SteamyTea

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.

Don't hedge funds pay the minimum they can get away with, while hoping the project fails. That way they get a bigger slice of the saleable asset.

If going for export payments/FiTs, then the meter has to be by the main import meter I seem to remember. It is so that only exports/generation after system losses are metered.

But as flat as your site. And it is still only 1989 there.

Conversely there are greater problems of creating new ghettos. The trouble with a ghetto is that it drops to the lowest factors of acceptability, rather than somewhere acceptable for most people. One bad neighbour, or an absent landlord, can ruin the everyday life for a few dozen people. That cannot happen is more dispersed housing. There was a bit about it on the news. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-49837050

10 minutes at 100°C and supper is ready.