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Everything posted by SteamyTea
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Does Locktite reduce noise? Suppose it can on a wheel nut.
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does that take into account we use less, and meter rental? Adding 15p a day to rental is quite steep, £55, on £110.year-1, no need for it to change at all.
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Penzance is end of the Great Western Line.
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You are not going to get a frosted up system at night as you always turn the system off then. You will get a cold house, so you will be fighting that battle later.
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Yesterday, I drove past the National Aboretum. https://www.forestryengland.uk/westonbirt-the-national-arboretum
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Have you looked into roof integrated PV? If your angles are right, fairly cheap alternative, and you get some power from them.
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Grout colour sample lie and grout "shield" or stain pen
SteamyTea replied to Adsibob's topic in Floor Tiles & Tiling
I worked for a company that was one if the few independent places that was allowed to reproduce the Coke red without prior checking. Odd as I was half blind with misted cataracts from all the excessive UV exposure I have had. Colour matching by eye is fun, I can copy almost anything, Lovejoy would be proud. -
SIPS or ICF
SteamyTea replied to jimmy_stocks's topic in Energy Efficient & Sustainable Design Concepts
You will have plenty to do. If you start reading the entries on here from April, come 2023, you will still have 90% to go. -
Is my house suitable?
SteamyTea replied to jayc89's topic in Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR)
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The pride of High Wycombe.
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Was it installed by Borborygmi.
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Having worked for an MCS company, I tend to agree that some are good. Trouble is, you don't know they are bad until it goes wrong. And claiming via the MCS is set up to be impossible.
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All sorts of different plans, and I have never understood one of them. http://jspinderplumbingandheating.co.uk/zone.php They seem to me to be similar to choosing a Porsche 911, or an iPhone.
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Lots of details here. Trees are an odd thing. There are not many down here, but loads up in Bucks. I often wonder if our policy of over protection has hampered replanting.
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Is my house suitable?
SteamyTea replied to jayc89's topic in Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR)
Decentralised Mechanical Ventilation and Heat Recovery. AKA Single Room MVHR. Who makes them, do you have a link please? -
2-pipe or 4-pipe connection to buffer tank?
SteamyTea replied to Mr Blobby's topic in Other Heating Systems
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How would you set it up? 3 scenarios: Lowest running costs Guaranteed output Lowest CO2e See how their answers compare to yours.
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https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/statistics/statistics-by-topic/woodland-statistics/ UK, as we know it, has been historically low in tree cover for centuries. https://www.conservationhandbooks.com/woodlands/a-brief-history-of-woodlands-in-britain/
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Money does grow on trees then. Something to chat about with Kier as he sits in the back of the police van.
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Too right. You would not fit a system that would not work.
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Would run the risk of the return temperature being higher than the HPs flow temperature, do as you say, pointless. Maybe if the HP side did an hour or two of DHW heating, then disconnected and the oil took over, it could be useful. But easier and cheaper to just use the imerssion heater to top up. I can't see much use for them, but they will be fitted by lazy plumbers that still think that HPs 'are not there yet' AKA uneducated tossers.
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I understand this, and it is probably a cheap option. If/When HPs come down in price, and assuming enough room, hybrids, like the vehicle equivalent, will become unnecessary. We don't. I know this is just a translation thing, and I know you have not typed what you actually mean. So for clarity. They work at a higher CoP when the output temperature is lower than a thermal boiler. The output, in kW, regardless of temperature is to do with mass flow, lower temperature, more mass of fluid needs to flow. Then there is the energy, the kWhs, that is power (kW) times time (h). Such a shame we don't use joules for energy.
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Timber farming is like any other farming, an industry. Now if we dislike the way farming is done, or any other industry for that matter, then boycot the goods, set up pressure groups or become a politician even.
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Ah, good reason. Though my car windows don't bother me that they have steel and moulded plastic, and I spend a lot more time looking out of them. And they are heated, open fully electrically, and have wipers to get rid rain, and washers to get rid of dirt. Funny how unimportant we think some things are, and how important other things are.
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Why not just aluminium frames then. They can be foam filled to improve thermal performance.
