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To add to this. As the ventilation is uncontrolled, who knows where the warm, damp, internal air is leaking out to. If the leaks where dispersed uniformly, and not near any timbers, then maybe condensation would not be a problem. But I bet even the worst builders can't make every square metre of exposed wall equally as bad. Forced, or a better term is controlled, ventilation gets around this problem.

If you plant two like that, you can hang a washing line between them.

There used to be a small wind turbine for sale that plugged in. So may have been legal once, or the company may have just not bothered with any certification. The DNO will probably still have to be notified for safety reasons. Still sounds good.

They should be driven daily, that way they will be off the road faster. (Have had 3 and will probably get another one day, but they are shit cars really)

It regularly snaps holiday makers surfboards.

Was my daily drive back then. It was considered a banger, cost me £250 in 1982, was a mere 13 years old then, younger than my present car. Ran it for a couple of years, but can't remember what I did with it, probably scrapped it.

I used to do a lot of kayaking, was not unusual to put a K2, which was 6.4m long on a cheap 1970s universal roof rack. On the top of an MGB GT. I always tied the ends down as that stopped movement and bouncing. Needed a flag at the end as well. Make a triangle from the end ropes if you can, that stops the loaf shifting side to side. Accept your paintwork will get damaged.

Well one advantage of doing it yourself is you don't have to think up excused. Keep posting the interesting bits up.

Think it of it as how much fuel is in the car (thermal capacity) and what MPG it does (thermal resistance or U-Value) As a general rule, the faster you go (bigger temperature differences) the more fuel you use (greater thermal losses). Easy now isn't it.

That is an interesting question. You can work out the thermal inertia for each element, from that you can calculate the power delta over time. As long there is enough stored energy in the floor to last 18 hours (for a cold winters day), the difference then gets taken up by the insulation thickness. s = J m⁻² K⁻¹ / (t i u) Where tiu is the thermal inertia calculated from J m-2 K-1 s-½ for the materials chosen. Easy.

It is the depth of the joists that stop the bending, not the width (that reduces lateral movement). So if the new joists are not attached properly at the end, they are not doing much. Get a vapour control layer in, best practice to fit one anyway. Also check the condensation risk on the skylight and the associated upstand. As you have a felted roof, I take it no one will be walking on it, ever. No surf here today.

@miike Nice to see the software reports the battery power, rather than the energy stored.

Rolling Coal I am trying to clean my DPF ATM, I must start using the back lanes instead of the A30. I did keep it at 3000 RPM at the pedestrian crossing in PZ earlier, people crossed quicker for some reason.

This is the big problem really. It is like predicting day after tomorrow's weather from the 1990 to 2020 climate data. Gives you great central tendancies and extreme values, just not when they happen. The only ways around it are storage, imports and tight usage control. Or financial incentives. If you knew that you could sell your excess power at a significant price above imports, but maybe limited in quantity (say 15 kWh per session @3 times import price), then it would possibly be worth a number of individuals to invest in extra storage and management systems.

Suspect mine was similar.

A lot will depend on the energy requirements for the homes. 10 kWh/day, not really a problem, 50 kWh/day, a big problem. A car can gobble 50 kWh pretty easily.

I would like to know the details of the energy management for this product. If the home owners don't the full control over what is on their own roofs, then I can see it failing. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/07/new-all-electric-town-in-kent-strikes-deal-to-supply-power-back-to-the-grid

Do they need to when you are away, or maybe on a timer to limit usage.

Those two are probably the biggest users. Your PV should have covered them I would have thought.

Should have joined the Sea Scouts then.

Me neither, but look closely, there is no mud insight, unlike your 'sea views'. Best place to meet single mothers that will do anything for a packet of Hobnobs.

Like the Happy Shopper brand you shoplift.

Have you checked recently, them 3 have put a new 5G base station 200m from me. I have a month contract with Smarty (repackaged 3) that automatically got upgraded to 5G, only £16/month. Shame I am too tight to buy a 5G router, though a new phone would be cheaper and do me just as well.

Probably the most, I go to work at 6:15 and usually don't have a mug of tea when I get home. Instead I drive 34 miles (about 25 kWh of diesel) and pay over 3 quid for a coffee. Sometimes life makes no sense.

Yes, thanks for spotting that, have changed it.