SteamyTea

About a week's rent and a week delay. And the budget is totally blown, it would have been a greater % of the original budget.

Welcome There are quite a few threads on here about solar and batteries. If the search facility is not showing decent results, use Google to do a site search and it generally gives more targeted results.

Well not small holes. The main problem is because airtightness was vastly improved (generally) over traditional building techniques, condensation started to become a real problem. Because of the movable nature of gasses, condensation generally happens on the nearest cold surface. So windows first, then 'somewhere within the wall'. As timber can rot after a few years, there is more moisture in the gas we call air (a mixture of many gasses, including water vapour), and the warmer the air is, the more fraction of water vapour is potentially in it. To overcome this, a VCL is installed on the warm side, in the UK this means the inside. The rest of the wall is now only open to outside air, with its lower temperatures and absolute humidity, the actual grams of water vapour in every kilogram of air. By also being 'vapour open' to the exterior, as the wall warms during the day because of solar energy and weather variations, the smaller amount of water can easily evaporate away. But because there is now a trapped volume of air within the building, and one that has a greater absolute amount of water vapour in it, even if the relative humidity is lower, this has to be dealt with. Window trickle vents and extractor fans were the usual method. Whiles these work, the air changes are uncontrolled and spasmodic, and threw out the energy that had been put into the air to heat it up. So mechanical ventilation and heat recover is now fitted. This works best in a very airtight house and should easily recover the electrical energy to run them. So how do you ventilate your house?

Tell me about it. Only got once socket, on an interior stud wall, that does it. Just can't seem to find the path it is coming in.

My timber frame is 35 years old and it has a VLC. So did the Barret ones that (expletive deleted)ed up in the 1980s

Finger painting isn't it.

Much much less than on here from some people. Pretty close as they are quoting easily checkable figures. You can download all the last 12 years data from templar.

Offer them your creative solutions. Can get a half decent holiday mobile home on Canvey Island for that. They have pulled down Shellhaven Refinery now, so lovely views of East London.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_Kingdom Shows that between 2019 and 2020, wind generation went from ~65000 GWh to ~75000 GWh generation. That is about 25% of what was generated. Gas fired was 10% higher, and nuclear 7.5% lower. And last year, even after the non story about lack of wind, the lights stayed on. But where is the fun in letting experts and highly qualified engineers run a critical service. It would be so much better if political commentators and arts graduates run the National Grid, maybe a few historians would help keep the the frequency in check.

Watches one at my Mother's a while back. People looking at flats in the sun. They loved the view from one of the balconies, was nothing special, but probably better than wherever they crawled out from. Wish they had filmed it at head height, when sitting in a chair. They may have realised that all they see is a concrete wall. (expletive deleted)ing moron architect.

I am not so sure, isn't that more a case of what is offered, rather than what is wanted. Back in the 80's and 90's, everyone was going to be single and live in a city. So we now have empty flats in city centres now. Designers designed places that had limited car parking, forgetting that cars were getting better and cheaper. Also, not many people sleep in anything other that bedroom (studio flats should be banned), most people cook in a kitchen, and watch TV, from a sofa, in a living room and bath in a bathroom. Also, when viewing houses, one with furniture and one without seem very different. Designing a house is not as critical as designing a ship or a space station. If you want compact living, forget a house and get a motor home, they are marvels of design, usually terrible.

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.