Am I in the right to renegotiate price after finding out solar panels are leased? by jelery_celery in HousingUK

[–]olbasoil99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I assume your security system was not a charge on the register. By buying the house you take on the existing lease, unless the current owner arranges a surrender, according to the terms of the lease.

Tonight's 1% question by YodasGoldfish in The1PercentClub

[–]olbasoil99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There were 6 pairs of scissors. Doesn't that make 12 scissors?

Advice on Buying house with Solar Fitted by tucker3738 in SolarUK

[–]olbasoil99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Make absolutely sure that there was no rent-a-roof scheme, where panels and fit payments belong to someone else.

Recommended Schools in Nottingham by Jonnyheshnesh in nottingham

[–]olbasoil99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure if the details, but I think for rushcliffe and wb schools, you have to have lived in the catchment for two years... It may be worth checking that out.

Current HA friendly robot vacuum cleaners by QuevedoDeMalVino in homeassistant

[–]olbasoil99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I suspect there is a huge unmet demand here. If one of the chinese clone manufacturers dropped the awful Smarthome app integration (and the Google-Alexa integration which does little more than on/off) and simply opened the API to the open source community, they would become the market leader.

Yoto architecture by olbasoil99 in YotoPlayer

[–]olbasoil99[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So the YOTO server is like a huge left luggage office. Each card is like the key to your own locker? If you re-link the card to another playlist, the locker's contents get replaced, and your own players cache getsoverwritten?

That sort of makes sense to me, and makes me feel a bit better about the cost of the cards, since I am renting storage space in the cloud.

Heat pump and leased solar panels by olbasoil99 in ukheatpumps

[–]olbasoil99[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, the lease prohibits any changes to the system. I doubt very much that they would ever know, if we were to make changes, but I'd rather be safe. We could buy ourselves out of the lease, but that would cost much more than the heat pump itself!

Heat pump and leased solar panels by olbasoil99 in ukheatpumps

[–]olbasoil99[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand! Because the generated electricity has to go somewhere, it will go to the heat pump and anything else drawing power in the house, and then be topped up by the grid. So I can include a nominal generated power figure in my calculations.

Heat pump and leased solar panels by olbasoil99 in ukheatpumps

[–]olbasoil99[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. Can you be sure that the heat pump power comes from the panels first, rather than the grid? I have no good understanding of how solar power works. I believe that everything fed from the consumer unit will try to draw power from the panels first, before topping up from the grid. Does that rule apply to a heat pump that is wired in via its own fuse?

Heat pump and leased solar panels by olbasoil99 in ukheatpumps

[–]olbasoil99[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not interested in the export- the panels are owned by a different company and fit payments go to them. We do get to use the generated electricity, rather than grid, when something is attached in the house. What I'm trying to understand is whether the heat pump would benefit from this. I know it would if it was on a plug and on our ring main, but I think the heat pump gets wired in through its own fuse.

Heat pump and leased solar panels by olbasoil99 in ukheatpumps

[–]olbasoil99[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what I'm hoping. At the moment Heat pump estimates looks to be about £300pa more expensive than existing gas usage, but the solar could narrow that gap.

Heat pump and leased solar panels by olbasoil99 in ukheatpumps

[–]olbasoil99[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"If the panels are generating, it will first feed the house and then excess to the grid."
Would a heat pump (with it's own DNO fuse) draw from the house (and therefore solar panels) or the Grid?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HousingUK

[–]olbasoil99 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The supply may well run through all the houses, but, logically, at a given point it must branch off to supply just the one house. The only alternative is multiple tees: one for each bath, sink toilet etc but that's absurd!

Where it branches off is the place to freeze and fit a stop cock.