Wire the non-separated conservatory into the §3 heat-transmission +
§1 dimensions cascade per RdSAP 10 §6.1 (PDF p.49) + Table 25 (p.51):
"The floor area and volume of a non-separated conservatory are added to
the total floor area and volume of the dwelling. Its roof area is taken
as its floor area divided by cos(20°), and wall area is taken as the
product of its exposed perimeter and its height. ... The conservatory
walls and roof are taken as fully glazed ... Glazed walls are taken as
windows, glazed roof as rooflight."
New `worksheet/conservatory.py` derives the geometry:
- height from the equivalent storey count (§6.1: 1 storey → ground-floor
room height; 1½ → ground + 0.25 + 0.5×first; etc.);
- glazed WALL → window (27) at Table 25 U (double 3.1 / single 4.8) with
the §3.2 curtain resistance (R=0.04) → U_eff 2.758;
- glazed ROOF → rooflight (27a) at Table 25 roof U (double 3.4 / single
5.3) + curtain → U_eff 2.993;
- FLOOR → (28a) via BS EN ISO 13370 as an uninsulated SOLID ground floor
with 300 mm walls (§5.12, spec p.43), exposed perimeter = glazed
perimeter → U 0.89;
- glazed wall + roof + floor areas join (31)/(36); the fully-glazed
structure walls/roof add nothing (the glazing IS the window/rooflight).
`dimensions_from_cert` adds the conservatory floor area to TFA (4) and
floor area × height to volume (5) (feeds ventilation (8)), without making
it a storey (avg storey height for §2 infiltration is unchanged).
Pinned against the simulated case-44 P960 §3 at abs=1e-4 — every line ref
EXACT: (4) 95.3800, (5) 257.1630, (27) 96.1169, (27a) 38.2201, (28a)
21.4164, (29a) 35.5852, (30) 7.4688, (31) 294.2900, (33) 207.3274,
(36) 23.5432. The remaining whole-dwelling SAP/CO2 gap is the §6 solar
gains, closed in the next slice. Worksheet harness stays 47/47 0-raised.
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The gov API lodges a manufacturer's declared cylinder loss factor
(kWh/day) in `sap_heating.cylinder_heat_loss`, in which case it leaves
the cylinder volume / insulation type / thickness None. That field was
undeclared on the 21.0.x schemas, so `from_dict` dropped it — then
`_cylinder_storage_loss_override` hit its insulation-None / volume-None
guards and returned None, dropping the §4 storage loss ENTIRELY. The
dwelling over-rated (the declared loss is typically ~1.5 kWh/day ≈
550 kWh/yr).
SAP 10.2 §4 branch a) (PDF p.136): when the declared loss factor is
known, storage loss (50) = (48) declared loss × (49) Table-2b
temperature factor — replacing the Table 2 V×L×VF computation.
- declare `cylinder_heat_loss` on RdSapSchema21_0_0/21_0_1.SapHeating +
EpcPropertyData.SapHeating; thread through the 21.0.x mappers.
- `cylinder_storage_loss_monthly_kwh` gains `declared_loss_kwh_per_day`:
when set, combined_55 = declared × TF (volume/insulation unused).
- `_cylinder_storage_loss_override` resolves the declared loss BEFORE the
insulation/volume guards (the gov omits those when the loss is lodged).
12 /tmp certs carry it (mean |err| 3.00 -> 2.51; the clean ones close
hard, e.g. 2360 2.65 -> 0.30, 0245 2.25 -> 0.53). Corpus within-0.5
67.0% -> 67.3% (MAE 1.025 -> 1.020); /tmp 71.2% -> 71.4% (0.889 ->
0.882). Worksheet harness 47/47; regression = only the 3 pre-existing
fails; pyright net-zero.
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Roofs lodged insulated at rafters carry their thickness in a DEDICATED
gov-EPC API field, `rafter_insulation_thickness` (e.g. "225mm"), while
`roof_insulation_thickness` stays None (rafters aren't loft joists). That
field was undeclared on the 21.0.x schemas, so `from_dict` silently
dropped it — the rafter certs only *looked* redacted (roof EER 2-4 =
insulated, yet no thickness), and the cascade fell to the Table 18 col (2)
unknown default (2.30), badly under-rating them.
- declare `rafter_insulation_thickness` on RdSapSchema21_0_0/21_0_1 +
EpcPropertyData.SapBuildingPart (mirrors the existing
sloping_ceiling_/flat_roof_insulation_thickness dropped-field handling).
- thread it through `from_rdsap_schema_21_0_0/21_0_1` (older schemas get
None via getattr).
- `heat_transmission` prefers `rafter_insulation_thickness` over
`roof_insulation_thickness` when the part is at-rafters, so the measured
RdSAP 10 §5.11.2 Table 16 column (2) row applies (225 mm → 0.25).
Completes the rafters roof fix: with the real thickness read, the rafter
certs are recovered rather than over-stated — cert 3100-8675-0922-8628
(band E, rafters 225mm) +8.93 → +0.43 SAP. Corpus within-0.5 67.0%
(MAE 1.025) and /tmp 71.2% (MAE 0.889) — both NET ABOVE the pre-rafters
baseline (66.9% / 70.6%). Worksheet harness 47/47; regression = only the
3 pre-existing fails; pyright net-zero.
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`u_roof` only implemented the joist column, so roofs lodged insulated at
rafters (`roof_insulation_location == 1`) were mis-billed at the joist U
on both the API and Summary paths — under-stating loss, over-rating SAP.
RdSAP 10 §5.11.2 Table 16 (spec p.42-43) gives a distinct "insulation at
rafters" column (2): the rafter cavity is shallower than a loft void, so
the same depth yields a higher U (200 mm: rafters 0.29 vs joists 0.21).
§5.11 Table 18 (p.45) likewise carries a rafters column (2) for unknown /
as-built thickness (footnote (1): "The value from the table applies for
unknown and as built") — band A-D = 2.30, E = 1.50, F = 0.68, diverging
from the joist column's 100 mm-equivalent 0.40 default (footnote (4)).
- add `_ROOF_RAFTERS_BY_THICKNESS` (Table 16 col 2) + `_ROOF_RAFTERS_BY_AGE`
(Table 18 col 2) to rdsap_uvalues; `u_roof` selects them via a new
`insulation_at_rafters` flag (ignored for flat / sloping-ceiling roofs).
- `heat_transmission` derives the flag PER BUILDING PART from
`roof_insulation_location` (gov-API int 1 / Summary "R Rafters"), which
also fixes the multi-part dedup-roof-join problem: each part's own
location now drives its U, replacing the unattributable joined
`epc.roofs[]` description.
Worksheet-validated to 1e-4: simulated case 41 (4-bp — Ext1 rafters 200mm
→ 0.29, Ext3 rafters As-Built band F → 0.68; roof total 24.8350) and case
42 (6 variants — rafters 50mm → 0.88, rafters unknown band C → 2.30,
joists/none unchanged). Case 40 stays exact (roof 35.340, total 441.1606);
worksheet harness 47/47.
Corpus within-0.5 66.9% → 66.5% (gates 0.65/1.08 hold) — a spec-correct
shift, NOT a regression: all 15 corpus rafter certs carry redacted (None)
thickness yet lodge roof EER 2-4 (insulated), so the open API blanked a
specified thickness and the spec's unknown-rafter 2.30 default correctly
over-states them. Recovery needs a roof-EER→thickness inference on the
API path (follow-up), not a change to the U-table.
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The HHR-storage HeatingOverlay (ADR-0024) added an off-peak electric
immersion cylinder but never set `immersion_heating_type`, so the overlaid
cert left it None. The calculator then could not resolve `immersion_single`
for the SAP 10.2 Table 13 HW high-rate split and billed hot water 100% at
the off-peak low rate — £127.41 vs the relodged after-cert's £169.39,
overstating the overlay's SAP by +1.26 (CO2/PE matched, isolating it to the
HW cost path).
Add `immersion_heating_type` to HeatingOverlay, route it through
`_fold_heating` (it lives on `sap_heating`), and set it to 1 (single
off-peak immersion) on the HHR overlay to match the relodged reference.
Closes both `test_hhr_storage_overlay_reproduces_the_relodged_after_*`
cascade pins (electric-storage and no-system befores share the after).
Pre-existing failure (present before this branch's recent commits), outside
the handover regression gate. Full modelling suite 220 pass, pyright net-
zero.
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A "No system present: electric heaters assumed" lodging carries SAP
Table 4a code 699 (electric room heaters) but RdSAP main_heating_category
1, NOT 10. `_table_12a_system_for_main` keyed the direct-acting-electric
routing on category==10 only, so the category-1 form fell through to None
and `_space_heating_fuel_cost_gbp_per_kwh` billed space heating 100% at
the off-peak LOW rate — as if direct-acting room heaters charged overnight
like storage.
Per RdSAP 10 §12 Rule 3 (PDF p.62) electric room heaters (691-694, 699)
route to the 10-hour tariff, and SAP 10.2 Table 12a Grid 1 (PDF p.191)
gives the "other direct-acting electric" row a 0.50 high-rate fraction at
10-hour (1.00 at 7-hour). Route those SAP codes — the same set §12 Rule 3
already uses — to OTHER_DIRECT_ACTING_ELECTRIC alongside the category-10
gate.
Found via the PE/CO2-vs-cost split on the worst over-rater in the /tmp
sample: cert 2958 PE +0% / CO2 -1% (energy correct) but SAP +32.2 — a
pure cost-side bug. Space rate 7.50 -> 11.09 p/kWh; cert 2958 +32.2 ->
+14.7. The committed corpus gauge is unchanged (its 3 non-category-10
code-699 certs are all on Single meters -> STANDARD tariff, so this split
never applies to them); the win is on the unbiased /tmp population's
single worst cert.
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SAP 10.2 Appendix M1 (PDF p.94): "EPV,ex,m = 0 if the PV system is not
connected to an export-capable meter." The cascade computed the β-split
export stream regardless of `is_dwelling_export_capable`, so a non-export-
capable dwelling was credited the full PV export — in the §10a COST it
credits at the Table 32 import rate (13.19 p/kWh), which dominates the rating.
On 7 Wybourn Terrace S2 5BJ the PE (144 vs lodged 151) and CO2 (27 vs 29)
already matched, yet the phantom export cost credit pulled SAP from ~73 to
92.1 (+19). Zero `epv_exported_monthly_kwh` after the Appendix-G4 diverter
adjustment when not export-capable; the onsite (EPV,dw) consumption and the
diverter HW reduction are unchanged.
Not-export-capable PV cohort (corpus, 4 certs): 7 Wybourn +19.1 -> +6.5,
4 Lime Ave +11.1 -> +0.4, 8 Hatherleigh +7.6 -> -0.2, Flat 5 ~-0.4. Gauge
66.1% -> 66.9%, MAE 1.124 -> 1.039. Floor 0.64 -> 0.65 / ceiling 1.18 -> 1.08.
Worksheet harness 47/47 0 diverge (Summary certs carry export-capable meters).
1 AAA test, pyright net-zero. Found by auditing the worst over-rater without a
worksheet: PE/CO2-match + cost-miss localised it to the PV export credit.
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RdSAP 10 §10.5 (PDF p.55): "If the actual size is not determined, the size of
a hot-water cylinder is taken as according to Table 28." When a cylinder is
present (has_hot_water_cylinder) but no size descriptor resolves — the gov API
lodges cylinder_size=0, or Exact with no measured volume — `_hot_water_
cylinder_volume_l` returned None, silently dropping BOTH the cylinder's
storage loss and the Table 13 electric-DHW high-rate fraction, under-costing
and over-rating the dwelling. Default such cylinders to the Table 28 baseline
"Normal" 110 L (the value §10.7 also instantiates as the first-row default).
The context-dependent Inaccessible 210/160 values are deliberately NOT applied
here — they are tied to the explicit "Inaccessible" descriptor (code 5) the
assessor lodges, not to an unpopulated size field.
Scope: 7 of 301 cylinder certs in the corpus (2%). Correctness fix — closes a
real spec gap; marginal on the headline (within-0.5 66.1% unchanged, MAE
1.128 -> 1.124) because these certs' residual is dominated by a separate HW-
demand gap, not the cylinder. Worksheet harness 47/47 0 diverge (Summary certs
lodge a real size, so the fallback never fires). 1 AAA test, pyright net-zero.
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SAP 10.2 Table 12a Grid 1 (PDF p.191): electric storage heater SAP code 408
is an "Integrated (storage + direct-acting) system" with a 0.20 space-heating
high-rate fraction on a 7-hour tariff — NOT the 0.00 of "other storage
heaters". `_table_12a_system_for_main` returned None for all storage codes (an
explicit TODO), so code 408 fell back to the 100%-low-rate path and billed
space heating at the bare 7-hour low rate (5.50 p/kWh) — under-costing →
over-rating. Mapped cat-7 storage: 408 -> INTEGRATED_STORAGE_DIRECT (0.20),
others -> OTHER_STORAGE_HEATERS (0.00, unchanged behaviour). The enum +
fraction rows already existed; this only wires the dispatch, so the split
flows self-consistently to both the §10a cost and the Appendix-M1 D_PV
high-rate fraction.
Corpus: sap408 over-raters +14.6/+12.9/+12.7 -> +7.1/+5.1/+3.4 (two crossed
into within-0.5). Gauge 65.9% -> 66.1%, MAE 1.160 -> 1.128. Floor 0.63 -> 0.64
/ MAE ceiling 1.22 -> 1.18. Worksheet harness 47/47 0 diverge. The residual
+3..+7 is the "all other uses" 0.90 high-rate fraction (lighting/pumps/HW
still billed 100%-low on the off-peak legacy path) — the next slice.
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SAP 10.2 Table 4c(3) (PDF p.169) "Factor for controls and charging method"
multiplies a heat network's heat requirement by 1.05-1.10 for FLAT-RATE
charging (note d: household pays a fixed amount regardless of heat used, so
no incentive to economise), and by 1.0 for charging linked to use. The
worksheet folds it into the heat-network requirement alongside the Table 12c
distribution loss factor:
(307) space = (98c) x (302) x (305) x (306)
(310) DHW = (64) x (305a) x (306)
Our cascade applied (306) DLF but never (305)/(305a), so every flat-rate
community-heating cert under-counted demand -> over-rated SAP.
Folded the factor into the 1/DLF efficiency override at the space-heating
(206) and DHW (water-inherits-from-main) sites. Space column adds +0.05 for
no thermostatic control (2301/2302); DHW column is 1.05 flat-rate / 1.0
linked-to-use.
Corpus (RdSAP-21.0.1, 1000 certs): community cluster median +0.32 -> -0.19,
within-0.5 38% -> 62% (control 2307 +0.83 -> -0.19; 2306 unchanged at factor
1.0 as spec requires). Overall gauge 65.0% -> 65.9%, MAE 1.174 -> 1.160.
Ratcheted the corpus-test floor 0.62 -> 0.63 / MAE ceiling 1.25 -> 1.22.
Also records (corpus-test comment + scripts/decompose_co2_pe_error.py) the
disproof of the prior "CO2/PE +5% is a factor/scope bug" lead: factors are
spec-exact, scope identical, and the bias is per-cert demand fidelity
(corr(SAP-err, PE-diff) = -0.54), not a one-slice factor fix.
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The mixer-shower hot-water demand (worksheet 42a) divided N_shower by the
count of MIXER outlets only. But SAP 10.2 Appendix J step 1a is explicit:
"Establish how many shower outlets are present in the dwelling, Noutlets
(including in the count any instantaneous electric showers)" — and the
electric-shower step (64a) uses that same Noutlets from step 1a. So a
dwelling with both a mixer and an electric shower assigned the FULL N_shower
to the mixer system AND billed the electric shower on top of it, double-
counting shower demand → over-counted main HW → under-rated the dwelling.
Fix: thread the electric-shower count into the mixer demand so the
denominator is the total outlet count (mixer + electric), iterating the
warm-water draw over the mixer outlets only (per step 1e).
shower_types=1,2 cohort: -0.37 median -> +0.28 (crossed zero); API gauge
68.4% -> 69.0% within-0.5. Golden cert 0300-2747 (1 mixer + 1 electric)
re-pinned: PE +0.93 -> -0.10, CO2 +0.25 -> +0.15 (both toward zero,
confirming the double-count). Worksheet harness 47/47, 0 divergers (the
Elmhurst fixtures have no electric showers).
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The no-PCDB MEV fan-electricity path fed the SAP 10.2 Table 4g default SFP
(0.8 W/(l/s)) directly as SFPav. But Table 4g note 3 (PDF p.176) is explicit:
the default SFP values "are to be multiplied by the appropriate in-use factor
for default data from the PCDB" — PCDB Table 329 system_type 10 ("default
data, used when SFP is taken from Table 4g rather than the PCDB"), IUF 2.5
(duct-agnostic per note 2). Table 4h, which previously held these factors, is
retired ("no longer used – data now stored in the PCDB").
Omitting the IUF under-billed the index-less MEV fan electricity by 2.5x
(SFPav 0.8 instead of 0.8 x 2.5 = 2.0), so cost was too low and the cohort
over-rated. This is distinct from the with-index path, which already applies
the tested-product system_type-2 "no scheme" IUF (~1.45) per fan.
Index-less gas-house MEV cohort: +1.37 median -> -0.18 (12% -> 92% within 0.5),
no overshoot — the missing IUF was exactly the over-rate. API gauge 67.7% ->
68.4% within-0.5 (mean|err| 0.992 -> 0.986, signed +0.031 -> +0.006).
Worksheet harness 47/47, 0 divergers (Summary-path MEV certs carry a PCDB
index or are natural, so unaffected).
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The gov-EPC API surfaces the assessor's RdSAP-assessed per-element U-values
as `roof_u_value` / `wall_u_value` / `floor_u_value` on each building part.
These were undeclared on the RdSAP 21.0.0/21.0.1 schemas, so `from_dict`
silently dropped them, and `heat_transmission` re-derived each U from the §5.6
/§5.7/§5.11 construction-default cascade. The gov OPEN data routinely redacts
the backing insulation thickness, so that re-derivation mis-bills an insulated
element as uninsulated.
RdSAP 10 §5.1: a known element U-value (documentary evidence / the lodged
RdSAP output) is used directly in place of the construction-default cascade.
Per [[project_per_cert_mapper_validation_state]] the gov API carries RdSAP
OUTPUT, so the lodged U reproduces the official's element heat loss exactly.
Worst case in the 2026 sample: cert 7921-0052-0940-5007-0663, an age-C
"Pitched, sloping ceiling" (rc=8) top-floor flat lodging roof_u_value=0.2 with
no thickness. The cascade returned the uninsulated 2.30 W/m²K → SAP 56.9 vs
lodged 80 (-23.09, the single largest error in the sample). The roof override
alone recovers ~15 SAP; the wall override (lodged 0.34 vs cascade) closes the
rest of this cohort.
Override applies to the MAIN wall only (alt-wall sub-areas keep their own
per-area U) and the part's floor=0. Fires only when the rare field is present
(9 of 909 computed certs), so the Summary path — which never lodges these
API fields — is untouched.
API gauge: 67.1% → 67.7% within-0.5, mean|err| 1.024 → 0.992.
Worksheet harness: 47/47, 0 divergers (unchanged).
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Flat per-dwelling decommission price (sample_catalogue \£250) + 0.25 contingency
(covers unknown heater count / hard-wired-vs-plugged / repaint extent). The JSON
repo joins the contingency from config, proven by the new repo test. No composite
Products machinery — a lodged secondary is one roughly-fixed job, not room-scaled.
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recommend_secondary_heating_removal offers one standalone Option that clears the
lodged secondary system. Eligibility is purely physical (offer iff
sap_heating.secondary_heating_type is set) — no effectiveness gate, since a
lodged secondary is a fixed emitter per RdSAP (portables are ignored), and the
electric-storage §A.2.2 no-op is the Optimiser's call (ADR-0028 decisions 1-2).
Priced at a flat per-dwelling decommission cost, not room-scaled.
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The first overlay surface that sets fields to *absent* rather than to a
target state: _fold_secondary_heating clears sap_heating.secondary_heating_type
+ secondary_fuel_type, so the calculator's Table 11 secondary-fraction split
(SAP 10.2 §9a) routes 100% of space heating to the main. On an electric-storage
main RdSAP §A.2.2 re-forces a default secondary, making removal a no-op there —
left to the Optimiser to de-select (ADR-0028 decisions 2-3).
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The §5.16 Table 22 thermal-mass-parameter (TMP) "always low-mass" set was
{timber 5, cob 7, park home 8}. But wall_construction code 8 is OVERLOADED by
the same gov-API/calc code-space divergence as the wall-U fix: the Summary
path's "PH" mapping uses 8 for park home, while the gov-EPC API enum uses 8
for SYSTEM BUILD (Summary system build = code 6). So every API system-built
cert was mis-rated as low-mass 100 kJ/m²K instead of masonry 250 (Table 22
lists system build as masonry — PDF p.48, line "System build 250...").
A too-low TMP shortens the §7 time constant tau = Cm/(3.6·H), over-cutting
the temperature reduction so mean internal temperature is UNDER-stated →
space-heating demand under-stated → SAP over-rated. This was the cause of the
uninsulated system-built over-rate cluster (n=9 gas-boiler certs at signed
+2.39 vs cavity +0.43 / solid-brick +0.08 at the same bands — a system-built-
specific anomaly with a spec-correct wall U).
Fix: drop 8 from the always-low set and gate it on `property_type` — code 8 is
the low-mass park-home value only when the dwelling really is a park home,
otherwise it is gov-API system build and keeps masonry 250. Disambiguated by
the same `property_type == "park home"` signal used elsewhere in the cascade.
Worksheet harness UNAFFECTED (47/47, 0 divergers): the Summary path uses code
6 for system build and code 8 only for genuine park homes (which stay
low-mass via the property_type gate). API gauge 65.3% -> 67.1% within-0.5
(mean|err| 1.059 -> 1.024, signed +0.050 -> -0.002). The uninsulated
system-built cluster collapses +2.82 -> +0.28 signed (0/11 -> 7/11 within
0.5). 2 AAA tests (parametrised code-8 system-built -> 250; park-home
property -> 100). pyright net-zero.
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The gov-EPC API `wall_construction` enum diverges from the calculator's
internal WALL_* code-space (confirmed by the description-vs-code audit across
the corpus): API 1-5 align (granite/sandstone/solid-brick/cavity/timber), but
API 6=basement, 8=system built, 9=cob — whereas the calc constants are
WALL_SYSTEM_BUILT=6, WALL_COB=7, WALL_PARK_HOME=8, WALL_CURTAIN=9. Codes 8 and
9 therefore fell OUT of u_wall's `known_types` and resolved only via the
`walls[].description` fallback, with two failure modes:
- System built (API 8): a cert lodging no description silently defaulted to
cavity (1.5) instead of the system-built U (RdSAP 10 Table 6, e.g. band E
as-built 1.7). Latent in the corpus (all 43 carry a description) but a
silent mis-bill waiting to happen.
- Cob (API 9): a LIVE bug — calc WALL_CURTAIN=9 (set by the Summary path's
"CW" mapping, paired with a curtain_wall_age) intercepts code 9 in the
`construction == WALL_CURTAIN` branch, billing the cob wall at the curtain
default 2.0 regardless of description.
Fix, split by where each can be disambiguated safely:
- System built: `u_wall` gains `_GOV_API_WALL_CODE_TO_TYPE = {8: WALL_
SYSTEM_BUILT}`, resolving code 8 directly (calc WALL_PARK_HOME=8 is never
dispatched, so no collision; gov 6=basement is left to the basement
machinery — cannot remap 8→6).
- Cob: translated at the API mapper (`_api_wall_construction_code`, 9 →
WALL_COB=7) where the source is unambiguously the gov enum — the gov API
has no curtain code, so an API 9 is always cob. Applied to main + alt
walls across the from_rdsap_schema_* builders. The Summary path's "CW"→9
curtain mapping is untouched.
Worksheet harness UNAFFECTED (47/47, 0 divergers — Summary path unchanged).
API gauge 65.1% -> 65.3% within-0.5 (mean|err| 1.075 -> 1.059): the n=1 cob
cert now computes cob instead of curtain. 3 AAA tests (u_wall system-built
without description; mapper cob 9->7; aligned/system/basement pass-through).
pyright net-zero.
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`_CYLINDER_SIZE_CODE_TO_LITRES` held only codes 2/3/4 (Normal/Medium/Large →
110/160/210 L); codes 5 (Inaccessible) and 6 (Exact) fell through to None,
so the Table-13 high-rate fraction AND the cylinder storage loss were skipped
for those certs (20 code-6 certs in the API sample).
Per RdSAP 10 Specification (10-06-2025) §10.5 Table 28 (PDF p.55):
- Code 6 "Exact": use the lodged measured volume. The gov API carries it in
`cylinder_size_measured` (e.g. 150 L) — now plumbed through the 21.0.0/21.0.1
schema → mapper → `SapHeating.cylinder_volume_measured_l`.
- Code 5 "Inaccessible": 210 L if off-peak electric dual immersion, 160 L from
a solid-fuel boiler, otherwise 110 L (n=0 in the current sample, but
spec-complete).
New `_cylinder_volume_l_from_code` centralises Table 28 resolution and replaces
the three raw-dict call sites (`_hot_water_cylinder_volume_l`, the cylinder
storage-loss path, and the PCDB performance check) so all three honour codes
5/6 identically. `_cylinder_inaccessible_volume_l` applies the code-5 context
rule via the existing immersion/off-peak-meter/solid-fuel-boiler detectors.
Worksheet harness UNAFFECTED (47/47, 0 divergers): the Summary path lodges
neither code 5/6 nor a measured volume. API gauge: within-0.5 64.4% -> 65.1%
(mean|err| 1.085 -> 1.075) — the 20 code-6 certs now size their cylinder from
the measured volume. 4 AAA tests (code 6 measured; code 5 solid-fuel/default/
off-peak-dual-immersion). pyright net-zero.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The main-wall `u_wall(...)` call dropped the `dry_lined` kwarg, so the RdSAP 10
§5.7/§5.8 (PDF p.40-41) Table 14 dry-lining adjustment — U_adj = 1/(1/U₀ +
0.17) for a dry-lined (incl. lath-and-plaster) uninsulated wall — was never
applied to any main wall, even when the cert lodged `wall_dry_lined=Y`. The
ALTERNATIVE-wall path already passes `dry_lined` (line 1367); this one-sided
omission billed every dry-lined main wall at the un-adjusted (too-high) U →
wall heat loss too high → SAP under-rated.
Per-cert: a solid-brick (construction 3) band-A 230 mm main wall computes
U₀=1.70; dry-lined it is 1/(1/1.70+0.17)=1.32 — we were 22% too high. Across
the API gov-EPC sample the dry-lined `wall_construction=3` (solid brick)
sub-cohort sat at 10% within-0.5 / signed -1.33.
Fix: pass `dry_lined=bool(part.wall_dry_lined)` to the main-wall `u_wall`
call, mirroring the alt-wall path. `part.wall_dry_lined` is already plumbed
(Optional[bool], None → False). The three dry-lining branches in `u_wall`
(stone §5.6, solid-brick-by-thickness §5.7, generic uninsulated bucket §5.8)
are all spec-correct and already worksheet-validated (the bucket-0 cavity
case against cert 7700 age-C → 1.20).
Worksheet harness UNAFFECTED (47/47, 0 divergers): the Elmhurst/Summary
extractor only captures dry-lining for ALTERNATIVE walls (Summary §7), never
the main wall, so `part.wall_dry_lined` stays None on that path — this is a
pure API-path improvement. API gauge: within-0.5 60.1% -> 64.4% (mean|err|
1.163 -> 1.085, signed -0.097 -> +0.049). Both affected buckets improved
with no overshoot: solid brick (wc=3) 50% -> 57% within-0.5; cavity (wc=4,
dry-lined via the §5.8 bucket-0 path) 68% -> 72%.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A flat accessed via an unheated corridor/stairwell assumes a draught lobby
is present, so SAP 10.2 §2 line (13) = 0.0 rather than the 0.05 no-lobby
infiltration penalty. Per RdSAP 10 Specification (10-06-2025, p.30, "Draught
lobby"): "add infiltration 0.05 if draught lobby is not present, or use 0.0
if present. ... Flat or maisonette: Assume draught lobby if entrance door is
facing corridor (heated or unheated) or stairwell."
Signal: a SHELTERED alternative wall (the RdSAP §5.9 wall-to-unheated-corridor
surface) is the evidence that the flat's entrance faces a corridor — the same
evidence the corridor door (Table 26 U=1.4) rides on. New helper
`_has_sheltered_corridor_wall` factors that check out of `_corridor_door_count`
and gates `_has_draught_lobby`. Houses and exposed-gable flats (no sheltered
alt wall) keep the lodged value / "assume no lobby if cannot be determined"
default, so the §2 cascade is unchanged for every non-corridor dwelling.
The cascade previously added the 0.05 penalty unconditionally, over-counting
(16)/(18)/(21) by 0.05 ACH. On simulated case 34 (cert 001431 storage flat)
this lifted effective air change (25)m from the worksheet's monthly 0.572-0.638
to 0.574-0.668, over-counting space-heating demand (98) by +46.3 kWh/yr
(+0.41%) -> SAP -0.18. Closing it lands (25)m exactly on the worksheet (avg
0.6024) and (98) at 11356.3 vs ws 11357.2:
case 34 SAP 35.1325 -> 35.3130 vs ws 35.3094 (Δ -0.1769 -> +0.0036)
Guard-rails held (both improved): worksheet harness 47/47, 0 divergers (the
other corridor flat, cert 2474, -0.32 -> -0.02); API gauge 60.0% -> 60.1%
within 0.5, mean|err| 1.167 -> 1.163.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A door opening to an unheated corridor/stairwell takes U=1.4 W/m²K (RdSAP 10
Table 26, p.51 — any age band) instead of the 3.0 external-door default, and
its area deducts from the SHELTERED wall, not the main wall (RdSAP §3.7,
p.18: "the door of a flat/maisonette to an unheated stairwell or corridor
... is deducted from the sheltered wall area"). The cascade previously
billed every door at the external U on the main wall.
Signal: a SHELTERED alternative wall (`is_sheltered`, the RdSAP §5.9
wall-to-unheated-corridor surface, already modelled) is the evidence that
the dwelling is accessed via an unheated corridor, so one lodged door opens
to it. `_corridor_door_count` returns 1 when a sheltered alt wall is present
and >=1 door is lodged, else 0 — so the door channel is unchanged for every
non-corridor dwelling (houses, exposed-gable flats). `heat_transmission_
from_cert` gains a `corridor_door_count` param (default 0): it splits the
door area into external (main wall, age-default U) + corridor (sheltered
alt wall, U=1.4), threading the corridor door's area into that wall's
opening deduction and billing it at 1.4.
Validated on TWO faithful worksheets: simulated case 34 (cert 001431
storage flat — doors 8.14 exact, fabric 207.47 ≈ ws 207.48) and the
long-standing worksheet-harness diverger cert 2474 (−0.87 → −0.32, the
"space-demand thread" was the dropped corridor door). The worksheet harness
is now 47/47 with ZERO divergers.
API SAP gauge: 57.6% → 60.0% within 0.5; mean|err| 1.185 → 1.167; signed
−0.165 → −0.115 — ~22 sheltered-corridor flats were a systematic gap.
Regression gate green (3 pre-existing fails unrelated); pyright net-zero.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Don't offer a like-for-like gas boiler swap to a dwelling whose existing gas
boiler is already at least as efficient as the new condensing boiler (SAP 10.2
Table 4b codes 102/104 = 84% winter) — it gains nothing, and the dwelling gets
the tune-up (cylinder + controls) instead. `_already_condensing` compares the
existing code's Table 4b winter efficiency to 84%; a non-Table-4b code (solid
fuel) has no comparable efficiency and is never treated as already-condensing.
The gate is GAS-ONLY: a non-gas boiler → gas is a fuel switch whose value (cost
/ carbon) is not captured by winter efficiency, so oil/LPG/coal → gas is never
suppressed on efficiency grounds (only gated on the mains-gas connection).
This correctly demotes the gas-with-cylinder example (cert lodges code 114
"Regular, condensing", 84% winter) to a tune-up case — confirming that 114→102
is ~0 boiler-efficiency gain in both our calc and Elmhurst (both Table 4b 84%);
Elmhurst's uplift there came from the cylinder + flue, not the boiler. The
boiler-with-cylinder overlay stays validated by the lpg pin (code 115, non-
condensing + cylinder) and by recasting the 114 fixtures' code to a pre-1998
non-condensing boiler (110) in the boiler tests — the overlay overwrites the
code to 102 regardless, so only eligibility changes, not the delta-0 result.
New tests: an already-condensing gas boiler yields no boiler upgrade (but a
tune-up); an oil condensing boiler is not gated (the fuel switch survives).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SAP 10.2 Table 12a (PDF p.191) is titled "High-rate fractions for systems
using 7-hour and 10-hour tariffs"; its "Immersion water heater" row lists
the tariff as "7-hour or 10-hour" only, routing to Table 13. An 18-hour or
24-hour tariff is OUTSIDE the table's scope — it provides at least 18
hours/day at the low rate, more than enough to heat any immersion cylinder
off-peak, so the high-rate fraction is 0 (all DHW billed at the low rate).
`electric_dhw_high_rate_fraction` previously mapped 18-/24-hour to the
10-hour equations (returning ~0.10 for a 110 L dual immersion) on an
over-literal reading of Table 13 Note 1 ("at least 10 hours"). The Elmhurst
dr87 worksheet for solid fuel 5 (cert 001431: 18-hour meter, 110 L dual
immersion, WHC 903) refutes that: HW (245) high-rate = 0.0 kWh, (246)
low-rate = 100%. Table 12a's title bounds the table to the two named
tariffs; 18-/24-hour fall outside it.
Resolves the Table-13 blocker on the immersion-extractor fix: once the
Summary extractor captures the dual immersion, the 18-hour solid-fuel
corpus certs stay at high_frac=0 (matching their worksheets) instead of
regressing to the 10-hour-column 0.10.
API SAP eval unchanged: 57.6% within 0.5, mean|err| 1.185, signed -0.165
(the cached sample has no 18-hour WHC-903 certs; one 24-hour cert shifts
sub-threshold). Regression gate green (3 pre-existing fails unrelated).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SAP 10.2 §9.4.9 (PDF p.32) verbatim: "A cylinder thermostat should be
assumed to be present when the domestic hot water is obtained from a heat
network, an immersion heater, a thermal store, a combi boiler or a CPSU."
RdSAP 10 Table 29 (p.56) points the no-access default at this rule.
The storage-loss Table 2b temperature factor previously read only the
lodged `cylinder_thermostat` ("Y") — so an unlodged thermostat always took
the ×1.3 absent-penalty, over-stating storage loss by 30%. New
`_cylinder_thermostat_present` assumes it present when DHW is from a heat
network, WHC 903 (immersion), or a direct-acting electric boiler (SAP code
191 — electric-resistance, immersion-equivalent).
Found via the worksheet-folder harness: cert 2474-3059-4202-4496-3200
(Summary path: WHC 901, main SAP 191, electric, no lodged cylinder stat)
diverged −1.86 from its dr87 worksheet. The worksheet lodges (53)
temperature factor 0.6000 (present) and "add cylinder thermostat (SAP
increase too small)" — already assumed present. Fix lands HW output (64)
2701.99 → 2323.88, EXACT to the worksheet; 2474 −1.86 → −0.87 (residual is
a separate space-demand fabric thread). No other worksheet in the 47-cert
harness moved.
API eval within-0.5 56.9% → 57.6%; mean|err| 1.197 → 1.185; signed
−0.202 → −0.165. Regression green (only pre-existing fails); goldens +
heating corpus unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SAP 10.2 Table 3 (PDF p.160) verbatim: "For heat networks apply the
formula above with p = 1.0 and h = 3 for all months." The primary
circulation hours for a heat-network main are fixed at h=3 winter and
summer, independent of the cylinder-thermostat / separate-timing
lodgement that selects the h=5/h=11 rows for boiler systems.
`primary_loss_monthly_kwh` / `primary_circuit_hours_per_day_table_3` gain
a `heat_network` flag (→ (3, 3)); `_primary_loss_override` passes
`_is_heat_network_main(main)`. p=1.0 was already pinned via
`_HEAT_NETWORK_PIPEWORK_INSULATION_FRACTION`; only the hours were wrong.
Before, cert 8536 routed through the h=5/3 row because its community
biomass DHW fuel (31) collides with electricity code 31, so
`_separately_timed_dhw` returned False. The Table 3 heat-network rule
overrides that path: 8536 primary loss (59) 335.81 → 273.90, EXACT to
the faithful case-32 worksheet (storage (56) 376.58 also matches 376.94).
API eval within-0.5 57.0% → 56.9% (one offsetting-error cert crosses
out; signed err −0.205 → −0.202). Applied spec-uniformly per the
determinism principle — the heat-network primary hours are unambiguous.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A heat-network main with DHW from the network and no lodged cylinder was
billed the Table 3a keep-hot 600 kWh/yr combi loss (cat 6 sat in
`_TABLE_3A_COMBI_LOSS_MAIN_HEATING_CATEGORIES`). A heat network is not a
combi boiler — SAP 10.2 §4 line 7702 says combi loss is 0 for non-combi
systems.
SAP 10.2 p.24 "Heat networks" (c): when neither a PCDB Heat Interface
Unit nor a lodged cylinder applies, "a measured loss of 1.72 kWh/day
should be used, corrected using Table 2b. This is equivalent to a
cylinder of 110 litres and a factory insulation thickness of 50 mm".
RdSAP 10 Table 29 (p.56): a cylinder thermostat is assumed present when
DHW is from a heat network (Table 2b temperature factor 0.60).
New `_apply_heat_network_hiu_default_store` rebinds the 110 L / 50 mm-
factory store (thermostat present) onto a heat-network DHW cert with no
cylinder and no PCDB index, mirroring `_apply_rdsap_no_water_heating_
system_default`. The injected store routes storage loss (56) ≈ 376.7
kWh/yr (= 1.72 × 0.60 × 365) + primary loss (59) through the existing
machinery and zeroes the combi (61) loss via the has_hot_water_cylinder
gate. Verified against the user's faithful case-32 worksheet: storage
(56) 376.58 vs worksheet 376.94.
Cert 8536 storage 0→376.6, combi 600→0. API eval within-0.5 56.8% →
57.0%; signed err −0.218 → −0.205. Reworked
`test_heat_network_main_with_hw_from_main_dlf_scales_hot_water_kwh` to
assert the DLF scaling directly (fuel ÷ §4 output = 1.41) since the old
two-cert baseline premise (both combi-600) no longer holds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the flat placeholder scalars (boiler £3000; tune-up £500/£900) with a
per-dwelling composite cost, mirroring the ASHP architecture (ADR-0025): a
`HeatingRates` table (data, `heating_rates.json`), typed `BoilerCostInputs` /
`TuneUpCostInputs`, pure `Products.boiler_bundle_cost` / `tune_up_cost`, and
modelling-layer interpreters that read the dwelling into those inputs.
The cost mirrors the Simulation Overlay component-for-component, sharing the
controls + cylinder pricing across both options:
- tune-up (standard) = standard controls + cylinder fixes
- tune-up (zone) = zone controls + cylinder fixes
- boiler upgrade = £3200 all-in + standard controls (only when the upgrade
fired a controls change) + cylinder fixes
Standard controls are priced INCREMENTALLY — only the parts missing to reach
SAP 2106 (programmer £120 / room thermostat £150 / TRV £35×radiators), read
from a Table 4e Group-1 feature map so a dwelling that already has a room
thermostat + TRVs is only charged the programmer. Zone controls are a full
smart kit (hub £205 + smart TRV £50×radiators) — the smart TRV is itself the
room sensor, so there is no separate per-room sensor line. Cylinder fixes:
jacket £50 (when under-insulated) + thermostat £150 (when absent). The boiler
is a like-for-like wet swap (no radiators/flue/pipework — eligibility already
requires an existing wet boiler), so those dead-code extras are not modelled.
Figures are research-validated 2025/26 UK installed costs (legacy Costs.py
lineage); fully-loaded totals with one contingency on top (Model B, not the
legacy VAT/preliminaries engine). Contingency: boiler 0.26; tune-ups 0.10
(was a 0.15 placeholder). ADR-0027 records the design; CONTEXT.md's Heating
Eligibility entry updated to cover the partial boiler/tune-up family + composed
cost. Products cost pins (delta<=1e-9) + interpreter tests + generator
composite-cost assertions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The GOV.UK API lodges a junk empty leading building part (all fields
None) ahead of the real Main Dwelling on some certs. Four sites in
cert_to_inputs.py read `sap_building_parts[0].construction_age_band` →
got None → silently dropped the dwelling age band. New `_dwelling_age_band`
helper takes the first part that lodges a band (a no-op for normal certs
where [0] is the Main part).
Closes two age-band-keyed defects on the 5 affected certs:
- SAP 10.2 Table 12c (p.193): the heat-network Distribution Loss Factor
defaulted to the K-or-newer 1.50 instead of the dwelling's true band
(cert 8536-0929-6500-0815-7206 is age A → 1.20), inflating distribution
loss by 30%.
- RdSAP 10 §4.1 Table 5 (p.28): the empty band ("") fell through the
age-band branches to the H–M habitable-rooms branch, defaulting in
phantom extract fans. The true band A correctly yields 0 fans
(bands A–E → 0).
Cert 8536: 31.76 → 41.12 vs lodged 39 (was −7.24, now +2.12). API eval
mean|err| 1.197 → 1.192, signed −0.229 → −0.218; headline within-0.5
holds at 56.8% (8536 lands at +2.1, a documented overshoot vs the
faithful case-31 worksheet — separate slice).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An API audit flagged the solid-fuel room-heater space efficiencies
(_SPACE_EFF_BY_CODE 631-636) as reading the "Water" column of SAP 10.2
Table 4a. That was a misread: the two room-heater columns are (A)
minimum-for-HETAS-approved and (B) other appliances — BOTH are space
efficiency, not space/water. RdSAP defaults to column (B) when HETAS
approval is not lodged, which is what these values already hold and what
the reference software produces (Elmhurst worksheet "solid fuel 9", SAP
code 636 → (206) space efficiency = 70 = column B; flipping to column A
75 broke that pin and three sibling solid-fuel corpus pins).
No value change — add a pin test + spec-cited comment so the column-(A)/
(B) distinction is explicit and this misread can't recur.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add the system tune-up to the heating Recommendation: keep the existing wet
boiler but install better heating controls and fix the cylinder. Two competing
Options (the Optimiser picks <=1 across the whole heating rec) per the user's
two best control end-states:
- system_tune_up — standard controls (programmer + room thermostat +
TRVs, SAP 10.2 Table 4e code 2106)
- system_tune_up_zoned — time-and-temperature zone control (code 2110, type 3):
more SAP uplift for more cost
Both keep the boiler (no fuel / SAP code / flue change), set the control
ABSOLUTELY to their end-state, and apply the conditional cylinder fixes (an
80 mm jacket when under-insulated, a thermostat when absent — only when a
cylinder exists). Each control option is offered only when it genuinely improves
the existing control — standard is skipped when the control is already 2106 /
2110 / 2112, zone when already 2110 / 2112 — so neither is ever a downgrade or a
no-op.
Validated against the Elmhurst "system tune up" re-lodgements (cert 001431):
nine befores spanning controls 2101-2113 all converge to the two common afters,
proving the control overlay is absolute. The cascade pin is parametrised over
two starting controls (2101 "no control" + 2113 "room thermostat and TRVs") x
both afters, delta 0 (SAP/CO2/PE).
Wires the two MeasureTypes through contingencies (0.15), the offline catalogue
(500 / 900), the catalogue-coverage list, the report triggers, and the ARA
first-run seed.
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`_separately_timed_dhw` returned True for any boiler+cylinder+from-main
cert, applying the SAP 10.2 Table 2b note b) ×0.9 temperature-factor
reduction unconditionally. For the lpg-boiler "before" worksheet (pre-
1998 LPG boiler SAP code 115 + 210 L cylinder, NO cylinder thermostat,
control 2113 "Room thermostat and TRVs" — no programmer) this dropped
the (53) temperature factor to 0.702 (= 0.60 × 1.3 × 0.9) where the
worksheet lodges 0.78 (= 0.60 × 1.3), under-counting cylinder storage
loss (55) by ~119 kWh/yr and over-rating SAP by ~0.25.
RdSAP 10 §10.5 (PDF p.57) "Hot water separately timed":
No programmer, pre-1998 boiler → No
Programmer, pre-1998 boiler → Yes
Post-1998 boiler → Yes
DHW is therefore NOT separately timed only when a pre-1998 boiler is
paired with a no-programmer control. Add the two SAP 10.2 Table 4c(2) /
Table 4b lookups (controls without a programmer = {2101, 2103, 2111,
2113}; pre-1998 gas/LPG boilers 110-119 + oil 124/125/128) and return
False for that combination; every other boiler+cylinder cert keeps the
separately-timed default, so the change is confined to old low-control
stock and the heating corpus + goldens are unchanged.
Effect: the full chain (Summary PDF → extractor → mapper → cert_to_inputs
→ calculator) now reproduces the lpg-boiler worksheet's §11a unrounded
SAP -6.6499 at abs < 1e-4 (was -6.4013). Full regression suite green bar
the 3 pre-existing unrelated fails.
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Pin the coal-boiler-with-cylinder upgrade and add the `boiler_flue_type`
end-state field. A solid-fuel (coal) boiler (fuel 11, SAP code 153) on a
mains-gas street converts to a gas condensing boiler (fuel 11->26, code 102) —
the non-gas->gas path for a solid-fuel system, eligible because code 153 is in
the wet-boiler solid-fuel range 151-161 and mains gas is present.
New `boiler_flue_type` HeatingOverlay field, routed to main_heating_details[0]
and set to 2 (room-sealed/balanced) on both boiler shapes: every relodged after
lodges flue type 2, but coal's before lodged none. The field is SAP-inert (the
cascade score is unchanged by it), so it is written purely for end-state
fidelity — the overlay now represents the installed condensing boiler's flue.
Validated via the overlay-equality unit tests.
The coal after predates the user-locked "always add a cylinder thermostat when
absent" rule, so it stale-lodged thermostat 'N'; the pin corrects it to the
rule's end-state 'Y' in-test (the gas with-cylinder after got the same
correction by re-lodging). The cylinder is already 80 mm insulated, so the
jacket is skipped and only the thermostat is added; controls (2106) are
unchanged. Cascade-pinned delta 0 (SAP/CO2/PE).
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Extend the gas-boiler-upgrade Option to combi (no-cylinder) dwellings and add
the controls upgrade shared by both boiler shapes. A dwelling has a cylinder or
it does not, so the one `gas_boiler_upgrade` Option is shaped per dwelling:
- no cylinder -> a gas condensing combi (Table 4b code 104), no cylinder fields
touched;
- a cylinder -> a regular boiler (code 102) heating it, with the conditional
cylinder jacket/thermostat (slice 1).
Controls: bring an inadequate boiler control up to full programmer + room
thermostat + TRVs (SAP 10.2 Table 4e Group 1 code 2106). "Inadequate" = the
Group-1 codes with NO room thermostat (2101, 2102, 2107, 2108, 2109, 2111) —
these lack boiler interlock (Table 4c(2) / footnote c) p.171), so adding a room
thermostat genuinely improves SAP. Room-thermostatted (2103/2104/2105/2106/2113)
or better zone controls (2110/2112) are left unchanged — never downgraded, so
no phantom uplift. The with-cylinder cert (control 2106) is therefore untouched
and its pin still holds at delta 0.
Validated by the combi before/after re-lodgement (cert 001431, gas boiler
upgrade - no cylinder): control 2111 "TRVs and bypass" -> 2106, fan flue
False->True, SAP code 112 -> 104. Cascade-pinned delta 0 (SAP/CO2/PE). Removed
the slice-1 placeholder test asserting no boiler Option fires without a cylinder
(the combi Option now correctly fires there).
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Add the first boiler-upgrade option to the single "Heating & Hot Water"
Recommendation (ADR-0024 expansion): a dwelling whose existing wet boiler heats
a hot-water cylinder is offered a new gas condensing boiler, with the cylinder
jacketed when under-insulated and given a thermostat when absent. One competing
Option (the Optimiser picks <=1), folded into one composite Plan line.
The end-state is read from the Elmhurst before/after re-lodgements (cert 001431,
gas boiler upgrade - with cylinder), which REVISE ADR-0024:
- Target is always a gas condensing boiler, not fuel-preserving: every after
lodges fuel 26. Gas->gas always; a non-gas wet boiler ->gas only with a
mains-gas connection; electric boilers are left alone (electrification is the
upgrade path). Eligibility = wet-boiler SAP code (Table 4a/4b 101-141 /
151-161 / 191-196) + not an electric boiler + mains gas present.
- End-state is a Table 4b SAP code, not a PCDB index: code 102 (regular boiler
+ cylinder). The calculator derives the condensing seasonal efficiency from
the code, so no efficiency input exists or is needed.
- A modern condensing boiler has a fanned flue: the after flips
`fan_flue_present` False->True on every cert (SAP 10.2 Table 4f flue-fan +
the Table 4b condensing-efficiency basis). Added as a new HeatingOverlay
field, routed to main_heating_details[0].
- Cylinder thermostat is always added when absent (user-locked); the jacket is
the 80 mm `cylinder_insulation_type=2` end-state, applied only when the
cylinder is below 80 mm (never downgrading a better one). Both are conditional
per-dwelling components, not a frozen overlay.
Cascade-pinned delta-0 (SAP/CO2/PE) against the relodged after via
`_assert_overlay_reproduces_after`. NB the absolute SAP on this dwelling is
subject to a separate Summary-path mapper roof-fidelity gap (we read the roof
better-insulated than Elmhurst, scoring ~75 vs the printed 56); the gap is
identical on before+after (the boiler measure never touches the roof) so it
cancels and the pin still proves the exact heating field-delta. Tracked on the
calculator branch.
Wires the new `gas_boiler_upgrade` MeasureType through contingencies (0.26),
the offline sample catalogue, the catalogue-coverage list, and the ARA
first-run integration seed (the option fires on any mains-gas boiler+cylinder
dwelling).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The heat-network HW distribution-loss override fired only when the MAIN was
a heat network AND whc inherited from main ({901,902,914}). Water-heating-only
heat networks (SAP 10.2 Table 4a HW codes 950 boilers / 951 CHP / 952 heat
pump) were missed entirely: their Table 4a plant efficiency applied with NO
distribution loss, so the HW fuel was under-counted by the Table 12c DLF
(1.33-1.48x) → under-cost → over-rate.
RdSAP 10 §10 (spec p.36): a water-heating-only heat network is calculated 'for
plant efficiency, distribution loss and pumping energy - see Table 12c'. Added
a whc-gated branch (independent of the main) applying water_eff = plant_eff /
DLF — the per-kWh-generated cost model (q_generated = q_useful x DLF). Fires on
the WHC alone so a HW-only heat network with a non-network main (cert 9093, whc
950 + warm-air main 502) is covered.
The 3 corpus whc=950 certs all improve in |err|: 2153 +2.62->-0.48 (now within
0.5), 7220 +1.27->-0.97, 9093 +6.04->+3.60 (residual is its warm-air main, a
separate cause). within-0.5 56.66->56.79%, within-1.0 71.9->72.2%, mean|err|
down; only those 3 certs change. New AAA test pins the DLF scaling fires on the
WHC independent of the main. Goldens + gate green, pyright net-zero.
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Forcing-function guards so a lodged-but-unmapped code surfaces loudly instead
of silently taking a wrong-but-plausible default (the class that hid single
glazing as U=2.5 until this session). Four silent fallbacks converted to raise
on PRESENT-but-unmapped codes, while keeping the legitimate ABSENT (None)
defaults:
- _api_glazing_transmission: unmapped glazing_type -> UnmappedApiCode (was
None -> u_window all-None default 2.5).
- _api_cascade_glazing_type: unmapped glazing_type -> UnmappedApiCode (was
pass-through -> wrong g-value slot).
- seasonal_efficiency: a lodged code/category resolving in neither
_SPACE_EFF_BY_CODE nor the category/room-heater fallbacks -> UnmappedSapCode
(was blind 0.80 gas-boiler default, which 'catastrophically misrates heat
pumps and storage' per the table comment). Data-free calls keep 0.80.
- water_heating_efficiency: WHC in no SAP 10.2 Table 4a HW row ->
UnmappedSapCode (was blind 0.78). Absent code keeps 0.78.
Zero current-corpus impact (909 computed / 0 raises, 56.66% within-0.5
unchanged) — the code/efficiency tables are complete for today's data, so
these are guards for the ongoing audit + future data refreshes. Verified the
WHC table already covers 908 (multi-point gas) and 950 (HW heat network), so
those are NOT unmapped-code bugs. 8 AAA tests, goldens + gate green, pyright
net-zero.
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Tier-1 finding of the silent-fallback audit. The fuel-type helpers fed the
SAP 10.2 Table 12/32 cost/CO2/PE lookups via a silent
`API_FUEL_TO_TABLE_12.get(fuel, fuel)` passthrough at 5 sites
(_heat_network_factor_fuel_code, HW CO2/PE, _secondary_fuel_code, PV). A fuel
code in NEITHER the API enum map NOR the Table-12 numbering passed straight
through to the mains-gas default baked into unit_price_p_per_kwh /
co2_factor_kg_per_kwh / primary_energy_factor (table_12.py:233/274/287,
table_32.py:190) — silently mis-pricing a novel/colliding fuel as grid gas.
This is the class that mis-priced cert 8536's community biomass as
electricity (-17 SAP) before a7761ea8.
New _table_12_factor_fuel_code mirrors .get(fuel, fuel) EXACTLY for every
recognised input (union of the CO2/PE/price/monthly table keys +
API_FUEL_TO_TABLE_12 values) and raises UnmappedSapCode only when the
resolved code is recognised by no table — surfacing the gap loudly per the
strict-raise principle (reference_unmapped_sap_code). Verified behaviour-
preserving: 0/909 corpus certs hit the new raise; eval unchanged at 54.9%
within-0.5 / 909 computed / 0 raises.
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Completes the MEV fan-electricity thread. The PCDB-index slice closed the
9 MEV certs carrying a Table 322 record; the other 11 (mostly gas houses)
lodge mechanical_ventilation=2 with NO PCDB index, so
`_mev_decentralised_kwh_per_yr_from_cert` returned 0 and billed no fan
running cost — a tight +2.2 SAP over-rate (signed +1.23, median +2.19).
SAP 10.2 §2.6.3 / Table 4g note 1 (PDF p.176) prescribes a DEFAULT
specific fan power of 0.8 W/(l/s) for an MEV system whose fans are not in
the PCDB, used directly as SFPav in the §5 Table 4f (230a) formula
(SFPav × 1.22 × V). Restructure the helper: when no Table 322 record
resolves, fall back to the default for a mechanical-extract system
(`mechanical_ventilation_kind == EXTRACT_OR_PIV_OUTSIDE`); natural /
balanced (MVHR / MV) systems still contribute nothing.
Index-less extract cohort closed +1.23 -> +0.18 signed (each gains
~1.1 SAP of fan electricity). This is a spec-correct fix that improves
the aggregate but is a HEADLINE TRADE-OFF: within-2.0 83.6% -> 84.6%,
within-1.0 70.08% -> 70.19%, mean|err| 1.232 -> 1.224, but within-0.5
55.12% -> 54.90% (-2) — the fan energy is only ~half each cert's
over-rate, so the cohort lands at ~+1.0 (still outside 0.5) while two
borderline certs with offsetting errors cross out. Applied uniformly per
the determinism principle ([[feedback_software_no_special_handling]]):
the unmasked residual (~+1.0 on gas-house MEV) is the next lead.
1 AAA test (default SFP 0.8 × 1.22 × V for index-less MEV, 0 for
natural). Goldens + full calc/epc regression green (000565 MEV uses its
resolvable PCDB record, unaffected); pyright net-zero.
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Audit of the API-SAP error (53% within 0.5) localised the systematic
under-rate to ELECTRIC FLATS (houses sit at 60-66% within 0.5; electric
flats 13-19%). Decomposing the flat error showed it tracks space-heating
demand per m² — the worst certs reach 130-289 kWh/m² (accurate certs sit
at 14-110), i.e. a grossly over-stated fabric heat loss, amplified ~4x by
the electricity unit price and the steep low-band SAP log curve.
Root cause: the gov-EPC API lodges `sheltered_wall="Y"` on alternative
wall sub-areas (a sub-area adjacent to an unheated buffer — stair core,
adjoining structure), but the field was dropped by the schema + domain
dataclasses and the calculator billed the alt sub-area at its full
exposed U. RdSAP 10 Table 4 (PDF p.22) "Sheltered": such a wall carries
an added external surface resistance R=0.5 m²K/W → U_sheltered =
1/(1/U + 0.5) — the SAME adjustment the main wall already applies for
`gable_wall_type=2` (`gable_wall_sheltered`,
`_SHELTERED_GABLE_ADDED_RESISTANCE_M2K_W`). Cert 0340-2976 (band-A flat,
42 m² sheltered timber-frame alt) over-stated its wall channel by
~58 W/K → walls 128 -> 70 W/K.
Threads the field end-to-end: schema dataclasses (21.0.0/21.0.1) +
domain `SapAlternativeWall.is_sheltered` (default False — the Summary/
Elmhurst path leaves it False, sheltering rides through its lodged
U-value there, so goldens are untouched) + `from_api_response` mapping
`"Y"->True` + `_alt_wall_w_per_k` applying the 0.5 resistance on the
cascade path (lodged-U and basement alt-walls return before it).
140 certs (15% of the corpus) carry a sheltered alt-wall; they under-
rated at median -0.82 / mean signed -1.33 / 23% within 0.5. Eval: 102
improved, 38 regressed (offsetting-error cases — fix is spec-uniform per
[[feedback_software_no_special_handling]]); within-0.5 53.14% -> 54.24%,
within-1.0 67.99% -> 69.64%, within-2.0 81.85% -> 83.50%, mean|err|
1.312 -> 1.248, 909 computed / 0 raises. Goldens (6035, 000565) and full
calc/epc/parser regression green; pyright net-zero.
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