SteamyTea

I agree. Link that in with minimum wage with more part time/seasonal/minimum hours working and you have around 40% or the working population not paying any income tax at all, and many working families claiming benefits. Minimum wage, which benefited many people 20 years ago, has now depressed wages for the middle classes. I went for a technical graduate job a few years ago, when it got around to talking about money, I pointed out that it was the same as a MacDonald's shift supervisor. And we got ours (priorities) right when we were their age of course. Hindsight, experience. Thats what BH is about innit? I was a complete twat when a teenager, still am. Over my working life, there has always been schemes to increase employment in deprived areas. Not many seem to work. The few that do seem, on the face of it, successful, are the ones where large nationalised industries closed down and foreign firms were asked to move in i.e. Nissan, Toyota, Honda, Siemens, Sony. On a more general note regarding price, is how the workplace has changed. When I bought my first place in 1981, multiple of earnings was 3 times main income, 1/2 times second income. This is now 4 or 5 times joint, or household, income. So for no extra property, or better quality, you can borrow more to buy it. Now I am not saying that women should be chained to the kitchen sink, quite the opposite, but when banks have those sorts of multiples, prices will rise.

That seems to be the ticket. May get a couple to play with. I considered this for another project, bit costly, even secondhand. I like cheap.

To me that says that the delivery temperature is too high i.e. delivering too much energy in too short a space of time.

Are you sure.

As you are putting in a restriction to an airflow, there will be a pressure difference either side of it. I wonder if it is enough of a drop to easily measure with a couple of cheap sensors (BMP/BME) on a RPi. From that, airflow can be calculated. What do people think?

Isn't this one of those statistical artefacts (neither art or a fact), based on the assumption that there is an idea occupancy for a house? There are hundreds of underused homes down here, many owned by housing associations/private landlords/council. But there is really isn't a housing crisis. There is a problem with price i.e. upcountry rents, poor local wages. It is easy to claim a housing crisis, but without a real definition, it is a meaningless term. It is about as useful a fuel poverty or, council tax poverty, or holiday poverty, broadband poverty....

@Ferdinand It is difficult, probably why our chancellor had just quit. But, not counting chemical addiction, a surplus of a product reduces price, and makes trading easier. It is hard to trade in uranium, but easy to trade in food. If we want a truly sustainable housing market, then we have to do several things. Increase supply Lower barriers to entry Relax planning Increase replacement rates Simplify purchase Productionise construction Clarify building standards And probably a lot more as well.

As does a traditional boiler. But on a new build you could fit both outside in a dedicated area. Just remember that if fitting UFH on the ground floor, more insulation is best practice. Don't get trapped I to thinking building regs are really good enough.

So the same number that are homeless (as opposed to rough sleeping). That is why I mentioned relaxing planning rules.

No. It is the idea that personal housing can supliment income from working. Until that notion is banished, and until we relax and simplify planning, we will have a problem.

With any heating system it had to be sized correctly. As heat pumps generally operate at a lower temperature, the emitters, radiators, under floor pipes, duct heaters or whatever, generally need to be larger (pipes closer together in UFH). GSHP tend to be more expensive to fit and offer little advantage over ASHPs. Though though tend not to freeze up in damp, cold weather, bit of an over stated problem in my opinion. It is worth getting someone that really knows about heat pumps to do the calculations.

I was really thinking about something homemade. May seem odd. But if it makes construction simpler, easier, safer and faster. A simple, cheap hinge, which could be removed and reused seems worth it to me. I always think of you trying to move things into place, on your own. Though you have picked a design that has long lengths.

Why don't they/we design a hinged bracket. That way you can assemble a wall, jack one end up onto the hinges, bolt/screw in place, then lift the wall vertical. Then some sort of locking plate on the bracket. Maybe 3 sided box section instead of two upright plates.

What makes them high tech?

Resilient channel.

What happens at just after 7 AM, and just before 9 AM, and again just after 10 AM. Kettle, showers, or something more sinister?

Really comes down to the spin speed and radius of the drum. https://www.engineersedge.com/physics/centrifugal_force.htm

Overhang could be achieved with an 'add-on'. Basically a pre-manufactured fascia, soffit and appropriate roof slope. Maybe with built in guttering.

Probably due to my toolmaking background, I would make a jig[1]. Basically a steel plate with holes in it that you stand on while drilling.] If I was building a place, I would make lots of jigs, and a decent surface table[2] to build on. [1] Basically bits of plate, box and angle [2] Just an adjustable trellis table on paving slab that is easily adjustable to get level

I put clothes on hangers and hand them from the curtain rail. I open the window a little. Usually dries overnight, worst is 24 hours. Usually it is the back of the house, so North East facing little sunlight. Towels and bed linen I hang from stair banisters, well the dwarf wall to the side of stairs. If I can use the line, washing is blown dry in a couple if hours.

Like snow, what are these trees you speak of.

Take it you have seen this site. https://www.irishvernacular.com/making-timber-frame.html

It is a washer dryer. I think it just tricked water through a small heat exchanger.

I bought a new iron and ironing board in 1984. After a couple if house moves, I binned them. They where still in the packaging. That was 1999.

My dryer is condensing. But I think that it uses cold water which just goes down the drain after. The previous one was an A2A one.