SteamyTea

Has no one tried blow torching to slightly char the surface yet.

Shame I have no interest in HA, or I could have come over and picked them up. Just up the road from you at the moment (relatively speaking).

That has changed significantly over the last 3 months. I think the only real way it to compare embodied energy and embodied carbon dioxide equivalent emissions. Cash values are a bit of a nonsense really, especially when inflation erodes the price paid.

It is also to do with the overall losses of the building. Floors are one of the biggest, single elements, and if UFH is fitted, the hottest. The really big one is that upgrading is almost impossible, so better off getting it in early at the design stage, rather than regret it later.

Taking an educated guess here, days of high humidity should cause more frosting up, but that may not correlate to a different CoP as it depends on how the HP defrosts. Modelling solar gain is tricky. Easy enough though windows, but not so easy though walls as they can take too long to warm up to affect the losses/gains significantly. Worth looking at wind speed and direction though. Generally the SW wind is warm and moist, NE is cold and dry. The SW winds tend to be faster than the NE ones. But, SW tends to be cloudy, NE not. I modelled my house for wind speed and direction a few years back think the charts are over at the other place. where I am we have so few NE winds, and the speed was pretty slow anyway, that solar gain did make a difference, but the SW winds dominated so much that it was not worth the worry.

Comments in the local rag about there being no pictures of the inside.

I think part of the problem with conflicting stories is that the roofers have to protect themselves. Re-tiling, which is in effect, refurbishment would take them almost as long as a complete roof replacement. You would feel a bit miffed if you spent several thousand on a refurbishment and then within a few years you had to change the timbers and tiles. Short of minor repairs, there does not really seem to be an half measures with a roof.

Either way, it will not be enough insulation.

Interesting. Is it actual OAT or RH, or a combination of the two, especially in the range where heating first gets used in earnest i.e. 8°C down to 0°C. Do you also compare the electrical energy, and the thermal energy, which is in effect the variable CoP?

Well they are short of 45billion.

Can see the Redruth transmitter from most of Cornwall, and probably bits of Devon. 173 metres high, on top of a 240m hill.

Drag it out, should pay for the heating bill.

Even my Mother, who is bed ridden and having speaking problems gets the answers right.

Not had TV for 25 years now. All the good stuff you can download illegally anyway.

Have you actually seen that done? When I worked in the PV industry the proper slate tile mounting kit was used. (we would put in a silly quote to slated houses as we did not want the job)

Get some echiums. https://outofmyshed.co.uk/tag/echium-growing-in-cornwall/ They grow very fast, and tall. So tall, mine fell over.

Can call in at MacSalvors in the way. Make for a proper day out. @joe90 have you thought of just finding things that are growing locally and taking cuttings, seeds and berries. I am always amazed what springs up in my garden.

How irritating, when people can't be bothered to read what has been said to help. About what I expect.

That is because you drive an unpimped Zoe. All you will get is fat birds with unshaved armpits.

Bit irrelevant now. I wonder if it was the chlorine/bromine environment that caused the greying. The white, which we used in the steamrooms never discoloured, but that was basically being dosed with distilled water all day long.

We used to have to try out dozens of different sealants. Never found one that stayed clear. Most end up with a grey tints to them. You may have more luck with a polyurethane, but they tend to break down in UV light. The only plastic that stays optically clear is acrylic, but never seen a clear and flexible acrylic sealant.

You can get treatment for Asperger's syndrome if you want to.

Yes, but it depends what you actually want to show. I can sort my data by time i.e. day, month. I chart the energy usage by time of day, then plot usage, temperature inside and out, and show the amounts used and the date that is relevant. Just working on a new template that can more easily take the 6 second data that my logger collect.

As usual, you have changed the meaning of a word to suit your ego. 'Often' does not mean 'always' and 'may' does not mean 'will'. So either learn to understand, and keep it within context, or (expletive deleted) off. Anyway, haven't you got a world class IT team to manage, or you been 'released' to troll on the internet. Weekends are so peaceful when your mum stops you playing on the computer in your bedroom.

Yes, and most of them are your errors (amongst many others). But then you think that a word can have an polar opposite meaning when it suits your fantasy argument, you even disagree with people that agree with you. Bet you were fun to teach at school, held up the whole class I suspect.