SteamyTea

I was just wondering how people are calculation their baseloads. As I am bored, I decided to look at last year electrical energy distribution. So two charts, one covers the lower 95% of my usage, the second does the top 5%. Note that the y-axis scale changes. So my usage is up to 200W, 85% of the time. The heavy usages, DHW and space heating, accounts for 4.4% of the time.

It seems it was a by-product of his construction type. He bought a timber frame house by MBC. They use a twin wall construction that incorporates wood fibre and cellulose insulation, sitting on an insulated raft foundation. When I was there, the downstairs had been tiled, the first floor was bare. I am not sure if anyone else at the time had noticed the sound deadening (a few of us visited), and it was not until I was making some other comments about the place I said about it. His place was also very airtight, so no holes though walls, and he had triple glazing.

Have you read this yet?

Does the inverter have a minimum current draw? And is it a good quality, full sine wave inverter?

It is something that has to be done sometime. Many architects consider it someone else's problem, and most builders consider airtightness not in the least important, or a route to condensation. Don't fall into the trap that 'the professionals' actually know what they are talking about. Much of it is sales led.

Assuming that is £1.3m, then that is the real problem, not the tiles.

Welcome. If you choose your insulation type carefully, then it can help reduce noise transmission. Same with glazing. Just to make the distinction between energy use and technology type used clear, the building 'needs' an amount of thermal energy to keep it at the temperatures you like, regardless of how that energy is supplied. So thermal modelling is important. Now, you being a Doctor has reminded me of the 1990 Bootle By-election when the RLMP got more votes than the SDP, so to quote Scream Lord Such when asked if they would merge with the SDP, "We could use a good Doctor". It is the same here. I used to live in Lower Parkstone, we called it Upper Sandbanks.

By designing in more features like that if you can.

Worth reading this, bit old now, but not as old as 'The Seven Sisters'. https://vaclavsmil.com/2017/12/19/oil-a-beginners-guide-2/

You have kind of argues against yourself there. Take my house. It has 1 internal stud wall downstairs, and three upstairs. For the sake of moving the downstairs wall 125mm, there would have been a clear drop from the loft to the ground floor. All the bathroom pipework could have been fitted into that. As it is, there is a waste pipe boxed in, in the living room, no sockets on one wall (both sides), really a master class in how not to do it.

That is why initial design is so important. Heating, plumbing, MVHR and wiring are often considered second, and you can tell because the design and positioning is often compromised.

Why we should use large diameter pipe for MVHR, double the diameter and you quadruple the area.

Or a good read. The-Prince-by-Niccolo-Machiavelli-.pdf

If you did not have inbred webbed fingers you could reach the shift key.

Wax the woodstain, slap some cheap white paint in it. Then let it 'weather'.

I added them to my spell checker. Shame it does not do the grammar.

What you suggesting, converting 1 Megaton of nuclear energy to 1,162,222 MWh of gas.

That is badly spelt power. It is kWh of storage.

Odds are that the outraged come with a storm from an unexpected direction. Those trees will take 30 years to grow back and be a problem. It is not like flooding. That tends to be a problem after a prolonged dry spell.

Why it is called Pico Generation or Energy Scavenging.

Tubbs is a lady.

Sod how large the roof is, or how wet. It is less than a kWh. My car does 1.5 miles to the kWh. Be easier to park closer to 100 metres away from the house i.e. in the road I live in rather than the parking around the back.

I bet it isn't. It may be on imported energy, home grown is still energy.

That is more the nature of the PV installer industry than any sizable discount you may get. Why tie up a few thousand in cash when you may not want to install in a month. Saw all this happen when FiTs dropped from the stupidly generous 45p down to the generous 22p or whatever it was a decade ago.

The whole of yesterday I used 3 kWh, for absolutely everything, that is a power draw of 0.125 kW.