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Fit wall lights

@HughF You saying that a larger gas boiler did not heat your place, but the smaller, lower temperature ASHP does, and it was all down to the radiator sizes. There are some on here who will never believe you.

Do you think that it is just what plumbers do. If unsure of the size, go bigger, then add a bit.

I thought I was the only one that actually used 3W bulbs. I feel a bit decadent as I currently have two on.

There is no hope for energy reduction when people fit that many lights

Wikipedia has a whole page on energy abbreviations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_energy_abbreviations And this one on climate change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_abbreviations_relating_to_climate_change And this one for physics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_physics_notations

I know, but it seems a harder way to do it, simple remote switching will do that for for a fraction of the price and give you more versatility.

More likely move the lad in and abuse the marital bed before you have breathed your last.

These and sockets are still available and I use them for lighting controlled by wall switches (hard wired ones!!,!,) Me too - very useful for that Would that not be like having two fridges, one for just milk and the other, larger one, for everything else. Why go to all the bother of fitting the extra wiring and different sockets just to run a few lights that can be run of a normal 13A socket.

Of course we have one, just that the search facility on here is so bad we would be better of getting rid of it and just putting a link to Google up.

We had cold houses back then, and the excess heat was drying the towels and bed linen. So not real benefit to house heating. It seems strange to me that my Father was getting cheap Indian labour flown out to the Far East to slap a mixture of asbestos and plaster insulation onto oil refinery pipes, while our uninsulated house in Essex had the heating left on 'to stop the pipes freezing'. Funny old world.

I would like to think so. I was a bit too young to see the change from system boilers to combi boilers. I wonder if there was the same sort of unfounded prejudice against the newer technology. I also wonder how much energy was wasted because we had unlagged DHW cylinders. Hard to believe that they came like that.

If we could produce 100% of our needs from RE, then we would not need ASHPs, resistance heating would do. Does make me wonder which is cheaper, over installing RE or retrofitting 30 million homes.

No, we will go back to unshielded 5 Amp plugs. We will not be able to afford to plug anything in that draws a whopping 10,000 BTU/h.

There does seem to be a 'mind set' that gas and oil boilers well always deliver, and if there is a problem, putting in a larger unit will sort it. I would like to see a 45 kW boiler heat my house cheaply, especially if the radiators were sized correctly for the heat losses i.e. 1 kW spread over 5 rooms. I am starting to think that the whole plumbing industry is not fit for purpose, and never was. It has only survived because real heating engineers, working for manufacturers, can design easy to fit systems that bail out the knobs that fit the units.

Welcome. We had a conversation about CoW the other day. Portsmouth I would hazzard a guess.

Just done some calculation on a improving a door. Worked out that the losses though my door at Delta 12 is 10p/day. Really not worth changing. Improving the seal, which cost a couple of quid made a huge difference.

It is relevant as an example of using the word 'Working'. What you think is working, what I think is working and what someone else thinks is working may be very different things. If I say that it will work 95% of the time, and for the remaining 5% of the time it will be 20% sub optimal, that is what I am working to. If you way you want it to work 100% of the time at 100% performance, then I will sell you something that is over sized and probably cost more. Cars the the same. You can tow a 1 tonnes boat with a small car or a large car. I would prefer to tow with a larger one.

Well it is. Tesla did a temporary upgrade, over the air, when a hurricane hit Florida. It effectively made the Model S 60p a Model S 90p. Then there is the Ludicrous Mode upgrade. Must be a bit galling knowing you have a better car, but you have to pay to get to the better bits.

But it is money you have already paid for decades. Just because it is not stated on P60, it does not make it invisible money.

That is what is happening with cars that get upgraded via software, so it is already with us. My car has a habit og going into limp mode, I think it is the EGR, it still gets me places, so 'works'. Just not very well.

With the Phillips Hue system, isn't all the controls built into the bulb. So normal wall switches and wiring, just a remote to loose down the back of the sofa.

£1.7bn https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64186210 The previous years were zero Still (expletive deleted) all in reality, but it does pay to keep my mother in the care home.

But that is because we are not adding in all the costs. Do you ever factor in the ~£10bn a year the UK oil companies get each year. That is about £300 per year per tax payer.