SteamyTea

Shane, you won't see half the projects on here finished.

Train or educate? Sex education for school kids is considered a good thing. Sex training, well that is more @pocster's bag

Surely that depends on how, what, and why you calculate both the costs and prices of existentials. If you value nature too low, you value everything too low.

Been a good day. My Mother is vastly improved, saw her cousin (similar age), had a reasonable journey back (only 1 accident blocking roads today), now parked up looking at the sea, in sunshine.

Cynic

Have you read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Establishment:_And_How_They_Get_Away_with_It I have. Kind of agreed with a lot of it, but was, by its very nature, overly political.

I agree. If a builder cannot do as suggested, or work out what is needed, they should be made to rethink their career.

I don't think the BRE is overly political.

Maybe not. But the committee that created this will have looked at the science and statistics behind it. There are many rules and regulations that seem a bit odd at first, but make sense after a while. A classic case is not having to display a vehicle road fund certificate in the window. Many people thought it could not work, but they did not realise that we have cameras doing the job, not Bobby on the street. We should have complained about the over surveillance of ordinary people doing ordinary things, but the political interference played it's part by reinforcing irrational fears of 'safety'.

I think the rational is to improve the overall dwelling. Personally I don't have a problem with this sort of interference. Setting national standards is the job of government, if it is a good idea, then parliament does not oppose it and it becomes law.

Better get mine as well. I think that there is now a serious problem with the state supporting private companies via the back door. One of our regular customers claims about every benefit going, I don't have a problem with this, our benefits are not that generous. They spend about a third (of the discretionary spend) of it with us. We benefit from their benefits.

So money does grow on trees.

Partly. We also have a lot of spare gas powered electrical generation, and we can easily export around 4 GW of electrical power to Europe. As with any 'crisis', making the right short term decisions are not always the best long term. But the consequences of wrong short term decision is currently no power.

What if the price goes down. Wholesale gas prices are down, as are volumes. https://www.catalyst-commercial.co.uk/wholesale-gas-prices/

Lidl has them every now and again. https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/kitchen-essentials/livarno-home-kitchen-mixer-tap/p52066 25 quid

As all the cables are in conduit, I think you can go for a Type 2 installation.

Was at prep school in Kent with the sons of the Thailand President, think he was assassinated, or he may have done the farmers in.

My public school was more exclusive, more BBC people than the print.

Tigers like beans. Human beings.

To the Daily Telegraph at the very least.

Whichever heating system is installed, if you reduce the house's thermal losses, then you have a system that is cheaper to run. The reason for this is that you save on two points: You can run the system less time i.e. only when the outside air temperature is below 6°C. You need to put less energy in i.e. 6 kW as opposed to 9 kW dMEV is an admission of failure, get the airtightness sorted out properly and you can fit MVHR, does the same and scavenges some waste energy. Have you checked with your DNO that you can connect 5.46 kWp of PV. That amount of PV is capable of supplying most of your DHW, though during the winter it will only help a little bit.

Found this about wiring. 328081417_ElectricWiringforDomesticInstallations.pdf

This pansy was looking at me earlier.

Slugs can live in the soil, so the copper bands may not stop the greedy bastards. I wonder if low power electrodes in pots would stop them better than a sprinkle of salt.

1 single in each room, 2 in the kitchen.