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https://www.toolstation.com/reisser-torx-diamond-point-flooring-screw/p49364 They will be bolts, not screws.

200 mile round trip to my nearest John Lewis. Think I shall just drink in the street. This is our old PM

Or your site is on a slope. Or you have @saveasteading builders. Alternatively, bury head in the sand and hope for the best.

A permanent 1 W load (8.76 kWh/year) costs @28p/kWh, about £2.50 a year. About 3 days summer usage for me. Had a carbon footprint of around 2.5 kg CO2.

Use the right type of screws.

RESPECT Thank you. World energy use per person is about 2 kW. 48 kWh a day. This is obviously too high because of our dominant combustion technologies. And household usage is only a small part of primary energy usage, though, along with personal transport, the ones we notice the most as we are directly paying for it. Come winter my usage will go up to a mean of 665 W, 16 kWh/day. Too high for my liking, so this years house modifications are to add 'winter' secondary glazing, fix the back door that has visible gaps (fixed the front door last year), and find how air is travelling to a socket in the living room (been throwing out 2 decades of 'loft rubbish). When I first moved here, and being used to a crappy combi gas boiler in my old Victorian house, I did not pay much attention to energy use (even though I was studying it at university). My first full year usage was ~11 MWh/year. Whittled that down to under 5 MWh quite easily, to get to under 4 MWh has been difficult, but getting rid of parasitic loads has made a major contribution to that. I would like to get down to 3 MWh/year without spending a fortune, and having a house that is comfortable enough. Interestingly my motoring has followed a similar path, going from an old petrol automatic what was dreadful on fuel around town ~30 MPG, to a turbo diesel manual that consistently does over 50 MPG around town, 65 MPG on an upcounry run. I am not too bothered about what sort of car I have, as long as it is reliable, so shall have to give that some thought as mine has done over 200kmile and is making strange knocking noises from the front suspension.

Many a happy minutes doing Bowditch Corrections. Found this. https://civilblog369.blogspot.com/2019/01/levelling-surveying-civil-engineering.html

Seem like English, but not got a clue what you are talking about. I just water mine.

What I work so hard on. Here is some basic stats for the 01/06/2022 Data points 11,566 (~7.5 seconds) Zero power draw count 8,364 (72% of data points) Mean power 113 W Total Day Usage 2.7 kWh Proper job.

Can you export the raw readings as a *.csv file for easy playing about. This is what mine (home made) churns out. Time, temperature, power. 01/06/2022 04:49:34,19.5,02749 01/06/2022 04:49:39,19.5,02753 01/06/2022 04:49:45,19.5,02755 01/06/2022 04:49:56,19.5,02755 01/06/2022 04:50:01,19.5,02753 01/06/2022 04:50:07,19.5,02740 01/06/2022 04:50:13,19.5,02744 01/06/2022 04:50:24,19.5,00294 01/06/2022 04:50:29,19.5,00196 01/06/2022 04:50:35,19.5,00147 01/06/2022 04:50:41,19.5,00117 01/06/2022 04:50:52,19.5,00084 01/06/2022 04:50:58,19.5,00073 01/06/2022 04:51:03,19.5,00065 01/06/2022 04:51:09,19.5,00058 01/06/2022 04:51:20,19.5,00049 01/06/2022 04:51:25,19.5,00045 01/06/2022 04:51:31,19.5,00042 01/06/2022 04:51:37,19.5,00039 01/06/2022 04:51:48,19.5,00034 01/06/2022 04:51:53,19.5,00032 01/06/2022 04:51:59,19.5,00030 01/06/2022 04:52:04,19.5,00000 01/06/2022 04:52:15,19.5,00000 01/06/2022 04:52:21,19.5,00000

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.