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And Australia, USA, Canada, China, Russia, and possibly Cornwall one day. Not unusual to ship raw materials and finished goods, hard to think of anything that isn't. Transporting by ship is probably the lowest cost, most fuel efficient and least polluting method there is. There will be a report that shows different. What reports do. A million what? It is still combustion, and often the environmental damage is still greater than burning fossil fuels. Again, there are reports that argue it both ways. There still needs to be an EV that does 400 miles between charges, but my car ha passed its MOT, it did need new brakes on the front, but they lasted 140,000 miles almost. So what is all this My car is almost 13 years old, and will last another year I hope.

It is really do do with the user interface, not what goes on behind the scenes. My car is in for the MOT at the moment, been lent a Toyota, even though things are different, I can still work it. Shame the IT industry does not take the same approach.

How useful us this eCO2 sensor? https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/adafruit-sgp30-air-quality-sensor-breakout-voc-and-eco2

If he heat pump and the emitters (radiators, UFH, forced air or whatever) are size correctly, there will not be a problem. I think the problem is, that as a nation, we are used to the idea of a gas boiler. There is nothing inherently wrong with a gas boiler, they are cheap to buy and install, are small, can throw out a lot of heat, but also throw out a lot of pollution. There is nothing to stop a house having UFH and radiators, even in the same room, if that is what is needed (what is wanted is another thing).

Can you explain why not? It may loose the CoP as temperature rises, but if you have enough storage at the lower temp an ASHP can easily deliver at, where is the problem.

4th window from left. Quality Cornish building.

@Crofter Not sure if you have sourced this yet, But I was in a place called MacSalvors (very well known don here for odds and sods), they have some channel that is what sounds like you are after. Give them a call, and if you have no luck closer to home, I can get you some and post it up. https://www.macsalvors.com/

Just to add to this, @joe90 knows a thing or two about dealing with Devonshire planning people. Probably mentioning his name will get you whatever you want.

At least you are not paying Cornish water rates to get rid of rainwater. Rained every day for 31 days here. Not a record by any means, have known it to rain for 66 days. Probably still worth putting a bit of mass into it, just in case. Or making sure, that if it does rise, no serious/expensive damage is done.

Welcome As most people say, land is the hard bit. Around Plymouth is also a restricted I think, Cornwall is not so bad. Have you considered find a wreck of a house, but in a location that you like, then either refurb, or in a few years knock down and rebuild. It is very easy to get locked into detail at the very beginning i.e. I must have XYZ. You could also go looking for an existing log cabin or even a static caravan (old girlfriend of mine had one just outside Moretonhampstead), then look at doing things on the site.

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The problem is logging CO2 is expensive. But you really don't need to as RH is a good indicator, though not an accurate of actual CO2 PPM. Then there is how many areas you want to monitor. If you have MVHR, you can easily stick 4 sensors in the duct work and monitor the whole house and the external temperature. As for rolling your own, it really is not hard, and you can design it to get the data of in a format that you want, rather than what some spotty millennium thinks you want. Only about 15 things are needed. A Raspberry Pi Zero W 4 DHT22s Temp/RH sensors 4 Resistors An RTC (Real Time Clock). Memory Card Serial to USB cable PSU (Power Supply Unit) Wire Box to put it in I am sure one of us could knock you up an image for the memory card that will make it all work.

Why not pour some gravel into the IBCs, a third of the way up (or so). That should stop them floating away when the water table moves.

I have a number of questions about this. Do you fancy starting something in Boffins Corner?

There are quite cheap modules on Alibaba, from under $0.25/W

The panel degradation is a tricky calculation, similar to German cars in a way. Many panels were sold with a minimum output, this was achieved by having panels that started overrated. So a 250W module may well have been a 275W module. But the degradation was based from 250W. My Mother always bought Mercedes for 30 years, she thought the depreciation was lower. I pointed out that it was calculated on the base model and did not take into account any extras, and as anyone who bought a Mercedes in the 70's, 80's and 90's knows, everything was an extra.

Yes KISS again

So if I get this right, you want to make a "wedge" of PU foam to go around the window upstand, so that the water will always roll downhill, yes? If that is the case, just get working with the saw, rasp and sandpaper on your celotex offcuts. To hold it all in place, try sticking it down with gelcoat. One think to remember is that matt does not like to wrap around an external corner, so a big radius is needed. Much bigger than it looks like you already have.

Yes, PU sheet is the way to go. You can get it with a glass fibre tissue covering, makes it much nicer to handle and uses less resin when you come to lay it up. Any chances of some pictures. Failing that, corrugated cardboard.

I heard you never use it as a rule.

Can you flush gallons of water down everything, talking a tonne or two, not a bucket. See if it goes away, or backs up. Maybe with some bleach to act as a marker smell.

Probably was that, just relayed to me very badly.

On one hand. Must have been all that Black Forest Gateaux.

I herd it from a Porthleven fisherman, and from a supplier. Though, like all tales from fishermen, it is hard to know for sure.

Keep sea bass, you are only allowed to catch one now. North Sea fisheries are currently closed to cod fishing I think. Eat Haddock, for Cod's sake.