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@konastab01 - any technical (or other!) information as to why Solar is useless? I'm not looking to try and profit from the grid, rather rely less on it. The aim is not off-grid living, more off-gas, and a little less reliant on bolstering some CEO's bonus.
The house is (I hope) going to be home for @ 20 years, we have mid and long term plans to extend out a little at the back, reinstate a second front door and convert the loft, as it stands though we have finite time and budget to get central heating, a kitchen and bathroom in, and do some other cosmetic things so it's livable for the small boy and nesh girlfriend. It is currently small, and not quite the room we need, which will be addressed - losing more floor space to insulation is not ideal, but I get that its also a waste to not do it.
I had sacked ASHP off as I'm just not sure we'll be able to do everything we want in terms of conversion/extension soon enough to make it worthwhile, and it felt like a waste to insulate a wall when that wall might go, same for upgraded windows (currently bad plastic but double glazed). The house is currently E on the EPC (with potential to be B apparently) so some loft insulation was probably going to be the limit of the heat saving work at this point. I know an electric boiler is more expensive to run than gas, but it feels wrong to just stick a gas boiler in when we are happy to make the compromise over bill price to not have a gas connection, though the solar plan is obviously an effort to offset that a little in the future.
Also in Lambeth so will have a look into that, though the sheer pain of working with a council run effort will surely negate any cost saving that might arrive.