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SteamyTea

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  1. "Fluid linearity of space" FLOS
  2. Heard on You & Yours some marketing person talking about 'emotional mechanics' today. That should cover any effect nicely.
  3. Are these those fans that use the heat from the stove to turn s small fan? I have often wondered how much energy can be moved with them. Quick Google and you can get them from Aldi for less.
  4. From what I have read and heard, there is never a good time to use lime. It is either too cold, too hot, too dry, to wet, too sunny, too dark, too windy, too calm. I wonder why people bother with it.
  5. I have seen it used on a loft conversion where it was screwed. Could see nearly every screw because the plaster skim had popped out.
  6. Maybe because it is, in effect, an upfront council tax payment. Different councils charge different amounts. We do get to vote our local councils in and out.
  7. What my cousin did in the 1960s. Ended up with this. We all laughed.
  8. Welcome. Almost in the horror that is Cornwall then. You can smell the special smell of Tavistock though.
  9. Depends how bad the OCD is, really bad cases you get a grant to employ them.
  10. This is often touted by lighting designer for a reason to have more lights. The thing is, less light worked just as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
  11. I had my cataracts changed, sorted that problem, can put a 3 watt build in a room and see fine. I do use a cheap standard lamp for reading in bed, still got a 3 W bulb in it.
  12. I have always been a bit dubious about lighting designers. I worked for one of the largest manufacturers of lighting controllers and diffusers in the UK about 20 years ago (my project was not lighting). Often we would get a lighting designer come in with some great new concept. They were all flakey "designs" and nothing new. We treated them with respect, nodded at the right times, pretended to be enthusiastic, then did a quote for them. That was the end of that. I am very happy that I have not been involved in the business since LEDs have come along, would have been the same old all over again, but with smaller illuminairs and more colours.
  13. CPD hours Teacher 30 hours Engineer 30 hours Veterinary 30 hours Nurse\Midwife 35 hours Medical Doctor 50 hours
  14. Is it really only 99p for the Kindle edition. I have a Kindle. They cost about 40 quid and pretty good.
  15. Looks similar to what that Irish bloke was trying to fob people off with a few years back, along with the interseasonal thermal store.
  16. Not my house, it is the useless architects that designed it. They fell into the trap that small is cheaper, though they also knew that they would never live in something so small. How much would an extra 7m2 really cost.
  17. My living room is 3.5m wide, once you take out the stair case, it is about 2.8m, totally useless space really, it is just a corridor.
  18. Birmingham
  19. With it unplugged, or switched off properly, obviously.
  20. They run at close to the water they are heating temperature, this may not be cooler than the natural airflow they receive in a typical UK setting. Though there are some that can be incorporated with a heap pump, but PV efficiency figures seem hard to come by. There was a large push on these about 12 years ago, there is a reason that we don't see many of them in the UK. They are basically the working of an ordinary domestic fridge, just with the cold bits placed outside and painted black.
  21. How much insulation do you have under it, and what is the U-Value?
  22. Not sure it does offer better PV efficiency. Does keep your walls free of clutter. What sort of floor are you having. Should be called a frost box. They tend to ice up. That is always the case.
  23. The 'P' in swimming pool is also silent.
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