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I remember working in a very air-condition building in Bahrain. I used to open the windows to warm the place up. Luckily we could. Sometimes, I think, you just want to control the temperature rather than living in a isolated machine-controlled cocoon. Maybe you're cooking Xmas dinner for the family and want to stop it getting too stifling. Yeah open the windows but you would like to stop heating the place too.

Hi! Great to be a part of this community - I am in the process of developing a business concept to hopefully make self/custom-build much more accessible and simpler to the UK market. I would love to get people's feedback. I will be sure to share more details in a separate post soon. Many Thanks Matt

good point however if renewables were really viable without subsidy and could make more long term money than oil +gas -- the oil companies would be shifting much quicker into them in much bigger way BP have even sold off there renewable arm the bottom line now is all oil companies and shareholders are interested in

Plus and Minus of electric Velux, it shuts if it rains ,but can’t open it again when rain stops until sensor dries out. A heavy due will close it and stop it opening. We have a manual fly screen on ours, at ceiling level, which stays shut all summer so no flies, moths, betels etc drawn in by light. We however just don’t seem to get the insects round outside lights like we used to.

We protected ours with a couple of layers of heavy duty bubble wrap. We also protected the threshold as they were dragging heavy pipes inside.

Looking to protect a Norrsken aluclad door, unfortunately after the horse has bolted. Got scratched and scuffed by builders last week 🤬 Looking for reliable low tack film which won’t leave residue behind and can stay on for about 4 months. Have looked at door sleeves but they tend to be 1000 mm wide. I think they will be a tight fit for ours. TIA

Explain to naïve old me exactly how my data is inaccurate. Provide sources (ex-brother-in-laws don't count) showing the larger reserves. Explain how the government can make the oil industry under project production but can't stop them lobbying for more licences? Explain how the government can influence Norway to not only under project future production (they are also predicting decline albeit at a lower rate) but also to reduce current production to show that decline. Is it via the same mechanism the suppress the car that runs on water?

Where do you get your alternative truths from?

You mention "they" a lot. It sounds as if the community needs "you" and others with practical ideas to get things changed.

Volume? Of course it depends on the garden needs, but it's a decent amount of water. But it would be quite low in the ground and might need pumping. Health and safety wise? Everyone will say no, and probably rightly so. But what comes out generally looks clear and I know it hasn't killed trees I've had drains near to. My hunch is probably no harm with decorative plants or trees but should not be used for vegetables.

probably same reason as the solway firth and morecambe bay --national fuel security is beelebub so naive to think that his data is accurate and that the government can,t put a twist on it at least give them credit for being devious if it suits the national interest

Irrigation requires a LOT of volume of water, nowhere near enough would come from this type of plant. The person advising you is kosher, it's a "no". . Irrigation from dedicated RWH systems for these types of current circumstances would, for context, need to be 15,000-20,000L capacity to be anywhere close to being considered 'effective', as the amount of stored water needed to get from 'drought to drought' is huge.

Yes I have drawn it all up and I can avoid the single socket issue OK I think. Both are focused on Bedside sockets which need to match the bed width - chose king size but spaced so a super king will just fit between the sockets - just! Getting it right is a further pain on one of the walls as it has two doors in it which the other half of the partnership wants to be secret and open on the 'V' grooves - hence the bespoke panelling!

Ask yourself why and when you'd ACTUALLY want to change these temps I doubt there's much practical / real world need to follow this route tbh.

"Loads" is doing a lot of work there.... The largest onshore oil has 480 million barrels of oil..... sounds alot until you realise the UK consumes about 1.4 million barrels a day. So all that oil wouldn't last us until this time next year. And 1,420 million cubic meters of gas sounds alot until you factor the UK uses around 142 million cubic meters *a day* in the summer So all that gas wouldn't even last us to the end of this month. Again we are simply discussing the difference between a two declines, one slightly shallower that the other.

Loads in Dorset. Wytch Farm is the largest onshore oil field in Europe. 110,000 barrels a day in 1997, 50,000 B/D in 2002. It is estimated that there is 479.6 million barrels left. There is also 4.73 million tonnes of natural gas liquids and 1.42 billion cubic metres (50×109 cu ft) of natural gas. So why is this not being exploited then? it is already a production site with the infrastructure there, locals are used to it.

Lots of "my ex next door neighbour's sister once dated an oil rig worker in the 90's and she said there was loads of oil under Glastonbury tor" I'm going to use the projection done by the oil industry on the basis that A) they know more about the potential for pip and gas extraction around the UK than anyone on this forum B) they have no vested interest in minimising potential - which is a common retort to using the NSTA figures "ah but Ed Milliband told them to lie, there is actually loads of oil left". these is the oil and gas industry low and high projections The low one is approximately (but not exactly) the NSTA "current course". So by 2035 we will produce at best, half the oil and gas we do now (ie 25% of current consumption). On current trends maybe 13% of current demand. So all the arguing is arguing over the rate of decline - steep or steeper. There is no "up" scenario. There is no going back to the late 90's when we had a surplus and became a (small) exporter The only way the UK can become less dependent on imported oil and gas is for the UK to become less dependent on oil and gas

having tried to gat a simple thing like the requirement to book a spot at the recycling center done away with -- you cannot just turn up better than that you cannot even take half used tins of paint yet you can take car batteries -- cos they will get paid for them and they wonder fly tipping is a problem and being told by more than one D&G counciller that they tried and were blocked by the council on the grounds that it helps things run better and would not discuss it any further - -i do not see anything that my local town council could do on any subject -so on point in joining it is so simple -- you turn up dump your stuff and leave -- if you pick wrong time you might have to queue-- how is making everyone ring or email D&G council to book a slot going to make things better -- just making another job and more paperwork so you have to plan when you want to go and not just decide to have clear out and go dump it and they are only open certain days and never before 12.00-16.00 this to me shows the nature of the "civil service " very accurately -- making more jobs and making more useless data if the skip is full then they just get it emptied and as they are huge that will never get filled in a day do i believe they will monitor the fill rate of the different skips any better --NO they do not even ask what you are bringing or how much of it just another spread sheet to maybe look at usage and decide if they can shut it I already have a 20 mile journey to there as it is -- and that info they can get by seeing how often they need to empty the skips so do I think being on a local town council will have any impact on the areas D&G council control-- NO

I’ll pass your comments onto the author.

C’mon you must have been drinking de-icer when you thought solar panels would look good on there. 😂😂

Have you heard anything back from them? I'm at 2+ months since submission and haven't even been asked for copies of invoices yet.

Brink Sky units are very good. Here’s one I fitted in a garden annex, which the clients lived in whilst we built the main house on the same site.

If want a short time constant for some reason, you could use Jaga Strada fan radiators, so you can cool also. Cheaper than fan coils, and designed to provide above dew point cooling. Also way smaller than radiators. Seems a strange design choice to do 150mm concrete then another 100mm screed on top.

Only if you think that more rapid heating and cooling is good. In which case why not use radiators?