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  1. If you hunt around on here, our old mate @Jeremy Harris fitted one, part from lifting it up, I seem to remember that it was fairly simple. You may have trouble buying one though without an F-Gas certificate.
  2. I just done the same, two packets, so unhealthy they have a government warning on them.
  3. You only find that out after they have started, or spun a good yarn.
  4. When I was forced to teach the younger students I found that giving them loads of small, achievable tasks kept them busy and improved classroom behaviour. With the older students, once they were broken in, more self learning could be introduced, this gave more opportunity to deal with the ones that were struggling. Project management is the same. Set simple tasks achievable tasks that you have the skills to check, find out who does as needed, and give them a bigger job next. The ones that struggle with the simple stuff need guidance, maybe from one of the better workers, before they can move on to bigger jobs. Project management generally has (expletive deleted) all to do with technical abilities, more to do with people interacting. I also use a simple metric when assessing trades (generally was for maintenance work). If their van has non standard wheels fitted i.e. larger alloys with lower profile tyres, I find they tend to rush a job. They usually drive like (expletive deleted), and park inconsiderately, as well.
  5. Why do people think that self building a home is cheaper, and better, that getting professionals to do it. Just imagine what carnage there would be on the roads if people built their own bicycles from components, let alone a motorbike or car.
  6. Just an update about the Western Promenade Road GD place. It is south facing, so no overheating risk here. Do major refurbishments need to take glazing area and overheating risk until account? Looks to me as if about 20% of the south facing front wall is left, and about 80% of the roof.
  7. Bit more sophisticated than that. While this is for variable speed and multi cylinder ICE induction systems, the theory is the same. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326440306_A_STUDY_ON_THE_DESIGNS_OF_THE_RESONATOR_FOR_REDUCING_RESONANCE_NOISE_OF_INTAKE_SYSTEM_IN_VEHICLE
  8. Is there any way, without violating the warrantee, to baffle the intake. Induction can be one of the noisiest parts of a pump.
  9. But still deadly. There used to be very high incidences if lung cancers down here. Mines closed and better radon control and they the dropped to almost national averages. There is still a lot of lung disease in the St. Awful region to do with the old china clay production facilities.
  10. I have often wondered about that from borehole water down here. Our background radiation is too high to have a nuclear power station apparently, though that story has been told to me for 50 years, so no idea if it is really true.
  11. one irresponsible farm worker can change that in seconds.
  12. It is a bugbear of mine as well, and has got worse since CAD became ubiquitous. I have, in the past, seen drawings with no datum points or lines.
  13. Not the 300 quid they were talking about. https://www.techradar.com/home/smart-home/first-plug-in-solar-kits-get-regulatory-green-light-in-the-uk-ahead-of-legal-lift-off-on-august-27-and-theyll-start-at-gbp699
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