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My house is the the same as my neighbours house. Asked how many rolls if wallpaper they bought to decorate front room. 12 was the reply. Bought 12, decorated and had 4 rolls left. Told neighbour this and he said. So do I

Often caused by solar gain through very large, badly orientated windows. When the Aircon broke in our house in the West Indies, sleeping on the floor did not help. We ended up going to the beach and slept there. Where we lived was windy, dry and not exceptionally hot, I miss it.

If the compressor is running, it won't be the starting capacitor.

Or not. kWh. W for watt, named after Watt. Only use Watt if refering to the man, or at the begining of a sentence.

Having been up at my Mother's house that has a very expensive tiled kitchen floor, I would avoid it. What looked nice years ago now looks dated, and chipped/cracked. I have parquet flooring, which I like as I grew up with it, but most people dislike it now.

You don't mean that. It could be 7 kWh, or 168 kWh. (not kw, or kwh)

yes, and if I was building, I would take time off work and spend it all with tapes, tars, adhesives, rolls of membrane, GRP and a home made tester. I am surprised that the volume manufactures don't have the kits available and test places as they go. £5k of kits, £35 k/year to employ someone. 1000 houses and the cost is £40/house. 160 kWh of electricity.

Totally reliant on the workers though. I am not saying that any other type does not suffer from bad work, but factory built is better than onsite built by design, why it is done that way. Ideally the @50Pa test would be 2 not 10, and a £100k cash back insurance if it fails a retest after a decade.

That is the problem though. It needs extra work done to it. And who knows the long term performance as few people will ever get a second air test as it costs £250.

Brick and block is another term for leaky. Not everyone agrees, but I would put more insulation in the floor. The U-Value may look impressive, but the UFH means the temperature difference is higher, si overall losses are higher. It is losses that are trying to be reduced after all.

Yes, we implemented that at 5he college 20 odd years ago. Also meant we could quickly stop illegal content being shared i.e games.

Yes, used to teach my students that. Same with compressed images i.e .jpg Encrypting is different. Taught them to do that as well.

What on earth on? You you constantly stream TV 24/7, on multiple devices. Like energy usage, much can be done to reduce usage. There was a nice sketch in Green Wing where Martin sent a large file by email and blocked up the system, causing some important records to be delayed, a man died, or not, we never found out.

I was taking the piss a bit. And dispell the fake news that @pocster put about that all I do us download porn. More seriously, when I send large files (not video or pictures generally), I compress them. Does this happen automatically on the interwed? I am sure if we all halved our transmission sizes, we would all be better off.

Gasoline from my local Tesco is £1.42, so 15p/kWh. Cheaper than mains electricity.

Subsidies, grants, incentives etc are there to help the transition from fossil fuels. They are really designed to help the manufacturers and installers, not the end user. It is, and not in hindsight, a shame the the original FiTs was so generous to the end user. This has had a negative affect in future purchases of not only PV, but also micro thermal generation. So linking grants (or whatever) for HPs only if another renewable technology is installed will kill the market dead. The biggest problem is that the general public still think that solar and wind farms cost several times more than the equivalent gas generation. This was true 15 years ago, but they are now the cheapest options (UK windpower would be even cheaper if we installed on land, but our new agricultural policy has stopped that, as did the previous policy with the moratorium on land based windpower). What will change people's minds is legislation. When you only have the choice of electrical, the choice is resistance or heat pumps.

I have jut looked at my phone data usage (I use the phone as a hotspot). Since the 10th of the month, I have used 619 MB. So around 60 MB a day. Should I upgrade to 5G and pay an extra tenner for a faster service?

Houses should be symmetrical. Simple, clean design is a winner.

There used to be a saying about an automated machine tool that could be run by 'one man and a dog'. The man watched the machine, the dog was to stop him touching it. If the builder won't call when he has a problem, he won't press a doorbell. The problem is the builder, not the communication technology.

That bit depends where you are, it is geology dependant. GSHPs should really be called water source heat pumps.

They are just the same as a split ASHP really, except the bit with the fan is replaces with a pipe. But, just like a split ASHP, the compressor and pumps can be in an outbuilding. These are the sizes of the two Kensa pumps H X W X L (mm) 515 (H) X 480 (W) X 360 (D) 585 (H) X 610 (W) X 595 (D)

That is just bad installation really. Not as if you would put an oil furnace in the living room. There is no real reason they have to be inside, just lazy plumbers really. Easy enough to build a small plant room outside, most units are pretty small.

Neat idea. What do they do if UFH pipes are going the the doorway, just cut notches out to go over the pipework?

That's interesting, can you pop a sketch up please?