I need help!

I need someone to advise me about the following, and once the system or combination of systems is decided upon, help and support to getting it all installed! local plumbers a bit lost and I have contacted one firm who have just not got back to me and I am losing the will to live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGGGGHHHHHHHH!

Woodburner with back boiler
GSHP ( whoops! )
Solar DHW
Boiler for back up
any other ideas?
Thermal store -v - cylinder

You will need to know where I am - without giving too much away I am in West Yorkshire not far from Halifax/Bradford/ Keighley.

If you are local enough to help, or know someone reliable who is, my e-mail address is on my profile if you would rather not post.

thanks

Just put this on another thread.I dont have any links to them other than finding them very helpfull when a collegue fitted a system then went sick so couldnt commision it. http://www.dunsleyheat.co.uk/neutralizerlayout2.htm

Gshp lots of work unless you're already drilling on site.

how about building something that doesn't require much if any space heating?

http://www.carbonlite.org.uk/carbonlite/
http://www.aecb.net/PDFs/carbonlite/AECB_VOL3_EnergyStandard_V6FINAL.pdf

so solar HW (diy panel ?), dual coil cylinder , wood burner with back boiler and pump, emersion back up
nice and simple , not to pricey
maybe gravity feed the primary circuits to do without the pump
sounds fun
Jim

Hi Cassie

I'm leeds based, just about to start out in the installation world properly, but trained in domestic solar hot water, solar pv, wind, and have a pretty good understanding of GSHP, woodburners, insulation etc.

I wouldn't be able to actually do any gas work because I'm not corgi registered (or gas trained), but then I'm not really sure why you'd need a gas boiler if you had solar, GSHP, woodfuel burner/boiler and interseasonal heat storage, particularly not if it's new build and you were going to have to pay for the gas to be connected anyway - better to use that money on making the house fully self sufficient I'd have thought.

Other than the gas, I should be ok for the rest I'd have thought (I am certified for unvented cylinder installation)... I'm in the middle of an eco renovation of a 4 storey 1903 semi in Leeds, just finished an 80 tube, 2 tank with heat dump loop (some limited interseasonal heat storage involved) solar hot water install, run using pv powered 12 volt pumps on a 4 storey roof using roped access (no scaffolding), and am moving onto the insulation side of things at the moment. I've also done the green power and water side of various festivals over the last 10 years or so, so have a fair amount of experience of all sorts of stuff including low voltage off grid renewable electric systems.

I'd be up for nipping out and having a chat with you in the next few days if you wanted to have a chat around what you're wanting to do as it sounds like an interesting project, and isn't too far from me. Just so you understand, I'm not a fully experienced expert in everything you want to do, more a pretty knowledgable, fairly well trained, person with some experience, looking to get more experience and potentially try out some ideas (around interseasonal storage of solar heating mixed with GSHP) - and to be able to have some more examples of projects I've worked on. Whatever fee would be involved would reflect this, and It means I'd have the time to spend more time with you working through the various options, but I'd likely be a bit slower on the actual installations than someone who's been installing for years.

anyway, let me know if you'd like me to come out to meet up with you for a chat about what you're wanting to do (or if you'd prefer to come and meet me at the house in leeds so you can see what I've done here?)

Gav

Hi paul,

sounds good to me if Cassie's up for it - bit of a potential win win win situation hopefully, will drop you an email later on.

Gav