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I assume your question relates to what I said about cooker hood? That's what the general advice is here. Use a recirculating cooker hood and use the MVHR on boost to swap the air in the room. I think this is fine for normal cooking smells. Some people have suggested not so great if you fry though. But my thought was more about the heat output of long cooking sessions. In a well insulated home there's nowhere for that to go and the MHVR doesn't shift enough air to do the job AFAIK. Opening is fine though it's less controlled. An externally vented cooker hood with a designed make up air solution would seem the better solution (assuming appropriate air tight shutters are used to seal them up when not in use). Only ideas for me at this point. Not got to the stage of actually planning something. I suspect it's a relatively low cost thing to do but if not then I'd likely stick with the recirc + MVHR + window.

I mean with all the modern ways of sealing up builds how much does the design affect it? What's that loop they spray under pressure gets in all the nooks and crannies

My parents looked at a house for sale, was owned by the son (Michael Telling) of one of the Vesty family. Michael had murdered his wife and dumped the body on Exmore, but kept her head in the freezer at home. House was being sold with all fixtures and fittings.

Not Rick, but no. MVHR doesn't shift enough air to make a big difference. Much better to open the window.

There are several businesses that pivoted to new sectors successfully but that doesn't mean every business is looking for that pivot and often big shareholder companies will find it harder to do so because the senior management team are incentivised to maximise short term profits which rarely means long term investments in things that are not "core".

@-rick- you couldn't achieve the same with MVHR or wouldn't it have enough throughput?

Actually on the topic of companies investing outside their "core" business, the story of "LEO" (Lyons Electronic Organiser) - one of the world's first real-time business computers - being designed and built by a company that specialised in cafes serving tea and cakes is pretty cool.

Reminds me of Vestey Brothers - once the UK's biggest private company & the World's biggest meat business, best known in the UK for Dewhurt Butchers & Oxo. Although the brothers themselves were much wealthier than their near-contemporary John Sainsbury (2nd only to the Queen, allegedly), their attempt to get into supermarkets (Downsway) was a huge fail. Dewhurst (Union International) crashed in the 90's and most of what remained was sold off. The rump - now Vestey Holdings - had a turnover last year of £719 million, compared to Sainbury's £33 billion. BP's future, perhaps.

Final addition, the VELUX Basic manual anti-heat blind does what it says and really does keep the room cooler. Our windows are in the north facing side of the roof but in summer get a decent amount of sun on them, so these help. Cons? They are a pain to attach and detach, and my wife isn't tall enough to do them

It's also that companies don't invest in the best possible return. They invest for the best possible return *given their circumstances*. A vegetable wholesaler might invest in new forklifts or chilled storage and ignore the oil field off the coast because their expertise and structure are set up for selling spuds and carrots and not extracting oil An oil company is set up to extract stuff out of the ground, maybe refine it into petrol or diesel and sell it. They aren't set up to invest in windfarms and solar panels that make electricity they have to sell to the grid.

Looks really cool, and thankyou for sharing. I started my career in house prefabrication systems and moved on to bespoke timber frame house designs, so this is right up my street.

Exactly - makes good new headlines - but more sh!te in, sh!te out news broadcasting

That sucks I’m sorry and I hope you get your money back. Sometimes it’s just not the right fit with customer and architect, and people can get in over their heads too. It’s all down to you and what you like really. I’d put a good design over air-tightness. My pick would be Splash Architects. I really like Dan from Splash Architecture’s work and he has great reviews. I’ve not met or worked with him though, that would be the next step to see if you got on and what his ‘air tightness thoughts’ were. Honestly despite what you say, I wouldn’t want to pay Surrey prices for an architect, if you’re doing it through email and Teams it doesn’t matter where they are.

There was a recent discussion about diy glulam. This article is about all means of connection, including adhesive. https://timberdevelopment.uk/timber-connections-an-introduction/

Indeed. The point being the logical trap of "BP is not investing on X, therefore X cannot be a good investment".

Nice one guys, thank you. Ooh I like the sound of that - I have a real deep-seated hatred of moths ever since one flew into my mouth while I was sleeping.

Hi Onoff, this tip which IIRC you told me of when renovating my kitchen a few years back, has worked great/ did for my 98yr old friend's kitchen undersink area too. But.. doesn't work for areas you simply cannot reach/ access tho. Which is the issue here with my Ma's kitchen cable chewing problem. Hence only option is to clad the cable in something you see. The two grey cables in the very same area, they haven't chewed, one being std dishwasher grey cable & t'other a solid core )flat grey internal wiring) type cable, both not clad in anything. Must be a reason. Thanks

Was typing similar. Well insulated house, floor temp is very often only a couple of degrees above room temperature so as room increases floor heat out put reduces. Once room temperature is above floor temp, the excess heat starts to be absorbed by floor also.

Simple truth BP, Shell etc have huge overheads and cannot make aging assets pay, so once production starts to dip they sell. Been like that for decades in the North sea. So no suprise BP are selling.

In that example, once the air temperature reaches the floor temperature (typically between 23 & 28°C), the floor is unable to release any more heat into the room. Not until the air in the room cools below floor temperature as a result of opening the window, when the draft will likely be enough to carry away the excess.

Worked on various projects in the middle east where TSE (treated sewage effulant) is used for municipal irrigation. It's common and perfectly safe for non-crop irrigation. But it all depends on your treatment system and what standard of effulant comes out. Storage, distribution and handling needs to be thought out and designed. To be honest, I'd just get a couple large rainwater storage tanks (e.g IBCs) instead. Two IBCs will irrigate a medium sized garden for a minimum 20 days with no top-up. Tanks, connectors, pump etc will come in at less than £300.

+1. Some companies just can't adapt to change. See also: - British Airways sold their low-cost airline (Go) because they couldn't make it pay. Low-cost airlines now have around 50% of the European market - IBM sold their PC arm to Lenovo for the same reason - but PCs definitely haven't gone away

Worried that bubble wrap might mark it. I have seen things covered in little dots that have been wrapped up in it before. Black shows every mark. I think I’ll keep looking for low tack film. Hoping someone can recommend which brand. Thanks for your reply.

I did wonder about something like this but had never heard of Magic Man 😳 Thanks for this.

So after Cemex failed to add micro fibres to our last batch of self compacting concrete and their subsequent lack of interest in sending out a tech chap to look at the plastic shrinkage or help remediate their error, i decided to take my custom elsewhere. Heidelberg and their ‘Easyflow SCC’ to be precise. I stood momentarily in shock, ignorantly thinking. “Maybe it’s magic stuff and it will suddenly turn into the porridge consistency it should be”. Hence to say. Said magic never happened 😂 The driver said he spoke to the batching plant and it was mixed with a stiff slump as it was for a ramp. Made me chuckle though as there is a clue in the name ‘Easyflow’