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Don't change the law, whether you like it or not. As Sumption said the other day, the law is not opinion.

Pretty sure that is illegal. I think there are now very strict rules about waste disposal, so worth finding out about them. https://www.gov.uk/managing-your-waste-an-overview

Perran Trusses in Redruth make a lot of stuff. You may struggle to get a delivery for end of July from anyone though.

Grand a week rent. Two years of that and you could buy a country cottage.

Even the Dutch don't speak Dutch. Just speak in German after drinking a pint of vinegar, sounds the same then. Dank U

They generally do, it is the fear of 'missing out'.

We should start a new topic on this, I often wonder how much money is spent on a plot when you consider that there may be several people interested in buying it. When I was selling a place I had a vendor that went quiet for several weeks, so decided to sell privately (sacked estate agent). The new vendor quickly arranged for the survey to be done. The surveyor said "I have this places booked in for a fortnights time as well". So that would have been an extra £500 or so, for the same report. So my estate agent never told the original vendor that the place was off the market, wonder if he charged the guy a fee.

The stamp duty holiday is going at end of the month, this has artificially compressed the selling period, and people with lots of cash think that they have a right to buy quicker.

Welcome. Buying a home is a strange thing, most people seem to buy where they already live and work. This may seems sensible, but can limit your choices somewhat. My first home was close to family and work, cost quite a bit and was totally unsuitable. Then the second one was 20 miles from work and family, was better, then third was 150 miles away from both, was even better still. I just got a new job locally. Finally I moved 300 miles from friends and family, but close to a beach that is good for surfing, not that I do that these days, but it is nice to sit on. So my advice is to widen the area you are considering, avoid property 'hot spots', avoid 'schemes', reconsider work option, and save, save, save, cash is king. Self build is expensive, more expensive than renovation, you can easily spend £50k before you have bought the first cubic metre of concrete.

You may want to go 100mm deeper and put 200+mm of insulation in. What do you consider the minimum qualification is for an 'engineer'?

House has been uninhabited for a number of years. But knowing the power of the oil burner could be useful. The heat loss calculation for them is easy then, and won't change. Just need to know what they are made from and how thick and air leaky. Just don't get side tracked into thinking they will 'store energy'. Just simple conductance and wall area is all that is needed. Why? Do you like the damp.

Nor are combi boilers, most people take very little interest in the sizing of them, or the flow rate they can produce.

There seems to be some misunderstanding about 0°C. Much better to calculate on the kelvin scale, then you will see how little the CoP actually drops. The biggest enemy is really humidity at ~4°C, this is when air will have its highest humidity levels (note humidity not relative humidity), this is why ASHPs are oversized, once above or below that temperature, the CoP often rises. They work by extracting energy by cooling the air that passes though them, if they cool some water, then they get extra energy. If you had to choose a temperature scale the zero point should be the lowest temperature that the refrigerant gas can go to, but that is all a bit academic. But as @IanR points out, the DHW is the real challenge, not the space heating.

You have a new design house, the UFH was designed in from the start. An old place, with a 'normal' plumber specifying UFH, it would run the system at a higher temperature.

Or a holiday. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/yulin-dog-festival-china-carrie-johnson-b1870551.html

Shotgun and spade would have been a more permanent fix.

Welcome I am interested to know why you looked into a GSHP? Three things, with a 'system' type boiler, which a HP is, DHW is stored in a cylinder, ready for use, so no waiting, and you can get very good flow rates. An UFH installation requires extra insulation under it, more than building regulations suggest. This is because the floor will be at 35 to 40°Cm rather than about 18°C, but the ground will be at the same temperature ~10°C. It is the temperature difference that is important. Finally, it does not matter what temperature the heating system works at, the energy needed to heat a building to the desired temperature will be the same. Power, Energy and Temperature are different things. Reducing thermal losses means you can use a smaller system, most heating systems are sized for DHW demand and not space heating, but an ASHP is designed to be a little larger than your peak power demand. This keeps the Coefficient of Performance (CoP) in a more efficient place. Then there is the manner in which they are used, they are kept on, chugging away, rather than blast out heat, turn off for a while, then blast again. Modern ASHP, if designed and installed correctly, are not expensive to buy or run, nor are they noisy.

Probably, and for DHW usage. The loft is a strange place to install an ASHP, or do you just mean the buffer and cylinder, maybe a pump as well, are up there.

Then every little thing that goes wrong with the users life, be it a late delivery, divorce, cold coffee etc, can be squarely blamed on Microsoft, for ever.

UV curing acrylic is used to repair windscreens. This is mainly because it adheres to the acrylic film that makes up the laminate. It has a slightly different refractive index to glass, so can be quite visible when looked at from an angle. Polishing anything properly is long and painful, you have to polish much more than you ever imagine. If your glass is covered by insurance, a small child throwing marbles at it can cause real damage. But depending on the size, maybe @pocster can help.

I was always under the impression that the big selling point of an Apple products is that they are immune from viruses and malware. What all the disciples always said. Learn something everyday. Still, I am sure there is some free software that will sort it, there is for the other major OSs.

How traditional.

Only because I told her to say that to you.

Yes, but we don't polish ours. I guess Cornwall is too far for the Zoe to get to. Still the mountain men on Exmoor will keep you warm.

That is because you were in Devon you (expletive deleted)ing halfwit. This is Cornwall, we have palm trees and pampas grass.