SteamyTea

Do they show a black beard? Or Seaman Stanes.

You have read this haven't you.

If you have MVHR then in the ductwork just before the unit. If you don't, then it gets tricky. A hallway used to be the place that thermostats were placed, but that was pointless as in the 'olden days' people keeps interconnecting doors closed. Really a case of monitoring where you think there will be a problem i.e. floor in living room or kitchen. Place the monitor close to the problem area as it is common to have a temperature and RH height gradient in a room.

Recycling the heat. We take gas out of the ground, combine it thermally with atmospheric oxygen, use the by product to make your fish supper, and allow the rest to eventually vent to the environment to cool. Some of the waste ends up in the sea, slightly increasing the acidity, some gets absorbed by the local plant life where it gets changed to carbon based structures and oxygen. Eventually, it all ends up back in the ground, gets buried by more of the same, and if the geology is right, turns into a gas to be refused. It is hard to say what the excess released gasses have contributed to this week's weather, but there will be something. What I do know is that compared to some other times when the weather has been similar, strategically places fans have kept the temperature 15°C lower. Makes me wonder how much A/C or slab cooling is really needed in the UK. Maybe just better controlled forced ventilation will do the job.

Yes, you need to monitor temperature and relative humidity, then apply Td = (b × α(T, RH)) / (a − α(T, RH)) Where Td = Dew point temperature Td = dew point temperature T = actual air temperature (in °C) RH = relative humidity (in percent) a = 17.27 b = 237.7°C α(T, RH) = [(a × T) / (b + T)] + ln(RH / 100) Then use the Td result to adjust your UFH flow temperature up or down.

I helped a mate out in his chip shop tonight. Careful placement of 3 fans kept the temperature down. Have known it to be 50°C for 4 hours. So not too bad.

Right now, there is a bit on the radio about local councils and flags. Someone compared the money spent on enforcing and prosecuting people that hang flags on lampposts to the lack of pot hole repairs. Potholes, or flags, are not an indicator of 'better offness'. But this is from worldometer. PPP = Purchasing Power Parity. The figures are in US currency so that it is easier to compare countries. It shows how as the population has got bigger, we have to work less to buy the same 'stuff'.

Neither, just that any figures present to you will not be accepted or the question gets changed. There is the whole of the ONS for you to explore, but I suspect you would not trust the numbers.

I am not your secretary.

Modern PUs are pretty benign once set. Furniture has used if for cushion for 60+ years.

I have been hearing that all my adult life, numbers don't back it up though.

There will be a solvent that works, but unless you know which adhesive was used, it will be trial and error. Start with the easy solvents. White Spirit, Methylated Spirit, Acetone, gasoline and WD40. Don't convince yourself that with a bit of solvent and a huge amount of elbow grease that it is working. A solvent should make it dead easy to remove. If none of them work, then it is a case of internet shopping for things like Dichloromethane, my favourite and Xylene (my least favourite), or even Toluene. I think it was @Onoff that found a cleaner in Lidl that seemed to remove most things, so maybe trip there on Thursday.

I do wonder if we really have, or maybe polarisation is human nature when resources get scarce.

Or send kids to private schools. Never more than 12 in my class. Was great.

Could do with a lot more down here, it is a cultural wilderness. While the Cornish culture is recognised, it is really the geography and industry that is cherished. Most of the cultural industry is over 200 years old, leaving the geography deeply scarred. There is a new, small estate of houses that has been built in the outskirts of Penzance. The bitching that went on about it was unreal, especially the road access. Not as if there is much traffic down here compared to places up country. Mark Steel summed the place up nicely. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00s3gq5

Oh dear. A friend of mine had her gall bladder removed, was done by keyhole surgery, so quick and relatively painless. I take great delight in eating a cheese sandwich, followed by cheese cake, then one of my cheesy grins. For some reason there no pictures, just an icon followed by a dead link.

It was the comedian Jimmy Carr, who is very capable of having a serious conversation, that said 'in the last 20 years, China has covered their countryside in railways, we have covered ours in planning applications and environmental reports' Okay, they have also covered other countries in railways and roads without environmental reports. I think we have lost sight of the big picture somewhat.

No it can't at the moment. Some similarities are in place i.e. supply chain. Probably what needs to change is the design and management side. unlike engineers, who, have the saying about 'ask 100 and get 100 right answers (which is total bollocks, probably get 3 or 4 solutions)', an individual house designer may give half a dozen solutions to a simple brief, and have 20 reasons why non of them are good. In engineering there are good traceability systems, never heard anyone mention them in building, though I am sure they exist.

They could learn a lot from the automotive industry. I can't remember consumer writing to any manufacturer demanding better performance and equipment as standard, but still it has happened. I thought my 205 GTi was brilliant, till I got a 309 GTi. And that soon got relegated to second position when I got a Mercedes 300TE. The Merc was twice the prices though. The point I am making is that some industries are much better at market research than others. The building industry spends too long on PR, AKA corporate bullshit.

Which seems to be lacking in the Western democracies at the moment.

Or a Scott. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chuses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. Even a beggar does not depend upon it entirely. The charity of well-disposed people, indeed, supplies him with the whole fund of his subsistence. But though this principle ultimately provides him with all the necessaries of life which he has occasion for, it neither does nor can provide him with them as he has occasion for them. The greater part of his occasional wants are supplied in the same manner as those of other people, by treaty, by barter, and by purchase. With the money which one man gives him he purchases food. The old cloaths which another bestows upon him he exchanges for other old cloaths which suit him better, or for lodging, or for food, or for money, with which he can buy either food, cloaths, or lodging, as he has occasion. Adam Smith

By putting in UFH pipework, you can always run it off a Willis heater for very low capital cost. That way you can bake the clay floor. (I put earth flooring in the same category as lime concretes, we have improved alternatives now)

That's interesting... thanks. We haven't got too far down the A2A rabbit hole yet, but dry air is a concern.... plants & eyes! We used these. https://humiditysolutions.co.uk/?products=vapac-steam-room-generator for our steamrooms, reliable bit of kit. They make similar for HVAC.

I have lived in a number of places with forced air heating/cooling. It works well. It can be combined with the MVRH, and maybe an exhaust air recovery water heating as well. The two downsides are that it can be noisy, so needs to be sized properly, and not just thermally. The other, more serious problem, is cross talk between rooms via the ductwork. I know someone who was sitting in his kitchen bitching to his mate about his mental wife. She heard everything in the bedroom. He got his own bedroom after that, and eventually his own, smaller, house. You also get some ugly grills in the rooms. But it can be done and I think all the problems are easily overcome.

Thought that was showing the position for the new Uninterrupted Power Supply