SteamyTea

Welcome Quite a few people here have had planning problems, how deeply do you get involved in that side of it, and what creative solutions are there. Re the actual building of houses, most on here are aiming for low energy usage, but take different construction techniques to get there.

The council has put in some recycled plastic benches nest me. They look alright and don't wobble like the old timber ones.

I am going to buy some bananas and live in a republic. Oh hang on...

Get some reticulated foam, it comes in many 'pore' sizes. It is washable and if bought from the manufacturer/processor, pretty cheap. These are the people we used when making air filters (both small and very large). http://www.foamengineers.co.uk/

If you make something from cast concrete, it does become almost permanent and very costly to change or dispose of. Can't you do something with timber and rammed earth?

Is that the year or the hour?

Raining here, but that is nothing special for August. VID_20190828_120813334.mp4

NFC as well. That is Camborne, not Cornwall.

Pervert. These are popular in Penwith. Goes well with flip-flops.

We had industrial vinyl tiles in the kitchen at work, we dreadful. Most if us had fallen over on a wet patch. No point asking me what make they were, I have no idea. Actually, I have no idea what the new flooring is called, not perfect, but a lot better. I think it is Altro.

Proper walking boots have no grip on wet granite. And climbing shoes have no grip on grass.

I slipped and broke my pelvis a few years back, hurt like hell it did. Totally recovered and have had no pain since. Until I read this, now it is twinging. Thanks. Question: Did Elvis the Pelvis have a brother called Enos?

Why not just get an app for your phone, some bluetooth earbuds and stop annoying everyone else with local radio.

This used to happen in the franchised motor trade a lot. What happens is that say, Vauxhall, gave you a quota that you had to sell, regardless of whether they could supply the cars or not. So what would happen is that at the beginning of the period, there was little discount, at the end of the period, there were huge discounts. Then it was made worse when there was over production and they forced more cars onto the dealers. These were often sold well below cost. The last 2 cars I bought were 'incentive' cars and got 20% of list. So it may be worth Buildhub member getting together and asking for quotes at different times, see if the prices change.

Most of it is about running a household, very little is bedtime reading.

@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.