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All depends which side the warm, wet, air is. Trouble with a loft is it can quickly swing between both. So, is this a warm or a cold roof?

But this week I had an altitude gap of 8' (2440mm), as they were both minus numbers, that is a 6' (1830mm). So I would conclude that GPS (on a phone) is not too good, or my house has sunk.

Powered it with caffeine and cheese sandwiches. And 9 gallons of diesel, which is cheaper in Oxford than down here for a change.

Then a harder hit with a larger tool. Well at least your are happy to get the tools out and give it a go. We like that.

Black line is roughly what I have driven today, both ways. So off to bed, I need to sleep on the cans of Blue Sparkle.

I moved all my possessions down in two trip in an old Corsa. That included my very long ladder, which I got rid of the other day.

May be the RCD and a mini circuit breaker is in the consumer unit. Is anything 'tripped' in there?

ASM will take them off your hands, and give you a couple of quid for them.

Or a kink in the flexible shower pipe (if it has one)

Camper van is even better.

On the shower pipe. Just to draw some water though. But if no noise at all (except a tiny water noise), then the unit is probably dead, though that may be just the cable. Remember that electricity and wet fingers are not a good mix. It should be on its own RCD, they usually have a green test button on them and are often on the outside of the bathroom wall, high up, near the door. But could be anywhere.

That is the kind of excuse that a fraudster would claim once in trouble.

Was not so bad in Aylesbury, ice warning light went off. I used to live 'down the Lizard', have they got mobile phone coverage yet? My current temperature 22/01/2023 21:01:37, 5.625°C

Looks very similar to mine. Is it running making a noise) and now water coming though? That may just be that it has drained the header tank and got an airlock. Open the taps and start sucking, well it works for me. The other thing is they have a flow switch in them, that may have got stuck, so no noise when you open the tap. It is probably easier to get a replacement. Scroll down this page and see if something is similar.

I shall look at it later, just recovering for my weekly drive up country and back. As you have a suspended floor, it may be easier to insulate than you think. Can you crawl under it?

At the end of the trial, work out your kWh rate to see what it really saves.

Is it (expletive deleted). On the drive up was listening to the weather forecast, outskirts of Oxford was -10⁰C last night. Was 6⁰C when I left home this morning.

Welcome How large will a shipping container be when it has 400mm of insulation glued to the inside? How much more will it cost than a factory built timber frame place that matched the insulated foundation and has a guaranteed airtight? There is a reason that houses are not made from old shipping containers, and it is not lack of shipping containers.

So are we at the moment, not unusual in the catering/hospitality sector. Pubs are now really restaurants, the days of the regular drinker are over in most places. Thousands of pubs have closed down over the last 20 years, some numbers here: https://beerandpub.com/statistics/pub-numbers/ You have to distinguish between discretionary spending and essential spending. Hospitality depends on discretionary spending. It has also suffered from a lack of labour, much has been said about Brexit being to blame, I am not sure if that is right or not, not been the case down here, no idea what happens up country, still got the same Europeans working in the Aylesbury Costa last time I was in, shall check tomorrow if I have time. There is also this affect that many over 50 have chosen to work part time or give up work entirely. I am in the group and highly recommend it. I don't feel the need to work full time to buy new things. I have enough, and that is enough. There are some industries that have been effected by high energy prices, but that is not exclusive to the UK and what I agree is an odd pricing system we use for electricity pricing. The chemical industries are suffering globally, but their profitability won't. More on energy prices here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/articles/energypricesandtheireffectonhouseholds/2022-02-01

My one at home, that I did the sound test on, was the cheapest from Currys. https://www.currys.co.uk/products/essentials-cur48w22-undercounter-fridge-white-10227820.html The Bush one at work is probably 15 years old, no idea what model it is, looks similar to this one though. https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9312603

We have an old fridge at work made by Bush that is so quiet I may swap it for my one at home. Just did two sound readings, one with it not running, and one with it runnin. 1 meter away. The spike on the first one (not running) is me breathing. Not running Running

Nowhere near as much energy as you put into it.

Some will. They are the ones that still think GW is just weather.

More water than sulphur for a change. Environment 2022 Tonga eruption means we may hit 1.5°C of global warming earlier The massive eruption of a Tongan volcano in January 2022 has made it more likely that we will exceed 1.5°C of global warming within the next five years, but the effect will disappear by 2035 12 January 2023 Listen to this article By Kate Ravilious A cloud of ash erupting from the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano on 15 January 2022, photographed by a satellite NOAA/Alamy Stock Photo The chances of temporarily exceeding 1.5°C of global warming within the next five years have increased markedly due to the spectacular eruption of an underwater volcano in Tonga in January 2022. The explosive Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai event was the most powerful of the 21st century so far. Large eruptions are usually dominated by sulphur dioxide emissions, which cause climate cooling, but the Tonga one was very unusual because it released a lot of water vapour – a powerful greenhouse gas. Satellite measurements indicate that it increased the water vapour content of the stratosphere by 10 to 15 per cent. This is expected to cause temporary global warming. Stuart Jenkins at the University of Oxford and his colleagues estimated how the extra water vapour would change the balance of incoming and outgoing energy in the atmosphere. They then simulated the resulting temperature anomaly until 2035 under two scenarios: one in which carbon emissions continue on their current trajectory and one with ambitious climate mitigation policies. They found that on the current emissions trajectory, the Tonga eruption will produce a small and short-lived warming effect, increasing the chance from 50 to 57 per cent of at least one of the next five years reaching 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for the first time. In the ambitious climate mitigation scenario, the chances of one of the next five years exceeding 1.5°C rises from 60 to 67 per cent. That’s because aerosol particles from human air pollution reflect radiation and currently help to slow the pace of warming, but ambitious mitigation policies cut emissions of all pollutants quickly, resulting in faster rates of warming in the short term. Read more: The first breach of 1.5°C will be a temporary but devastating failure The 2015 Paris Agreement set a goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Exceeding this in a coming year wouldn’t mean we have failed to meet this objective, Jenkins points out. “Whilst Tonga may increase our chances of seeing a 1.5°C year in the near term, it is a natural influence on the climate system and doesn’t contribute to our measures of success or failure in the Paris Agreement,” he says. The research also shows that the Tonga effect will have disappeared by 2035. “This is a timely study and demonstrates that we can relatively quickly estimate the impact that a volcanic eruption will have on surface temperature,” says Anja Schmidt at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. “Even though most volcanic eruptions cool the Earth’s surface, this study demonstrates that only rapid and rigorous reductions in anthropogenic emissions will substantially decrease the risk of exceeding very dangerous levels of warming. We can’t rely on the short-term cooling effect of most volcanoes to save us from the impacts global warming will have.” Journal reference: Nature Climate Change, DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01568-2 Sign up to our free Fix the Planet newsletter to get a dose of climate optimism delivered straight to your inbox, every Thursday