SteamyTea

Isn't that why people move to the countryside. More in touch with nature and where our food comes from.

What I have been lead to believe. https://www.webmd.com/lung/how-long-covid-19-lives-on-surfaces Not sure if they have a link to the sources. I think there is one in the main thread about it on here.

Can you play 'car sauna' once the family is in.

The greater risk comes surfaces not being cleaned. I would worry more about carpets and soft furnishings. Are you going to get those sterilised between each visit. As for windows and MVHR, leave the MVHR on in summer bypass and open the windows. Put a tick against it in your risk assessment check list.

Fords do that.

No it isn't, it is under the mat.

Can you use your phone to collect your wallet when you leave it at home. Or, can you use your phone to get your phone when you leave it indoors. I have a key under the mat. Seems to work well. Coding time, zero, training time, zero, reliability, 100%.

Would it have flushing lavatories, or just a hatch. Be one way to deal with noisy neighbours.

Like most seemingly good ideas, they usually crash and burn.

That is 50 cycles a day if spread over a year. I would expect no more than 12. So the HP may already have done 4 years work, and in terms of wear more as generally the 'damage' is done during the start up.

A fridge could use that much if it is constantly running. A router will just draw a few watts. You say it is constantly cycling this sounds like it has not been set up at all, or is faulty. Turn it off and get the plumber back in.

Is this thread been doubled up? Can't help with real world examples. Have you measured the amount of water you use and at what temperatures? There is a bit of a myth that heat pumps cannot deliver 'enough'. It is totally wrong and is really down to sizing properly. An 8 kW HP, of any sort, is still delivering the same power as an 8 kW gas or oil boiler. It is what the watt actually means.

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You are going to scare the crap out of delivery boys. Or have you got rid of the bathcam.

Have we not been warned about this sort of talk, wives and daughters read this.

Depends on the ply, or more a case of what resin is used to bond it. And then there are ways around it.

I know of a man with a shed that has a set of Crapi wheels that are worth less than that.

But as inverters are current sources, trying to drive into what is basically an open circuit and minimal load would likely have the voltage swinging wildly. The mains supply isn't just for frequency control... Why I was wondering if it could be tricked. It may need a reasonable resistance load onto it, say 1 kW, to give the impression there is some grid impedance. Was just a thought.

Direct drive and let the electronics deal with the rest. I seem to remember that the peripheral speed of the turbine needs to be half the jet velocity for a Pelton wheel.

Construction has never been on lockdown, just lazy suppliers not wanting to work as they can get paid by the government. Wish my boss was that sensible.

How much. I can't see any reason why all inverters are not capable of being islanding ones, except for the bean counters stopping it. Just looked at the price of pure off grid inverters and they are a lot cheaper than grid ones. This is understandable as they do not need a safety certificate i.e G99. So may be cheaper to have a mix of inverters and a large change over switch. Could a pure sine wave inverter trick a grid inverter to boot up?

You have never lived in a student house then.

That starts to get expensive as a 4 or 6 kW 'islanding' inverter is not cheap. You would use a combination of a generator well as PV, Wind, nanoHydro and storage in that case.

Those of us that work in hospitality are concerned about this. Eventhough no one is meant to be down, hundreds are. last week was almost as busy as normal, next week may be dreadful.

If EV batteries are used as a guide, probably still useful. And inverters seem to be lasting better than most people assumed. Hard to come by independent data though.