Air source Heat Pump at the Big Build 

Thanks mate!!! my client is great, I love working for such nice relaxed patient people, it make it all worth while!!

Haha I just wrote almost the same. Nice to see endfeed and not press fit for a change.

Yes Gary is a fabulous engineer and the most reliable and efficient person too!! we have been working along side each other for about 20 years and the knowledge the he has passed on to me has been awesome, my late father was an amazing plumber so I feel that I have him back with me!! (albeit Gary is a lot younger than my Dad!)

You've surrounded yourself with a an excellent team who help you excel in your profession and produce an excellent standard of work. I'm sure your dad would be very proud of you and what you've achieved, from where I sit, you've earned it.

Spot on. Teaching women about thermal inertia is like trying teach algebra to a cat. Our floor takes about 2 hours to warm up and even then I have to interfere. Because after you get them past that hurdle, you have the thermostatic control problem. My wife thinks that if you turn up the temperature it will heat up quicker. She complains it’s too hot. Doh….

@@Trevor_Austin Same with the hot water cylinder, they think the boiler is firing and "wasting gas" even though the water is up to temp and shut off on the stat, just because the light on the timer is still lit they think it is on!

Thank you Trevor, I appreciate the general standard is pretty poor!!! and that is a shame as most tradespeople I know would love to be able to spend more time on a job and do it well, but generally the developers give bad rates for tasks and this means the guys can only earn a half decent wage if they tear through the work!! Hopefully we can demonstrate the alternative!!

@@ukconstruction I'd partly agree Robin in regard to those subcontracting from developers, but a lot of builders are still in and out merchants. They'll quote you for 5 days work then go like a train to finish it in 3. But do they reduce the cost by 2 days? Not on your life! They still want the 5 days fee! Two examples of my answer to them. 1. I priced the retail cost of materials to re-felt a single garage roof, £400. Roofer quoted £1400 so i asked how long it would take. A day he replied. I replied bye, no way am i paying £1000 for a days work! (Well i might for a life saving surgeon but not for torching felt!) 2. Quote for a patterned concrete drive £6500. How long will it take 4 days. Held his hand out in 3 days so i told him to reduce the cost by the day he hadnt worked! (Or take his concrete away!) No problem with craftsmanship. No problem paying for it. But i refuse to be ripped off by bodge it and scarper the mastic men!

@@ukconstruction I truly hope alternative, fairer rates and methods for rewarding tradesmen can be found. I see no reason why they should not be earning the same as accountants, lawyers and any other skilled technicians. Possibly the biggest problem is to fill the void between the useless dross on the bottom and the skilled artisans (if that is not a too pretentious term). The viewers of this channel have all seen your colleague Ed. He’s starting in the Premier League. I’m also pretty sure the majority of the contractors you work with are all at the top of their game. But how do we fill the gap? College is probably not the answer. When you have 12 trainees booked for an exam, six pitch up 20 minutes late and of those only two pass - and they haven’t even got on site yet. So part of the solution has to be the trades themselves. It should be for them to determine who can and cannot enter and call themselves qualified. Then it’s to sell the benefits of having a qualified professional who is fully insured, knows his limits who in return expects a fair reward. The trades combined then have to start selling tradespeople, not as the cheeky-chappy singing idiots in adverts but as artisans. The public’s perception of them has to change. I say that because I had a nice chat with my builder the other day when we met shopping. His building process was measure, measure, measure and then carefully cut. His work is millimetre accurate on diagonals. He wasn’t cheap but what a lovely job, one I didn’t object paying for.

@@Trevor_Austin I really like this comment Trevor, you clearly sum up the issues facing us in the industry!! I do hope in my lifetime that we can get the whole craft and building standards back to a better paced and paid career but I suspect the market is so huge and unregulated... anyone can call themselves a builder!! I am trying to highlight what should happen, how much it should cost etc but carefully as I do not want to hurt anyones lively hood as they may not have the skills or tools to set themselves up to manage expectations or sell themselves properly for what their worth!! it will take time!!

@@gbwildlifeuk8269 we recently had a builder in to raise a lintel and reduce an opening to fit a smaller door . He told us how long it would take and what he was charging per day plus materials. When he submitted the bill for the work it came up far shorter than we were quoted/expecting . Wife asked him why. He replied in the end I didn't do 4 full days labour and when I'm working down in Devon I like to start later in the day (930 start most days) if I can, he does lot of work in London. So at least he was honest. Also laboured alongside him but didn't expect a reduction in the the bill. The added bonus he has given me plenty of tips on relaying the patio and lent me a disc cutter for the job. Sometimes it can be hard to find the right one.

Top of the class Sam!!! Nice one mate you really have been watching hard!!

And if Robin has been really clever, spare PV dumped into a domestic battery (5% VAT when fitted together), a car charger and heat battery.

Think the cylinder has to have a boil every now and then to kill bugs. Was the case a few years ago, unsure now. Expensive water heater

@@davidtaylor9967 Yes David the system will do a legionnaire Purge every week but this is a standard thing allowing the water to be heated up to kill any germs etc

About double the cost for piped gas then?

Hi John, this is a wall board with a hard laminate that looks like marble, we always line our service areas with a finished board, you can clean all pencil marks from it and its is cleanable and finished, it also provides excellent fixing for the heating engineer and the electrician

It's not all about the money, if it was I guess they wouldn't have employed Robin in the first place ;)

It is an Air source heat pump, there was a fleeting image of this in the first couple of minutes!!

No. Roger only ranted about inappropriate use of, and grants for, heat pumps regarding most UK housing stock. He had nothing against properly designed and built homes that cater for water vapour movement using latest quiet pumps and was for such installations

Next week mate!!

Hot water and/ or a heat pump lol

Hi Anthony, the heat pump will still work no problem down to -5 also the whole system is wether compensating which basically means it regulates itself exactly as to how much power is needed to get the water up to the correct temperature all through the year so admittedly in the colder times it will consume more electricity but in the milder times it barely ticks over

no not sponsored at all

yes mate how do you know

@@ukconstruction I was the tall man in the queue at Tescos on the quay, wasn't sure if it was you!

Wow!! Next time say hi!! I spotted your friend had joinery on his shirt!! I was doing my powerboat course!!

@@ukconstruction that cool will do! if See a big yellow passage boat coming towards you that's me skipper it😂😂👍

Thats cool!! I will give you a race out of the harbour!!

Hi Alex, we do use electric boilers from time to time, for our system we could not get a suitable sized electric solution that would handle all the underfloor heating, up to 3 showers at any one time and teh upstairs radiator circuit, yes Heat pumps are expensive but really quite inexpensive to run coupled with the solar we have on this job

I totally get that Loafer!! that situation is ripe for an electric boiler in the future!!!

We have no gas in this location so we have solar and the heat pump and I will be totally honest in the coming months to how well it performs and costs!!

@@ukconstruction Would be really interesting to hear a non bias post instalation review, look forward to it mate :)

@@CucumberFanatic I will do a client interview if they agree

Out 1930s semi that we gutted, rebuilt with decent insulation, new combi boiler, rads, pipes, keep at 17 to 18 degrees, uses about ⅓ electricity and gas compared to neighbours. Warm enough for us

We have no gas in this rural location

Hi Phil, we shoot these videos and they are released up to two or three months later