SteamyTea

Yes they do in most places. And under the fridges, tables, cabinets. I clean as I go, others don't, and I hate working with them. Only in TV does the chef create a master piece perfectly. The rest of use have to do whatever it takes to keep within the food hygiene laws, produce consistent meals, to a varying schedule, within price bounds and like last night, in over 40⁰C. The building industry could learn a lot from catering, including how to deal with panicking staff and customers with unrealistically high expectations. Catering could learn a lot from production engineering.

Only the legacy ones. Most new kitchens are now all electric. Works out cheaper, cleaner, cooler and easier. So yet again you are showing just how backward thinking is still happening.

Going to be interesting now that John Lewis are building a load of homes for worker. There was a bit in the local paper about the hospital not able to get workers because of shortage/high price of housing. No sure if it is a real problem, or just that all the houses in the small town of St. Agnes are already occupied. Bet there are many available in Camborne and Redruth area because is is a run down ex industrial place. Think parts of Stapleford in the 1990's (when I lived there).

That will be interesting. I don't think a fundamental like housing should be subsidised as that generally pushes the total price up. Claiming the VAT back is really a false discount. The price is set by what people are willing to spend, not how much they can claim back at the end. CIL/S106 is a bit different, that really comes down to who, how and when market failures should be paid.

Do you mean (or the installer mean) service, or routine maintenance?

Demelza came from Illogan. A strange place near Redruth, full of Cornish Units.

Your wife is right, she is the client, the architect is wrong, they are trying to insist that you have what they want.

All goes back to here. The Cornish Mother of all surveying.

How important is it that the two heights are known?

13 months on, my echiums are now quite tall.

Probably less, and a lot safer to eat, at least it is legislated what is and what is not allowed.

Are you not considering roof integrated PV?

https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/home-owner-baffled-petty-320-21024142 The bureaucracy is better as well. You can get beer/fish and chip down here.

I misread, thought it was neither, not either. Nothing wrong with E-W split, a slight drop in overall yield compared to optimum angles, but if you are adding storage, less of an issue. Run it through PVGIS.

You would need planning permission to put more than, I think 9m² on the ground. If your roof is neither East or West facing, where does it face, downwards? You could just fit regular modules, they are a metre wide, so probably not much of a gap at either side.

Pay by credit card and get some protection from section 75.

Sell them, they are in short supply.

So it only blows the roof off, rather than take out a wall, followed by the next one. In a small house like mine, putting all the gubbins in the loft would be the sensible thing to do. An extra square metre of storage would help. And there would be plenty of room to add half a metre of, easily removable, insulation around it. Has to be cheaper than an airing cupboard.

Have you looked into fitting roof integrated PV. Similar price to some roof coverings.

Just highlights the relatively small losses though. Insulation will stop it. Do you have a problem with lofts, you always suggest that no waterwork is out in them. To a lot of people a loft is dead space.

Just thinking about it a bit more. In a few short years, will we be charging at home on even, say a 15 to 30 kW charger. We already have 250 kW public charging, 500 kW is developed, so we will just fill up as we do now.

We all know people that get worried when the fuel gauge goes below half. I think most people will charge every day, just in case. I know I would. It would still take an hour and a half to put 10 kWh into the battery. That takes about 10 seconds in a normal car.

I am not so sure about that. It is the power that is important here, not the energy. If both get plugged in around the same time, then the power is doubled. I would have thought that this is a known problem and the charging points would adapt which car gets energy, and when. Not the same as plugging both into a wall socket.

I don't think that planning is too specific on construction type, more looks and size. You can make any build method look like any other, except a glass monolith. The only way to get a price is to sit down, work out the components and price to fit them, and add them all up. There is no magic formula, it is about the legwork.