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I shall try and find some pictures of mine. About time I did Mk3.
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Heat loss calculation: averaging u-values
SteamyTea replied to oranjeboom's topic in Heat Insulation
Yes, it should be decimal fraction wall area, not percentage though. It does not take into account shape of wall and if it faces the wind/sun. But they are minor details at this stage. -
I think this is an idea opportunity to make a cheap MVHR unit. Not that hard.
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Be worth knowing how he works out his quotes
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Are Cat 5 sockets required all round the house
SteamyTea replied to Jude1234's topic in Networks, AV, Security & Automation
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American Fridge Freezers
SteamyTea replied to ProDave's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Have a large breakfast or a decent lunch before food shopping. My freezer is a my local corner shop, a 24/7 Tesco Extra. Been known to buy a frozen pizza and a new router at 6AM, fantastic. -
Are Cat 5 sockets required all round the house
SteamyTea replied to Jude1234's topic in Networks, AV, Security & Automation
Simple, plug in some monitoring equipment. Works for me. -
Maybe be worth a couple of very small fans on timers, see if things improve. If they do then you know it is a local problem and not a general one.
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And one of my all time favourites
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Just the ears? Brundel's Jordan wasn't
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Danske Bank will do a 95% LTV at 5.4% (initial 5.19%). I am starting to get the feeling that property prices are set on what they can be rented for i.e. they sell at a price that, if rented, the mortgage is covered. So if building to rent, just throw up a cheapest build you can get away with, but maybe allow for easy future upgrades i.e. easy to fit external wall insulation, MVHR, PV, under floor heating.
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Concreting - you learn something new everyday
SteamyTea replied to Triassic's topic in General Construction Issues
Anything with your best mates, the Great Crested Newts, in it would do surely. -
Concreting - you learn something new everyday
SteamyTea replied to Triassic's topic in General Construction Issues
Sound like those two examples are shitehouse companies and should not be dealt with. There really is no need for bad customer service these days. -
I should really have said rough sleeping, rather than homeless. Many people are homeless i.e. B&B, hotels, etc, not many are actually rough sleeping. My solution would be to have a mortgage tax that is independent of the interest rate. It would be set so that mortgaged property is 3 times median wage. That could be set locally fairly easily as a house does not move. As long as people know what the tax is based on, and why it is there (to keep house prices affordable), then I cannot see a problem with it. Might also raise some useful revenue if it was administered via LAs.
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Oh yeah. It is a difficult problem, but the current policy of moving them on or criminalising them is not the solution.
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Lot of wiring if each tiles has a cable on it. So a big chance that something will go wrong initially. They say they last 30 years, so that will be 15 times longer than the company has been about I knew he had PV, it really is very neat his system and cheaper than a tiled roof too. And where is he.
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About 5000 people nationally, 100 in Cornwall, the third worse place in the UK. So realistically not a large problem, one that needs sorting and would be cheap to do so.
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The paint will almost certainly be from a difference batch, and there will be some fading of the original, so best painted together.
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Not quite as blunt as my version that involves 'but there is a 'u' in'.
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As a lecturer I was taught to push boundaries and break pre-conceived idea and taboos. I am just reading a book about the Dutch. Nice paragraph explaining about a Gay Pride barge going past with men dressed in pink PVC chaps and spanking each other. But then getting stopped for crossing a road while the pedestrian light was still red. Funny bunch the Dutch. We liked living there.
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Can't, I have had too many posts removed already for very mild infringements on the basis that women are on this site too. Though you and Hecateh seem to like the laddish behaviour I worked for a national charity and during a review I was told that I was not much of a team player. I asked if that was a bad thing. Then I pointed out that I was the only one ever to get a project finished on time, and within budget even though they had let me down by not supplying me with the two workers they said they would get.
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So tempted to say the real reply to that, so tempted.
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My end of the SW has an affordability problem, even though house prices are pretty low (last time I looked PZ was similar to MK). One problem is employment, or the lack of permanent employment, lenders don't want to lend to 'Gig' workers and Gig workers cannot rely on a steady income. Cornwall has been Gigging for decades, just the way it is down here.
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I am slowly making my way though that article. It is a bit of a rant against planning restrictions really.
