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One of our old Members (old site and the other place), Dr. Vic, is a leading light at Trada.

Worth wasting half an hour on, if only for relief.

Don't you mean Landscape. But https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_video

I used to use an aluminium honeycomb and a high temperature composite to strengthen and thermally insulate steam pipework. Worked amazingly well considering the thermal conductivity of aluminium. Then changed to a Nomex honeycomb. Could build a whole house out of that as it is fireproof and amazingly strong.

That is a normal look for Australians.

Why just the present situation. People and governments have been banging in about energy efficiency since the mid 1970s. Or, to save any mental arithmetic, almost 50 years. Makes me wonder why the only message that gets through us that energy efficiency is too expensive and difficult. 50 (expletive deleted)ing years. We should just tell people that fail to add the best technology that is currently available that they are (expletive deleted).

I thought about doing that as well. Then thought as it is just counting to describe what is happening, there is no need to 'equationise' it for analytical purposes. Your loads will be different from mine, so not easily transferable information. The main thing is I do not have equipment on standby i.e TV, CCTV. I basically use what I need when I need it.

Think I worked out that it is about 17 kWh of energy to move those bricks. Half a summers weeks worth.

A few others have TFs from the same company, not sure who has the twin wall design. The twin wall is nothing special from what I understand. Seems to be basically adding on an extra layer of insulation, in a frame, onto the outside of the building. Noise deadening is not just to do with adding mass to a building. Regarding glazing, I have a suspicion that many houses are over glazed. Now I can understand that if you have a fantastic view, but to be honest, not many of us do. I overlook an old tin mine, many think that is a good view, just industrial landscape scaring as far as I am concerned. Reducing overall area, but carefully placing glazing, may be a better way to go, then over insulate any north and east facing walls to compensate for the gazing's lower U-Value. Really a case of moving away from the minimum standards of the building regulations. The regulations, in themselves, are not terrible, but it can easily get corrupted by design. So take a simple wall with glazing at 1.2 W.m-2.K and the wall at 0.1 W.m-2.K. Would be a pretty good wall if only 15% was glazed, but if 70% is glazed it would be dreadful. Then add in some leaky bi-fold doors, and you may as well put your heating system in the garden.

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.