SteamyTea

The surveyor that measured my place double the size of it, somehow. There may be better places to rent.

In reality, how different are peoples lifestyles. Everyone I know does the same things at home as I do. Not much variance. I have owned 1 flat, 6 houses, lived in several others when younger. Not of of them has changed my lifestyle, and I doubt that the people who lived there before, and after, had similar lifestyles in other places they have lived. I one exception I will make is in ridiculously small places. These should be banned. They take a lot more designing than a larger place.

Maybe that is the problem with some designers. They need to be business people first and foremost. If you want to be a creative architect with few restraints, teach the subject. If your students don't produce what you want, you legitimately mark them down.

Jacuzi is trade name, spa bath is the generic term. Like Fibreglas and glass fibre.

How about a trip wire that activates a mechanical switch.

The rear of my house is NE facing, where I tend to live. The art college at Camborne (where the School of Mines was) has huge north facing windows, was great to lecture in, and had a fantastic view.

How is Paul, good bloke.

And, generally, you need a grid connection. £0.45/day is near enough £165/year. About 600 kWh of electricity. The Spanish government managed it. They just made small generators pay to supply the grid on historic grid connect system.

Don't you run the risk of feeling you have to change things to justify your existence though. How you you deal with a self builder that came to you with a design that was right? To give you an example, when I was doing my Doctorate, my supervisors kept telling me it was my project. Except it wasn't, it was theirs.

Not many. If I could dig a deep hole I would, there is a reason my house is 6 foot above the road, they would not allow blasting to break up the rock. I still think if I put in an unregistered borehole and used that for the bath, it would pay for itself in a decade. Could claim I was just getting a GSHP fitted.

Test it out with your current employers. Always better to test a market with others money and reputation.

Publicly yes, but sales of tat prove otherwise.

Not that much money, you still got some walk on glazing for sale.

I want people to value my cheffing skills, but they want Rick Stein food at kebab shop prices. I tell them which is my favourite kebab shop.

Offer a QS and PM service, with the design thrown in for free.

Chav

Sadly no, too small a garden area and built on granite. Looked into it a few years ago. Cornwall is a bit of a special case. The water is normal price, just the sewage side is expensive to make sure the beaches and ocean are clean enough for dogs to shit on and in. Better for tourism to have blind seals as they tend not to attack emmet's kids who throw stones at them.

Ask the moderators to create you a bit of Blogspace. But remember that there is a stupid 30 minute limit for editing.

WOW. Maybe I should start making them again. Are there any fire regs about them, and do you need a SE to sign them off? None of that existed when we made them back in the 1980s.

Tell people to stop watching those 'Grand Design' type shows. And fiddly, unnecessary details costs much more. Just ask customers to take/find some pictures of places they like, then work from there. But what do I know, I live in a grey house, with a corridor for a living room. But it is 2 minutes from A30, so can get to some great places in minutes.

That is just the boiler though (and a filter). That is a pretty quick job. But you were charged at least £620 each for the fitting. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/384677267529

Does not really change the overall price, just an accounting breakdown. Still the beaches are clean till next week. This Week Dog waste may harm nature reserve biodiversity by fertilising the soil Dogs’ urine and faeces bring large amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus into suburban nature reserves, which could be harmful to plant biodiversity. Taking your dog for a walk in a nature reserve could harm biodiversity because its faeces and urine bring in excess nitrogen and phosphorus to the ecosystem. While the effects of dogs on wildlife, through disease transmission and disturbance, have been well-studied, little is known about the impact of their waste. To investigate, Pieter De Frenne at Ghent University in Belgium and his colleagues monitored the number of dogs at four sites in nature reserves less than 5 kilometres from the centre of Ghent between February 2020 and June 2021. They included forests, grassland and a meadow that were both popular for recreation and considered important for biodiversity. In total, the researchers counted 1629 dogs across the sites, which corresponded to 1530 dogs per hectare per year. They assumed dogs spent one hour at the two larger sites and half an hour at the two smaller ones, on average. Using known values of nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations in dog faeces and urine, they then calculated the amounts that dogs would have brought into these ecosystems. They estimate that dogs bring 5 kilograms of phosphorus per hectare per year and 11 kilograms of nitrogen per hectare per year into suburban nature reserves. Read more: Animal magnetism: Why dogs do their business pointing north “That’s 50 per cent of the nitrogen that comes in via the rain,” says De Frenne. However, this assumes that the dogs’ owners don’t take any of the waste away with them. These figures are significant, says De Frenne. Too much phosphorus or nitrogen – common components of fertilisers – in the soil can lead to loss of plant biodiversity and habitat degradation. “Dogs bring substantial amounts of nutrients to nature reserves and woodlands that should not be neglected,” says De Frenne. “Dog owners should be aware that their dog is behaving as a fertiliser, and if this is not yet the case, pick up their faeces more.” The study found that if owners picked up all of the dogs’ faeces, this would reduce the nitrogen input by 57 per cent and the phosphorus input by 97 per cent. Journal reference: Ecological Solutions, DOI: 10.1002/2688-8319.12128 Join us for a mind-blowing festival of ideas and experiences. New Scientist Live is going hybrid, with a live in-person event in Manchester, UK, that you can also enjoy from the comfort of your own home, from 12 to 14 March 2022. Find out more. Chen Ly

There is an assumption, based on the old rates system, about how much water runs off and hits the highway. Shown as a separate charge. Then that is added to the rainwater that is a fraction based on the usage. If I was to install a borehole legally, all I would save is the imported water, which costs about the same as everyone else's (£1-1.50 m3).

I am currently reading a book about oil. Just finished the chapter about drilling. When it was written, the cost of drilling was $9/boe. This has been steadily increasing since 1984. Gas exploration and drilling is a similar price. There are 1628 kWh in a barrel. Onshore wind is now about $1000/kW installed capacity (maybe a little less in developing nations). So if ever US dollar spent on getting oil/gas was put into onshore wind, and assuming a life of 25 years, you would get 0.073.5 MWh/$, whereas oil is giving you 0.18 MWh/$. Whoops, error corrected.

Exactly. Nothing like the complexity of the James Webb telescope. That is much harder to put right now. I am sure they will it all the spots lined up on sight.