SteamyTea

Not odd to me. Most yacht owners car very little about how the boat is actually made, same as most car owners don't know how a re is made, and most house owners too. As I said earlier, the industry is not very professional. What are you talking about, you seem to have no concept of the process at all, but you do seem to have a lot of opinion. Apologies if that seems blunt.

If your cabled stuff is working well, then not a problem with your actual service. Are you just expecting too much from a cheap domestic router. How many wireless devices are connecting? You could try changing the Wi-Fi channel. They tend to start at the beginning and stick there. I changed mine to number 8 I think. Mainly because there is 6 houses here, so assumed , 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 could be taken. Chances are they were all in the first 2. Made no difference, so now hotspot from my phone and get a very reliable and fast can connection (limited to a 5 MB line where I am, but neighbour is happy to pay for a 20 MB line, mug).

Mine would be to pre-laminate sheets in a controlled environment, while weather is dry, then just laminate up the joints. Cheaper, better, faster and nicer to do.

Too true, I met loads of them. The really sad but is that they don't save much time and tend to use more materials. Even gelcoat spraying is a problem because of uneven thickness. Mind you, gelcoats are a problem full stop.

@epsilonGreedy. There are many reasons that you get delamination, star cracking and other problems. I could write a book about it, but the trouble is, the industry is small, and to put it bluntly, not professional. I had great trouble employing people from within the industry, opting in the end, to train people up. Now when you consider that some of my products are still on the front of Aston Martins, after nearly 40 years, with some other building related products still spoofing people into believing they are genuine stone, I feel qualified to comment. The British boat industry does not have a good record of mass production, but companies like Princess and Sunseeker made good products (got thrown off the Sunseeker stand at Earls Court boat show for pointing out there bad model making. Had the same problem with Mitsubishi too, but they were Colt Cars in them days). Oh happy days they were, I still itch.

Was not random at all. I just happened to be in the industry as some new system came into place. This gave me the opportunity to compare them. Soon nailed the problem. It helped that I was dealing with high temperatures and humidity levels of 100%. So could quickly 'rapid age' materials. If you want to know the solution I found, then get your cheque book out.

Just a few drops of water is enough to stop the curing process. What I suspect has happen is, as mentioned, there is a poor bond between the OSB and the initial layer, or layers of GRP. What would concern me, and would need investigation, is where is the water getting in from. Without knowing that, any replacement may just not work. I developed an osmosis proof GRP system about 30 years ago. Some of the parts are still doing sterling service. They system is for sale, but not cheap. £100k should cover it.

So am I

I seem to remember that they also look at the possibility of people paying the loan at a higher rate than it is borrowed at. So if you borrow at 5%, the banks have actually calculated at 8%. In the recent past this did not happen and even a small rate increase caused defaults. There is also a big difference in secured and unsecured loans, different criteria for different goods. Quite simple, cash is king. If you can save £8,000/year buy moving in with parents, do so. It is £160/week in your pocket, buys a lot of plasterboard. A bit more here: https://www.duncanyeardley.co.uk/news/buying-a-home/what-is-mortgage-affordability-criteria.html https://www.clearscore.com/mortgages/mortgage-affordability-assessments http://www.intermediaries.hsbc.co.uk/criteria/residential-lending-criteria.html

Which end of Cornwall are you. Half hour from the Tamar is kind of Bodmin/St. Awful.

You can download the 5 minute generation by fuel type from Gridwatch. Then add in the Tonnes CO2/MWh for each fuel type. You could then try extrapolating into the near future to get an idea of what to expect. I think there are also a number of government reports on the DECC site. They have proved to be pretty robust.

Crop spraying?

Long time since I had to do MCS RHI compliance, but there used to be a rule that you had to work out total heat loss and make sure the heat pump could supply that 99% of the time. Was not difficult as you have all the info anyway.

Sensors in the MVHR are useful as they give a mean house and external air temperature reading.

Or can you just follow there rules and claim to be a competent person. More probably global prices dropping.

May have been. Last evening the wind speed dropped where I am, this meant the house had lower losses through ventilation and through the external wall surfaces. A sprinkling of rain in a wall can increase losses because of evaporation, but never worked out by how much, it is rare to get those sort of shower days here.

Looking into the real differences between building methods. Do you have any permanent temperature data logging going on?

I bought a cheap, twin impeller, pump from Screwfit. Similar to this one: https://www.screwfix.com/p/salamander-pumps-ct50-xtra-regenerative-twin-shower-pump-1-5bar/20423 Just connect to a hot pipe, the F&E tank, the mains via an RCD/MCB and isolator. Been working fine for last 13 years. I do have very soft water though.

Thanks.

@NSS What is your house made of?

Not dark here yet. But it seems to heading towards parity considering that there is usually a 2° to 3°C temp difference inside a house.

Check it later as well. See if the temperature equalises once the sun goes down.

And greedy.

I think that part of the reason to use EV batteries connected to the grid is to give the impression that energy storage is cheap and versatile. Really just a method of shifting the cost to some consumers.

I read stuff, more the academic papers. I shall look at my bookshelf and see what I have. A lot of it is obvious though and then just goes into a well crafted rant. What would be good is some more basic science stuff. Thinking that showing people why CO2, and other gases, actually changes the thermodynamics of the atmosphere. Some basic statistics would help to. Too many people think that a temperature rise is just like turning the heating up. They don't grasp how a different climate regime changes the variability.