SteamyTea

200 W. How many things you got running? I have often thought this. Why I think every house should have a 0.5 to 1 Wh or storage and a small BMS/Inverter. Mass produced, probably only cost £200. Just plug them into a spare socket and over the whole country there would be 30 GWh of flexible storage. If power deliver was 250W, that is 7.5 GW of capacity for 4 hours. A useful amount.

It is a shocker ain't it.

Cotton reel and some nails. Used to make these when I as a kid.

21 years ago was in the 21st century. The wiring should be OK. My house is 35 years old. Wiring is fine. Mother's house is getting close to 50 years, apart from a new consumer unit when my Father (an electrical engineer) wanted to add a couple of circuits, everything is original and in good condition.

Or just use less. Charging more usually works.

Wind and solar. And lots of gas from the Plymouth plant, though I think my nearest non RE is the diesel generators in the Island of Scilly.

Whoever supplies your electricity.

Flick the appropriate MCBs.

Not really rainfall amounts that is the governing factor, more geology. The whole of the UK gets plenty of rain, just that in some places it cannot be stored is suitable aquifers.

A lot of it will depend on how much you pay for water and waste. I pay a lot. The most expensive in the country. If I had more room outside, I would fit something.

Do we think that ~25W is a reasonable standby load? Still about 70 quid a year.

Part M. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/access-to-and-use-of-buildings-approved-document-m

How about a hot tub in a garden shed.

Bath taps can come out of the wall, they do not need to be attached to the tub. Be careful which way around the tub is fitted, the angles are different.

Got saw, will travel. The painting I did, at my Mother's, in two afternoons, was quoted at £800.

People vote on prejudice of the opposition, not on the lying, cheating, and now, porn watching, policies of the current government. Or just give a compulsory 1 hour lecture, repeated everyday, on energy and climate change. Just today I had to explain to a builder, yet again, that it does not matter if it is a fan heater or an oil filled heater, 1 kWh of electricity can only be converters to 1 kWh of thermal energy at best. Oil in the radiator does not cause magic to happen.

I agree about smaller newbuilds. But for retrofitting, which is about a 30 million homes, compared to 200k new builds a year, there is usually room. The nation has to start to understand that there will not be the option of a small box, hanging on the kitchen wall, supplying all the house heating. Those days are vanishing fast. So no point throwing the baby our with the bathwater, most existing houses could have an ASHP.

On my way to B&Q now

I very really clean car, so never bothered by the dust and grime. Tiled floors show the dirt.

Like choosing the colour of a car. Black or silver. Can't really go wrong.

There seems to be a reluctance to fit cylinders and buffers outside the house (in a suitable enclosure). Flats are a different matter. But then the energy usage is generally much lower, so A2AHPs, combined with larger MVHR could be the answer. But it does seem odd that many people think that loosing 1m2 of floor area to a cylinder is worth more than the same area as 'storage'. The tat I keep in my house is just clutter, a heat pump may save me £300/year. Considering how long HPs have been used globally, the reason they do not modulate much is probably because it is just not worth it. The UK likes to think it has a unique climate, but it is not so different from many other coastal areas around the globe. I was not quite old enough to remember the nuances of the transition from Town Gas to Natural Gas (though I remember the man coming around to change the jets in the cooker and boiler), but I bet many people thought it was not as good as after. Probably the same when coal took over from timber.

I think there is a very big difference between the finances of market customers. People building or buying above £500k usually have access to cash or credit, not the same for people at the lower end of the market i.e. sub £200k. Personally if someone wants to spend a million quid on something that could be done for 400 thousand quid, that is there lookout.

Would be so much easier, clearer and sensible to use the proper derived units of joule for energy and watt for power. I notice that Gridwatch uses MWh regardless of the time period. So regardless of if you look at the 5 minute, hour, day, week, month or year time intervals, it states it in MWh. Makes the 5 minute figures look horrendous.

Seems to politically tame for the Cornish. From Wikipedia. Controversies and legal disputes[edit] Statues of local political figures and officials the owner believed were opposed to his development "welcome" shoppers to the Liskeard store. One source of opposition may have been that planning permission did not always precede building work[citation needed] Robertson's local newspaper advertisements resulted in three newspapers carrying the adverts being successfully sued for libel by Sir Edward Heath,[7] when some of his comments became highly personalised. Robertson placed advertisements in the 1980s and 1990s calling for the castration of gay men. The United Kingdom Advertising Standards Authority ruled against Trago Mills and demanded the withdrawal of all advertisements in 1998.[8][9] Trago still occasionally runs inflammatory copy within their ads, one entitled "For any cash strapped Moslems reading this…" appeared in the Falmouth Packet in 2009 to promote a book by senior UKIP official David Challice.[10] With his son and successor, Bruce, Robertson supported Eurosceptic political parties, most recently the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). Robertson threatened to refuse to stop using imperial measures in his stores, attributing UK metrication to the European Union (Trago today sells goods in metric quantities, sometimes with imperial equivalents, in line with the law).[11] He remains opposed to speculative immigration from Eastern Europeans. Robertson supports job-specific immigration, more liberally than some in UKIP.[12][13] In January 2007, the Mid Devon Star suggested this was hypocritical, as his large Newton Abbot site employed around 30 Polish people.[14] In September 2011, the company was fined £199,588 after admitting five breaches of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. This followed the discovery of several thousand tonnes of dumped waste, including asbestos, at its Newton Abbot and Liskeard sites.[15] The fine was reduced to £65,000 in January 2012, after an Exeter Crown Court judge accepted that Trago Mills had paid nearly £500,000 in clean-up costs.[16] In 2014, Trago Mills was featured on BBC's Fake Britain, after local Trading Standards discovered fake top-brand shampoo on sale in store. Trago management said that the product had been purchased from a reliable source and they had worked closely with local trading standards to ensure that the product was taken off sale once it had been identified as a fake. In June 2018, following the opening of the company's store in Merthyr Tydfil, some locals threatened to boycott the shop after Robertson criticised bilingual education and described bilingual English and Welsh signage as "visual clutter".[17]

Too posh for down here, we use Trago Mills.