SteamyTea

I have not read all this thread, and my suggestion is never popular with plumbers. Have you looked into installing a small VENTED cylinder. You may get away with having 2 kW element in it. And you can do a lot of the work yourself. And no certification on the water side. I have a 200 lt E7 cylinder, way to big really. Could get away with half the volume, even running it at 50°C. Could get more storage if I ran it hotter (when guests come). I have a pumped shower, flow rate is about 11 lt/min. No one has ever complained and a few have commented how good it is.

Pay on a credit card, the bank takes the risk then.

That's interesting, never thought about it. Probably no more than 3.68 kW or 16A. But I suspect smaller. But they are not off-grid or islanding systems.

If I set up a hotspot, offered a registration via email, I wonder how many people would set up a password that is the same as the email one.

I was thinking: "Got noisy kids, go elswhere" If that is too many letter, I can change the 'elsewhere' to away. If that is still too many, maybe "F_Off"

All dodging the floods. 18.25°C at 31/07/2019 14:44

It is interesting this group of mixed devices connecting. I got for a coffee and steal the internet. Usually my Android Phone and Kindle connect just fine. Now the summer is here, but even when cafe is quiet, it takes a while to connect both the devices. As an aside, I am thinking of changing my phones hotspot name. It is a rather boring one at the moment. Not sure if I should just give it a rude name, humours name, or a rant. Is there a word limit?

Can use Bluetooth to swap files too.

Thought you were going to say you have an urge to punch them.

Would be a MicroSoft conspiracy, Linux people are to disorganised to organise one. Don't Apple throttle the Wi-Fi to save battery life. Without, initially, letting on to their fiercely loyal, educated, rich, unbiased users.

Carrying on from what @scottishjohn has said. Many large renewable projects were installed a decade ago for a limited life on a site. There is a good chance that life will be extended. Even without replacement, some of these sites will produce very cheap power. Large scale storage is now about £10/MWh. If you add in the production costs of say £30/MWh, then you are getting reliable power at 4p/kWh wholesale. That is about as cheap as it gets.

You don't need much moisture to ruin the layup. I once spilled a few drops of tea in the mat cutting bench. Next person did not notice as they used it, long story short, a ruined moulding. But I managed to repair the damage. Would have been quicker to remake it though.

Would be a MicroSoft conspiracy, Linux people are to disorganised to organise one.

That may not report correctly if there is a problem with all the Apples. Borrow an Android and see if that behaves the same. This may help in clearing up the IP table: https://community.bt.com/t5/Home-setup-Wi-Fi-network/Removing-Wireless-Device/td-p/1703717

Too right. And I know you know a lot more about it that most. If you try to lay up onto something wet, it stops the exothermic reaction dead. It just does not cure where it is damp. I can see why the British boat building industry was so bad at one stage when nonsense like this is talked about as fact.

Ongoing maintenance. I used to design, supply and fit spa baths, small swimming pools, saunas, plunge pools, steamrooms and sunbeds. Pulled out of the domestic market, customers just had no idea what was involved in owning them. Find a local hotel, or better still, a decent council run pool, pay your £5 and enjoy it all.

I really am not sure. Maybe some with a better understanding of network hardware can give a definitive answer. There may be a way to clear the table, try googling the problem, there may be an answer.

The router may still be expecting more. I only have practical experience of setting up networks, but I think some routers have a table in them that fixes IP address when a device connects. They don't always delete the information when the device is disconnected. So each time the router cycles though the devices list, it is also checking for devices that are not there. It may also send out extra information to double check. So a bit like the postman wanting get a signature for a delivery, finding no one in, knocks again, and maybe a third time, before walking away, then coming back the next day and doing the same. I may be talking bollocks here, but that is how it was explained to me once.

It is similar to ordinary paint drying, it gets rid of any volatile. Not really necessary for general purpose polyesters though, they are designed to cure properly at a much lower temperature.

5 devices, I think that is the problem.

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.