SteamyTea

After looking at that hob extractor thread, I was thinking, why not have an extractor that draws in cold air from outside and then the extractor just sucks up that air, with the fumes and flames from your cooking. That way it may not unbalance any other extraction system the house has, and there should be enough 'leakage' of kitchen air to help get rid of excess smells. Not the most energy efficient extractor, though a heat exchanger could be incorporated, but for the relatively short time a hob is used it should not matter. Also. Fitting an extractor at hob level and with the gubbins in a floor mounted kitchen unit would cure my problem of fitting an extractor i.e. I have no wall to put a pipe though, it is all window.

By about 50m2. Just teasing really

I once saw, on the internet, someone that used pen drives to make a RAID for his Mac. Says it all really. But I found this:

You can take the boy out of Essex, but you can't take the Essex out of the boy, or a Crappy, Grandad, Fordina...

If you have less air pressure, there are less molecules. Temperature is the mean speed of those molecules (with some caveats). So less molecules there are, the less likely they are to hit the probe, regardless of the absolute temperature. Then there are radiative forcings, but that is a whole different thing for normal temperatures in normal air.

The best handling one, but that should be first choice anyway. Called St Awful. There are more run down places, I live in one of them. So bad that it is recognised as one of the poorest parts of the EU (that problems is solved by BREXIT, well done Britain). http://inequalitybriefing.org/graphics/briefing_43_UK_regions_poorest_North_Europe.pdf Cornwall has about half the GDP per Capita than Buckinghamshire. There are two Cornwalls, the nice coastal part and then the really large part in the middle. Not many people ever stop in the middle bits.

Isn't it the plastic case of the DS18B20 that slows the reaction time down. Car fuel injection uses a hot wire and a Wheatstone Bridge, they work very quick. Or how about sensing the pressure inside a sealed vessel. A mate of mine who paraglides has an altimeter that can sense less than half a meter of movement and issue a warning i.e. up or down. Only cost a few quid. (I bought some temp/humidity/pressure sensors for my RPi, but not got around to playing with them yet.

I have only had a quick read of this, but my thoughts about the basement insulation are that you can fit it on the inside, it will not really make any difference thermally. Ground temperatures do not change too much over a year, so easy to calculate the losses. Then you can build your house on top with something similar to the MBC design, which is basically a timber frame house with a mixture of internal and external insulation. As far as I can work out, they do this to reduce thermal bridging when combined with the foundation design i.e. part of the house is thermally isolated by the slab design, the rest is thermally isolated by the Larson Wall. But too be honest, if you build the main house from block and added 300mm of insulation on the inside, it would be pretty cosy, though you could get nearly 400mm with a timber frame, so even better. I would not worry about your construction type too much. Just get some quotes and run the numbers about thermal performance. As you seem to have natural gas on site, go for that, your largest 'bill' will be domestic hot water, not heating (unless your cheap labour is really dreadful). MVHR is probably beneficial as you can keep more windows closed, reducing noise and dust, and increasing security (possibly). May even save something on the windows as less need to be opening. Your interior design is the thing that is going to add most value. Something that looks big is worth more in the capital than something that is bigger but feels cramped. See the conversation about small housing that @caliwag started. His idea of small and mine are different. The above is just mental rambling as without seeing the site and your plans, I can only comment on what is in my mind, not yours. Does sound a fun project and your Bulgarian works are probably easier to train and monitor than the shower of shit that is UK builders.

Is it an SMA, or a clone of one. TL4000 or similar? They should be set up correctly and there is a risk, though a small one, of a large fine.

I am 100 miles from civilisation, nearly 200 from culture and 300 from both. Would not swap now though, I have kind of got used to the horror that is Cornwall.

Just checked my email and ERSI have told me that they get the data from www.here.com I have no idea what they do.

First picture is North Coast.

Two pictures, neither of my house, but shows the difference between the north and south coasts. They were taken an hour apart. First is cold, very windy and rough, second is warm, calm and really quite nice.

What happens if you have a fire, does it suck the flames down into the kitchen unit?

What thickness as it ranges from 6mm to 19mm for 10mm pipe and 9mm to 32mm for 22mm pipe. The thermal conductivity is 0.033 W.m-1.K-1

What needs working out?

@JSHarris Your link is faulty This works https://www.acrylicwifi.com/en/wlan-software/wlan-scanner-acrylic-wifi-free

I just noticed that my 'quiet hours' was on. This is after the last Windows 10 update (the fairly big one). That may have accounted for the drop out on my mates wireless. Turned it off now and all seems fine. I did, when I was with TalkTalk, set up an RPi that pinged google every 5 seconds, was just to prove to myself that my connection was really causing problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volumetric_heat_capacity#Thermal_inertia There you go.

Just emailed ESRI who did the survey to ask how they did it and if they wish to comment. @Roger440 They are in Aylesbury, just about opposite the Blue Leany. If you are passing, call in.

So are you lot saying that this survey was a load of bollocks then.

I had a job taking the 'naughty kids' into school (actually the could not care less parent's little shits). Primary schools often insist that a parent or guardian stays with the child in the playground until called into class by the teacher. I had to use a 'safe word' when picking kids up without their parents. There is also the issue that many parents work and drop their children off on the way to work, often going to 2 or 3 geographically dispersed schools. They days of the local school, with a dedicated bus service are well over in most areas. But the fact that the average distance from that survey is around 40 miles is pretty impressive. I used to get from Aylesbury to Richmond Upon Thames in 1h 15m, I did leave at 5:45am. I did manage the 50 miles home in 1 hours on my last day. I figured that if I got a speeding ticket they would not know who had the pool car But they are exceptions and not really relevant to this research. 8 cars waiting to get on a roundabout is a traffic jam down here. They don't have a clue and insist that Truro is dreadful. I usually hear that from people that go there by bus or only go there occasionally.

It may be a problem with the phone line. The reason I ditched my land line was because it was a dreadful connection. Dropped out dozens of times a day.

Yes there are always exceptions. But the thing is, it really is not as bad as people make out. I regularly used to travel the motorway network when I worked for Welcome Break. I only once had a terrible journey (stationary for a total of 7 hours). Some of my work colleagues used to not leave the office until about 8:30 in the morning and then just sat on the M1 going nowhere. I used to leave earlier and never had a problem.

Interesting bit on the Beeb about commuting. OK it is done by a GIS company to sell there software. But shows that road traffic is really not that bad. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_friday_night_rush