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    What size is your system?
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    Or a large incoming hot water temperature gauge on each shower. I have always thought that a foot operated valve would be a good idea. Stand on it for water, step off to 'lather up'. Or just get male tenants, 10 year old boys never wash.
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    Big ASHP, 4-500 lt storage and E7 running for a few hours before the alarms go off. You could add some inline heaters as a backup. You could also limit the flow rate to 8lt/min. I would be tempted to split the DHW and the space heating. Did I miss that you do/don't have gas. If gas, scratch the ASHP but still maybe use E7/E10. Or put in coin meters. I have just had my second bath of the day (my body aches dreadful sometimes). Did that on a gnats under 19 kWh for the whole house. The two storage heater and the water took a mean of 2.4 kW with a peak of 7.55 kW. Should be able to double that on a normal 100A supply and have a bit to spare. I also run the water up to 50°C, so you can get a bit more storage running it up to 65°C. It used to take my old lodger, before I beat her into submission (and showed her the £2000 water bill for the year) about 35 minutes to empty the cylinder. Shower delivers at 11lt/min (less now as I have not cleaned out the filters since I changed the cylinder.
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    What is needed is a quick precis that included the minimum legal requirements (and links to the legislation), along with some best practice guidelines Then that needs to be posted somewhere separate for others to find easily. Good luck with the second part as I suggested some simple calculators that were permanently placed so that we did not have to keep showing the same basic calculations to people.
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    Seems my neighbour's scaffolding has a tag, can't say I have ever noticed one before.
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    I am not a lawyer, but have been forced to study law at university (they stick these things on to make us rounded people). I think H&S is mainly criminal law, so a company going bankrupt will not stop a prosecution. What I suspect that what happened is that they are going after the person who is most likely to pay, which is you. What should happen is these cases is that a court hearing should be forced on all concerned. Most people will back away from that pretty quickly. I would have thought that it was pretty easy to show that you had no contact with this bloke before his accident, that no one witnessed and he did not want treated.
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    My neighbour has scaffolding up at the moment, same company I used when I worked for a PV company. I shall see if there is an insurance certificate on it. I can't think I have ever seen one, ever. It does make sense to have a sign-in book. Seem petty and bureaucratic, but would help this sort of nonsense from going on.
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    Or an undiagnosed eye problem. Or a botched operation on an eye that left me with permanent vertigo
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    Is that the blue stuff we used at school to copper plate things?
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    Who was it that was asked to show how far apart the staples were on the VCL. I may have mentioned it before, but in my view, there really needs to be a 'one-stop shop' at the council where you can deal with all the people necessary. Probably be worth the utility companies putting reps in as well. I could easily be paid for by the larger building supply companies having 'sponsored walls', would show up TPs ridiculous pricing too.
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    Thanks I may well take that off your hands. I like playing.
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    @recoveringacademic You should have a read of our old mate Ed Davies blog, he has similar issues. https://edavies.me.uk/2015/09/drill-test/ Re the welding. Remember that bit of uphill I did for a laugh.
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    I can claim some decent Basque bloodline, with a bit of Turkish thrown in for good measures. So I fit in quite nicely here
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    Just a quick update on my energy and why it is best at night. Having tinkered a bit with the temperatures of my new water cylinder and storage heater, I have reduced my daily usage by 10 kWh/day. Now it is 17 kWh/day. Yesterday my mean was 703W, during the day it was 75W and at night is was 2320W. The room temperature is now at a better 20.5°C, yesterday it was at 21.9°C, day before it was 21.7°C.
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    I found Dibnah just an annoying northerner. So can happily ignore these links
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    About time for this
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    Oh, looks almost as red as my Mother's eye after her cataract operation last week. Man up, I used to work with polyester resin a lot, it can splash a fair bit. We used to wash it out of our eyes with acetone. I had my cataracts done at age 47!!
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    I used to by Candy Washer Dryers, they were excellent, both last over 10 years each and were probably repairable, but so cheap it was not worth the bother. Have a Bosch now, cost about the same as the Candy and is good.
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    I still aspire to be a grown-up in my twenties. Would know not to waste money on a pension that has lost more cash than I ever put in. How can that happen.
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    Is just because water is the 'universal solvent' and the purer it is, the better it is at dissolving 'stuff' (stuff is a scientific term for anything you are looking at). I hated chemistry, was just a form of stamp collecting, but if there is free oxygen is water, does that make it more reactive. I am convinced that there is something 'free' in my pipes as even after changing the ballcock on the header tank, it is still noisy.
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    You may find that it is a basic condensing dryer. They do take longer. Do a comparison between two identical sets of drying and see what the energy usage difference is. The few times I have used my drying, time is not an issue as I usually get the machine to start at 3 AM and it is all washed and dried by 6 AM.
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    I better get you a monitor knocked up soon then.
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    Generally they are a thing of the past. The argument goes that less energy is used in heating just the water needed, rather than water that is in a pipe. Modern machines use less water too. I personally think that you could put in water at 34°C as it is not excessively high, so should not be any mechanical reasons not to. The machine manufacturers may have other idea and stop the rinse cycle or some other nonsense.
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    Our old mate @DamonHD monitored a school (think he borrowed @JSHarris, monitor), when I looked at his data, there was a pretty good correlation between RH and CO2. CO2 has to be really high to become a real problem, RH control would probably be better and you can do that though the MVHR to a certain extent. Just up/down the temperature with a post heater/cooler.
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