SteamyTea

Yes, I had forgotten this one.

I will take you up on it when I start the project. Next project is painting, did that for a living, so can think about the HA when I drip paint on the floor.

Lower power usage is the main one. I don't have traditional broadband, I just hotspot from my phone.

My bedroom window is SW facing, and 100 MPH winds are not uncommon here. Short of forgetting to latch the window when a storm hits (caused an interesting dream a few months back, it involved a dungeon, chains and the dead awakening), I do not find it a problem.

Is that the same LW that E7/10 uses to switch on/off. I have been told I need a smart meter by March 2023 as it is being turned off.

I keep meaning to cobble my RPi's and ESP's together to send messages/data to each other. Seems that Mosquito is the usual method, just never managed to get it to work, I think I am missing something basic in my understanding how it all talks. I would like to do it without a central router if possible i.e. a mesh network.

I think my Panasonic Combi oven is similar. And the grill function is back to front. Power 1 is max Power 3 is lowest. Imagine if that was an amplifier, Spinal Tap would have lost the joke "Turn it down to 11". My Bosch washing machine is: Turn the knob to select program Set timer on delay capacitance button (that looks like the other 3, temperature, spin speed and one I have no idea what it does). Touch On/Off. It has another 4 buttons, but I ignore them. And every time you want to start washing, you have to go though the whole cycle again. You can't just reload, put in powder and press On/Off (like I could on my old Bosch, the Hotpoint, the Hoover and the Candys). Induction hob (Russel Hobbs) is easy though, it is like Windows. Always press the Start button, then select the zone, set power, set time (optional), if you need to adjust, press zone and then power.

Leaving aside the size of the individual components for a while, have you considered a combination of PV, CHP (probably home made), with thermal and electrical storage. The bulk of summer power would be from the PV, with the excess charging up the TS and a relatively small battery bank (4 kWh or so). Then in the winter the bulk is delivered by the CHP (a 20:40 split between electricity and thermal maybe). Again excess stored. The generator can be rectified to DC, and as long as the voltage us low (<600V I think) it can use the PV islanding inverters). A CHP system can run off bottled gas, or even gas from a bio digester. Really depends on how hands on you want to be. Making a CHP unit can be an interesting side project. Making a sound proof 'box' for it will be even more interesting, a hole in the ground may help.

@cl2702 Rather than me give you the low down on WBS, have a quick Google about particulates and other problems with them. It is the unseen pollution from them that is the main problem.

Thank goodness that wood burners only produce life giving natural wonders. Be dreadful if the flue allowed creosote or carbon monoxide to enter the house.

@patp Get everyone involved, including the borehole owner, to check their insurance policies. That may be a lower cost option than unilaterally starting a claim. Civil law is expensive for all concerned, so even the insurance people may prefer that option.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rylands_v_Fletcher

Too right, I know a good deal when I see one, even if I do not personally take full advantage of it. Just looked at BJ's speech, and seems that there is going to be a massive increase in fish landings by UK boats from just over 50% to a massive 66%, in 5 years like (I think that is what he said). So no difference, and i the next 5 years, things will be totally different. What a (expletive deleted)ing nonsense, the whole things.

10 boats, or a years worth of patrolling the waters then.

Not seen, heard or read the news all day, what has happened to fishing, that important 0.06% of our GDP?

Well it will not be as good as the deal we had. Though if we do a decent deal with Australia, we will get better bar staff and blonde surfers.

Do you know how your system defrosts. I may be drawing from your buffer tank, or using the inbuilt resistance heater, or something else? At 4°C, water is at its most dense, so that is the worst temperature possible for an ASHP (in the scheme of things).

At those sort of levels you have about 5gm/m³ difference. 0.007 kg/m³ @ 8⁰C, 0.012 kg/m³ @ 17⁰C. Just heat the place up with some fan heaters while ventilating though a relatively small apperture i.e. small window open, not a door.

Going to make their numbers look bad on the 2nd of Jan. Can we claim to have a World Class plague yet?

Yes, in the data table it will show how much irradiance is available, by square metre. Better off burning gas, for so many reasons. Don't waste your time and money, just fit some PV, it works out best.

Was my second thought to.

And at 125 quid each, they are pretty cheap, and being electrical resistance heater, about as reliable as you can get. Just getting a control and safety system for them may be a bit tricky, unless there is an off the shelf one. Maybe incorporate a smoke sensor.

We have shut for 17 days, like most small places down here. That will learn them. I was having my daily coffee, and this 'Northerner of some flavour' was asking, rather loudly, the woman on the next table, where he could get some presents for a baby. That behaviour will be the end of out Tier 1 status.

I am bored to, but then I am doing some overdue housework.

I know a stained glass person. Though you could have a crack at it yourself.