SteamyTea

I am not against them, they help pay my wages What stops 'locals' buying and renting is the voting choices they make in the local elections. They won't vote for more housing, in fact they vote against it with stupid arguments such as 'not enough schools' (but there are not enough children to fill the ones we have), the hospitals can't cope (we cope well with an extra million people in the summer), the roads are already busy (they don't have a (expletive deleted)ing clue what a traffic jam is), concreting over the countryside (have you seen most of inertia Cornwall, it is grade 3b and 4 farmland, and there is a lot of it), it is crowded here already (out of a ranking of population density, Cornwall is 259 out of 299, at 161 pp/km2, and next to West Devon (we have no choice in that) where it is 50 pp/km2). We desperately need to build another 200k houses, then people can have second homes for a couple of weeks a year and no one will loose). We would be on a par, population density wise, with East Staffordshire, and that is quiet. And the A30 will soon be dual carriageway all the West Camborne (where the MET Office have the first weather station in the UK).

k-value is a third of the way to e. e = (kpc)0.5 Easy peasy

I think it had been upgraded a few times, unfortunately the badly fitted external cladding was one of them. But no matter, you don't want your neighbours fire filling your home with potentially deadly fumes.

Boats have high humidity inside them, and most of the time outside of them. So the enthrapy calculations don't count for much. The biggest problem with a narrowboat, thermally, is the dreadful surface area to volume ratio. And that 0.3m of it is underwater. And what is above water is in the wind. But the upside is that a small Water to Water Heat Pump could get a very high CoP. Side and roof mounted PV will also reduce over heating if you can dump the excess energy somewhere. One of the Birmingham Universities had a solar powered narrowboat as a project a decade ago. A bit of googling seems to only show their latest hydrogen project. Hydrogen is hopium.

Or to help your daughter onto the housing ladder maybe.

Be careful here. You are really talking about volumetric thermal inertia. 'Thermal Mass' is a hand wavey term used by 'experts' who have no idea what they are talking about.

I always think beige is really just a shade of brown. Like a 1970s Ford Cortina MK3.

Think cars have had quite strict salvaging rules for decades now. Daihatsu may be a bit different.

These days, flats are designed to stop smoke coming in if there is a fire. This is why Grenville residence where told to stay in their flats. If you are going to do a major refurbishment, it may be worth looking up the latest regulations regarding fires in flats. I have noticed my neighbour has taken up smoking, that leaves just one non smoker out if the 6 houses where I am.

A bolt always clamps, a screw does not always clamp. The bolt/screw arguement will go on for every, untill people learn what a bolt is for.

That makes them bolts.

Yes, way too much 'choice'. Do you mean 9p? I assume this is monthly billing by direct debit.

One for @nod I think. My Mother's house was finished internally with sand/cement instead of plaster. It was very hard wearing, only one crack that I can remember and that was where a door was removed and a larger opening made.

Daily thrashing. What I had, and look what a fine person I am.

Back in '82 I lived in a static next to Poole Marines base. Helicopters and artics 24/7 once the Argies kicked off. Slept through the lot.

Something I would like to spend some time on. It is amazing the number of 'miner's cottages' down here. Most have been built after the major mines closed 150 years ago. I think most are old agricultural worker's homes. But no point in letting the truth get in the way of a good romantic story. Mining is big business down here, and we don't have to take anything out the ground anymore. Much cleaner. My Mother lived in a Derbyshire mining community and the architecture is identical, only real difference is the materials used. Almost as if there was one design and it was just stamped out across the land.

Have you ever been to Hertfordshire. Vikki Beckham has raised the standards.

It should be. Might be worth having a word with a sprayer as there is a choice of 4 main chemistries. If you have a few off cuts of the tile, you can take them over to one and get them to play with them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group ??

I wonder if you can glaze them in a milky white, semi opaque acrylic. (starting to sound more and more like a pornographers film set)

In green and black, we all love a bit of dark.

Which island, Aruba? Or Dogs.

That is the one thing that is stopping me getting something similar.

How about a dimmable, colour change, LED light. Got to be worth a try as it could be a very cheap fix. No one wants bright lights in a bathroom, except pornographers and @Pocster, which amounts to the same thing. Just seen the bottom of that quote. If the light bulb work, it is only £3k.