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Exeter, right next to St James Park stadium (noisy)! It's a big project, a very original victorian 4 bed. Probably a mad decision, but it was cheap and feels good.
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Thanks for the help, onwards and upwards! An offer £10k below asking was accepted yesterday (in Devon) and now I'm trying to get my ducks in a row.
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LTV is 67%
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Mortgages! I need to move somewhat quickly and wondered what the forum thought of this Santander one:
20 yrs. 5 years fixed at 1.19%, then 3.35% variable. 10% over-payment allowed pa. 5% early repayment fee otherwise. APRC: 2.4%. -
The spacing for the month days gives me the creeps. The vertical flips are both very ill-conceived!
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A bit of a mix of an enthusiastic plumber (relative), a PassiveHaus consultant and the SunAmp crew themselves. I found the BuildHub forum to be excellent, lots of people will gladly talk you through their own setup. We didn't have space heating, so our setup was pretty basic.
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We get surprisingly good power even on cloudy days, or in Winter. At least 25% efficiency on our measly 4kW of panels. Although we do have the option to top-up the sunamp unit overnight on an economy tariff too.
You could use a manual/dynamic switch to always charge your batteries to [x]% first and then start working on the DHW? Typically, the sunAmp unit will be more efficient than your grid (and will last ~40k cycles, or ~50 years).
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Did you consider a large solarPV chemical battery? We removed our thermal store (to avoid standing losses) and instead treated DHW as part of our excess PV usage. We have a SunAmp Uniq and have been very impressed with it! There are lots of good threads on the BuildHub forum if you fancy getting into the data.
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I'm intrigued to see what this will go for at auction. Nice spot on the edge of Dartmoor:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/80183103#/
From a distance for the big initial stuff (fix a bodged extension and plumbing). Then on-site for the more hands-on stuff next year.