SteamyTea

Sell them to mugs on eBay, dealers offer nothing. Just to keep up with @Onoff I found a picture of the 'music centre' I bought in about 85. My mother still has it, with speakers and the remote. (for some reason I now have Springsteen's Glory Days, in my head)

It will still reproduce all the snap, crackle and pop in hi fidelity all the same. If you have kept your records in the loft, then you can get added wow. LPs really are a load of rubbish aren't they. Like valves. You want a softer sound, put some earplugs in.

Get lots like that down here, they have the same stupid roof shape. Someone used to make triangular modules, but they were not cost effective at all.

Could that cause the heating system to drag heat out of the cylinder. So the house is being heated by electricity and not the heat pump. Have a look at the electricity bill and see if it is very high.

Would that be about the time CD's came out. I think I stopped buying 'records' about the same time.

Yes, but i is so embarrassing to tell your audiophile friends with the correct balance of irony and humour.

@JSHarris Have you managed to get your monitor hooked up yet? I have just cooked myself one of those 'builder's breakfats', would have been fun to see the readings. Wish I had 10m in any direction in my house, though 10m from the kitchen is my diesel car

No you couldn't. I had a to share a class with students that liked all those animals and creepycrawlys, they were an odd bunch. Very little humour.

I got it first read though, but Morgan don't make lorries, just wooden cars

Where is the monitor in relation to the wood burner? I had a little play with my plantower, could not get much sense out of it, but then I have never played with serial ports on a RPi. So down to me I think.

My second degree used to be called an ecology degree, now called an environmental one. So you are paying for idiots like me to tick boxes. I think it is outrageous and as you say, just taking the piss.

Welcome Probably the first thing to do is a sketch of the total setup. That should help with setting up. What sort a thermal emitters (posh term for radiator/under floor heating) do they have. Is the system set up to deliver at a very high temperature i.e. is the water heated initially by the ASHP and then an immersion or the internal resistance heater in the unit. This will be expensive to run if it is. Does it have a large/medium/small thermal store, or just an ordinary looking hot water cylinder. Are there any buffer tanks. One problem to overcome is that there is a difference between space heating and domestic hot water heating, they do different things, at different temperatures and at different times. Also, do you have any idea what the heat loads for the house are? Your parents may just have an undersized unit set up to deliver primarily hot water.

I shall just push harder next time and see what happens. The Lord moves in mysterious ways

I screamed 'Oh, God' once, the Jehovah Witness I was with accused me blasphemy!!

Sounds like the Serenity Prayer to me. Things can be worse. Try living with neighbours that are renters. Landlord's that are absent/arseholes.

I was going to suggest that you put the pidgeon's poo in the garden, but as you are making an 'Essex' garden I can see you may need a skip. Though I would just cut things down and worry about that part till the end.

What you seem to be describing here is a plasterboard tent. If external air can get past the insulation and onto the back of the plasterboard, you have, in effect, not insulated at all.

@Fredd I am not sure if you are just winding us up, like the Irish electrician tried to a while back, and the Architect that tried to convince people that t was illegal to be an Architect unless you were in some organisation or other, and had insurance and ... But I shall give you the benefit of the doubt unless you keep acting like a nob. That is a bit of a simplistic statement. My Mother wants and easy to drive car that is reliable and economical. She does not need to know how the engine works, or how the ZF gearbox automatically selects the gears. A house buyer is relying on the honesty and integrity of the building professional.

@Fredd Do you understand the physical principles behind air testing and heat loss?

No picture of the spilt spaghetti there then Is Phil the Greek coming around for tea now he has retired

I have the original kitchen, a very nasty, cheap one that is now over 30 years old. When I had the place valued a few years back, the estate agents said she liked the kitchen units as there 'were in vogue'. I just bought some cheap melamine paint and some gloss roller from Poundland. Estate agents talk absolute bollocks, they really do. They could not value a house if it was made from pound coins. Why I nipped in. We usually drive Architects away, but we are working our way UP the food chain today

I was at a tyre centre at Stoke Mandeville back in the late 80's. I funny little, familiar look fellow turned up to get an inner tube fitted to his wheel barrow tyre. It was Derek Edward Trotter, better known as David Jason. I wonder if he still has that same barrow. He had the same car as me once, we got them fixed at the same garage.

There is also vapour resistance and air permeability to take into account sometimes, as well as @JSHarris favourite, decrement delay.

Do you have any close up pictures, be useful to see the detail. Saves typing as well.

Do they really build down to a price by cutting corners, or are they just incompetent and need retraining. I have worked for engineering companies that penny pinched but threw away pounds. There was a GD on the telly at work tonight. Did not catch much of it, but McCloud said something about builders going bankrupt because they were working to a fixed price. Well I hate to say it, most other small businesses work to a fixed price. I don't change my menu pricing on a whim, my suppliers don't ask me for extra money. The hair dresser up the road has not changed his pricing in a couple of years. The only other people that are as bad as builders are car repair places, and it tends to be the main dealers that offer the least value for money.