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SteamyTea

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  1. Possibly, they may want to make friends with some great crested newts.
  2. Welcome I suspect that once you start one job, you will find many things that need improving/repairing. You may be better off hanging back on things and starting to look carefully at what really needs doing. 5 of the 7 sockets not working could mean a major rewire, or something as simple deliberately disconnected circuit. Choose carefully where you spend your money, getting an old Victorian house comfortable and warm is not easy, but if most of the walls are going to be plastered, that is the time to do other improvements.
  3. I have E7 on a non smart meter. EDF keep pressing me to get it changed, and I think next year the radio system that switches the supply is being turned off, so maybe they are not installing the old radio switches. I would call them up and ask.
  4. What if there is a mass of them?
  5. Or not at 85% efficiency. That is what it was capable of in ideal conditions, not one out in the wild.
  6. One meaning is Humanity. Another is a Linux distribution. It is a totally free to use OS for PCs. Odd concept being free. If only there was open source building designs that worked.
  7. If it is by the canal, sell the power, and mooring rights, to @JamesPa
  8. I suspect, as I think has been mentioned before, that the 16 MWh estimate is wrong. At a SCoP of 3.6, your house is probably using 12 MWh a year. 25% less energy than the estimate.
  9. @ReedRichards Just had a thought while I was up in the loft tidying. Too high a temperature is not really a problem as your system design can just use a temperature blending valve. So really the things to look at if seriously considering a Sunamp are the kWh price and the size they take up. You can always parallel them up for extra storage.
  10. No idea. Ask their technical department or the technical sales at one of their agents. From my understanding, Sunamp lost the plot a few years back when they got involved with a large marketing company. @Andrew Bissell - Sunamp may still look on here, or not.
  11. Should do. Just make sure wind blown rain is not a problem. And some small drain holes at the base for any liquid water.
  12. That is odd as, with limited research, I was under the impression that scroll compressors did not have this problem, only the reciprocation ones. But at least you got to chat to someone that seemed to know about it. 6 kWh/day is double my current daily usage.
  13. Yes. It is probably there as a secondary rain screen. There is some confusion about wall buildups because, in the USA, they frequently do the opposite to us. This is because they air condition their homes and the outside air is hot and humid. Some say that we need to treat sheds the same as they are unheated and our external air has high humidity. But as soon as it becomes a heated area, then water vapour needs to escape. This is why the most vapour resistant later us on the inside and each additional layer is less resistant. Not too much of a real problem when the recommended airchanges and working temperatures are well controlled.
  14. Yes. Our compressor and tank was checked, every year I think. The small portable one was ok, think it was under 15 lt.
  15. Work out your most likely thermal loads (you need to do this anyway) and then see what the capacity, in kWh, they can supply.
  16. I assume this is the rain screen, so should be ventilated and allow any liquid water to escape from the bottom. The idea, in the UK climate, is that humidity and temperatures are higher on the inside of the building. The insulation makeup, once past the VCL, is to allow water vapour to escape and evaporate. The living area is treated differently as that is usually serviced with natural, or forced ventilation, this reduces the amount of water vapour that can enter into the wall build up. Wind driven rain is stopped by cladding, and/or, an extra layer of liquid water impervious sheeting, but needs a gap between itself and the main structure. It effectively adds nothing to the insulation levels as air can easily travel behind it. Wind is stopped by the airtight barrier, on the outside of the structure, but before the air gap and cladding.
  17. Just becomes a standard wall makeup. So apart from plasterboard, everything is outboard of the VCL and gets more vapour open as you travel outwards.
  18. What sort of work do you do on it. A few Word documents, PDFs and a basic spreadsheet are not going goi worry it much. 7 million rows of Excel conditional sums might. As will heavy video editing. Best way to upgrade a PC us to downgrade the software.
  19. What Steve Jobs said about Bill Gates.
  20. If Ritalin keeps small children quiet. Then Ritalin. Shame I am not allowed to smoke a joint in a cafe, I would be pretty mellow about the child centred parents trying to stop the little shits ruining everybody's lunch hour. (Disclaimer: I am against non legal and illegal usage of prescription drugs)
  21. Any guttering can get blocked. I would avoid any chance of that happening by not having the roof touch either property. You may have to change your door as well if it becomes a proper garage.
  22. Those will be changed to Grote's. Or a stable crypto coin.
  23. One second is the time that elapses during 9,192,631,770 cycles of the radiation produced by the transition between two levels of the cesium 133 atom. But only with no relativistic effects I assume.
  24. Ah right. Yes, thought the / second may have been angular seconds. Getting hungry, need a quarter pounder, which is 417 calories per 0.37699 lb. Not sure if that is with cheese.
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