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    Best I have found is called Penwith
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    Did you not see that Black Mirror episode with the 'dogs' in it. Metalhead.
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    Save yourself 25 quid https://www.sportsdirect.com/dunlop-safety-iowa-mens-safety-shoes-181001?colcode=18100103&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9tiFwdKA2gIVECjTCh0WMw_KEAQYAiABEgKE8_D_BwE
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    Part of an MCS installation involves a structural engineer signing off the roof structure. I think this was driven by the insurance companies.
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    Just cleaning up a lump of DS does not stop the seals getting infected. Quite pitiful when you see a blind seal trying to survive.
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    Having lived in Buckinghamshire where the water is actually just damp chalk, without a softener of some sort, the cylinder used to get split open within 5 years with all the rocks in the bottom. Trouble with a softener I find is that I feel I am constantly covered in soap after a shower. Down here, most places are on a meter. There are two standing charges, one for water at £54/year and one for sewage and surface water at £53/year, then the water is £1.92/m3, and sewage at £3.57/m3. There is a secondary charge of £3.15/m3 for highway. So before VAT, that is £107 + £8.64/m3. The reason our waste is so high is because we have to keep the beaches clean so that people can take their effing dogs down there to shit on it, usually after they have bitten me.
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    We do have the most expensive water and sewage costs in the country though
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    The way I see it is that you don't loose getting payment, but you never gain going down the DIY route. Ideally they should end up costing the same and the export part is inflation linked.
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    This is the inside of the kettle. Was the one from work so boiled about 20 times a day and is probably 5 years old.
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    Think so.
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    Thought I would drag out the 31 year old elements from my old cylinder. They came out easier than expected. The one on the right is the lower 'night' element and lasted 30 years before it went, the one of the left is the top element and is still good. What is that jelly though, have I created a new life form.
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    Export is 5.03 and 3.93 for generation. so as near as damn it, 9p/kWh. Really not to be sniffed at as it is worth about 300 to 400 a year on a 4 kWp system.
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    High fences make for good neighbours. Simple as that.
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    The GCN is common in the UK, but not the rest of the EU. Now you can argue that this shows that the EU is a really bad thing, but you have to start somewhere and shows that we should have engaged with the process more rather than sulked in the corner. We don't argue about the Iberian Lynx holding up developments in the UK, but I bet it happens in Spain. One of the other problems with planning is that it is city-centric, it really does like to consider countryside as a museum that has to be protected. Next time you are out in the countryside, count up the number of separate farmers fields that you can see. Then imagine that each one had one house built in the corner. I also think that if we stopped building in floodplains we may also reduce the GCN problem. Build on dry land.
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    What do you think it is, there are two parts to it, and both tax free for domestic use.
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    Not asked her how she is getting on with it since she has got back. Seems like an excuse to go around
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    My bones feel as heavy as concrete and my tendons are more ridged than sintered titanium today. But I have a new water cylinder in and have managed to have a shower. Bet my cute neighbour is relieved.
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    It seems to me that it is only the dreamers that think that 3D printing is the way forwards for the mass market products. Generally it is very, very slow, limited in size, limited in material choice and expensive. If you take emergency housing, one thing that is not lacking is labour. An old mate of mine works for an NGO that deals with the second response to an emergency (Shelterbox). Part of his job is to show people how to make a working camp (not as simple as just putting up a tent). They looked at temporary housing that was manufactured off site but think they dropped the idea in the end. My personal view it that with sheets of ply, 6" by 3" timber, some rendering, windows and doors made off site, an adequate temporary house could be erected quickly and cheaply. One thing that is easy to forget is that other parts of the world have very different building standards (earthquakes and floods) and what we build in the UK is just not suitable.
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    Sometime I think we have forgotten the lessons of Heath Robinson. I am going to be blunt here, 12 sets of lights for one room is just bonkers. It reminds me of a Mods Scooter.
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    There are many different types of 3D printing. Metal laser sintering can give very impressive results and different characteristics than cast or forged parts.
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    What is the difference between remembering to turn everything off before you go to work or away, and rememberer to turn everything off via your smart phone, when you go to work or away. And what happens when you forget your smart phone, or change it and the app is not supported. I think this is the real problem with home automation, it is overly complicated and expensive for little return. And that is before you take into account all the security issues.
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    I read a report on that 3D printed 'charity' house. It is only the shell. The rest is manually fitted, including the roof. I was involved with emergency housing in the early 1980's. We made a dome mould and the 'house' got sprayed up with PU foam, so just like a hot water cylinder. Was a step up from a tent, but was just emergency shelter, not long term housing. Though I do think there is merit in the techniques used. There is no reason, apart from finance, not to have automated house building. They are not complicated really, though people like to think they are. Now where is @StructuralEngineer as he has been working on this sort of thing.
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    I am 'up country' at the moment in Bucks. Seems I was one of the last ones to make it out unscathed. I do wish that large lorries would leave a bit of space when it is snowy though, they really do not need to be 20 feet from your bumper at 60MPH. Not as if there was much traffic early on a Sunday afternoon.
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    Got 6 months before autumn starts, so should be OK
  25. SteamyTea
    Two Nun's are bathing at the convent. Sister Theresa says "where's the soap" Mother Maria replies "It does, doesn't it"
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