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Yes, because the supply temperature is lower. They are not magic radiators, all you need is a larger surface area, so two radiators instead of one is the same as one double radiator. (as you usual it is a bit more complicated as have to have the return temperature correct to)

Waste disposal is a broad term though. The person that picks up the bins from the street would only need sensible levels of training, though they may be be qualified in the field, or other fields. My 'bin men' are very articulate and interesting, though they are jobsworth that will not pick up legitimate stray rubbish. The person that designs, commissions and runs a land fill site is probably a Degree or Masters qualified engineer or chemist. Not that you would often see that person on site as they are probably running a dozen sites. But the person that runs the department may well just be someone that got lucking in the politics of local government. They may, or may not be qualified. And the leader of the local council is elected and any qualifications they have may have no relevance to the job.

I always suggest that people practice before hand. If you can get yourself a small kit, and you have a bit of dry space, give it a go. You will learn more in 3 practice runs than doing a roof for the first time.

Yes it is. I think we need to get the term 'technician' a better reputation. I am not sure about now, but a decade ago technicians had done a BTEC. I think this is the real problem. I stopped counting the levels at 40. And I am at Level 7. https://www.gov.uk/what-different-qualification-levels-mean/list-of-qualification-levels

Poshest car in the street. Guy has another one that he take to rallies.

Must be a Kentish thing. When I was at school there (was a boarding school), one of the boys got caught with a catalogue in the wood at the end of the grounds. Probably a Barrister now.

I only have a tiny patch of earth to work with, so have most things in pots. Last year I decided to get rid of a lot of the pots, so just tipped them out onto the ground, levelled it off, and decided to see what would happen. I also had some bamboo that I dug up and put in pots, then neglected, for 6 years. This spring I made a planter out the front, moved the small grass that was growing and put the bamboo next to it. All taken very well. Including the wind blown/bird pooped echiums.

This will account for a lot of your heat losses. Because there is little insulation, the UFH will have to run at a higher temperature, which increases the losses to the ground. You may find you are better off having radiators rather than UFH.

Yes. I could teach people in a day how to do it. After that it is just practice. Having said that, it is the subtle things like corner radii, varying thickness and multi-mix layups that catch people out. And how to put it right after it has gone wrong, or is going wrong. There is also a big difference between sheathing some plywood and making a chassis for a vehicle.

Have a read though this, I cannot remember what I said. I find GRP easy and versatile, but other find it problematic. The biggest problem is keeping everything dry and at the correct temperature. Why I always suggest laying up the roof sheets indoors, then only the joints and edges to do on site.

I was a bit bored earlier, so thought I would look at the CO2 usage of my house. Rather than go into the nitty gritty, which I may do later. I just looked at what the fraction of low to high CO2 generation happened and compared it to my temporal usage over since the beginning of April 2020. I did not both to add in the interconnect intensities, and treated pumped storage as a 50:50 split between high and low, though I suspect it should be treated as low. This captures 89% of all the generation though, so not bothered about the small uncertainties. The generation data came from Gridwatch as usual. All I have to do now is shft my usage forward by 1 hour to fit my usage to the low carbon generation a bit better and at a reasonable price. If we had a tariff that was based on carbon intensity, I would use lots during the day, rather than lots at night.

Still magic.

And @joe90 It is really not looped at all, just twisted, but with some fabric between each twist, this creates the illusion of a loop. My Mother told me that a woman has to have secrets. That is good enough for me.

It is the quality of the components as well. Makes a crank case or a wishbone on a car look like it was knocked up by a pikey on the side of the road. Fishing reels are the same, they are a work of art.

I can ponder things for decades, and often revisit failed projects. Two weeks ago I got my sewing machine out that I bought 12 years ago to do a project. May get around to doing it now I have the most complicated of machinery working right. I still want to know how these machines pick up the thread from the bobbin and loop it into the needle thread. Magic I think.

Not me. To true. I worked at a place where all the fitters where called engineers. Same place that looked at me oddly when I said that there is a pressure drop over a long pipe run. Then it became my fault when the installation did not work properly.

Had a girlfriend called Ruth. Off to buy some new underwear at touchingcloth.com.

Be interesting to see how it works on OSB, someone one here wanted to know what the best paint for OSB was. Just had a look at @Onoffvideos. Roof really are made in a most ridiculous way. Almost as if they are made from the leftovers on site. I am surprised that there is not a modular, mass produced in a decent factory, system.

Makes sense, lot less fiddling about. Almost the same as my idea of GRPing a flat room. Just do the joints on site.

@MJNewton Did you use glass fibre mat when your builder did it, or was it just painted/rollered onto a board of some sort?

No, and it may have been the predecessor site, or even the other place.

Think this is the system that someone on here once used. https://www.apolloroofingsolutions.co.uk/market-page/liquid-coating/ How do you get brown in the sun? "Come on Brown, it is lovely out here"

Would this work https://www.siliconeforbuilding.com/products/air-water-resistive-barrier-coatings I need a litre of it to try something out, but rather you bought it, then I can send you the things to coat. Will include a SAE.

Sheets of PIR/PU and GRP it. Why much about with thinking. Good place to put some walk on glazing, if only someone had a spare bit the right size. Could work well to hold a tarp down.

When paying a mortgage, you are, in effect, paying rent. Should mortgages be subsidised? (I have often thought that there should be a variable surcharge on mortgages to help stabilise prices, nothing to stop that surcharge going negative). Interesting about building council housing, if you lump council and housing association housing together (because we have, rightly or wrongly privatised social housing out), then between 20 to 25% of new build housing falls into that category (the percentages varies in the cycle). Here is the link, not that you will read it. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/875361/House_Building_Release_December_2019.pdf