SteamyTea
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A drop loop can wait at the moment. First I need to stop the leak and have hot water. I shall get measuring.
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And sorting out my pumped shower, the F&E tank, etc etc. So rather than me quote Robert McNamara, would that cylinder fit and is the price about right?
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Sadly yes, and it would need major reworking on my plumbing. So cost woudls almost double I suspect
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Images should be better, nothing wrong with my camera. I was more looking for advice on the cost of a direct replacement, going to be easier all round. So are all cylinders basically the same. So something like this: https://www.coppercylinder.co.uk/1500-60-x-450-18-direct-hot-water-cylinder-economy-7-227-18-ex-vat/ would slot in?
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Having eventually got around to organising myself to change the bottom element on my E7 water heater, I have found it is leaking. So that takes one unknown away. So are all Vented, E7, DHW cylinders basically the same. To the best of my measuring, mine is 1.5m high, 0.5m wide and with about 40mm of insulation. The elements are both on the same side with the feed pipe going in at the bottom and a few degrees anticlockwise, the drain is opposite. There are some pictures below. I have been to a couple of websites and they seem to be around the £300 mark. Is that about right? I am hoping to just get a direct swap as that will save any mucking about with pipes, but I could, fairly easily, extend the top pipe downwards and re-jig the feed pipe. would rather not though. It would give me less heat losses, a slightly cheaper cylinder (though not much) and a larger airing cupboard (which might be useful). (edit, seems the website does not like .png files)
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I have not read much of this thread, I have a life, but as you are dealing with the 'railways', don't they have some odd and peculiar rules and laws associated with them i.e. their own private police force.
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I may have a go with it tomorrow. Just been playing the ESP2866 today. A few quirky issues, but more to do with not having a proper internet connection, which means I can't access NTP data for a timestamp, and just can't seem to get a DS1303/3231 to play at all.
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You will have to explain that a bit more once I have mine connected up again. I was getting some data, but had know idea what it actually was. Are you going to pop id down the local pizza place in Salisbury and see what it reads
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Yes, I was watching a movie made in 1952, said that the world had had it and the future was in space. Made me chuckle. All my life I have heard that the world is going to hell in a handcart, or similar. But all my life the world has got better and better.
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For that price you could have burned 43333 lt of diesel (at 60p/litre) and at 30% efficiency got 130 MWh of juice on demand.
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Static shock from vacuuming log fire ash - why?
SteamyTea replied to readiescards's topic in Stoves, Fires & Fireplaces
Or a stove. I just see this as another danger of WBS, not one I have thought of, but I am sure I can 'sex it up' to make it really dangerous. And add in a bit about EMF. A picture of a hipster's beard going all spiky should do it. Probably because of the type of plastic that Dyson uses, cheap Malaysian stuff. -
My end is as hard as granite
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Welcome (back) James. That is the sort of house I like, simple, clean, self built and probably pretty low on energy usage.
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Had a look and I can't find it. Which is odd as I never delete pictures.
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There was something on Radio 4 today about negative equity. The specifically mentioned Scotland. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09smh8f
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Pull it off the wall, you will soon find out.
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Yes. Though I could not get up close to measure it. Think I may have a picture somewhere of the first part they were doing. Shall see if I can find it after work.
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They pay about 66p/litre for heating oil in Canada, so about 7p/kWh. And when I was over there in November, I noticed a lot of ICF places being build. They added a lot of extra insulation to the outside.
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Get a copy of SPONS, it will give you an idea of the current costs. http://www.rics.org/uk/shop/books/pricebooks/spons/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsdew8YPO2QIVCCjTCh2oHA72EAAYAyAAEgLMIvD_BwE And become an eBay hunter.
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Estate Car to carry house doors inside, flat
SteamyTea replied to Ferdinand's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
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Is the thermostat wireless. If it is, move it next to one that seems to work happily.
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It really is not worth it in my opinion. You can do a rough estimate. Dry a turd, find its mass and then assume it is as good as wood, calculate the kWh. More fun would be to make a Bomb Calorimeter, basically a bucket filled with the richard and oxygen. Then measure the temperature increase. May end up with something like this:
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There was a guy over at the other place that paid around £50,000 for a home AD system. It never worked, but having met the two guys that designed and installed it, I was not surprised. A mate of mine was working in the AD industry and said that feedstock was crucial, theirs can from a creamy, which has a high calorific value. It hardly worked for a week without some problems or other. Running temperatures are important too.
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We were warned that there was only 5% spare capacity in the generation market a couple of years back. That was up from 2%.
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Biomass is frowned upon by a few of us on here. ASHP, if set up correctly is probably your better choice. 0.5 kWp of PV is not worth bothering with, is that the size someone has said or is it a misprint/mistype.
