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How does your garden grow?
SteamyTea replied to recoveringbuilder's topic in Landscaping, Decking & Patios
So all that helpful carbon, that could go into the soil, is to be sent into the atmosphere, where we have more than enough. Shame on you. -
When you find out how much noise they make, let me know. Realistically it is the best way to add a wet heating system into my house.
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Officially confused about first floor wet UFH
SteamyTea replied to Tadpole's topic in Underfloor Heating
Do a room by room heat loss calculation and that will tell you. It is why it is done, room by room. -
Just the usual thermal properties and construction details. I got that screen shot from the European website after following a link on the UK one. I would have thought they would have had decent information, but seems to be just advertising puff.
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It is an ICF system. Just so much lacking on the website.
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Seen this mentioned a few time mentioned a few times recently. Can't see much actual I formation on the website.
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Sisyphus
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Building regs have changed twice in that time. So what you have is an almost finished, outdated house. Good man.
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How does your garden grow?
SteamyTea replied to recoveringbuilder's topic in Landscaping, Decking & Patios
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How does your garden grow?
SteamyTea replied to recoveringbuilder's topic in Landscaping, Decking & Patios
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Combining an air-water heat pump and solar thermal
SteamyTea replied to Garald's topic in Solar Thermal (ST)
Post up the pictures, we all like thermal images. -
The henry bit I remembered.
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You won't see that unit, think it means Kelvin times angular movement times capacitance. kWh is what you mean.
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How does your garden grow?
SteamyTea replied to recoveringbuilder's topic in Landscaping, Decking & Patios
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You can run a SA exactly the same. Works best if it is just depleted before recharging, and that recharging is done at the phase change temperature. If you want more hit water, why not increase the 100lt cylinder temperature, or charge it up more often, or for longer. 2 kWh is not much heating.
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Combining an air-water heat pump and solar thermal
SteamyTea replied to Garald's topic in Solar Thermal (ST)
Realistically only by building a new house inside the old one. Biggest problems, in old houses, are low insulation, thermal bridging and dreadful ventilation control. Apart from that, they are quite good. -
Low room output radiant (not convective) wood burning stove
SteamyTea replied to davidc's topic in Stoves, Fires & Fireplaces
From this week's comic. Trees beat energy crops as CO sink 12 May 2022 Nearly twice as much carbon could be removed from the atmosphere by using available land in the US to plant forests rather than grow fuel crops and capture the carbon dioxide emitted when those crops are burned, says a study. Trees can also help to avert water shortages (Science Advances, doi.org/hsxs). -
Combining an air-water heat pump and solar thermal
SteamyTea replied to Garald's topic in Solar Thermal (ST)
Passive solar heating. The one thing that has always crosses my mind when thinking about it, is, if it worked, we would all be using it. -
2nd self build in Cornwall 14 years apart.
SteamyTea replied to Surfiejim's topic in Introduce Yourself
Welcome Large and South facing, with integrated PV. And good gutters because if you can see the beacon it is about to rain, if you can't see it, it is raining. More seriously, have you any restrictions on the build concerning sewage and services (at least no gas to worry about). -
Two things. Have the people who have quoted you just used default insulation levels for the UFH i.e. 70mm of insulation? Have they used a default power per square metre number i.e. 25W.m-2 Generally, larger buildings take less energy, on a metre squared basis, than smaller ones. With a building that size, you can get a lot of PV on the flat roof, that would offset a lot of the running costs.
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Combining an air-water heat pump and solar thermal
SteamyTea replied to Garald's topic in Solar Thermal (ST)
Only had a quick look, but the units are showing kWh.m-2. Is that for the whole month? So taking January, at noon, 13 kWh.m-2 Divide by 31 (days in month) and that comes out as a mean of 0.42 kWh.m-2. This seems a bit high, but may be correct for a clear sky when the direct beam is measured. -
How does your garden grow?
SteamyTea replied to recoveringbuilder's topic in Landscaping, Decking & Patios
With your nails painted, was it a Puff Adder. -
Two Part Wooden Curtain Rail Joining Screw Loose
SteamyTea replied to steveoelliott's topic in General Joinery
Did she say 'Moooove over' -
How does your garden grow?
SteamyTea replied to recoveringbuilder's topic in Landscaping, Decking & Patios
It is now. -
Two Part Wooden Curtain Rail Joining Screw Loose
SteamyTea replied to steveoelliott's topic in General Joinery
You could, take it to a specialist engineering company and get them to accurately bore holes the complete length of each half. Then get a tie rod and washers and nuts at each end. Tension the tie rod up. Think of it as a pre-stressed structural member. Where is @Gus Potter he could calculate how many turns on a threaded bar will be needed. Or just stick a rawl plug in a hole.
