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SteamyTea

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  1. Initially I thought that, but as it is measuring ripples won't they get cancelled. Why do you need to extend it? The extra resistance may change the readings.
  2. Shadow gaps instead of skirting. Save twice.
  3. How much insulation is going under the floor? You will if you size the ASHP correctly. 12, 18 or 25 kW is the power, this is independent of the technology used to generate it.
  4. Is there a buffer tank installed? Turn off the legionella cycle, it is pointless.
  5. This will clear out your bowels and washing your hand will be the last thing on your mind.
  6. The 2007/8 financial crisis changed that view, as did Starbucks back in the 1985.
  7. What is the build cost: £10,000 £50,000 £100,000 £500,000 £1m No, just make the objectors pay. There could be a surcharge on mortgages that keep the borrowings down. It will be interesting to see how many farmer's try and sell off land for building when they stop getting paid for just owning it, and to claim new subsidies they will have to improve it. Valuing nature is pretty easy in concept, ass is valuing public spaces, but the devil is in the detail.
  8. Not the Government as such, it is LA's and the NIMBYs. If a Government gets involved, all that will happen is that the price goes up. My alternative to to get the LA/Objectors to pay for the lost value, to the person who wants to build, but has been refused. That will sharpen the mind.
  9. Just for a laugh, let us assume that we double the number of houses in the country, so from around 35 million to 70 million. That would be near enough one house per person. We would double the land area that is housing, but not the infrastructure, we would not be doubling the population. So we would use up another 2% of the land area. We really need to reassess our thinking on planning.
  10. Why, there is a totally different economies of scale and a larger customer base. They have an old business model and weak management structures. I go to two retailers that sell similar products, one, on the face of it, offers a huge discount, until you get to the till. Then you find out that you have to buy something else at full price to get the discount. Even the store staff hate it. I would have thought that the last year would have been the ideal opportunity for businesses to reassess their pricing policy.
  11. I followed James May's trials and tribulation of owing the Toyota FCEV. He still has his Tesla.
  12. Not very good efficiency is it. 5.5 kWh in, 1.5 kWh out in electricity and the same in thermal energy. And that is before the space it takes up.
  13. Yes, and it does not stick that well to GRP. I agree.
  14. I would think so, the idea is that the wind cannot blow rain backwards.
  15. How a HRS works https://h2me.eu/about/how-an-hrs-works/
  16. Bit sparse west of Swindon isn't it. I think they have missed the boat with FCEVs
  17. The GRP work looks alright, think the rest is a bodge and it will almost certainly give you trouble. Not sure what the solution is apart from replacing the membrane with something more rigid.
  18. Why would we put in new combustion boilers if we do go down the hydrogen path, why not fuel cells. Then run a HP or just simple resistance heating.
  19. My Father was an electrical engineer and helped convert High Wycombe from DC to AC, then, 40 years later in his career, was a Project Manager on the gas plants on the East Coast of Scotland. We had out house converted to 'North Sea Gas', but we were living abroad at the time, but do remember a man coming over to 'change the jets'.
  20. I can't really work out what is going on from that picture, any chance of some more, a bit more zoomed out. Basically the GRP covering is instead of a membrane, but it does depend on what you class as a membrane.
  21. Not much. Most of the conductivity will be via convection and conductance.
  22. Compared to most, that was fair rocketing along.
  23. How long did the renovation/improvements take? And did that 50% cost include things like BC fees, delivery charges, planning? And, And, was the 10% profit on what you paid initially, or 10% of the sale value?
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