SteamyTea

I never remember which way around they are. Is a TS a normal cylinder, and a UVC the one with the coil heat(s) exchanger in it only? They seem to be used interchangeably too much for my liking.

Not really as the water in the thermal store is not the water that you bath in, that just comes from the mains via the coil in the cylinder. And, as far as I know, there has not been a proven case of Legionnaires Disease in the domestic environment.

Would look good cast in clear resin.

No idea. It was built in 1987, so probably plot, an old scrap yard, was sold 3 years before that. Really sad things they could have been built bigger if more imagination had been used. Had a discussion with caliwag on his blog about it.

The 4 m by 7 m are the outside dimensions. It is on two levels, so that is 56 m2. It then looses half a metre because of walls, so 3.5m by 6.5m. 45.5 m2. Then there is the small porch for the front door (where you can't easily open both doors at the same time. Cornwall has many small places like this (several hundred around the corner from me). And yes, it is chalet sized.

Turn it off before you go away maybe.

4 by 7ish 48 m2 in total internal space. One of the reasons that I bang on about small housing being dreadful. There are 6 houses where I am, and 15 people, soon to be 16. So that will be 18 m2 per person. Once you take away kitchens, bathroom and stairway, hall and landing, you are down to ~12 m2. Some vehicles are larger.

Still bigger than the footprint of my house.

http://www.circularecology.com/embodied-energy-and-carbon-footprint-database.html

It is normal to oversize an ASHP, so you may well find that the 12 kW is the better fit. Under the old RHI rules, the ASHP had to supply enough energy 99% of the time before any suplimentary heating is required. Was a sensible rule.

Anyone else put up wall paper that looks like @Onoffroof? Should have used anaglypta.

Mate of mine bought a house of her. I said put a blue plaque up, but then, most houses in Bucks and Berks could claim she slept there.

This forum likes off-grid, I think most members would go for it if it was cost effective. Our Jeremy is a mine of information about water systems. He build his own.

Spotted this new charging point today. Be ok for a very short car with a good turning circle.

Same price as secondhand walk on glazing. Is that the IT equivalent of making sure something is useful when you put it in a premade hole.

The Portuguese have a saying "nothing good comes from Spain, not the wind or the men". You can check that saying out as you look to be on the border.

Won't Labour nationalise your network and insist that your neighbours can use it for nothing. Why worry about how fast the LAN is when we will be forced to use dial up because the repairs have not happened.

That is proper management. Carrot and stick is needed for the donkeys.

Do you see much difference in traffic on your actual road in summer. I have a decrease as the schools are shut. To put it into perspective, the extra traffic cost me an hour a week. My commute to work is unaffected. And I live less than 2 miles from Cornwall's second greatest visitored attraction.

Welcome. Ah Spain, where drains run uphill. I got a notebook and pencil, so I can be your Project Manager, I can swear in Spanish.

I go walking a lot, generally, the people that say hello, are the holiday makers. The Cornish are an insular bunch, they tend to shout rather than talk normally "Right on my Hanzum". Free parking is an interesting one. There is loads of free parking in Penzance, luckily, most people use the car parks. But, and I think this is because there is free parking, people park very badly. Just yesterday there was a car taking up 3 spaces, and this is not unusual. Not 20 feet from it was another car taking up 2 spaces. So where you can park 9 cars, 5 were parked. Our traffic wardens are bastards, I have had more tickets down here than anywhere else. Usual for minor things like staying 12 minutes too long on my ticket, not realising that next to the main car park is a private car park, not realising that the road was part of the car park. Very bad signage. And holiday makers park alongside the life boys, stops anyone using them. I did watch someone spend ages getting into a very tight space. He knew I found it amusing that he had made a hash of it. Waited until his family had got out, then pointed out that it was no parking because of the lifebelt. His reply 'there is no effing water in the harbour'. He did reluctantly move his car.

don't you find that gets tiring.

To put tourism into perspective, Cornwall has 5 million tourists a year. That is the population of Scotland moving in, mostly in August. They also don't go into the middle bit much, but tend to go to the coastal towns, so that is two small ribbons. They old locals complain bitterly about the traffic, but it is nothing compared to my old commute from Aylesbury to Richmond was like, 20 years ago. The biggest problem I find is that emmets get confused easily, so when they are not sure what they are doing, they do something stupid.

No, my external temperature is 5°C higher. As you have an old place, that is quite large, I think 50 to 60 kWh/day when it is ~2°C outside is not that bad. Your home is nearly 8 times larger than mine.

You lot have no real idea what holiday driving is like.