Ordered some Window cills and door linings.
Had a quick discussion with the carpenters
"What do you want to use for door linings and window Cills"
"what are the options"
"well , you could use anything- plastic , painted or stained Pine , Cills from stone - but if it was me,m i probably would put oak - you spent a lot of time and effort on the bl%$&y thing so would be a shame to now start penny pinching on the parts that you really can see"
"well , i guess oak it is t
As we are in difficult times for installing or using anything Russian-related , i obviously went full blown politically correct and installed a Gender Inclusive Austrian Cladding
"Der Holzbau"
but
"Die Verschalung"
https://tintabernacle.blogspot.com/2022/04/start-cladding.html
Was a little scared of this:
Will they fit
how the F£$% are we gonna carry them into the building ....heavy as they are.
https://tintabernacle.blogspot.com/2022/04/windows-and-doors-big-lift.html
The most excisting thing about plasterboarding is that
1.it s soon over
2.we are getting closer to the end
https://tintabernacle.blogspot.com/2022/04/plasterboarding.html
Installation went smooth . No problem at all with the right flashing kit
https://tintabernacle.blogspot.com/2022/04/standing-seam-2nd-side-and-rooflights.html
Well there has been a lot of comments and generally it seems that I am wasting my time. Thank you posters.😒
However I am struggling to obtain any information on which ways, and what designs, would produce what power. Can anyone point me to technical data that I can hopefully understand so I can see that the idea is dead in the water (so to speak)?
Otherwise, its controlled experiments, which have to be done big scale to try and reduce the errors.(I can see sheets of OSB
Yes we all agree the challenges regard domestic wind turbines: too small to produce the power or too big to get permission and so on, so let move on...
My wife often comments that it's very windy here and we have been thinking of how to utilise the wind to produce electricity when we came across these ideas:
The first thing to be done is to work out the direction and wind speed on top of our roof to see if this is at all practical.
As promised a little update on the Battery Storage. Firstly i'm very glad I bought when I did, as everything battery storage wise has skyrocketed in price since, even the prospect of adding a US2000C seems unlikely for now, though to be honest, going on my usage I don't think it would add a great deal of benefit.
So I'm running the Solis 5th Generation AC Coupled Inverter, which does have a couple of niggles, which at present are reducing its savings potential. Those issues are:
Wow, we have finally started, and what a journey.
The goal of the last 8 days was to try to make the the stars align. We had planned several meetings / connections deliveries all to happen the 1st week in April, and this was it, lets see what unfolds.
Firstly, the plot, being located high up on the East coast in the highlands, which is basically a large un-serviced field has a few logistical issues, the main one being storage, the second distance.
We had quotes for containers to
As predicted, progress has been a bit slow. We've been working away on internal joinery/finishing and a bit of outdoor landscaping when the weather allows (in-between baby-management and working). We got our building warrant completion cert. and VAT reclaim back about a month ago which has also helped.
Costs
For reference, our finalised costs were just shy of £1300/sqm including all professional fees/admin, site setup, construction and fitting out costs. I think this is a fair r
Well, it’s been quite a while since my last blog post but we’ve not been idle but I do admit to having been slack in updating the blog.
At the end of the last blog we had a superstructure and the roofer was about to begin his journey up the scaffolding. This is where that tale begins…..
’Twas a sunny November morning when all was quiet that a white van man arrived at our site to felt, batten and slate our sloping roofs. And he wasted no time at all in cracking on with it
Rainfuel is a concept that has recently come to my attention. Like all inventor types into not wanting to buy power, the mind jumps to having the whole of the north facing roof covered and obtaining power when wet, day or night!
The principle seems to be (I am now opening myself to being corrected) that each rain drop falling form the sky has a small charge and collecting all those small charges could produce sensible power.
The first things I want to know is will this
After giving up for a year or two, my stubborn side has gotten hold of me. I've been looking at direct labour and surmounting the crazy compliance regime in Ireland when building a new house and involving a bank. As I can't afford an Architect or a builder I needed someone else to sign off the build stages & compliance paperwork. Well, I finally found someone for 5K so that hurdle was crossed. I then went about examining the planning permission I had previous obtained. There was a compliance
After pondering battery storage for many years, and then the energy prices rocketing this last year, i finally decided to give energy storage a shot, working out how it would sit financially was extremely difficult, and a little bit of a finger in the wind, but as the batteries have a designed lifetime of 15years now, and energy prices rarely go down, I figured it would pay for itself with some profit over the long term, whilst also reducing my carbon emissions and reliance on the grid.
Running all 4 in the winter is quite interesting:
PV generation:
About a week with overcast skies and then a couple of days of sun.
January is supposed to be the low point for PV generation. Based on the EU calculator we should produce about 180kWh in January. We measured 195 which is about 6.3kWh a day on average. However generation happened spasmodically along with the weather. For example 14kWh on a good day and 0.86kWh on a poor day.
EV
Having t
