SteamyTea

Going to be both. There is no simple solution. We have to work from all angles. I think this is the real problem. It seems so overwhelming that most people cannot cope, the government included.

That will be the shit from St. Awful that was not good enough to make china from. Probably too toxic to pump to the sea as well. The water isn't a nice colour because the sky is clear and the foliage healthy. Probably got bits of crashed caravan in it as well.

When you say GRP, is that what you mean. Do they look like a cheap speed boat on one side. Or do you mean a resin cast one, which can be totally different chemically and structurally.

Isn't that usually called mud in the Thames Valley.

Can you find your model here? https://www.carrier.com/commercial/en/uk/products/heating-air-conditioning/air-to-water-heat-pumps/

That need not be the objective. Reducing energy imports and emissions needs to be the objective.

It is when it comes to energy security. As we transition from combustion technologies to directly generating electricity we will, overall, need less energy. That is a long way off. It is combustion technologies that have got us in this mess. 'When in a hole, stop digging' comes to mind. We have left it way to late to start the transition, and it is not as if we have not known about supply security, or climate change matters. Now we have been forced into a corner, like out PM, we have to decide if we carry on with the original plan, or speed up the transition to renewable energy infrastructure. I bet if the Chancellor went to the international money markets with a 10 year plan to transition at 15 TWh/year (approx 5% of our yearly primary energy usage), he could raise cheap money. It would be bold, but it is feasible and would become our primary industry for the next decade. But it won't happen as nurses want a pay rise, as do teachers and the police, barristers, Co OP workers, librarians........ In fact, everyone wants a larger than fair slice of our governments revenue.

At 2 kWh a day, that is, at current rates, about £250/year. Now I have no idea what you could realistically get for your ASHP on eBay, or how much a new one with a decent compressor would cost. But I would be considering it at today's energy prices (though I think they will come down).

Can you get flow gauges that fit on a radiator?

Wasn't that already tried, and was a total failure. Who remembers The Green Bank. One quick, cheap and easy way would be to drop objections to onshore generation projects. Let wind, solar and hydro compete with bio-gas, coal, nuclear and gas.

You have answered it yourself. I suggest the relevant points from the Physics GCSE. Real trouble is, too many people would meddle with it that it becomes pointless, which is what has happened to all the schemes introduced by the government/LA.

Run it though here, find a local WeatherUnderground station to get pressure and outside temp and RH.

We used to have the reverse, with the unit cost coming down the more you used. Most of my energy is used at night, all that has happened is that unit price has tripled. Rather than using an EPC, how about showing energy bills for the previous 3 years. There will always be exceptions (long term empty) and variances, but if you can compare to the local neighborhood (which you can currently already do), then you can make a better informed decision. Not that people really know what they are looking at. Even on here people talk about how much cash they spend and how much they can save by changing suppliers, but only a few of us nerds talk about the actual energy used.

It does, and any environmental savings are just lost in other areas. It may be too early to tell how much energy the UK saves by the higher prices, but going to make interesting reading this time next year. At least most of us now understand the concept of 'excess deaths', even if many deny the conclusions.

Would a cheap, secondary pump work on the feed to the troublesome radiators.

Try converting to absolute humidity. Probably find the mass of water is similar.

Googled that, first hit us a sub aqua place in Glasgow. Can get a thick wet suit and clean air there.

Yes, and they are probably in the majority. Not sure how to change that, environmental taxes has not worked, nor the recent price increases. Ritual Public Humiliation fails as well.

I think that's the only one that needs a comment Can't you get wool insulation that fully fills cavities. Think @joe90 used it. He had a wet wall until he sealed it, seems not to have had adverse effects. Still think that using cheap weed control membrane with mineral wool above it will solve the problems, and easy to fix. may need to glue so battens, for easy stapling, to the steel, that is easy to do though.

The trouble is, just basing it on income, it is a blunt tool. The energy price increase has shown how little people really understand how the energy market works, and, more importantly, how they use energy. It might be possible to add a surcharge to utility bills for homes below an EPC C. That then relies on many landlords doing some extra work, which, in our imagined housing crisis, will not work. In reality, for owner occupiers, it is up to them to do what they want. If they do nothing, they cannot really complain. It is amazing how much can be saved with small changes.

That sounds like a good idea. I do wonder how many claims are successful and what hoops have to be jumped though to make a claim.

That would stop the woodburns. Yes, not sure how it would actually work in practice, but it seems to me that solicitors are constantly surprised when asked to sell a house.

Not the best picture. I just screwed into the main window frame, not the opener, that would not have stopped the leaks. Gap is around 25mm. I don't have trickle vents, there are enough holes in the house as it is.

EDF are going to charge me 34p/kWh for night usage.

How often do you take advantage of that dimmability? Is it a case of just using the strips under the counter when you don't want much and the others are on or off (or at best partly dimmed and off). I worked at the RNIB and they had very fancy lighting, it ended up on or off.