SteamyTea

Viewing this oil painting in St. Ives at the moment. A Stuart Thorn. Actually acrylic.

Welcome. Assuming planned is not an obstacle, you can make an outbuilding out of just about anything you like. There may be some fire regulations to comply with though. What sort of art do you create that involved fumes?

Except it would take us 30 years to decide what to do. Then we would water down the proposal, then change it, then Welsh on the deal. And it would not connect the North, and would be 3 stop from London.

It is an ideal time to check the triple point temperature of water. https://youtube.com/shorts/qZ2_x5F-UH4

Have to be a bit careful in the design, and the design terminology. There is a difference in zoning with an individual temperature control on that circuit, and zoning for a room with the pipework connected up to other room zones and all controlled by 1 temperature controller. With wet heating systems, there is always a minimum volume of water that is needed to make them work. Even if the minimum is achieved, then the heating system, whether a heat pump of a gas boiler, may still short cycle. Ideally you want the heat source on all the time it is needed, not switching on and off. If you connect that bathroom zone to another zone (basically you want one zone for the whole house, maybe two if two storey), then the volume is increased by default. With a properly designed heating system, the mean flow temperature is the same across all heat emitters, then you just change the size of the heat emitters to control the room temperature. Have you done a room by room heat loss calculation? If not, it is time to do one before you carry on.

Seems my coldest hours is today. Now I know that my temperatures are very tame compared to most, but a 1.7°C drop, to -1.4°C, in 1 hour 18 minutes is quite impressive. 30/11/23 06:23 0.25 30/11/23 06:29 0.187 30/11/23 06:35 0 30/11/23 06:41 -0.125 30/11/23 06:47 -0.312 30/11/23 06:53 -0.562 30/11/23 06:59 -0.812 30/11/23 07:05 -0.937 30/11/23 07:11 -0.937 30/11/23 07:17 -1.125 30/11/23 07:23 -1.187 30/11/23 07:29 -1.312 30/11/23 07:35 -1.25 30/11/23 07:41 -1.437

I prefer the vinegar stroke.

Man versucht, seinen Teil dazu beizutragen, da wir die europäische Wirtschaft durch den Austritt kaputt gemacht haben.

Not yet. The new Bosch is being delivered later today. Then we will see if the new water pump in the car can handle the extra power needed to transfer it to the dump. Back to fitting a desk fan to a sheet of ply/hardboard. The one that I used has 4 small screws and nuts, that made it easy to attach to the sheet without using any tape. I notice that the one that @Garald posted up has two clips. That is not so easy to attach as they will get in the way.

What you don't want to happen with flowing water is the possibility of it freezing. Liquid water has a conductivity of around 0.55 W/m.K, ice, 2.25 W/m.K. But the real kicker is the latent heat of fusion at 334 kJ/kg (liquid is 4.18 kJ/kg.K). That will sap the heat out of a basement. Really just a case of adding more thickness of insulation, or making an underground dam to divert flowing water away from the basement. I worked on a simple project in North London, increase the size of the basement swimming pool. The main contractor found that there was an underground river that was filling the pool. They dug up the road upstream of the building, then poured thousands of tonnes of concrete into the excavated channel. Not sure if they worried too much about where the water was diverted to, but it stopped the hotel swimming pool being filled. Bit about Frost Line https://nhbc-standards.co.uk/4-foundations/4-3-strip-and-trench-fill-foundations/4-3-3-ground-conditions/

I made this yesterday while waiting for the car to be fixed.

Is it BPV that do the free estimates and calculations?

Really just to highlight how difficult a time you are going to have going off grid.

Go to the start of the topic, for some reason it linked to the end of it.

In spirit, if not in your wife. Told me I am just like your dad was.

Yes, I don't understand that either. I know someone that has a Passat, he never got the software update to stop the defeating during emission testing because he heard, from a 'friend' on facebook that it would ruin his engine and make his car slower, less economical and turn his hair grey. He is a ginger tosser from St. Agnes mind.

As it is circular, don't really matter. Not as if it is Quantum Mechanics where you have to turn things 720° to get back to the starting point. Or non Euclidian geometry, where you can make all the angles add up to whatever you like.

Take a break, Runcorn is not that fart from you, and for 50 quid, you can look at this dungeon.

Yes, but legacy environmental damage is important in the scheme of things. It is why the UK really has to be a world leading in green technology as we have to put right our historical wrongs somehow.

Interesting calculation. When it was made, nearly all our power was from coal. So the embodied emission would be higher than today, even of the embodied energy was lower. Our mining and metal smelting industries were very dirty and environmentally damaging. In use, I suspect that it is hard pushed to get 30 MPG, and the CO2 emission will be off the scale in todays terms i.e. several times what a small car can do. Now I know it does not do many miles in your ownership, but how many miles has that engine done in the past, 60,000? I just looked up that engine, and it is actually older than I thought, they stopped making it in 1956. So some of the emission from its manufacture and its early running are still floating about in the atmosphere, adding to climate change. There is also the disposal of the base vehicle it was made from. It is only in the last 30 years or so that we have tightened up on disposal. The paint the original was covered in was probably much more toxic than today's paints, and the chassis was almost certainly covered in part with lead based paint. Then there are the tyres, they would have had a higher mix of natural rubber in them. Not good for deforestation. A lot of the fuel it ran on in the early days would have been from Nigeria, an award winning writer against the Niger River Delta pollution was executed for his part in the protests. There is also the disposal of the current composite body, it will probably go to landfill. So all in all, we have led this top total astray.

1963 then. 60 years old design.

Download the heat loss spreadsheet from here. But before you start to fill it in, decide how much better that standard building regs you want to be. Building Regs area minimum, and like a car, no one wants a City Rover.

And the engine? 1960 I think, unless it is an i4, then 1963.