SteamyTea
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Bit more involved that that in reality. Under our MCS rules, an ASHP needs to supply enough energy for space heating 99% or the time. This is not as bad as it sounds as it is best to oversize an ASHP anyway. There is not a direct comparison between the output of a traditional boiler say 30 kW and an ASHP oof the same size. Others that have ASHP would be better placed to comment, but my feeling is (and a little bit of thermodynamics) you have to take into account the lower delivery temperature of an ASHP when calculating the peak power.
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That one I think.
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When I was at university, they gave out a load of coursework on USB sticks. Made a mess of the MACs
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Check he has the right paperwork or you could be liable. Or just flytip it yourself and save some cash.
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All a bit tricky, but 4 things to know first. The energy demand of your house The energy split e.g DHW and Space heating The installation costs Energy prices. Energy pricing for NI is here: Electric https://www.nihe.gov.uk/latest_tariffs Oil http://www.consumercouncil.org.uk/energy/home-heating-oil/#recent Gas (with a lot of digging) http://www.consumercouncil.org.uk/energy/gas/ You also asked about the difference between an ASHP and a gas boiler installation. It really just comes down to the different temperatures that are delivered. ASHP has a lower temperature delivery to keep the efficiency high, a gas, oil or electric boiler delivers at a higher temperature. All that means in practice is that you need different surface area for the emitters (radiators). Lower the temperature, larger the area. For space heating via under floor heating it may just come down to a different size buffer tank and a few valves. Plumbers can give better detail on that.
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Not tried it recently, but Chromium works on Linux. I tried PaleMoon, can't remember why I stopped using it, probably something in there that narked me.
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IronPortable is Chromium, rather than Chrome, and can share bookmarks across machines.
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I remember in the 80's that business people where being taught Japanese, as that was the future then. I find raising my voice and tone and pointing more vigorously works. If we had to learn a language, why not International Sign Language. Being a rusty British Sign Language signer, I find it very useful. I can eves drop at a distance
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How do they work with a bath as you are not drawing water at the same time as expelling it. Taking @JSHarris's idea a bit further. Why not use a heat pump. Run the expanding gasses around the waste pipe, squeeze that gas into a heat exchanger and see what comes out.
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Think I must have as well, been using the SeaMoneky fork for a while now. There are a lot of features I like about FireFox, but it seems to have been badly developed over the last few year. Maybe it is time for Mozilla to think about starting again rather than just adding on features. There seems to be about 10 browsers on Portable Apps. may give some a go.
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If you open up other applications i.e. Word, AutoCad, do they grab back some of the RAM from FF?
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Shows what you are looking at, one to be careful with when posting up information You can use it to clear up memory though.
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My SeaMonkey is using 355MB with 6 Tabs open.
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Timber frame passive standard build
SteamyTea replied to Scotrock's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
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Buy a beer with it, they are selling something called Red Dragon at the St. Agnes Arms tonight. Seemed everyone was drunk on it.
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I think I used this to free up memory when using Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/free-memory-20/ I use SeaMonkey at the moment as it seems quite good, but is getting old and the portable version is now unsupported and not upgradable. I do find that using portable apps seems easier on a PC. I only have the normal Windows 10 stuff installed, plus Office 2007, TurboCad, Python 2.7&3 and Photoshop. Everything else is a portable app.
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Yes I did. I said a Welshman called Nick said to get in touch. There was a nervous pause, then a sigh, then he mentioned your name. We both laughed nervously and then got down to business.
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I have now, and he should be delivering it Wednesday.
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Selfbuild, a new career pathway?
SteamyTea replied to epsilonGreedy's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Sounds like you think that all new business are unsustainable even ones with -
Selfbuild, a new career pathway?
SteamyTea replied to epsilonGreedy's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
When eBuild got shut down and we were kicking about idea via email and the temporary website. I suggested that this website should be commercial and any profits ploughed back into a business that helps self builders. The reason I suggested this was because of the high standard of people that contributed. The idea was dismissed pretty quickly and sharply. Shame as 'we' could probably develop a self build system that easily covered everything needed and sell it as a package. But getting back to the main point of 'selling' a self build service. What could it offer that others could not. There are a lot of project managers about, many without jobs. -
One for the list, does your mate Trevor add VAT to his prices? And if I say I want a feed 100mm high at 3 'o' clock with the DOC at 9 'o' clock, will that all make sense?
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What does DOC stand for?
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Yes I am, no need for anything else in my opinion. All pretty easy to get too, but had forgotten to specify where the drain cock is (opposite the feed). Not ordered yet. I shall see what they quote as because of one thing and another, it will not get sorted for a day or two. She is away on holiday, so no 'advantage' there at the moment, and she is a redhead that has the decency to dye it blonde.
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Right a quick call to the geezer at the cylinder place and apparently I can specify where the feed goes in. So looking from the top downwards and placing my heating elements at 6 'o' clock, my feed goes in at 3 'o' clock. Does that make sense before I order it?
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The bottom feed pipe seems to be at the same height from the ground, 100mm. But, the drawing shows it on the other side from mine. Not sure of that is just to make life easy on the drawing, or it is actually there.
