SteamyTea

So have I missed anything tonight, apart from knowing that good tea can be made up there.

More Team America I think

I have had that. Then the bugger ended up owing me £1500. But to be honest, the guy was such a pain I was glad to see the back if him.

I had a Hoover or a Hotpoint, can't remember which. But the bearing was moulded into the plastic drum. If failed and there was no fix. The manufacturer had discontinued the model after about 18 months it was so unreliable. I got my money back (and 100 quid extra) from the retailer under the EU extended warrantee. Got a Bosch one now, not had any problems with it.

Lot more compelling that 'The Non-Adventures of Rollo'.

Did I miss anything

Had an E 300TE-24 as a company runaround. Could get most a steamroom or sauna in one.

I was thinking of having an early night, but this is getting as good as the real Apollo 13 mission . https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/AS13_CM.PDF

What we like to hear. I was moving a barrel of resin in the works Marina van. Hit the breaks and it slid forwards and up into the back the seats. Bloody things weighed 270kg. I drove the rest of the journey almost pinned to the steering wheel looking like Quasimodo's slightly more attractive younger brother.

Is there any chance that things have scaled up, do you have a proper water softener? And is there a chance that water is thermo-syphoning through the solar system and losing heat though that? I am thoroughly enjoying this thread and looking forward to a positive conclusion later.

No, as I have not had a TV for over 20 years. But Basil Fawlty said he would have a lie down, but changed his mind and said he would hit guests instead

Welcome Maria Everyone talks down to me as I am a pygmy

I ended up spending a night in Stoke Mandeville (Jimmy Saville was there at the time) with about 50 other people because of crop spraying. They have tightened up on the rules a lot in the last 30 odd years thankfully. No one ever talks of organophosphate sheep dip these days.

I live just off one of the roads in the UK that was highlighted in a recent report (odd as Cornwall has strong winds and 3000 miles of Atlantic upwind). They jumped on diesel cars being an issue (probably correctly) but failed to mention the high number of open fires in households (The Cornish are a traditional bunch and many still burn coal and Bristol slave traders (ask about tea and sugar)). Less than 50 yards from me is a house that frequently burns stuff that is so smokey that it can set off a number of smoke alarms (heard two yesterday). I am just waiting for @JSHarris to get his particulate monitor made so I can pinch his code (it better be Python). There was a report that I did not follow up about household cleaning products 'being as bad as 20 a day'. That could be interesting as the liabilities for the manufacturers would be huge if they knew about it.

I shall get back onto this later as I am a bit tied up at moment. I may not have explained myself very well when I said

I am not so sure that there is no problem. It is possibly true that in a very well built and managed building variations can be managed effectively. But in a chaotic building i.e. 4 kids and a wife, or maybe a scrapyard in the back garden automatic control could be advantageous. To give you an idea yesterday was sunny. I opened my back windows a crack to draw in some warm air from the front. This works well and saves heating the north east facing kitchen where I live. I forgot that I had done this as the wind was not too strong yesterday. Got home from work, turned the heating on as it was chilly. Had a shower, cup of tea and went to bed. Because my fan heater had tuned off at 21°C, I forgot to turn it off at the mains. This morning I had a lovely warm house. Only cost me 7 kWh. Now if I had MVHR with automatic balancing and control, it would have known that I had the windows open a crack as it would probably not have managed to balance itself properly and issued a warning, or just shut down the area totally. It is hard to quantify without creating a decent model, but at £1/day for that sort of mistake, it is not out of the question financially. I also think that MVHR could be split into separate units. One for the clean side i.e. bedrooms, livingrooms, halls and passageways, and another for the smelly side i.e. bathrooms, toilets and kitchens/utility rooms. Just like space heating and DHW should be split, I think there are gains to be had doing the same with MVHR as you can pick units to suit the different characteristics.

G4 Primer can cause de-lamination after a time though. Not sure it it is caused by mechanical or chemical failure. I suspect the latter. thinking a bit more about this installation, with a few tonnes of concrete poured on to, there really should not be an issue (I forgot about the reinforced slab). It really comes down to the gutters, edges and corners details now to ensure that the insulation is total encapsulated. It is worth checking that the vacuum panels can withstand the styrene fumes.

Except that houses change usage. Doors are left open, as are windows, extensions are added, kids move out, guests come to stay. Sometimes a long bath or shower is taken, sometimes just a minor wee. I am trying to think up a decent driving analogy. Is there any point in a hatchback, or people carrier with it's adaptability. Why not just a van with two two seats. That would do most people.

Could some software not be developed. You set the flow rates for each room/area, have a total overall airflow for the building, then let the unit adjust itself. Would not be easy, but it would be self correcting though its life. So may well be better overall. I am sure that motorised valves and the rest of the hardware need not be that expensive. More a case of just doing it, rather than thinking up reasons not to do it.

I have often wondered why they do not have automatic balancing as standard. Would make installation, commissioning and maintenance dead easy.

You will have no cash left to do anything worthwhile.

I bought one of those last year. I have a project coming up soon. Will see how good it really is.

GRP can bond to cement/concrete. But it can also go horribly wrong. That is why test samples need to be done first. I t is not unusual to coat any unknown porous surface with cobalt accelerator, this just about guarantees that polyester resin will cure, but it can cause shrinking, which may not become apparent for a while. I cannot comment on ashfelt, it has not lasted that long on my shed roof, but on my Mother's flat roof it was over 40 years old (it is GRP now).

To err on the side of caution, EPDM over concrete. It is possible to lay up GRP onto concrete, but would need some rapid ageing tests first. The problem is that there are so many different mixed of concrete and they can have different water content depending on how old they are.

Just a shame that most estate cars/small vans are not designed from the start to take a pile of 8 by 4 sheets in the back.