Home owners manual

[John Rumm]

Yup good stuff, added that :-)

[ARW]

Not sure. The only smart wiring I have done is Lightwave

[lacksey]

Mine does, using movement sensors which include a light level detector.

[Animal]

It asks the regular basics, but IME what most needs documenting is all the strange quirks that most people would never work out. Examples.... where are the bodies buried. what's the deal with them. which bits of plumbing behave unexpectedly and how to keep them working what that rope is doing - don't remove it why the roof has those funny things under it why this electrical oddity why you must maintain X this way not that way where the abestos is beware of this insulation because you must use mouldproof paint on this bit of wall because it gets condensation & why what exactly needs doing when x fails, it will layout of phone, internet, tv aerial, fm aerial systems etc how the CH is set up, why it's odd & how to operate it well. etc

[Theo]

Ah yes. Fluffy The Rabbit (aged 14 years) is buried somewhere in the garden, location unknown.

That would be very useful to know.

Another one is the things that no longer do anything. Old pipes/phone/aerial/electrical cables that have been disconnected (for good reason?) but left in place just to fox you when you're trying to work out what the thing does.

(a particular favourite being the pipe full of mains pressure water - with nothing but a closed gate valve on the end - positioned directly above a 50A electrical isolator)

Theo

[Andy Burns]

I don't think it uses energy-harvesting like quinetic, I thought it was a proprietary radio interface but it does seem to mention zigbee now, modules not especially cheap though.

[Andy Burns]

They seem to have a mish-mash of protocols (WiFi, 868 MHz and zigbee) on different products.

[Mark Carver]

When we had a conservatory built, there was the outside water tap that had to be decommissioned.

The fitted kitchen (which we inherited from the previous owners, and took me about 10 years to finally unravel all of its plumbing and electrical mysteries)  completely boxed in all of the plumbing for the tap behind a cabinet, except thankfully for a hole to access the tap's isolation valve. I removed the tap, and chopped the pipe off flush with the wall, then nibbled the copper so a bit of mortar could bury it. I stuck a Dymo Label next to the valve saying 'Do Not Operate this Valve; EVER'. Mainly for my own benefit in years to come. I'd forgotten about it until now. I should have mentioned it in the new owner notes I mentioned in the other thread !

It was a bloody awful kitchen install. It was just about knackered when we moved out. I hope the new owners have ripped it all out now

[Owain Lastname]

If you do this for a manual for a future purchaser, make sure it corresponds with any declaration made on the property information forms submitted through your solicitor.

Otherwise you may be better to not admit to even the possibility of asbestos, knotweed, septic tanks, etc.

Owain

[Algernon Goss-Custard]

I don't think the current form (which I have in front of me) asks about asbestos. It does ask about japanese knotweed and septic tanks.

Incidentally, there's another example of the bad things the EU has done for us: it is going to cost me £10,000 to replace my septic tank in order to sell my house.

[Robin]

I think it does in Scotland in the Property Questionnaire they use instead of the TA10.