SteamyTea

Get a battery vacuum cleaner. This is not a facetious comment, we are heading that way, not many of us use mains powered tools these days.

Worth pointing out that there are a number of different 'timber frame' systems, with timber frame being just one of them. A bit more detail here, but not a definitive list: https://www.bre.co.uk/filelibrary/accreditation/rdsap9_91/BRE_RdSAP_Manual_5_-_Identifying_basic_constructions_v8_0.pdf https://www.trada.co.uk/start-here/timber-frame-construction/

That is brilliant, I have eventually understood, a bit, how this hedging works. So it is either sell it, or use it, depending on the price paid and the current price.

Me to as I have been working on a similar project recently.

Except the grid is getting cleaner all the time. Often below 100g/kWh these days. The last year we have full numbers for is 2019 and overall carbon dioxide emissions were 210g/kWh. Gas boilers are around 200g/kWh. Gas boilers are not going to get any more efficient, and most don't get close to the laboratory maximum. So I shall stand by my statement that electricity is the way forward and will be a major contributor to reducing emissions. We are not electrifying for no scientific reasons at all.

It is a Youth Centre, you have to be on a special register to go there, not on the other special register. Got that Abba dilemma again.

It is also to do with emissions, not just price. National Grid sets the price for bulk transport, and a lot of the larger, local infrastructure. So rural areas, or places like Cornwall have higher costs.

Was chatting to someone that owned a commercial laundry. To cut their energy bill they used a combination of heat pumps and ozone injection. Not sure if that is viable on the small scale, but an interesting idea.

Distribution prices. These variable prices, like some green taxes, did not apply to small operators.

Went pop a decade ago (about the same time as most of the small turbine manufactures went, including the one I worked for). They were bought by Kingspan (who bought up a few RE companies), but pretty sure they have pulled out the market. As a rule, small turbines are pretty poor on performance and reliability. You will need a large battery system to smooth out the constantly changing output. PV is easier all round.

And smelly.

Any help. https://www.octopusreferral.link/octopus-energy-tariffs/ One simple thing parliament could do is force all the energy companies to publish the meter rental charge and the kWh rates. I know that it may be a long list for some as they have multiple tariffs, but that is there lookout for creating stupid schemes.

Who you with? E.ON prices seem to be here. https://www.eonenergy.com/gas-and-electricity/our-product-prices.html Out having a coffee, so paying about £300/kWh atm.

Main reason it isn't done is that the energy transfer is low. Or in English, you have to shift a lot of air. MVHR is not designed to do this, it moves only a few litres a second. This can be overcome with larger pipework, doubling the diameter, quadruples the flow rate for the same airspeed, this helps to keep noise down. Also worth remembering that sound can easily travel through pipework. So a quiet chat in the kitchen may well be heard in the bedroom. Have you had your place properly thermally modelled?

When I was studying all this a decade ago, I found the DECC reports pretty good. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/energy-and-emissions-projections

I am not sure how much my mate would charge me for the MCS, he only has the RHI one, but it is a cheap conversation to add on the PV, so we shall see. At the moment I am thinking just self install.

Thought crossed m mind to. Rather than whinge and whine about it, we could be looking to see what we can do to reduce imported power to the home. I was just about to buy an A2AHP, but my plumber mate is not bothering to get his F-Gas, think getting his MCS has exhausted him. But he is looking at prices for small, inverter driven, ASHPs. This will be a much more expensive installation as I am changing from night storage to HP, so new cylinder, radiators (fancy skirting ones), rerouting pipe work, new consumer unit etc. May do it in two stages, fit all the plumbing and run it off a 100lt buffer heated at night, then I will have the data to choose an ASHP. Am also looking at PV again, if I can fit 4 metres on modules to my roof, I should manage to get 8 modules up there. So somewhere around 2.4 kWp installed capacity. Trouble is, during the spring, summer and autumn, I only use about 4 kWh/day, winter it goes up to 13 kWh/day.

I am a frequent emailler to You and Yours (Radio 4) about this, but they take no notice. Here is EDFs https://www.edfenergy.com/sites/default/files/r505_deemed_rate_card.pdf Others can look up there suppliers prices

Without looking at the figures, i don't think that the Dutch and French (half capacity ATM) deliver enough power to make a price difference. They are more to do with balancing, and in the case of the French interconnect, reducing emissions. The new generation capacity will make a difference, but not as much as the price of gas changing.

Suckers

3 more gone this week. How many more little ones are there?

If you kill a tree root artificially i.e. quickly, can this cause problems with the ground sinking/shrinking?

Try this. An architect, like a medical doctor, needs to be registered to practice (while calling themselves an architect) https://arb.org.uk/public-information/before-hiring-an-architect/architects-register/