SteamyTea

You only have to draw half of it in CAD, then mirror it. Just make sure you draw the top half, not the left hand side. Rotating it 90° anti-clock, it looks more phallic than gothic.

I went to the same school as Tony Martin. He was considered odd, but he was from Norfolk.

Dudley Moore, Francis Rossi (and his Dad's ice cream), Sarah Pascoe (though a Cornish name), A127 and A13. I still have a soft spot for the place, the mud at Old Leigh.

Just had a quick look at my usage for the 10th Sept. Mean of 243W, total 6.080 kWh It was washing day, so a bit higher than normal. Your 300W is pretty good considering that you run your water systems as well.

Were you charging the car as well? Or was it just a very dull day.

TOWIE

Guilty

An old girlfriend of mine bought a Cornish Unit, got the local builder, who was an expert on them, to do some work. Everything was a surprise to him, he had never seen one like it before. Strange as most were identical copies. So maybe this is something to do with it, hard to get work done on them.

The marginal difference between the cost of lease cars is pretty low though. Not as if these people go out and buy them with earnings they have generated on the last few sales. They may have been getting the blinds from the same company. Reminds of this:

This may be worth a listen to understand things a bit more. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00088mc

True, we overvalue diamonds and celebrities and undervalue clean water and social care.

That is more a reflection of his customers shallowness than any real, measurable, business methodology. If someone turned up in a £100k car and was selling an identical product to a man in a cheap suit and a wobbly Vectra, I would pick the one that was offering the best service. If you make business decisions based on emotion, it is time to retire.

Never looked into it too closely. There is evaporation losses, which are disproportionately high for and semi absorbent material, not that glass should be. May have to spend a few minutes looking it up. A friend of mine has a similar type house. She had a similar conversion done, may ask her what calculations were done. She did not have to worry about neighbours wall as her place is end of terrace.

I said I am a special case. Am not bitter, other may be. But are you capable of doing all the H&S, Food Standards and Employer paperwork on your own. Do you get, by law, inspected every 2 years and have those results in the public domain. And that is before TripAdvisor reviews.

It is those loses. I can't remember where the figures are published, but a few online calculators state it. I am not 100% sure that just the u-value of a window takes this into account. Here is one: https://insulationcart.com/knowledge/u-value-calculations/what-is-a-u-value-and-how-to-calculate-it/130

You can. I am a special case though as I moved down here for other reasons and only play at working. My background is very different from my current job. I work in catering, because it is a reliable income (I live in a seasonal holiday part of the country). The usual wage for a chef, down here, is around £18,000/year. Half the year is compressed into 3 months though. Other staff, are generally on minimum wage and zero hours contract. State benefits often pay a lot better than working. Why I have no problem with people on benefits. And they get to go surfing. To put things into perspective, a mate of mine works a an engineer in the renewable energy field (properly qualified and chartered) and earns less than me. He is not unusual. I don't work in the RE field any more, too many interns and 'professional' that know very little. As for 'spending 7 years' training. I spent that many too, not counting my apprenticeship in toolmaking.

You said it. But if a VT is earning around £12/hour, your staff will be earning less, say £10/hour. Which is what I said a mystic at the seaside is worth. Just for a laugh, cut one persons pay, and increase another, give it 6 months and see if the productivity has changed. Productivity does not correlate with pay very well.

That is just the steady state value. There are surface affects that will increase the losses. I think they are in the Building Regs. That is exactly the time I see spelling and grammar errors.

Under floor heating

Slight difference as the vehicle technician, to use the correct term, is probably paid a fifth of what it charged. Do you only get about a fifth of the practice fees? Also, if a VT makes a mistake, the consequences can be serious. Thankfully this does not happen too much.

This is an old problem. One of the colleges I was at narrowed the corridors. This forced people to interact more. That was in the 1970s. Open plan, hot desk offices have been a disaster too. People need control of their space and how it is shared with others. The film Brasil springs to mind.

Nice one, have you been to Milton Keynes, Sorry Adam, sure you have heard them all before. And welcome. It is a type of sub base. I have no idea what it stands for. Think it is a type of gravel/rubble/stone/aggregate. One for the abbreviations thread, it may be in there.

Did anyone?

There will be about 20% less energy because the modules take that away. There is also convection currents, which says to me that microinverters should be positioned at the bottom of the module. The fact that inverters are very reliable, implies that temperature is not a huge problem.