SteamyTea

Fish mines, I am told by the oldies, are going to be bigger than tourism again. No (expletive deleted)ing tourist museum. Say a man that has probably never been there.

Having been put into one of these, the restrictions are quite onerous. Not at if Cornwall really needed yet another mining, fishing or art museum. Makes me want to live in Milton Keynes again.

Like newborns, under 14s, pensioners, the sick and the lame. Listen to this series. Bad Blood https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fd36 Shows how easy it is to convince people of just about anything.

And increase the supply of well educated and experienced workers, who have been educated at at another countries expense. To bring it down to the corner shop level, which is what is happening, do you want to be only allowed to shop at a truly independent grocery store? It may only sell baked beans and ketchup. Oh hang on, it cannot sell them, they are not British products.

When we had the election in 1992, interest rates were all over the place, , but around 10% at election time. Government ministers had rediscovered sleaze, a war was happening, house prices had crashed, and unemployment was at around 9.9% (currently 3.8%). This happened. But then, this fellow was in opposition. The country was not going to have another Welsh PM, the scars of 1916 to 1922 are too deep.

Sometimes, we have to learn to live with a products limitations. How likely are you to put your little piggies under the bed edge again?

5.2 years worth of internet access at £16/month. Or for the same money, you can have 5 mobile hotspots.

No, that would be madness. Monetary policy should not be politicised. Far too important. Yes. The government has the ability to raise, or lower, taxes. It can also outlaw, or introduce, different financial rules. I have been saying for years that there should be a mortgage tax. So regardless (except in extreme circumstances) of the BoE base rate, a surcharge can be put onto mortgages to help keep property prices under control, so in effect, reduce the amount borrowed. The banks have raised the barrier to entry with their 'arrangement' fees and conditions, which did not exist when I last got a mortgage in the 1980s, so there may be an case that these should be raised higher. As a few of my friends have children that are at the age of buying houses, they often give their kids £50 or £60k 'to help with the deposit'. This is utter madness, the wrong thing to do. All it does is encourage over borrowing. I tell my friends that they can loose all that money and would be better off bailing their offspring out if they hit problems and we have problems right now) 6 months subsidising their mortgage payments is going to be cheaper and a better use of money.

Yes. It is the particles that are the problem, though at the nano metre scale, odd physics occurs between other chemicals. We used an aerogel based filler, which is similar to that used in the blanket type insulation (which I think is what @DamonHD had fitted), physically the properties are different to the solid form of aerogel, which is the one with the fantastic thermal properties. This Is not this

I have larger problems at work at the moment. Much larger.

Mine got a taste for those expensive millennium smoothies and fruit drinks. (expletive deleted)ing vimto squash for me I am now so poor. Get a better g bottle of it for 2 quid, can last a month, but it was only 32⁰C tonight in the kitchen.

Not all the PV needs to be grid connected. You could set up some of it to heat water/Willis heater, small battery and A2AHP for shoulder season heating and summer cooling. And if (never trust an if) you get an EV with V2G, you will have a huge battery system built in. But as everyone says, get your heat load down as low as you can, that is the best return on your cash, and you are doing the work anyway. The labour to fit 150mm or 300mm of insulation is near enough the same.

Highly insulated concrete floor.

Was my first thought. May want to take it down and lube everything up anyway. Wish my mum who is a similar age, could get out in the sun.

5% base rate. Time to review my savings.

That is just space heat average (guessed). Some houses can easily use the same amount for everything else. It is when you lot bust the railway line. I assume that you already have a place, so you could use your current usage as a starting point. To get a rough idea if what the space heating loads are, just model the place on floor, roof and wall/window/door areas, then use the TMY figures from PVGIS to get your local temperatures.

If you say you use 40 kWh/m².year for space heating, that is 16000 kWh. 60% of that will be December and January, so call that 10000 kWh (7W/m² , I use around 8 W/m², larger places use disproportionately less, but my house is terraced) when the PV is producing the littlest. How does PVGIS line up with that, especially when you take annual variance into account? An A2AHP may halve that in December and January, but water usage may become your biggest problem. To get what you are after, you need to model it as an off grid house, then see what you need to import, and when. You may find that having a relatively small amount of battery storage is helpful, but you will need a generator as well. Which bit of hell are you in, on the coast or up the moor, temperatures are quite different, as are wind speeds. But not as wet as here, we take that away from you.

Yes, I was quite surprised how good there are. May go and buy some more.

I was in Buckinghamshire, with a Cornish flag on the car.

Was a regular here until I had to travel up country most weekends. Hardly saving energy driving an extra 600 miles every week.

At Land's End at the moment. I have had a locals pass for many years. This gives me free parking. Not been here for a while, noticed the parking is now got cameras and a pay machine. Went to the hotel reception and asked if locals pass was still valid. They handed me a tablet, punched in my name and car reg, free parking, brilliant. Mind you, they charged me £4.25 for half a coke.

Air to Air Heat Pump is an option, gives cooling in the summer as well. At a CoP of 4, it is similar to the gas cost. If electricity goes below 30p/kWh and gas is about 8p/kWh that is. But as I mentioned earlier, if you have UFH and little insulation, you are heating the ground. An A2AHP gets around part of that problem. The units are quite cheap as well.

Anyone know what the floor insulation levels were 6 years ago, if it needed any at all. 20' is 6.1m, we went metric in the early 1970s.

Happiness Units Like twins, two halfwits don't make a whole wit.

They use your car registration. I tried to take some of my mother's rubbish to her local tip, refused entry. Apparently only if your car is registered in the county can you use the tip she pays for. Okay, I just fly tipped it, leaving a not saying 'that will save you some cash'.