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Perfect, I am off to squat in it.

20 seconds googleing round contemporary houses images. I want one that looks like the Star Ship Enterprise

"No one ever lost their job by choosing IBM"

You can have radiators with and ASHP, they just need to have a larger surface area. Those days are gone, so no point even regretting it. Depending on where you are in the UK, the house orientation and your expected electrical usage, they can save you a lot more than £100/year. As Dave says, it is a key point to the design of a house. Ar you having MVHR fitted.

Any particular reason why you don't want to use this? As @ProDavesays, use both. If you design it in the from the start, the costs do not have to be prohibitive. A roof with an integrated PV system may be cheaper than a conventional roof, and it can help with limiting summer temperatures. An ASHP is best used with underfloor heating. This means that you should put in more floor insulation than building regs suggest. Building Regulations are only setting a minimum, not hard or that costly to improve on them.

The main thing is that the optimised modules are giving out about the same power. This shows that the system is working as well as it can.

Not really. Shading, in effect, turns a module into a resistor. I often wonder how shading impacts the longevity of modules, but a decent inverter should minimise that. Individual inverters on shaded modules is the best method.

Used to be called High Heavens, because of the smell I guess. Many a Saturday afternoon spent traipsing up there and watching the seagulls, about as far in land as they get. Shall being a few more up in next trip to see family. Down here, the local tips are staffed by pig ignorant tossers, except Helston. So that is where my rubbish goes. Having said that I always get a 'Deliverance ' moment when I go there and hear Duelling Banjos for the rest of the day.

Right, I must remember that just in case I feel the need to derail a topic. I wonder how hard it would be to make ones own extractor for a hob. Just a fan and an intake. Pipe work would need to run downhill all the way to get rid of water.

Did I miss the bit about ventilation/extraction for this hob. Tempted to get one, and the oven that came up with it.

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My Father was in the RAF 1939. He was sent to Buffalo for his initial training. They were looking for some volunteers, stupidly my Father put himself forward (was 18 and naive). They got him to take some pills and then monitored his performance over several hours. 3 days later my Father had still not slept. They had put him on amphetamine. There is not a lot to do in Buffalo at night.

You will convince yourself that the more you spend, the better the coffee is. You don't want Buyer's Regret.

Is it just me or does it seems a small plot to put a £200,000 build on.

That is what a proper washing machine should look like. I suspect that they learned a lesson a decade so back. If I had room, I would have separate dryer. If I put a dryer in, I would loose 8.75% of my kitchen. Actually I could live quite happily without a dryer. I just hang things on hangers from the curtain rail. Open the window and let the draft do its stuff. I never understand why people dry clothes on dedicated dryers in the middle of the house.

My Bosch has 9 buttons and one dial. My old Bosch had 1 button and 2 dials. I seems to remember that the Candy combi I looked had 10 buttons and 2 dials. And a screen that would put early Teslas to shame. I use two settings for my washing 40°C (takes 50 minutes) and 90°C takes longer. I hardly ever use the 90°C. And why do we have 3 options where the soap goes. What is that all about.

Try Blue Sparkle instead. Keeps me going at work but does not seem to stop me sleeping. Though I do run around like a teenager at work for several hours and it is often over 30°C.

I have a Bosch one now as I did a few years back, as does my Mother, all of them still working fine. Second choice, but the new ones have more controls and displays than NASA did 50 years ago. Certainly not as quick, or takes as large a load. But occasionally I have used the tumble on mine and after 2 hours things seem fine. Probably used it 10 times in 10 years and not used it in last 3 years I think. I can't comment on all the other posh ones, but my experience of Hoover and Hotpoint has not been good. One of them had a plastic drum, bearing went after about 14 months. After some argument about being out of warrantee and fit for purpose, I got my money back, plus 100 quid. Bought the Bosch. I think the trick is to not overload them and keep the speed speed down to 800 RPM. Soft water helps, though I never had to change an element when living in Aylesbury, and the water is actually solid there.

Welcome I am no expert as not borrowed money for a house in over 30 years now. But usually it seems that you arrange to borrow a fixed sum, but you get it in stages. The lender will not release more money until the agreed stage i.e. foundation, is actually in place and signed off. What they will not do is expose themselves to a greater financial risk. So by, in effect, owning your land, they know they can get something back at the start. So you hand over £100k of land, they lend you £35k to put a foundation in. This may increase the value to say £115k. They will then lean you another £35k to get walls and roofs fitted, increasing the value to £140K. Why I stopped borrowing money.

There was a documentary about Ronan Point a few years back. One of the workers was actually laughing about how they saved time, and therefore earned more, by skipping on the number of bolts that held the place together. Should be locked up if he is still alive.

They get tea in my house, they don't come back, not even the Jehovahs.

So he did, can see it clearly now I am back on the laptop, rather than the Kindle.

Just looked this up and it retails at £500. It has a power draw of 1450W. Let us say that it is on for 2 hours a day in total (a few heat and cool cycles rather than permanently on). So costs, before coffee and water, and assuming it will last 5 years (pure guess) That is about 50p a day in power, 30p a day for the machine. So 80p a day before the cost of coffee. Quick look at Tesco website and they have kilo of Lavazza beans for £13.75. Assuming 10g per drink, that is 14p per mug allowing for wastage. Now if I got machine at home, it would only be on for 20 minutes to make my one coffee a day, so that would be 7p for electric, 37p including the machine, 41p including the coffee. So I would save £2/day. And the 32 mile round trip at 45 MPG.

Since, and including the 7th July, until, and including yesterday (20/07/2019), I used 79.3 kWh, what is and average of 5.7 kWh/day. Isn't that 2.8 kWh/day

You kept those on while away, why?