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Not allowed in a loft but a gas boiler is, makes sense.
It’s almost like they don’t want us making our own electricity, and having control.
All garages should have fire barriers to the attached house. Cars catch fire
doesn't this exclude nearly all terraced properties with windows / doors at the front and rear?
The loft ban I get, but that 1 meter from any door or window is going to catch a lot of people out. The garden shed workaround is going to get very popular very fast.
Loft installation was always a stupid idea.
If they can’t Tax it they make it illegal
My inverter/battery is in the loft, I quite like it there to be honest, it avoids there being DC cables around the house which are more dangerous than the RCD protected AC. It has a main powered linked heat fire sensor, and it's mounted to a brick wall. Seems ideal to me.
The cultural difference between how China deals with this and we do is so stark. While we make it harder to make upgrades, China changes rules that put the responsibility on manufacturers to make the products safe for where the people want them. Insurance wise, in the UK nothing is ever said until a claim. If you give the wrong details and they know the details are wrong then they'll take your money and cancel the insurance when you make a claim. They can get away with it, because they don't provide advice.
Had my full system installed in September 😂 Finally something happened just on time in my life
We live in a terrace, and the 1 meter rule effectively knackers us.
I'm sorry the outdoor requirement is stupid, rules out the majority of outside installs unless you have a side passage or are going to put them at the bottom of your garden. I understand not being 1m from an escape route but ANY window is ridiculous.
i work for a solar installation company. So many of our proposals have had to change because of this fun nugget lol
My inverter and batteries which were installed 4 years ago are in the loft. I guess I will leave them there unless my inverter dies in which case I will move them to the detached garage. They are LFP so I am not so concerned about self combustion.
Putting batteries into loft spaces is the height of madness. Always has been - virtually suicidal really. But, having a 1850s stone cottage, there are few to no locations for me to put any in or on the outside face of the house (and it absolutely would never go in the loft) . It would need to be a free standing enclosure out in the garden. Which will jack up the installation price no end, having to dig a trench (and dig up a patio) and put armoured cables through the garden. Which becomes uneconomic to do.
The one metre rule seems absolutely ridiculous, particularly for properties where there's more than one escape route. Our house, for example, we have two Tesla Powerwalls. One is very much within one metre of the door. But it's not a door that we'd ever use as an escape route. It's the exit from a utility room. No one in their right mind would use that because you'd have to fumble around with keys to try and get out the door vs. using either the front door or the back door which are much easier to access. Sounds like a stupidly thought out rule that will be changed in a future version of the regs
I can see this being an issue when selling homes with batteries that don’t comply with the latest guidelines, I know I wouldn’t buy a property with a battery in the loft without factoring in removal and replacement costs
Crazy that with the plug in battery systems, they’re designed to be used in different rooms. Yet possibly won’t be here.
I read others' points about the gas boilers in lofts and now no batteries. I think the change is because batteries are still a new technology in regards to home supply. Gas is is ubiquitous and is everywhere. A similar example is if internal combustion engines were invented TODAY. There is no way you would have untrained people, who cannot be forced to follow rules, refuelling vehicles with highly flammables liquids in shared spaces . But we have been doing this for 130 years so we stick with it. Doesn't mean it is right. I think it will be same logic with gas boilers.
Well thats my house not allowed a battery then unless i put it up the end of the garden 😂