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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.

Doing a quick calculation, if you install PV at £1000/kWp, at the 5 year mark the power will have cost you 22p/kWh, so about the same as E7 day rate (slightly less than mine). If you do go down the PV rout, you will ditch the ST anyway. Probably worth getting rid of now and save yourself approximately £120/year maintenance. Generally, any 'improvements' only add a little to the value of the house, any renewables will add nothing and, in some circumstances, detract from a house. If you said to someone that your RE systems gave you an income of £5000/year and paid for themselves in 2 seconds, that would make people suspicious, if you told them the opposite, they would not buy, tell them the truth and they will not understand it. We tend to get sucked in to all the RE technology and low running costs of a house, most people want a good school near by and some shops/pub. Sell a dream, not a reality. Infact you could market it to dog owners, that way it is one less near to me.

If it is genuinely a 5 year plan, do nothing.

I think in your case you would be better off fitting PV, it would be cheaper and you will offset a fair slice of your usage as you can store a fair bit. Ditch that ST while you are at it.

Every year, when we get a few sunny days, we have the same conversations about over heating. We do the same when we get a cold week too. It is easy enough to do an estimate of extreme temperatures, but they don't correlate with time of year too well. This ear we had the cold spell in March I think, may have been April. But I think in your case you have a more fundamental problem caused by too much glass area, that is not going to change. A quick look on ebay and you can get some delivered for a few quid. Got to be worth a go as this is a problem that is not going to go away, just hide itself for 50 weeks of the year.

DIY one window yourself and see what difference it makes. Or just move to the coast. No real problems here