SteamyTea

Welcome I am no expert, but take an interest in all things ASHP. Sounds to me that there may not be much volume in the pipework, so the heat pump quickly heats fluid in there, compares flow and return temperatures, sees little difference and shuts down. So our initial diagnostic seems correct. How large is the buffer tank, if there is one? I am assuming it heats the DHW no problem.

Not much. It vastly improved when I lived there.

Mine are probably already double.

Me to. I am just down the road from you at the moment.

Basically down to the poor efficiencies. You will put in more energy than you get out.

Only because you like her views that we don't have to change anything. She is rather on the fringes of climate science and was more a specialist in weather and modeling satellite data. I am more than happy to take the consensus view, but think that the Earth Sensitivity number is on the lower side. Just having an overall rise everywhere, of 2⁰C would not be so bad, that could be managed. Trouble is, the climate does not work evenly like that. There are wild swings, which we are seeing already. They are currently not greatly affecting the developed world, but the are certainly affecting parts of the development world. It is the rate of change that is the problem, it is way too fast for humans to adapt to. By adapt, I really mean move and rebuild agriculture, dwellings, and national infrastructure. Changing to a zero carbon economy is the cheapest option.

Was that last week's storm, or just being in Devon.

You are a (expletive deleted)ing idiot that just does not understand the science. Of cause climatologist know about water vapour. And particulates. And volcanoes, methane, ozone, nitrogen oxides (there is more than one), sulphur dioxide. They know about dimming affects, and reflection (called albedo). Where the (expletive deleted) do you get your opinions from. You have just stated old tropes, falsehoods, bullshit and ignorant opinion. I really don't know what your problem is with science, scientific research and methods, reporting of science and individual scientists (except you are scared to put the work in to find out about it). To me you just seem to be a very ignorant, argumentative, self opinionated moron. The kind of (expletive deleted) that spout our the same drivel all the time. Very few will agree with you, but the ones that do, you elevate to stardom, and use that as proof that you were always right, and the rest of the world's population have been duped. Go and read some fantast books, they will suit your viewpoints better.

Welcome Ask @joe90, he drew up his own place. The low energy side is really simple. It is the same as an ordinary house, but with thicker insulation, much, much, better airtightnes, MVHR and a small ASHP. PV, assuming on roof, is just a matter of optimising the area and angles, and no chimney or pipes that will cause shadows.

They ca glue themselves to peoples windows, we can call them window lickers.

It reminds me of the time that diesel cars started to become mainstream. Many people said they were rubbish because they did not have much performance for the engine size. If people measure the wrong thing, the wrong answer will always come out.

So would a small gas boiler that was only one a few hours at a time. The crap bit was the energy assessment. Probably because it was done by a technician that only fits gas boilers.

Call it a Finnish Shed. The idea is to then sand, prime and paint after the burning.

Just need to find an offcut of clean ply, char one side and leave in a shed.

I shall ask my Geisha Girl. We used to char the saunas before they left the factory. Never saw any fungi on them.

Can you think of a better approach? Not as much as you think. Just today there was a man on the radio talking about coral and how it is affected. Last week there was someone talking about breeding and conditioning of coral polyps to make them better able to withstand temperature swings. Then there are the thousands and thousands of agricultural scientists. This lot see the impacts before most and are working, and releasing suitable 'systems' that are better at coping with weather extremes. Then there are the meteorologists, they observe, log, model and put huge computing resources into long term predictions. They would laugh at Excel or Calc. And we have the social scientists, including anthropologists (the only ones I like) that collect data from dispersed and often isolated, communities, across the globe. Then the oceanologists, they have been keeping records for hundreds of years. Geologists are pretty clever to, they can 'look back in time' and see what has happened when the Earth was experiencing similar, and different, conditions. I could go on, but what you want to know is how this lot share their findings. Usually at conferences, of which there are thousands a year. Then there are the academic journals. Most 'scientists' will read up about stuff that, on the face of it, is unrelated, but they often find links. Just look at the winners of Noble Prizes, they are not always 2 or 3 people from the same discipline. Most of these groups are often not looking for the actual cause of climate change, they are looking at the effects (or is it affects, I never know without looking it up). They then publish, get it peer reviewed and then other scientists look at their work and see what connections there are, or not. It is all horribly slow, complicated and convoluted. But all but a handful agree where the problem is and know what to do about it.

If this blue mould lives off the free sugars in the timber, maybe a blast over with a blow torch, which will combust the sugars, will permanently sort the problem. See what I did there, I got burning back into the processes.

Most of the ones I know are very moderate. You have to remember that climate models create predictions and projections. These tend to show the extremes that are highly unlikely. It is why we use results from lots of models and see where the overlaps are.

Not at expert, only got a Higher Degree in it. But as I went through the scientific route, rather than the social media one, what would I know. Now stop being a twat.

Nor will zoot's, he keeps turning it off every day.

You just don't get climate science at all do you. You think it is just weather.

As it is an iPhone the battery will be flat.

Everyday is a learning day. Is there a test that can be done?

Cheaper than what my drunk neighbour did. He crowbarred the back door. Cost him a new door, glass and frame. I waited a few days and then told him that the glass for the window next to the door only cost me 16 quid to replace.