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What I hear and read from others us that everything is a surprise to a builder, and as soon as they open the door to start work 'they have never seen anything like it before'. By the time you are showing them the third thing that needs doing, they are thinking about ways to cut corners on the first two items. Tell them you have no contingency.

Interesting in that they did not fully tape the joints on the insulation. So air can travel possibly from outside to inside. Though with the OSB on the outside this is much reduced.

Claimed by most North Coast places, except Portreath, which is a poo filled sewer, and Trevaunance Cove, which is the same, but we don't care as anyone that moves to St. Agnes gets all they deserve.

Obligatory kWh. Unless you meant your mean power consumption.

I have a similar problem. A Council owned van is parking badly in my road, it obscures the visibility. Is there any real point reporting it, no. The Police are not bothered as it is not a moving vehicle, residential street with legal parting on both sides, so that is not a problem as traffic wardens do not patrol this area. The biggest issue is that is reporting it as a danger, parking restrictions are put in place (this happened where I used to live, the only people that got fined were the local residence). On a more interesting note, the person who illegal built it has probably devalued their own house, and as we know, if you devalue a house you have 'stolen' cash from someone, even if they did not have that cash in the first place. Personally I think we need a free for all planning system, just charge more for the environmental 'stuff', that will put the majority of people off.

Did you listen to Alflie Moore this week? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000vrj4

Don't they make a fibrous cement product? Aluminium generally, does not corrode, but if the wrong fittings are used there can be an electrolysis problem. Also, how close to the coast, and how high up. The big waves come in from the SW.

Welcome Beams are fairly easy to understand, it is just the 'odd' units they use, mm4 in the moments of inertia does not sit easily in the mind. But all it means is that you take the 3D sized, width, depth and length, then measure how much it deflects. Good place to start. https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/beam-stress-deflection-d_1312.html And moment of inertia. https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/area-moment-inertia-d_1328.html

With something like this. Drill a hole and hammer them in. https://www.screwfix.com/p/fischer-nylon-hammerfix-8-x-100mm-50-pack/33940 It is to do with breathability and condensation risk. After the vapour control layer (polythene sheet on the inside), you are looking to allow any vapour to travel outwards in a heated/occupied building. So as you travel outwards, it is easier for water vapour to travel and be evaporated (evaporation is a combination of humidity differences, temperature and airspeed). To put a sexist slant on it think of drying washing. If you lay a wet towel on a floor, the part touching the floor does not dry, but the part exposed to the air does, this is why we hang washing on a line (not really sexist as I do all the washing here). This is all about detailing. You could probably do it either way. Fitting the OSB on the outside is probably easier when it comes to fitting the insulation but you will be cutting up a lot of small sections of OSB to fil the gaps between the walls and the roof. Not hard, just fiddly and boring. If you fit it with screws, rather than nails, you can easily change it if it all goes wrong. Nothing to stop you from doing both in reality. Make sure the aperture studwork is solid, square and true. And the right size. Remember, it is a posh shed, not a forever home. If you were in West Cornwall, I would come over and have a laugh. What power tools do you have, a cut off saw will be useful, as would a planer thicknesser. And a decent table to work on.

This is why people need to study science and stop thinking they can rationalise things with words. Hydrogen Challenger From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search History Germany Name: Hydrogen Challenger Launched: 1967 Identification: IMO number: 6724153 General characteristics Length: 66 m (216 ft 6 in) Hydrogen Challenger was a 66-metre (216 ft 6 in) refitted coastal tanker (previously Bernd) for mobile hydrogen production. It was fitted with a vertical axis wind turbine to generate electricity for the electrolysis of water to fill the hydrogen storage tanks. The total storage and transportation capacity was 1194 cubic metres (42200 cu ft). It was stationed in the German Bight near Heligoland (where the most wind is), and was to dock in Bremerhaven, where the hydrogen produced would be delivered to the market. History[edit] The ship was lengthened from 56 to 66 metres (183 ft 9 in to 216 ft 6 in) in 1969. The added section can be seen in front of the bridge, by clicking the photograph. The hydrogen conversion scheme was completed in 2004. However, the project appears to have been a subsidy fraud: "The ship never made trips in its planned function. The converter that was to produce the hydrogen was delivered by the manufacturer in good faith, but later taken back because the bill was not paid. Likewise, the much too small wind turbine ran basically empty, because the electricity was not used. Behind the project was a dubious company whose trail later fizzled out. The matter was covered up, and nobody talks about it today. The tanker almost sank in the harbour and was later scrapped."[1] Its website has disappeared.

Stage 0 Cancel science lessons in schools, don't want facts getting in the way of a good story.

We can currently do that, called Green Hydrogen (as opposed to grey and blue). Just that it is very inefficient to do so. It is akin to going to the gas station and filling up, then pouring half that fuel down the nearest drain. And why would we want to invest in a third more generation when we don't have to. The problem with hydrogen is that it is not naturally found on Earth, it is found, in very large quantities, as an oxide. An oxide that is hard to split. This can be done without 'adding' in outside electricity, it is what plants do, but the land area needed is huge. Below is the thermochemical cycles that amount to the same thing. Just look at the efficiencies and the temperatures involved. And that is before post processing and storage again, both energy inefficient processes. Thermochemical cycle LHV Efficiency Temperature (°C/F) Cerium(IV) oxide-cerium(III) oxide cycle (CeO2/Ce2O3) ? % 2,000 °C (3,630 °F) Hybrid sulfur cycle (HyS) 43% 900 °C (1,650 °F) Sulfur iodine cycle (S-I cycle) 38% 900 °C (1,650 °F) Cadmium sulfate cycle 46% 1,000 °C (1,830 °F) Barium sulfate cycle 39% 1,000 °C (1,830 °F) Manganese sulfate cycle 35% 1,100 °C (2,010 °F) Zinc zinc-oxide cycle (Zn/ZnO) 44% 1,900 °C (3,450 °F) Hybrid cadmium cycle 42% 1,600 °C (2,910 °F) Cadmium carbonate cycle 43% 1,600 °C (2,910 °F) Iron oxide cycle ({\displaystyle {\ce {Fe3O4/FeO}}}) 42% 2,200 °C (3,990 °F) Sodium manganese cycle 49% 1,560 °C (2,840 °F) Nickel manganese ferrite cycle 43% 1,800 °C (3,270 °F) Zinc manganese ferrite cycle 43% 1,800 °C (3,270 °F) Copper-chlorine cycle (Cu-Cl) 41% 550 °C (1,022 °F)

There is no easy way to get there from here. Used to be able to fly from Newquay to Gatwick for a few quid, but those days are over. There are a couple of members that are building down Saltash way.

@ian192744 What is the floor, food and external wall/window areas and how many metres of this skirting rad do you have. I have a similar problem in that I cannot realistically fit UFH downstairs, but the layout of my small house may lend itself nicely to skirting radiators.

I really do not understand why people are bothering with hydrogen as a main stream domestic/light industry/commercial fuel all the studies point to it being inefficient and costly.

I never stop in Bristol, I just carry on for another 3 hours. In any direction, except west, obviously.

This is what happens to my E7 heated cylinder over an average day. The element is as close to the bottom as it can be. Temperature probes are at the top and the bottom.

Rowe's sausage rolls for me, 2 of 3 quid, and they start almost twice the size of Warrens'.

Some inverters have a diversion relay built it (SMA did). But crude, but can be used to power a contractor to power what you like.

Get a 2 string inverter and wire it so that the shaded modules are on the smallest string.

Where is the element? Top or bottom of cylinder. But how much if you are on E7 and run the ASHP on the day rate, which may be close to 25p/kWh now.

Was Devon's planning department, not Cornwall's.

Highlight the text you want to reply to and a pop up will appear that says "Quote Selection". Wind direction may be important. If rain is hitting the wall and getting between the wall and the flashing, it may be getting in and then finding a path. I had an ongoing leak in a downstairs window, took me two years to find out that it was cracked render 3 metres away. It was the wind direction that gave the game away. It only happened when a proper SW hoolie was a blowing.

Welcome I used to live in Bucks, still have family there. Now down in Cornwall. Regarding planning, have a word with @joe90 and the disastrous experience he had with the Devon people. You have picked a bad time to look for plots down here as there is renewed interest in the area. And some places are trying to to stop development for emmets and dreamers. So conversion or bungalow gobbling is probably easier overall. Have you considered buying a very cheap place to live in while you search and build. There are still some very cheap areas, and compared to most of Bucks, much nicer. Regarding all the technical stuff it is all very basic technology and calculations, but you can, if you want, make it really complicated, but it won't work. There is no such thing as 'Thermal Mass'. There are materials that have different densities with different specific heat capacities and different thermal conductivities. It is the combination that gives you the supposed thermal stability that people crave. Or just rely on the Atlantic Ocean, that is pretty stable thermally. Takes months to change by 3°C. Yes you are. Find a plot where you can build a place that gets sun from all angles on it (well not North obviously). Remember that it is hard to grow trees on the North Coast and it is windy. Don't get hung up on construction type either, some places have embraced timber frame (there is a large manufacturer of them in Redruth) and others are still sticking with brick and block. Me to, and stuffing my Honda into a Cornish Hedge on my way to the chippy in Bude. Head down to Penzance, it is still affordable and not a bad town, but make sure you are upwind of the heliport. And regardless of what @pocstersays, we are not all pasty munching morons that have married our cousins, but it is sometimes really hard to be accepted. Move fie miles and you can be an outcast for decades.

There are a number of reasons that it may be leaking, hard to tell from your picture. So a number of questions. Does the roof fall away from the wall/corner where you get the water marks inside? Does it leak every time there is an good amount of rain, or only sometime? What is above the wall, is the gutter in good condition? As it is a kitchen below, is that causing condensation? How is that pipe sealed to the roof? What are all those circles in a line, bolts/screws?