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SteamyTea

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  1. There is a blast from the past.
  2. Not knowingly. I would walk out with the collection tray. About time I got my jacket buttons back.
  3. Something architects seem very reluctant to do. None of us like our ideas shredded to pieces.
  4. That is one way to win people over.
  5. Yes, Bourton on the Water. Usually stop there as you can park for half an hour outside the Londis. And they have a Costa coffee machine. So cheaper, and nicer, than most other coffee places. Queen's Bench needs recarving. It is a decade old now.
  6. Mine did. We had some big SW storms a few years back. Noticed a damp patch in the bedroom ceiling. Seems the wind had got under the loft insulation, then, when it had flopped down, had moved forward a little, just enough to allow it to wick up water. Easy fix, just pull in back 2 inches. Neighbour has the same problem, told him how to sort it, 4 years on and he is still complaining about the 'leaky roof', (expletive deleted)ing nob. I have tried, on two PCs to print your PDF off. Can't print it.
  7. Your slug. Reminds me of the quip about 50% of the population having legs.
  8. Is this for real. Can't see anything on Companies House about them. There is a David Lindsay Electrical Service, same name as the MD.
  9. My view this morning. Bit too much bunting for my liking.
  10. So less that half a gram per m² every year. I don't know how deadly these nitrates and phosphates are, but at a mean delivery of 1.3 mg a day, I would like to see some peer reviewed evidence that it is a real problem.
  11. Nicer falling onto a carpet than a road. Should have asked him to deliver it for free. Would have kept him busy, and 2 paces Infront of you all day.
  12. Not had a chance to read it yet, maybe after I have slept off the car journey and an early lunch.
  13. The UK has not been very good at managing small scale, district heating schemes. I think the cost of enforcing non payers is too high. Developers probably don't want to pay too much for a network upgrade. They are not very creative when it comes to buildings. They would struggle to find space for a 200 or 300lt cylinder. Anyway, customers would complain because they would not be getting all their power for nothing, all the time. So developers probably buy an existing solar or wind farm and offset credits.
  14. Worth knowing, reasonably well, about insulation and ventilation.
  15. Flasher
  16. Shall print it out when I get up country and have a good look though.
  17. Brilliant
  18. That is the limiting factor. But if you could get a half decent HP for a few hundred quid, as opposed to 3k, then the sums change. It also depends on what you are being charged for a kWh of power, and what your income is. Corby Leisure Centre had a project that did this. It extracted waste heat and dumped it in a lake. Then, when heating was needed, extracted, via HPs, and pumped it back into the building. Was a disaster, and to the best of my knowledge, never tried again. The Jubilee Pool in PZ tried to heat the Art Deco pool with geothermal energy, then a GSHP as they hit problems. Again, a disaster, especially considering the Atlantic Ocean was less than 10 metres away and they already pumped in seawater. I did suggest that they fit WSHPs, but was told, in no uncertain terms, that the technology was ground breaking and someone had to be first to do it. Pointed out that they were not first and could I look at the heat loss calculations please. Think I pissed them off then. Knobs.
  19. Yes but they do it, well mine does . I don’t get what you mean? You could have 3 individual machines, better tuned to the temperature ranges. That would up the efficiency. One of the reasons that an A2AHP can give a CoP of 4 to 5 is because it it not heating water to 50⁰.
  20. You need to start a topic on this. I think a few of us would like to give it a go. I would. 2.4 kW is plenty for me.
  21. Yes. You are asking one machine to work over a relatively wide range of temperatures. i.e. DWH OAT 0°C WT 50°C, Heating OAT 5°C WT 35°C, Cooling OAT 26°C WT 12°C. Engineering can overcome much of it, but it has no control over the weather, or the power demands of some users.
  22. No one within the M25 is in any sort of poverty. And everyone in Cornwall is. End of.
  23. Isn't that what an EAHP does, but then just gets ducted in differently. I like the LINUX approach to heating. Do one job, but do it very well. Heating, cooling and DHW are 3 different things, try and mix them into a single unit and you have to compromise. As any married person will testify to, compromise just results in 2 miserable people.
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