SteamyTea

@Adsibob has upset his neighbours so much he can never go around their side to repair a fence, ever. When I redo my shed, the back wall will be my fence, but that goes onto the parking area. More seriously, it should be able to design something that allows for a fence panel to be easily lifted out and repaired/replaced by standing on the shed roof.

Cheap, thin plywood, then sheath it in GRP. Then add PU insulation externally, then 3 layers of 450gm/m² GRP. Then sand and paint. Will last decades, and you could turn it upside down and use as a boat.

Scroll down to Lambourne House. My parents looked at buying the place in early 1983. They viewed it a few times. Never saw Michael's wife there, they thought it strange as they knew her. http://truecrimeinvestigators.co.uk/monika-zumsteg/

I have to agree with this. Trouble is there are too many conservationists and not enough environmentalists advising the government. Imagine the NHS stopping vaccinations, but allowing everyone to have cosmetic surgery.

What I tell all my addicts, whoops, customers.

Single occupancy small houses are energy inefficient, and I am all resistance here, no HPs.

More fun having the frozen head giving you a Glaswegian kiss you when you get the pop tarts out for breakfast.

Has anyone seen independent data for waste water heat recovery. Intuitively I feel it won't be brilliant, but never modelled it, and no one I know who has one, has actually measured it. I feel it falls into the same category as co sensing boiler efficiency and multi foil insulation. They work, but never get close to the headline figures.

Think most local authorities have these. Can usually tell as they are the places with the winos in them. So you should find a fellow buildhubber there.

Do you have a switch between main fuse/meter and the consumer unit. Flick it.

I suspect, in reality, low users are already subsidised. If, with your 5 kWh example, this was implemented at say 10p/kWh, then I would increase my usage to use it all up as I currently only use 60% of that. I am not sure if "banking it for winter” would work either. I think we just need to reduce overall usage, wherever it is easiest/cheapest to do so, while increasing RE capacity, which is now the quickest and cheapest to deploy. Not really difficult, just needs the population to get behind the idea and realise that we would not be covering all the countryside in solar farms and wind turbines. All my life I have heard about 'concreting over the countryside", so why is there still so much left. Most of it still green, except the sandy bits if the Bristol Channel, which looks as large as London.

Depends how big the allowance is. I had a fiver a term in 1972. Still got most of it.

Probably is. I think the only thing I have on standby is my radio. The little voltage regulator seems cold when not in use, though it does probably consume a tiny, tiny amount. Other things on are the radio alarm, RPi data logger, 4 cheap digital timers to control water and space heating, and fridge, oven and hob. The last 3 could be all turned off at the mains, but I like the convenience, especially cold milk. I might have a go at calculating all those base loads, but my data shows they are very low, probably less than 10Wh a day. Saving 0.4p a day hardly seems worth the effort.

Me too, warm autumn so far has helped.

And wired in so the the house disconnected from the local grid. I think there is quite a bit of post purchase justification when it comes to batteries. They do not make sense at any level at the moment.

Twice my current usage, and I want to reduce it more.

is it? Don't think there has been a lot a data collected on the reliability. https://www.power-technology.com/analysis/la-rance-learning-from-the-worlds-oldest-tidal-project/

That is only at the local level (your house). At the national level that 0.8 kWh could have helped, in part, to run a heat pump, which would have been more efficient.

You could have made more in the oven though. But a man needs his daily sandwich. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001df6c

UK consumption figures here 2021_Consumption_tables_July_2022_update.xlsx

I doubt recharging batteries is a major concern. Maybe the 7 million homes with E7 could make a difference. Load shifting even 5 kWh/day (about half the E7 daily usage) would make a very big difference. 35 GWh. Would take all the shit in Cornwall 3 1/5 days to generate that.

Server farms use between 3% and 13% of world energy, but real figures are hard to come by.

Not big enough. The smaller they are, the less efficient they are. You could stick it on the top of your boats mast, then run a small dehumidifier, via battery storage, to keep the cabin a bit less (or is it fewer) damp.

Yes, English is a dreadful language, so many variables.