SteamyTea

Are you going to design (size) the veranda (lean to) roof to make it easy to fit PV modules? Probably cheaper to self install off grid and get some thermal and electrical storage, you can get 'islanding' systems that keeps everything easy as normal 230V switching, cabling and rules/regs apply. Cheapest, and most useful electrical storage is probably an EV, though not sure how easy they integrate into an islanding system.

Will work well for a week or so. Leaky pools are such fun to deal with.

Too right. I am not going to push a car a mile for 50p. A human needs around 2 kWh a day, that is a a fifth of a litre of diesel (ish, would not matter if it was a quarter). My local Tesco is charging £1.80 for a litre. So 2 kWh is 30p (and some clubcard points). The best value for calories food that is easily available is lentils, my local Tesco sells a kg of them for £1.80. They have around 4 kWh of energy in a kg bag (about the same energy content as timber or other biomasses). So to get 2 kWh cost 90p, 3 times as much as pump diesel. That is before processing costs i.e. boiling. To cook half a bag will take take around 10 minutes boiling (for the split red ones). On my induction hob that will be around 0.1 kWh of electricity, or 3p (ish). Washing up about the same. So close to 4 times the price of pump diesel. Now my favourite curry is, just by chance, a dhansac, a lentil based dish. For £8 I get about a half kilo of it. OK, it has some ghee, very high energy content, and some meat, also high, and a lot of flavour. But I can get all the ingredients for less than a £1 (I can if I want also spend £10 on ingredients at the artisan shops, but it tastes the same and I have to wash the dirt off). So as tonight is my night off, I am going to fill the car up, get a curry and tomorrow, fart the lentils out in a satisfying manner. Ok, probably going to cost me 90 quid in all today, once I add in a drink and a packet of fags. But at least I know what terrific value filling my car up (the major cost, I will drive it about 450 miles next week) is compared to the rest (except the fags, they are calories free).

Yes. Thanks, makes interesting reading.

I think you are talking about burnished, not rubbed. Best get some samples made up and play with the ones you like.

Probably still attached to the nether regions of a ram. When they are the colour of tartan, it is time to cut them off.

Welcome from Kernow We are at the end of the 1990s down here, you still in the early 1980s up there? Re MVHR, get your place air tested, no point doing anything until you know how leaky it is.

If people bothered to measure their DHW usage, all the guesswork and opinions would vanish. Shame people don't do the simple things.

Called equity releases isn't it? You borrow cash against your assets, when you die the lender gets the assets (or a fraction of them).

So what is the output modulation of these new units?

Like my first house. I hated the breakfast bar, they are really just a low shelf. A small kitchen does give you some idea what it is like to work in a commercial one.

There are no hairs on a black hole

I thought it was. This company has made thousands. https://www.framehomes.co.uk/

Not a snow storm, so good.

I always feel better when I replace a suspected broken part for a new one, and the original problem goes away.

Welcome. My experience of working in the USA was you can easily buy a truck full of something, but not a single tin of it. Is there a reason for using Porotherm?

Do you have planning permission for that size array? Why indeed. Most 'high temperature' HPs are not very efficient at the top end. It is because you have already made up your mind and have not listened to counter arguements and real world experience of the SA.

Q: When is the best time to build a wind turbine? A: 20 years ago Q:When is the second best time to build a wind turbine? A: Today

Or not https://ieefa.org/resources/carbon-capture-has-long-history-failure

Was on R4 saying the same thing this morning.

You only ever rent wine, beer and spirits, never own them.

I would have thought the coffee machine makers would be there. More money in kitchen clutter than insulation and airtightness tape.

What are the daily meter rental charges for the different tariffs?

Is this it? https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/30/contents/enacted