SteamyTea

Ideally you want the store as cold as practicable so that the ST can do its work. I am sure you will get a feel for it pretty soon now it is working.

The WI better not fit one, it may pick up the buzzing then introduce a dirty plug for this product. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5571620/womens-institute-ladies-object-to-vibrators-being-advertised-for-the-first-time-in-groups-magazine/

Don't you ned your own insurance as well? That may or may not cover you to do work.

The number on the thermostat is pretty irrelevant. Set the room/s to what you feel comfortable with for different times of the day/week. I tend to only heat the part of the house that I live in, no heating upstairs. My heating is totally off now and probably won't come back on till November/December (it was on more than normal as I was away a month and signs of damp appeared, I have also fixed a leak in the from room). As for heating all or part of the house, the less wall area to volume area that is heated the better. So imagine a room in the centre of the house that is at 20°C surrounded by a room that is at 10°C that is then surrounded by the outside world at 0°C. That outer room is, in effect, part of the insulation. Not quite as simple as that, but you get the idea.

When you are bored, and the sun is out, get some wood, old doors, copper and plastic pipe, some fittings and have a play. If you video it I am sure some of us will come along with suggestions. Then, when your house is finished and friends come around, you can say 'I hung that door', 'I fitted that crapper', 'That hole in the wall was me'. I have built boats in the past, but no one calls me "SteamyTea the Boat Builder", and I have fixed cars, but no one calls me "SteamyTea the car fixer", but one sheep!!!

How are you with a spanner and screwdriver. I have been waiting for this opportunity to post this up, it came with my immersion heater element. Safety first children.

A word I have avoided since I was forced to do a totally pointless project management course. There was a craze of changing nouns to verbs, I hated it, so shall sunset that one

The Pirate Bay is better than Netwflick/Amazon/iPlayer/Spotify put together, why would anyone want to take them down, they are only a listing to repositories for the planets creative content after all

On a more serious note, have you started to explore the legal paths open to you. I say this as in my experience, when someone starts to become difficult, they want out the job. Ask @recoveringacademic about this.

Yes, your cash.

There was something about Cloudfire and routing porn a while back. Just popped into my news feed, honest. Seem to remember that the headline was that they were in some sort of trouble with the regulatory people (or government snoopers)

It is like the the U-Value of a wall, the smaller the area, the less heat is transferred per unit time. So yes, it will take longer to heat up. The reason is that a HP has a lower output temperature, so you need more area.

Did I understand it right that you told the builder that you were concerned about cost and were halting the project temporarily. Then he whacked you with a bill for other work? If I was a builder, I would do the same as it comes across as a dead end project. Not how I would like to work, but business is often done that way.

I bought a cheap office chair from B&M, I am very pleased with it. Much better than the 40 quid price tag suggested. It is a shame that you are at the wrong end of the country. If you were near High Wycombe you would be spoilt for choice when it comes to furniture.

Has anyone managed to track down a supply of Command Units yet? Be a useful resource for the Kingspans.

I was stopped from walking into my local tip with one small bag of rubbish. Mentioned it over at the other place and our old mate Damon HD said he had the same problem. As it was Damon, he organised a mass 'walking in with rubbish' though his local contacts. Rather than a bonfire, you could make a small brazier burn smaller amounts. Tends to smoke less.

Said you would LOL

An emergency generator and fan heater is pretty cheap in the scheme of things too

Yesterday I used 8.1 kWh of electricity to heat my house and all the hot water I need. Timber has around 4.5 kWh of energy per kg, and if you are luck, you will get around 65% efficiency from a WBS. So what will be around 3 kg of dried timber. My worst day of heating was around 40 kWh, so about 14 kg of dried timber. If the timber has a density of 600 kg.m-3, and my usual winter load is 20 kWh, I would need 7 kg of timber a day, and say I heat for 150 days, that is about 2 m3 of storage needed. And that is before I get onto the environmental and personal health reasons. Find a better method.

Didn't @JSHarris mention weedkiller from salty water and electrolyses. Can it remove body hair, then I won't have to fix @newhome's epilator, would get me out of a hole

You really don't understand boys do you

Re the Command Unit, I know that @joe90 got one 'from near Southampton. Carrier have an office in Leatherhead, so it may have been there. http://www.carrieraircon.co.uk/contact-us/ Just spent 5 minutes being shunted around a phone system. The man to talk to is down my way, almost. Michael Opie, Plymouth. 01752 753200 There seems to be some confusion as Carrier and now Carrier-Toshiba and the phone system is just dreadful. Good luck with it all.

I would have thought that you could pump in ST until you reach a temperature that the thermal store cannot cope with. It is free energy after all. So maybe a small bit of tinkering needed there. As for drinks, when I was looking to move down here I would leave work early, drive the 4+ hours down and look at houses. To keep me alert I started drinking Tesco "K" stimulant drink. It comes in 1 litre bottles, costs about 80p and, after 2 litres on the way home, annoyed the hell out my now Ex G/F as I told her all about my day. And I could get up for work at 6AM the next day. It is just brilliant. Don't make me wee like coffee does either, so all the goodness is kept inside

Now all you need is an energy monitor so measure the performance