SteamyTea

Thanks. Thought it may be something like that.

It seems strange to me that we have local housing plans that says we need more housing, then we have laws that say we cannot develop some of the land because of a tree. I have always though that in Switzerland if it was not compulsory, it was illegal, but in the UK we seem to have laws that say you must do this, and then other laws stopping you. May be worth asking a few people that are desperate for a home what they think. I live in an area of the UK that has very few trees, this is after living in an area that had lots. I can't honestly say that lack of trees is what is affecting my wellbeing.

Does it make the bleach less effective, or just clog things up?

Why do you need to use unthickened bleach? Is it the thickening agent that is the problem, or is the bleach less effective?

Can you please elaborate on what this means? 'Instantaneous current is infinite' When an inductive load is started, the current draw is often much greater than the running draw. This can cause a voltage drop, which makes the current draw even higher. Current leads voltage on an AC system. To over come this 'soft start' devices are fitted to limit the initial current, this reduces the voltage drop. This is why DNOs asks if you are fitting a heat pump, they may assume larger cables are needed, even though the fuse is the same rating. Vpeak = IinR, where Vpeak = √2(V) E = CV2/2 https://sciencing.com/types-electrical-loads-8367034.html

What makes you think it will be that cheap. Ask 10 damp specialists and they will give you ten different answers, and they will all be over £1000.

You going to question him about his nightly download.

Half of zero, is still zero.

Ah, Dilly Barlow. Think she was on Woman's Hour. I am intouch with my feminine side.

I use Thunderbird for my email, if I want to send a very large file, it gives me an option to use FileLink. Never actually bothered with it, but may be work a go. Create some pop3 email account, set up Thunderbird and see what happens. Alternaltively, you could use something like TeamViewer, VNC, think you can transfer files on a P2P basis.

Took an old girlfriend and her 12 year old son up there to show them it one evening. As we walked back to the car, at dusk, amazing things were going on in the parking area. Must pop up there again on a warm evening.

Like the UK, both those countries have different climate regimes. So may work well in one part, and be rubbish in another. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with them, and would suit my house quite nicely (I have a bit of space below the bedroom windows) and should be easy to fit. But I really cannot see any advantage over a small ASHP to be honest, which would be even easier to fit as it sits on the ground.

Our garage workshop was the same. But hangers and old, leaky, workshops are special cases. For a house, even built to minimum regs, it should be possible to heat the air directly and just let the rest come up to temperature naturally. If I had more time, I would have a stab at working out the duct sizes, but down in St. Ives all morning 'gripping and grinning'. Something I hate doing.

I seem to remember that Channel 5 was the first to broadcast digitally from Carn Brae. You can see that mast, at night, all over the country (well not quite, but a fair slice of Cornwall). Not sure where the digital radio mast is, but when it rains heavily, DAB stops.

As soon as I see 'works like a refrigerator in reverse' I get annoyed. They work the exactly the same as a refrigerator, just that the cold bit is outside and the warm bit inside.

What amazes me, is that after 60 odd years of centrally heating homes (on a mass scale, I know the Romans had a go at it), radiant heating has never taken off. Not as if we have not been able to manufacture electrical radiant systems until recently. I think the UFH would have been the norm, even though it is not the most efficient, if we had not had a vast stock of housing to retrofit in the late 60's and during the 70's. Retrofitting, along with a relatively cheap gas supply, was the only economical option for home owners then. I don't know how much our 'too cheap to meter' nuclear program cost us in the early days, but I suspect the government of the day spent more on gas installations. I can remember the gas man coming around our house and changing the jets because of the swap from town gas to natural gas. I also think that the selling of radiant heating systems relies on the general public's lack of knowledge. How often do we hear it being compared to an open fire or the sun. While the effect is similar, the temperatures involved are very different i.e sun is about 6000°C, a fire is about 600°C. But what really amazes me is that we are now, in effect, fitting two heating systems to new builds. We have an UFH, radiator or forced air radiator system, then we add on heat recovery and ventilation. Some even put a duct heater in for heating and cooling into the MVHR. Why are we not combine the two from the start? We have had hot air heating systems for decades, and though there have been problems with them in the past, mainly noise and burning dust, I am sure these can be over come with better design and modern control systems. Yes you would need bigger ducts, but if you double the diameter of a standard MVHR pipe, you can quadruple the mass air flow rate for the same air speed. Has anyone ever worked out what size ducting and air flow rates would be needed for a modern, relatively low energy house? Probably not as large or complicated as people think.

It is worth zipping and encrypting just as good practice.

40 higher than my heat load.

Down here, in Cornwall, the RH has been high. Can always tell by how quick the freezers ice up.

Kind of shows that functionality, is setting the price. Not size. The market is a complicated place, it is also driven by irrationality.

So does that not show that it is the amount that can be borrowed is setting the price, rather than the build cost?

What planet you from. One with very low gravity.

@Ed Davies Could that not be done, in time, with NFC. Just tap the device to the phone, router, box of tricks and let it set itself up. Might also be a way to hard wire in encryption.

Oddly, since getting a half decent smart phone, I use it more. I like that I can go for a walk and see how my steps match my heart rate, the route I have walked, speeds and climbs. I can also post nonsense on websites, find out the time of tides, take pictures etc etc.

They probably meant that particular model, that weighed the same as a motorcycle battery, had limited coverage (a term that was not associated to the technology at the time), was very expensive etc etc. I think people wanted a mobile phone, and could see the benefits, they just did not like what was offered at the time. Bit like the the Matra/Renault Rancho. Now the best selling cars are based on the same concept.