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@JSHarris is the man to handle this.

Yes, some of us grew up in Essex. We have had conversations about handheld douches here, asscrack is tame.

Probably best, you don't. You are a chippy and we don't have many of them. If you had to build a few houses, say 5 or 6, would you build them on site with sticks and twigs (or rough sawn, or whatever you call it), or would you knock them up in a shed and just nail them together in the dry. @Fredd what sort of airtightness figures do your builds get? And have you ever sat down and worked out exactly how much value you add to a plot by doing the hard work. You can compare prices on the governments land registry for the areas you have worked in. @the rest of you all The style of Fredd's conversation is familiar, education is needed, rather than confrontation.

I suspect that @Fredd may well be using different terminology than us. when he speaks of timber frame, is he talking factory built and erected on site, or a joiner on site waiting for a delivery of timber lengths to be cut to length 'by the lad'. Big difference in time and cost. In economics there is a difference between 'price' and 'cost'. Economics is not accountancy. @MikeSharp01 mentions 'economic models'. They are, what they are called, models. There are many different models, some fit historic data better than others, future data, is by its very nature a prediction, and then has uncertainty built in. Uncertainty in modelling is not an unknown. This is a very important point, self-builders often have different values and are willing to spend time and cash on what they consider important, not what a market researcher considers is important to the average buyer. If I was a property developer (a term that means many different things to different people), I would be building places that were easy to mortgage, basic and simple to maintain, from easily obtained materials etc. If I was building my own place it would be very different. I would be taking our old mate Ed Davie's approach and trying to do as much work myself, he has gone for a Toblerone design: https://edavies.me.uk/ If I was building 6 houses, things may be different, but then I might rent a factory unit and build modules for erection on site.

But did you learn any sign language from it

This is the bit that made me smile. He must have watched Vision On. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus

You want to know how bad smart meters are, this is the kind of nonsense that Parliament has to put up with: Cyril W. Smith says: January 29, 2016 at 10:40 AM Comments for 'Smart meters' evidence check Cyril W. Smith Scattered light contains modulation at frequencies of the scattering object . This information is retained in photographic records and after internet transmission. Scattered light from the above image of a “Smart Meter” was imprinted into water and measured. The table below lists the frequencies measured using excitation with Toroidal and Caduceus field configurations. It was not possible to make these measurements with instruments having a frequency calibration certificate. The Comment column lists acupuncture meridian/chakra points which have their endogenous frequency nearby. These would be stressed along with the target organ by exposure to that frequency. Furthermore, the world power supply frequencies 50/60 Hz happen to be on natural resonances in melatonin which is the chemical awareness of dark and light but, many people can cope with the Arctic Summer. Frequency Hz Comment Toroid Excitation 6.000 × 10-2 Lymphatic Meridian 6.000 × 10-1 Lung & Liver Meridians 6.000 × 10+1 60 Hz 8.30 × 10+5 2.40 × 10+6 Gall Bladder & Pericardium Meridians 8.50 × 10+6 3.10 × 10+7 9.90 × 10+7 Allergy Meridian 2.82 × 10+8 Urinary Bladder Meridian 4.15 × 10+8 Heart Meridian 9.15 × 10+8 Caduceus Excitation 2.000 × 10-1 Sahasrara (Crown Chakra) The frequencies and meridians stressed would be different in a 50 Hz environment where the Gall Bladder and Liver Meridians might be stressed. The above measurements only relate to frequencies modulating light scattered from that particular ‘Smart Meter’ and recorded in its image. I presume the 60 Hz indicates it is from North America. The electromagnetic fields at the meridian/chakra frequencies emitted by a “Smart Meter” should not penetrate into the building and particularly into the sleeping areas. This could be the subject of on-site measurements at each ‘Smart Meter’ with installation and suitable shielding measures incorporated into the building. The electrical environment is not going to go away any more than is the motor vehicle. Polluters and users of the electrical environment should carry similar ‘third party’ insurance to cover the labour intensive treatment costs of persons affected. https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-committee/science-and-technology-evidence-check-forum/smart-meters-evidence-check/?page=15

Less than Ducati on £647m in 2015. Honda £11 billion. Bit I agree, manufacturing is not the only way to generate income and wealth, probably one f the hardest ways to do it. And it is going to be slaughtered even more in a year or so unless we can sort out some trade rules.

If you had invented opera, you could have had those vowels back

No It is the Aris

Also found this when using the BME280 sensor, it is a quick way to get all the files you need onto your RPi $ sudo pip install RPi.bme280 Worked for me.

Was looking for some info on temp sensors and came across this useful command /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp It reads the onboard temp sensor. May be useful, may not.

Just as well as welsh has no vowels in it and just causes spittle.

Me too. If you have 6 sockets on a ringmain, and they do not work, that is 1 fault, not 7. I suspect that this is a naive couple that have very high expectations for their lives and are out of their depth.

Hunt around here and you can eventually find out all the prices paid. http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/

Yes, but there is still a romantic notion that traditional mining is going to return. South Crofty has recently had a large investment, again. I can't see it happening though for a number of reasons. The main one being a world heritage site not 500 yards from the main entrance. As if Cornwall needed another mining museum. Just about did for Broomwade too. Only people in High Wycombe and the Met office that have ever heard of Cambourne.

I went for the cheapest. And yes, they are tiny. But that is a good thing.

I got some new BMP280s and they work fine, seems the GY ones must have been a faulty batch. Also got a couple of PMS3003 monitors, but not had a chance to play with them yet.

Those that can do, those that can't teach I liked lecturing, the worse that happens is that you have to reboot a PC.

Hot tub is couple of grand for a very good one, what did he pay?

Yes, I was doing that quite well until the original one left for another institution.

Ask him to add up all the money he has spent in the last decade on his 'investments'. Then work out what he could have done with the cash instead.

The Cayennes will be on finance or worse, PCP

Yes, I had a two supervisors that were hopeless. One even claimed to have left messages on both my landline and my mobile. Neither of which had an answer service.