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Attempting a straw bale, off-grid passive house in Somerset
SteamyTea replied to Smallholder's topic in Introduce Yourself
Welcome. You are very brave. How are you going to comply with all the Passivhaus parts like the MVHR and whites goods they insist you have?- 62 replies
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Was thinking more of the altitude angles than the azimuth angles. But if it is near St. Agnes it won't make much difference. If you can see St. Agnes Head it is about to rain, if you can't see it, it is raining.
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Just had a better look at your plans. Roof not the best angle for PV.
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Welcome. Cornwall is a big country, which part you in. There are a few members building at the moment in SE Cornwall, and one or two up NE. Not many down in Penwith.
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questions about wet TF kit.
SteamyTea replied to Mike_scotland's topic in General Construction Issues
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Don't be greedy, this was a free installation, with the money coming out the public purse. If you want compensation, see a solicitor.
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Yes, but no single source for the most useful ones. I have suggested they put up permanent links to them on buildhub, but it seemed to hard for them to bother. Got told to do it myself. But they are not for me.
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Air-to-air ASHP replacing warm air heating
SteamyTea replied to Gooman's topic in Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP)
I would be tempted to go that route. Yes, I can't see why you cannot have ore than 1 'heater'. Even a series of small, normal radiators, stacked sided by side, would work. What is the heat load of the house? -
How about getting him to sort out some web based calculators. The kind of things that we use. So. R-Value to U-Value Energy to heat materials Time to heat matetials Heating and Cooling Curves Relative Humidity to Absolute Humidity Solar Gain through Glass.
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Not as nasty as me, I have been telling everyone to avoid her restaurant.
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I asked a woman if she could move her car a few feet as she was across 3 parking bays. Came back an hour later, 3 doors on my car had been keyed. I don't really care. If you live down here you get used to car damage
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Put the radiators in a well insulated floor. Can call it underfloor heating.
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How sad that someone had written about it. I put it in the same bin as 'washing machine engineers'. It is just (expletive deleted)ing car cleaning, the kind of thing you get a Boy Scout to do for a bob.
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Hope you got it in writing. There is a reason we say 'Welshing on a deal' Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief; Taffy came to my house and stole a leg of beef; I went to Taffy's house and Taffy was in bed; I upped with the jerry pot and hit him on the head. Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief; Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef; I went to Taffy's house, Taffy wasn't in; I jumped upon his Sunday hat and poked it with a pin. Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a sham; Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of lamb; I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was away, I stuffed his socks with sawdust and filled his shoes with clay. Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a cheat, Taffy came to my house, and stole a piece of meat; I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was not there, I hung his coat and trousers to roast before a fire.
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No idea what that is. W have a deep mine shafts.
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May be best to say what the problem is. Is it design?
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Down here and I am sure it is the same in many places, there is a 3rd model. Completely neglected prooerties, rented out but absent landlords, for desperate tenants. Usually the criminal classes.
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Or just use table lamps.
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Careful, it is more complicated than that. The air does not really 'hold' the water. It is the kinetic energy, of all the molecules in the completely fluid mixture that does work on each and every other molecule including the water molecules. Juggling would be a better term than hold, but then that assumes that gravity is the dominant force.
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Depends on altitude as well. RH is a strange thing that cannot be easily calculated, so approximations are used. Worth making a simple temperature, relative humidity and air pressure logger. They can tell you so much. Only cost a few quid as well.
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As luck would have it, this week's Book of the Week, Slime: A Natural History, is being read out on R4. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0010wy3 Maybe burning is not such a great idea unless done properly. There is an Energy From Waste incinerator near St. Awful. Not far from you.
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I was painting a ceiling on an A Frame ladder. The clip that holds the horizontal part of the A failed. The fall was not far, trouble was, my left arm was under the ladder, and my right foot was trapped between two rungs. Luckily there were other on site that disentangled me. Only a fractured left arm and broken ribs. Carried on the next day. After throwing that ladder away and buying a decent one. https://www.wickes.co.uk/Werner-Aluminium-12-in-1-Multi-Purpose-Ladder-with-Platform/p/250167 Only paid £40 for mine.
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To me, Solum is a single type of soil, which may, or may not be in layers with other soil types. So may be missing something here. But basically, once the spores are in your building, and they will be, they will find a niche and multiply.
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Most of my life I have lived in either centrally heated, or air conditioned houses. The one that made me ill was the 'fisherman's cottage' I had in Weymouth. No heating that one. There is a myth that bleach, which is a powerful oxidant, kills mould. It does, to a certain extent, but it does not change the conditions that mould likes to grow in.
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When did washing the car get bigged up to 'detailing'?
