi...
Ideally you are right. But we don't live in an ideal world. Our existing workforce is our existing workforce and expecting to transform its skill se...
This is where lax terminology fails us big time. Three days training, if you have basic plumbing skills, is almost certainly more than enough time to...
Its, sadly, clear to me that the over-regulation simply doesn't work. It provides a get out clause for poor installers, who have done what the rules ...
Thanks, thats really helpful. Please forgive me if I don’t remember everything you have previously posted, whilst I ask some questions in the hope th...
I suspect that even a typical (ie well oversized) gas boiler might struggle to cope efficiently with this, it would most likely be short cycling appal...
Much of that is also true for fossil fuel installs. What we don't need is to make heat pumps more difficult than a fossil fuel boiler. So if we have...
In fairness there are unknowns with a retrofit, air changes and often fabric construction where upgrades/extensions have been made, and these unknowns...
The '20kW' Warmflow (AS03-R32) is 20kW at 7C, falling to 14kW at -7. Not sure what your design temp is but it does sound rather oversized, and like o...
Well probably I would (it's inevitable that some things are several layers down in menus because there are so many things you can change these days, a...
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