SteamyTea

For the same price as a wood burner, you can get 4 kWp of PV (ish). If you exported all your generation at 5p/kWh, that would be £200/year. At today's electricity prices that would buy you about 500 kWh of power. Or to put it another way, 250 hours of running a look alike, 2 kW output stove.

Get an angle grinder and a sanding disk. Can shape anything you like with that. Or just stick down with this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Everbuild-Lumberjack-30min-Polyurethane-Wood-Adhesive-Glue-310ml-tube-/180911267156

A letter in this week's comic. Thanks for shining light on solar's clear advantage (1) Published 16 November 2022 From Fred White, Nottingham, UK Thank goodness Michael Le Page highlights the rarely stated gap in energy yield between crops grown to produce biofuels and solar photovoltaic panels, of 50 to 110 fold. Those figures need proclaiming in headlines(5 November, p 27). What possesses Western governments to press on with subsidies for biofuel crops so large that farmers literally can’t afford to ignore them is beyond comprehension. Such a huge difference in yield makes biofuels (as opposed to energy from bio waste) technically, morally and economically indefensible.

I like threepenny bits.

Still going to increase CO2 levels unnecessarily, pollute the local environment and need extra work.

You would have thought they would have had a point equalling a penny, rather than 0.125p.

She has a mouth like a sewer, and a Yorkshire accent.

If you take away too much choice in an office, you get disgruntled staff. I worked in an office with individual heating/AC settings, and lighting settings, it was rubbish.

She can swap it for this

I had a quick look and some claim to island. https://www.givenergy.co.uk/products#giv-hy-5-0-gen-2 Keep checking and make sure the installer knows what they are doing. Too easy to set it up on defaults and walk away.

Or remove the blindfold.

But is the inverter capable of running independently if the grid? What model are you getting?

Why not put another router down there that detects her phone when she sneaks in late at night. I think Wireshark can detect them.

When liquid water changes to steam it expands, by around 1700 times. It is the steam you need to worry about, not the thermal expansion of liquid water.

And before it is needed. Last thing you want to do it start poking about in the dark with a screwdriver.

Same problem with my Mother. Set the wireless thermostat to 23°C, which seems fine. Then find that the thermostat has been left in the kitchen. I have suggested that if she feels cold, get up and walk about for a couple of minutes, which luckily she can do now. Got home tonight, house back up to 20°C, it is lovely again. Condensation on the rear door seems to be drying out. Never seen it there before, but then it was leaking air around the frame until I sorted it out earlier in the year. Room is draught free and much quieter now.

Is it an 'islanding' system with automatic grid connection?

My house is small. I go out a lot.

Except in a small house like mine. The humidity rises too high and if the extractor fan is on, the house gets cold quite quick. Having MVHR would sort that to a certain extent.

Yes, I think so. Would need to do some data collection to find out. Often thought that a couple of DHT22s either side of the fan/heat exchanger on an ASHP should be able to collect enough data. Was going to do it on a work mates ASHP but he moved house.

What always concerns me with anything to do with bath, shower and basin waste is blockages. Mainly girls long hair. Add a heat exchanger into the mix and it is just adding complication. Maybe a waste water to air recovery unit would be more practical during the heating season.

Shorter distance than I travel to my Mother's.

Right. Are these the same units https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09QQCVGSX/ref=sspa_dk_detail_2

Hill, clay, subsidence and now buried bombs. I will take the property off their hands for 10k. You have actually raised a very important point. Without being 'in the trade' it is very hard to to find out what companies liabilities are, and how they can be enforced. Probably why we need solicitors to act on our behalf, then if the builder (expletive deleted)s up, we can claim against the solicitors insurance.

Welcome. Why bother with a battery when for a large slice of the year a cylinder of water will use all/most of the PV generation.