SteamyTea

The blooming race is now on.

Got to near the top, so near enough down hill from here. Just waiting for the flowers now.

If anyone has an unit, at my end if Cornwall, I can come and put a logger in it sometime.

Stick one of these on it. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354031328769

Fairly easy to disaggregate if you know the power of items. I noticed that my fridge was constantly on as my usage went up. Go around and jot down the power usage of each item. Then buy this, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225026280748 a RPi Zero W and get some free code. Job done for 30 quid. Just seen you have an Ecodan. You may have real reasons to be concerned about usage. As you are in Dorset, @Radian is local and knows a thing or two about monitoring.

Before you go and buy a monitor that has very comprehensive (on paper) capabilities, have you got a meter already set up that can log the usage? A few of us on here have modified cheap ones to add logging. Knowing what each device/circuit is doing, and when, can be useful, but it does not, in itself, change usage and habits. Leaving a 3W light in will take 20 minutes for the main meter to register it (1Wh). Leaving the hot water cylinder on to make sure there is always a constant supply of piping hot water will take 1.2 seconds for the meter to register it. Reduce the time heavy loads are running. Just use what you need to. Turn off gaming machines and anything that needs auto updating.

Since 2007, when the banking crisis became a thing, and the subsequent QE that pumped billions of cash into the economy, we have been waiting for the reckoning day. The government backing businesses and workers during COVID has delayed it. A good, rough, indicator is to look at the published Money Supply figures. I have not looked but as a percentage of GDP, or household earnings, I suspect the are pointing to less cash in the economy. In the olden days, people put there money into gold, trouble was, there was little control over gold supplies, then governments took control and reduced, or increased, gold supplies for their own ends (war, win elections, overseas trade). This was a cumbersome physical process, so the FIAT system was introduced, was then easy to control the supply, and value. Well we thought it was. Now we can be disproportionally affected by external events that can destabilise our currency. Once a currency is devalued, it is much harder to reclaim that lost value. Add in general inflation, sector inflation, and interest rate rises, things are not looking good. So what to do about it from a business point if view. Reduce costs, only quote for high end jobs (high earners are better shielded), and always quote to make a net profit. Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity.

Ah, missed that. Yes, angle grinder and a big, cheap, diamond disk.

Take it to a stone masons. Easy job for them, a few minutes.

When it comes to furniture, start here. https://www.isaaclord.co.uk/product-category/decorating-and-finishing/ Then look for better prices.

Maffs is the language of the sciences, not a science in itself. Practice rearranging equations, BIDMAS and the laws of indices and you are almost there. That just leaves geometry, a most peculiar discipline, but is often the basis of all mathematical axioms. I wish I had studied mathematics rather than engineering, and wish I could do more if it.

https://www.pdfdrive.com/qed-the-strange-theory-of-light-and-matter-d168158859.html Cancel it.

I mentioned thermal properties with a quantum model on here a while back, no one bit, they probably thought I was just bring a smart arse. Odd, as it is the simplest way to understand both heat capacity and conductance.

You will wish you never looked it up. Six impossible thing before breakfast.

Get a copy of Spons. https://www.routledge.com/Spons-Architects-and-Builders-Price-Book-2022/ECOM/p/book/9781032052168 Then see where you can save some cash.

He would be 104.

If yo want to increase the head, why not make and fit a ram pump, then pump and store some water up high (a tree maybe). Then, when you need a decent amount of power, let the water flow back down into the turbine. Overall you may get less energy, but you may get a usable amount of power.

If your car is getting on a bit, and you have those stupid plastic headlight covers, large angle grinder with a polishing bonnet on it saves you getting an MOT failure.

One of the biggest counties in the land. Population density is a third of Buckinghamshire. Think it is more to do with mean age this week. Newly weds, just breds and nearly dead.

AKA Rampant Rabbit. Got a used one for sale, anyone interested.

I like a bit of spice. Shall have a look when I get out of St. Ives. I may be some times. For some reason when people get here, their cars get 2 feet wider in their minds.

What software do you use to sketch things up in? We did, is it LRC circuits, this in college. Actually in a mathematics lesson, got the basic concept i.e. you can reduce voltage and power with less waste heat, but did not really understand what was going on at 'the mechanical level.

Yes, why I said 'big holes'. There is a reason portholes are round and not rectangular. It is the same reasons we model atoms as circles (in the most basic models), all the energy levels are at their lowest.

After a drill, that looks like a gun, an angle grinder is the best thing you can get. Get a really large one, then pretend it is a chainsaw. Can't you drill big holes to take the joists, holes are better that rectangles.

That is a bit rich coming from someone that blames war and COVID, but not their choices, for the problems.