SteamyTea

A combi, or several, can be fitted to any house assuming the gas supply is adequate. Shower flow is worked out on how much water you want to come out the tap. Opinions vary, my shower is 10 litres a minute, other think 20 is needed, but you can get away with 8 quite happily. A combi boiler is usually sized for the DHW supply, not the house heat load. An ASHP is sized differently usually for the maximum space heating load. This is why a 24 kW combi may be swapped for a 8 kW ASHP. A different sizing formula is used.

If can can remember when we all had copper cylinders in the airing cupboard that was heated by the boiler, that is how they work. Combi boilers are a rather new invention, and hopelessly lacking in flow.

@S2D2 Can you reduce your non daylight usage? May be worth adding in some margins of error, and are your 3 series all on the same time axis? i.e. GMT OR BST, not a mixture. May also be worth reading this.

Yes, why not, turn something tough, into something tough and bad tasting.

Just remembers. Was should be hung.

I heard that @pocster is well well hung.

Never thought to compare windows. It is a huge difference, wonder what my secondary glazed, double glazed windows U-Value is. And the secondary glazing is airtight (ish).

Just plant fruit trees. Preferably fruit you like. Then put an A2AHP in it. Move your inflatable spa, a sunbed (I can deliver that) and a massage table (can deliver that as well). Then charge the locals to enjoy the facilities. Put in a couple of webcams and @pocster will be entertained for hours.

Thought that was some east end rhyming slang.

Bit about radiators and temperature here. I think most radiator output is at Delta 50. https://www.clyderadiators.co.uk/delta-t-conversion

Surely black will absorb more of the spectrum than a single, non black, colour. There are additives to make plastics more UV resistant.

I went through the Dartford Tunnel on Sunday, even after over 55 years of using it, I am amazed that Radio 4 is uninterrupted.

Such a shining wit.

Garald's girlfriend may be French. Have you never wondered why they make perfume. "home in three days, don't wash" Napoleon

Depends how wide the books are.

They are having lunch.

I am with her on that. Looks like my French relatives place. Have you thought of double depth sliding bookshelves, get at least 50‰ more area. Slide them across the windows and you get curtains. I have a problem with books. If I have a shelf, I fill them. Reality is that my Kindle is my main reading devise, so only really need to keep my favourite, sentimental value, ones. I have a copy of Earth from the Air. It is terrific. But not opened it in 15 years.

Hasn't your government (well the French one) limited the price of domestic energy at a low level? They need to keep their investment of EDF alive somehow. The French will riot if a kWh costs more than a small glass of wine. Also not sure how the PV industry works over there. I think you still have quite small domestic connections, which could limit array size.

You could look at plinth heaters (small, fan assisted radiators) for some areas, possibly kitchen, bathroom and hall ways. If, depending on your layout, those areas are warmed in a controlled manner, you may be able to reduce the area/size of some other radiators. Putting radiators under windows is a rather old fashion idea. Goes back to when windows leaked air and energy. More normal to put them into internal walls now. Radiators can be boxed in, though there is usually a hit in their performance. As you have a piano, and like to tinkle the ivories, how are you going to control temperature and humidity in the music room. Our old family piano (from 1936) did not survive the introduction of central heating.

Can we just give Poles water, instead of money, to build our houses properly. BREXIT must be working.

Non performa

Similar to mine. This is for all of September so far.

General terms just to calculate he inputs and outputs.

Came in from the North East. So that is everywhere in the UK. Wonder if the seagulls have been coughing like a Geordie tart on a Saturday night out after a new boat has come into Tyneside.

I am parked up at Penzance prom. There are no birds here at all, not one. Even the local swans have gone. Seems bird flu has killed them all.