SteamyTea

I needed a bag of compost for my planters. Local children's charity was having selling some off on the side of the A30, so stopped and bought a large bag. I like to support local charity that uses child labour. Was not till I had used half of it I noticed that it was in a bag that said 'Grass Seed'' on the side.

I shall set a reminder now.

Yes, but some days it is hardly adding any energy. Not as if every winter day is -5°C. I have fully turned mine off now, starting to think I have have been a bit early as house is only at 18°C, but it is only 6.6°C outside now, and has been for the last two hours.

Just had a customer who lives very near you. I have set the traps, and leaving the till empty tonight.

Is that Scotch

I have just bought one, it better be worth 8 quid. I had my misty lenses changed on the NHS for nothing.

Post a picture up and let us see.

More so than Which I think is a type of onion.

Right. That stuff I said about guns and how useless they are at killing vermin. Well I am sitting in Tehidy Woods having a coffee, (expletive deleted)ing crow shit on me, my comic, phone, glasses and actually in my coffee. So off to get a shotguns for revenger. Silence the (expletive deleted) for good.

I shall have a look as I may be using the grinder a lot again. I am sure if a grinder was very quiet, it would not sound scary.

I don't think it would, at worse, be worse than resistance heating. Houses need to expel air anyway, and 3/4 of the year they hardly need any heating. Just do the sums.

As well as a turkey voting for Christmas. The problem my glasses steam up with goggles on. And a full face mask is no better.

What a fantastic opportunity to monitor two identical (almost) houses. Get the data monitoring gear in.

Costing The Earth had a bit about the problems with installations. Not listened to all of it, will catch up later. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001kqzy?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Or dig a hole and put it in there.

Has that increased the value considerably?

I imagine I am wearing safety gear.

Here is my new one, not cordless mind you. Unlike my larger ones, I can keep it switch on permanently. Much safer to use.

Not really, metal cut off saws run slower, and have a lubricant feed. Much like my latest friend.

Yes, an angle grinder is the second most useful tool in the box. I have a new one to pick up later, my cheap little one gave up the ghost (the switch went faulty). It did last 6 years though, and has more dusty usage than most.

Thanks

This is what I have/started with. 200 lt, bog standard, vented, E7 cylinder. Heating elements in the base and the top. All very standard and cheap. Had to replace cylinder after about 28 years. Small heater tank in loft. I have fitted a twin impellor shower pump to the shower/bath. This was mainly to make a decent shower, between 9 and 11 lt/minute flow rate. Pressure is irrelevant as it is flow rate. I added extra insulation inside the cupboard it sits in. This is a combination of PIR sheets and mineral wool. Works very well, reduced the standing losses by over 1 kWh/day (standing losses are a problem on E7 as some people want to bath in the evening, I don't apart from a quick shower). Initially I set the lower E7 thermostat to 65°C, but have reduced it to 50°C now. I then fitted a timer to limit the E7 heating window (nominally midnight to 7 AM) to 4 AM to 7 AM). This gives it plenty of time to heat the cylinder, settle and a reheat, before I use any (which I try to do after 7 AM so no extra reheating). This worked well and almost halved the energy usage, some of that will have been because I fitted a shower and use less water). Last year, about May I think, I decided to experiment with the top immersion heater, the thinking being is that I do not use all the 200 lt of stored water. So I fitted another timer that switched the top element on between 5 AM and off at 7 AM. I also set the temperature higher to 65°C. This worked very well in cutting energy usage, but did, on a couple of occasions, mean I had a luke warm shower after work (not so bad in the summer months, horrible when the house is a but cooler). Because I swapped my morning bath (my little luxury and seems to help my aches and pains) to a shower, that probably helped in reducing water usage, and there for energy usage (we were asked, by SW water (one of the countries largest polluters) to cut usage by 5 lt/day in return for £30 off our bill, achieved the target). This year, I may try and gauge if the saving is water usage or less standing losses. I may also try heating the water with the lower element for a day, then heating the top for a day, and then back to the lower element. The mean usage should be the same, but because of the need to have DHW at least 35°C, there may be less risk of having a cold shower. I am in a lucky position because I live alone, this mean that if there is not enough hot water, I am only shouting at myself. Energy reducing should not be down to just one person in the house making changes, it has to be everyone, then there is plenty to go around. The biggest changes will be reducing water usage, will over shadow everything else. Aunty Beed has an interesting program on about water. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001k0dq

Generally I think it is a good thing, you get more energy into a smaller volume. The thermal losses may increase though, and then there are pumping losses.

Do you have an example of one, or two. I could not find one, but may be using the wrong search terms.

(expletive deleted), now you have done it, poked the sleeping Welsh dragon.