SteamyTea

I often wonder, getting it back to building, what would happen if we all 'thought' differently about the underlying physics and prices. Would be have beautiful ivory towers or carbuncles? Would they be fast to build? Cheap too. How well would they withstand a gale from an unexpected direction. Probably it is a good job that we tend to do what we have, or others have, done. Keeping the status quo is often a good policy. All very exciting what is going to happen.

31st Jan 202? And all this is just to say, 'here is, or isn't, a cheque, now how shall we proceed to the trade and social aspect'. This is going to last longer than the Neverending Story, 1979 to 2016.

Corian is an acrylic polymer, with some alumina trihydrate in it. So no good for putting hot pans on, why it is better as a spashback rather than a counter top.

You are still getting air changes. I left my place sealed up when I went away for a month, it had a strange smell when I got back. Turned the heating on and ventilated more than normal, smell soon went.

The definition and calculations for affordable housing are also a nonsense,

I mentioned that once and got my comment deleted. If one material line becomes too expensive, then another will take its place, it is what substitution is all about. The other thing is that buyers work to a price point i.e. they are unwilling to spend more than x. So that may mean there are more refurbishments and smaller projects as there is more elasticity in the price.

I wrote, rather sarcastically, about the difference between cars and houses a while back. I will come clean, it was not my idea, but one from @Ed Davies a few years back. But here is the link anyway. Building Cars and Houses I do think that we have to seriously reform planning and all the professional fees we pay to build. An old work mate was building two identical houses, so had to pay the timber frame company two lots of fees for architectural and structural work, just imagine if you had to pay the full development costs of a tire for each corner of your car.

I once drove my old Chrysler Alpine about a mile and a half on the starter motor. Just got it rolling, jammed it into second gear and turned the key. Got me home. And no, I had not run out of petrol, was the ignition coil.

We used to make the Corian smaples that were sent out, thousands of them. It is pretty easy to polish up. That gets rid of most marks, scratches and stains. Jewelers Rouge, T-Cut, Farecla or even Jiff/Siff will normally do it. Polished up nice from an 800 grit Wet or Dry rubbing.

That can be dealt with in other ways, maybe a simple autostart after a set period of time. Ambulances are now often dotted around the major roads, rather than at a station. One major parking place for them down here is at Chiverton Cross. The locals get fed up with them ticking over, though they do understand the reasons why. There has to be better ways. VW did some research about this before introducing their stop/start system. They found no appreciable difference in longevity.

Welcome. Which of the 3 pillars of sustainability are you most interested in? Answer that and then you know where to focus your studies.

It is a lot different, just as it was back then. Did I mention old Landover's being driven at 15 MPH while belching out smoke, just to obscure the late indication that they were turning.

First thing to do is a room/area by room/area heat load calculation, and the associated airflows, for your local weather regime. That way, if you do get a professional in, they should realise that you know a bit. If you don't do that, you will never know who is talking sense and who isn't.

How much you got, then double it, add your birthday, and then a bit for a laugh.

A lot of it has to do with the volume of air you need to shift. In a car this is easy as it is small, and the noise is masked. A house is very different. If you really want to control each room, then you need to have a water based heater/chilled in each input duct, and each room will need an extract duct. As well as individual control for each room. Then you will need 2 separate systems, one to heat and the other to cool. Large ductwork as well as separate fans for each room. Fun system to design, install and commission. Would get a really fat user manual too.

I worked at the RNIB head office in London. They had zoned heating, air conditioning and lighting. Was an expensive system, ticked all the boxes for a charity, except one. It was useless.

It was what the British Empire, and buggery, were built on. Probably why I am social liberal and European.

I can believe both of them. It annoys the hell out of me when I see delivery drivers doing it. And Taxi drivers. School run Mums and Dads. Ambulences Neighbour's friends Road Crews. Such an easy thing to do, but very few bother. I turn my engine off when I am at a red light.

How will they leave it ticking over for hours, alongside the Toyota or Landrover pickup, that is ticking over too. Why do farmers only turn the engines off once they are parked back in the shed.

Chaucer and Hardy. Put me off reading for decades. Lewis Carroll's 'Alice' stories where a response to quantum theories, so would have been much more interesting to me.

I went to a posh, minor, public school, never had oysters on the menu. Fought over a small tray of chips once.

This is more a job for air conditioning rather then MVHR. MVHR works on the little and often principle.

Does it really need to be perfect?

Can't you just get a USB wireless adapter?

That is because they are. Just a matter of where you stand really.