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It soon gets into the mobile phones give people brain tumours, MMR vaccines cause autism and social media caused chlamydia, type debate. The petrol-chemical industry, and the products associated with it are some of the most tightly regulated there are. It would be interesting to test some straw to see what anti fungal, bacterial and viral sprays are still on them. Wish I had thought of that when at university, the farmer that took a dislike to me mentioning the pile of dead sheep on his muck pile would have probably punched me. He got narked when I rounded up his escaped calves the other week. Blamed me for scaring them. I shall repeat that. His escaped calves.

Radiators and UFH reheat the same air. Are generally a bit bonkers, I think I can say that as half my family are French descendants. Ask a French person what happens to their nuclear waste.

Can't comment on how it makes it healthier and better to live in, but farming is anything but low carbon. Globally I think it is the third largest polluter if the atmosphere, not looked the the figures recently, but when I did my ResM in Agriculture, the farming community was very reluctant to give any figures about inputs. Partly why I have a health scpetesim of farming in the UK.

The EPC I had done showed double my floor area. Still gave me a C, just like my neighbours.

So what is this Bagshot, apart from a place up country.

Don't think many do now.

May end up like one of our other colonies. https://www.iqair.com/pakistan Full rankings here. https://www.iqair.com/world-most-polluted-countries

Rubber washers, they can compress easily, spread load of a larger area and are very compliant if made from the correct compound.

The Guardian, a paper I like to read, has published this: https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter/2024/nov/07/the-8-best-electric-heaters-tried-and-tested-from-traditional-stove-style-units-to-modern-smart-models It just goes to show that some journalists need to go back to school. To save you reading it, even though it is a short article, here is a performance summery. The only power figure I could not verify was the Dyson, it had 240W, so think someone at Dyson dropped a zero. Name Price Power Type ΔT Noise dB Enclosure T Running Costs H W D Mass Belray 275 2000 Convection 5.2 28 87.2 44 57 79.3 8 19.3 Russel Hobbs 49 2000 Oscillating Fan 6.3 51 59.1 46 33.5 15.5 14.8 1.9 Dyson 549 2400 Fan 8.2 58 64.7 59 76.4 20.5 13 5.7 Everhot 1225 1500 Stove Convection 3.8 34 105.2 38 50.8 48.7 41 40 Swan 12.99 700 Fan 2.4 56 60.4 16 14 11 12 0.63 Duux Threesixty 86.73 1500 Fan 7.6 54 58.3 45 30 22 22 2.4 Devola 119.95 1500 Convection 6.4 34 44.6 45 47 65 8 7.68 VonHaus 42.99 1500 Oil Convection 2.7 33 70.6 22 62 33.5 24 6.9

Not easy to get accurate figures on something that is not about. But this bit from our favourite Wikipedia states: 'Between 1896 and 1945, an estimated 70 straw-bale buildings, including houses, farm buildings, churches, schools, offices, and grocery stores had been built in the Sandhills.[9] In 1990, nine surviving bale buildings were reported in Arthur and Logan Counties,[13] including the 1928 Pilgrim Holiness Church in the village of Arthur, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.[11]' There are probably the same number of houses local to me, of about the same age. All of them are still there. One has to be very careful when claiming that historic buildings have intrinsic longevity, they may be the only ones left.

Have you thought about cooling, A/C units (A2AHP) can heat as well, and are usually cheaper than gas to run.

Welcome I used to do the same, but for point of sale displays.

Thanks for that info. Not that I am allowed to more to France easily any more.

That's roughly what I remembered. As it is going to be inside an existing building, it should be easy.

I did not look at actual bolt diameter, just picked the first search hits. You could use a combination of small bolts, DPC and PU adhesive. That way you would get a very strong bond, damp proofing and airtightness. Am I right in thinking you mentioned this idea a year or two back?

It has many uses. Animal bedding, soil conditioning, even strawboard manufacture. That is an interesting area. If the 'food' part is turned into cattle feed, then it is a very wasteful use of land. About a third of the UKs productive farmland is not currently farmed, rewilded or used in any productive capacity. Farmers don't let on about that but the FAO data shows otherwise.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/fischer-fxa-throughbolts-m10-x-126mm-20-pack/48986 Used to use them on the large log cabin saunas. The smaller ones we used the plastic ones. https://www.screwfix.com/p/easyfix-nylon-hammer-fixings-8mm-x-120mm-10-pack/19157

If that is the @50Pa score, it is unbelievably good for an old place.

'pumping' is a bit vague, it may be just the circulation pump.

We all have a personal responsibility to reduce CO2e emissions though. So if there is a more efficient solution, that is the one to take.

In a properly set up system yes. As heat pumps deliver water for the heating at a lower temperature, the tend to deliver (switch on) when they sense the house getting colder. They can do this by sensing the return pipe temperature, rather than use a room thermostat. A combi boiler is sized to deliver hot water and is often in the region of 20 kW or more. A heat pump is sized to heat the house, so often 6 kW or more. This is why it takes an hour or two to heat up a water cylinder. The calculation for heating water is quite simple, once you know what the words mean. If you know the size of your ASHP and the size of your water cylinder, it only takes a minute to work out how long it will take to heat up.

I just had a look at some 15mm Armaflex pipe, 15m of it was nearly 500 quid. Basically all pipes have a minimum bend radius, so any conduit cannot have a tighter bend. As Russel says, knock up a sketch, if it is a simple run, it may just be a case of box filled with expanding PU foam.

Basically you will be loosing a lot of energy though the floor and into the ground. To overcome this, the temperature will have to be higher, this can play havoc with timber/laminate flooring. But the main thing is it will be wasteful and expensive to run. You cannot fool nature.

Well grasses have been around a few million years. Concrete/brick maybe 5000 years. Plastics since the 1907, or 6 years after my grandmother was born, and only 22 years before my mother's birth. So I suppose it depends on your idea of modern.