Hi everyone,

I am in the final stages of planning for my renovation. The plan is to insulate insulate and then insulate as per Tony's advise :) I'll be installing 3g windows, internal and external insulation so that all external walls get close to 0.17 u-value. I am planning to install UFH on the ground floor. Because the floor there is concrete I will be installing a "overlay" system from a known supplier. I would also like to add UFH to the 1st and 2nd floors for the bath and bed rooms. I have not seen the thermal loss figures from my architect yet but I would bet that there will be a need for heating there. Forgot to mention that there will be a whole-house MVHR system. I will have tower rails in the 2 bathrooms. I would like to get advise on how to approach the heating. I would like to have ET solar thermal and maximize the use of that. I would like to have a thermal store and feed UHF, DHW and the tower rails. Is running a hot water loop with a flat plate exchanger for DHW and the tower rails a good idea? I've been told that I will need a gas boiler. How can I integrate that into the system so that it is used to a minimum? My ideal system is ET thru a plate exchanger heating the store. A boiler heating the top of the store. DHW loop. UFH from somewhere close to the bottom of the store. Forgive my ignorance on the subject but this is my first dab into renovation.

Cheers,
Ivan

dude, putting your system in once is more than enough, if people want to look they can see it, posting on every relevant thread is spam tbh, and is likely to get removed by mods, sorry. It looks like a decent system, but play nice yeah?

top man, let us know when it's up on the website, and how the trials go, it looks interesting.