SteamyTea

Yes I do, but I would also need batteries as I doubt that a 2kW array would run my washing machine, especially yesterday as it was wet, then grey, and quite cold (though I can do my washing any day). Do you run your DHW and any heating off the mains? I do.

Same here, and I am amazed how accurate EDF (or whoever does their billing) are. Yesterday I used 10 kWh. It was washing day.

That is while we are going though a transition. If you are sending a man to a street where 99% of the houses are on Smart Meters, you may as well get him to read them all as the big expense is in getting the man there, I am not against the idea of remote meter reading, just that I do not fully trust the data handling. I think we knew that, just that you did highlight an interesting problem that some people may think they have done all they need to by getting a Smart Meter fitted. My neighbour has one and she is on Pay as You Go. She never reads the display, it just works as a night light in the kitchen, for the cat.

I think there big saving is in meter reading. I have no idea what it costs to read a meter, but probably £2 a month (100 meters a day at £200 a day). That £2 is about 40 kWh at wholesale or 15 kWh at retail. I would think that sort of amount is lost in rounding errors, weather effects and mistakes. And it is a lot less than a Tesla looses when just sitting in the drive.

It was based on this So a reasonable assumption on @ProDave's part. (I actually made no assumptions, just liked the observation)

That is a really good observation. I may use that more often.

Partly true, but generally confined to the ones that do not kill you. And much of that research was about childhood asthma and not commutable disease.

Because you would need to change all your furniture, stair rails, doors, kitchen units.... There is probably less risk in your own home than anywhere else as you have control over it. And how are you going to deal with all the buttons on the TV remote, on the cooker, washing machine. For that matter, how about your cars, or the shopping trolleys, and don't even think about public transport, or a trip in an ambulance or police car. If you dig up a shovel of earth from your newt infected pond, you will probably find that there are several hundred unknown bacteria and viruses. Anyone could be a killer.

So the best thing to do is to get everyone you know to get on the register. Then the council is obliged to grant permission. That way houses will get built.

No

There was a bit on the radio on Saturday about how dangerous all these devices are. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000htnt

Remember this: http://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=9305&page=1#Item_0 No entry after 18/082018 But 1647 entries.

Who was Dolly? Oh, that is a spoonerism, makes me a shining wit.

An architect would have charged 10% to 'design' what you got as part of the package. Having said that, what you spend on insulation you probably get back by not needing upstairs heating or at least a smaller heating system i.e. less radiators, UFH pipe, small boiler or HP. I think the big saving is in airtighness and that really should not cost much once the building team is onside with the concept.

It is to do with voltage. The inverter will supply at slightly higher voltage than the grid. Then, because nature hates things being unbalanced, the electrons go looking for a load to reduce there energy state. The first load they find will do, if it is big enough. This is one reason that voltage drop is important. You don't want your cables heating up.

Why is it that when one paints a wall, and even if the colour is only sightly different, does it not look right? I think I quite like the 'friendly amount of dirt' look.

What is this job?

£220 each for the course I do on that. Course is run at a local Kebab shop, next weeks is at a different Kebab Shop. Not just pure theory.

I used to like Wickes' gloss paints. Know idea who made it for them. My problem is the 25 mile journey to Wickes.

Dolphins have tits and they taste of tuna. So they are fish.

£8.80/litre at B&Q https://www.diy.com/departments/dulux-easycare-apple-white-matt-emulsion-paint-2-5l/1914737_BQ.prd

Have to be printed on A3 to cover a builders arse.

Isis is the River Thames above Oxford.

Contact the people who are managing the bankruptcy. It is what they get paid for.