SteamyTea

Basically sums it up. And you end up with flat batteries. I know that with some sophisticated control and wiring that a system can cope with sudden grid disconnect. I designed such a system 15 years ago, but realistically it is not viable. What is viable for unexpected, but frequent power loss is a cheap generator and an extension lead or two. If your gas central heating needs power to work, put a plug on the end of the lead and plug it into the generator.

Quality https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-44879858 https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/range-rover-tyburn-road-erdington-14929044

I am seeing that dodgy investment arithmetic again. If you went out on Monday and invested £4000 in United Bank's fixed rate NISA/ISA, after 5 years you would have £4350 tax free. If you went out and bought a battery storage system, after 5 years you would have £0 plus any savings. Worth bearing in mind that the last 3 weeks I have used less than 100 kWh. As most of that is during the night, so the cost is about a 3 quid a week.

Never heard of that problem, it has never happened on an PU moulding machines I have ever used. If only the industry knew of a cheap, non flammable, low environmental damaging liquid that could sort it our if it ever happened.

There are other schemes for second hand houses I think. Really odd the way people see house prices. They often see it as defered income, like a pension, except it is no direct cost. Keep someones mortgage repayments the same, but tell them their house has dropped in value, and the feel cheated. Up the mortgage repayments but keep the house prices rising and they feel winners. Tossers.

Doesn't that just push the asking price up. So really like a false discount.

You lot don't know what South is.

The woman that did mine claimed to be a chartered surveyor. Probably why she was reduced to doing EPCs

Or completely ignore it and get the hump when it is pointed out that they have not done as instructed. When I used to fit health clubs out and had to get builders in to do work, I often got the impression as they were looking at the job to prepare a quote, they were already looking at ways they could cut corners.

Stop complaining, you pay £1.192/m3 for foul water, I pay £3.4150/m3.

Just pulled up the EPC for my house, I had forgotten that they had doubled the floor area. If I correct that, but use their figure of 289kWh/m2 I still get a nonsense figure of nearly £2500 a year. Cost me about a fifth of that.

Are these people the brokers? https://c-r-l.com/

They have a new design that seems to have overcome the performance hit, in fact they claim that it increases the performance by 2%. The are just glorified Dysons, but probably cheaper to use when using the kgdust/kgair measure.

There is a company down here called PAL that makes venturi air filters for helicopters. Meant to stop the dust getting in the engine but still allow full airflow.

They should be using more energy as the boiler will have a lower efficiency than resistance heating.

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I find that if a CAD package is compared to AutoCAD, I am instantly distracted from it. @joe90 Why make a pikie's cart when you can buy one for £2800

Make sure you weigh all the timber you use.

Water meters are great. When I chat to people I know and the tell me that they pay half what I do, I know they don't wash much

Cucumber is edible, as are strawberries, but they taste awful.

Yes, Raspberry Pi Zero with wireless, a DHT22 sensor, a MicroSD card, a cheap 5V phone charger and a 4.7K resistor. All the software is downloadable. Job is done.

Pity I did not take a picture earlier today. I made a cheap ply planter and painted it with cheap fence paint. After 4 years filled with dirt and plants, the ply was fine, the screws had failed due to corrosion.

Measure and log it, only cost 20 quid to get high quality data.

Seems very cheap, will it last. And pay the 8quid or so a tonne for water, to keep the beaches clean. When I heat water, the water costs more than the heating.