SteamyTea

@Ferdinand Just collecting evidence for when I get around to writing up my bit about the effects of mass on temperature.

I stayed in a friends new built house in Manchester. The water tank was in the spare bedroom cupboard. The room was too hot (and I like the heat), noisy and because it was also an airing cupboard, humid. I did not stay a second night.

So enough to wire up 50 houses. This is the old joke about asking my Chinese neighbour about how many rolls of wall paper he bought to decorate his front room. He said he bought 9, so I bought 9. Decorated the room and had 5 left over. When I challenged him about it, he sad he had 5 left over too.

Does it log the time it uses energy. Know that is quite important if you want to change to time of day tariffs. Then you can knock up something like this and analysis it properly.

Or I can just quote economic principles in a forceful and outright manner. If I was female, it would be called assertiveness. But I am not, so I shall just insult general principles and entrenched ideals. I am doing my best. (not using emojis as I don't want people to know if I am serious or not)

Home made one. Failing that, get an old Current cost one from eBay, link it to a raspberry pi, ask for some software (a few of us use them), log for a few weeks, then dissect the data.

Was that why they had vinyl seats, there is something special about remembering sitting in the MK 3 estate (2 litre auto in beige) in the South of France summers. I could piss myself and mother just assumed it was pre puberty sweat.

Have you heard of the economic principle called 'division of labour'. Was coined by a Scot. Now what can I add to this to get the thread locked, or even deleted.

Have you done breakdown of your electrical usages. It is worth knowing how much goes to heating space, water, food ect. If you haven't, get an energy logger so you do know.

They both discolour. The best for UV protection should be acrylic, but as they add so much fillers into it, I suspect it is no better than any other. I am not sure what difference colour will make, reds where always terrible for aging. Black went grey, white went grey, clear went grey, blue went grey, as did yellow and green. Maybe grey is the best colour.

So no better than a timber frame place for limiting temperature then.

I had one as a runaround company car 20 years ago. They are better now. I have to say that as I have a C-Max. Ford stands for Fix or Repair Daily.

It has never occurred to me to leave messages. I might just start, on my neighbour's house.

What size is this new house.

What is the house made from?

All this to end up with a Ford Focus MK 1?

And he was a pipe fitter.

Looks like something Colin Furse would make.

When I was young we lived in France and were looking for a house, some of them had bidets in the bathrooms. I asked my older sister what they were for. "Washing the babies in" she said. To which the French Estate Agent relied, in perfect English. 'No, they are for washing the babies out'

I think I have cracked it.

And the size of the plot. I may be a brownfield infill, or a 1000 acre farm.

Would that be to store the regalia or to get more people in. Thankfully webcams are very small now and no need to carefully store, out of harms way, VHS tapes.

Like skirting boards. Some things should just be banished, forever. Makes it easy to work out the cost as you know how much you get, what hours there are in a year, how many you spent working on the house each year (probably about 10,000 out of every 8760), to get 90% finished.

@JSHarris Taking just your wiring, as an example of a quirk of costing. You helped a newly qualified electrician, did you cost in your labour, or write that off. As a general observation, would it be possible to find out how many metre squared the big house builders have done and work out the price from that. And how does that compare to the price of other things. Say cars, boats, caravans, graves, offices. I really think that this sort of calculation is valueless and totally pointless. But fun all the same. What may be more useful is breaking it down into component parts, then compare the quotes to the actual price paid. Could then make a game from it.

Buyer's Regret is a well studied psychological condition. I take great pleasure when I see a small child cry, say when their ice cream or chips are taken by a seagull. Even funnier when it happens to grown ups.