SteamyTea
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Would appreciate some thoughts on plans please :)
SteamyTea replied to Kuro507's topic in New House & Self Build Design
Re designing before a plot. One of the beauties of CAD is that you can rotate, flip, invert, scale and mirror easily, so not a waste of time at all. I doubt if you would buy a plot that was unsuitable for the design of house you envisage, so keep designing. Also you learn useful skills along the way and start to get a 'feel' for what is involved. So keep sketching and thinking up things to save work and expense. My Mother has been in her house for 30 years, it was only in the last year that she removed the trellis that was dividing up her garden. As she said, "until I actually did it, I could imagine anything". -
I notice that down here, coastal places generally use aluminium frames, usually dark grey in colour.
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I think to be fair to borehole GSHP systems, they are not really suitable for relatively small, low energy housing, thy don't downscale well. They are more for large US/Canadian style housing, possibly with a swimming pool too.
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Remind us Ian, why did you decide on Durisol ?
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I have just emailed that ladders and scaffold towers site and asked them if they would like to comment. I did mention that they should not try and sell us anything, just technical advice. Maybe something will come of it, who knows.
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"Friends all over the world, none around here" https://www.youtube.com/embed/5CaEb2bD1yY
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I look forward to the replies.
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I have never understood the terminology of scaffolding. a quick look at that ladders and scaffold towers site just left me more confused If you take the 5m diy tower, it has a height of 4m, a maximum platform height of 3m and a maximum working height of 5m. I just want to paint my windows and fascia on a bog standard house.
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Is the caravan under the heap of dirt now. I shall have to sneak a look next time I am passing. Bet you are relived to have got so far.
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The question is wrong, way too ambiguous.
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Welcome Ed I used to know MK well, worked and lived there in the early 00's. Have you started to think about the energy usage of your new house, or are you happy to build to building regs?
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I think 3G is due to be turned off in the not too distant future, the multi-billion quid license was only for 20 years. May a slower broadband may get your kids to go out more often
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Have you tried seeing i you can get a decent 4G signal from your mobile phone. I am happy enough using mine for just about everything.
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Hansom my lover.
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AM Rock, this is Cornwall, the home of radio transmissions.
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I have "£50 ears" and a £20 radio. Am I getting 30 quid of benefit somewhere?
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Humour is reappearing then
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If the 20% charge twice as much, that will be £40 out of every £100, so actually cheaper than the 80%, which collectively would charge £60. Trouble is, as my partner is finding out, the 80% all claim to be brilliant. I have kept well out of her quite minor restoration.
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"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way" Dale Carnigie (writer).
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Water is 4.2 kJ for 1°C temperature rise per litre of stored water, so 0.00117 kWh/kg. Concrete is about 0.8 kJ per kg, so 0.00022 kWh/kg. Knowing that, you can try and work out how large a water and slab store you need if you know the temperature bounds you want to keep the slab at. In physics, most things want to be equal at the lowest energy difference. So a thermal store only needs to be sized to cover the load, minus the temperature difference between the upper and lower temperature bounds of the slab. Plus any thermal losses as well. (I may have to revisit this to make it better English, but off to work now).
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Pico Hydro - Controling Generation
SteamyTea replied to Lesgrandepotato's topic in General Alternative Energy Issues
Here is a picture of a filter on a small hydro system near me. When I say small, it is 200 kWp I seem to remember.
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Di is the name of the Welsh miner that they are going to use to get them out.
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Di-Lithium batteries can't come soon enough: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-40922321
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How do you keep track of all this information
SteamyTea replied to Triassic's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Have a look at academic referencing systems, then combine it with https://www.mendeley.com/ Then you can keep notes, pictures, documents, scans delivery notes etc in one place that is easily accessible wherever you happen to be. There is a reason that universities use them. I use a modified Harvard system as it gives the name of the author and the date it was published. So say you scan a delivery note in, name would be the supplier and date would be when delivered. Easy to print out a list too. Now mentioning lists, these work for me, other prefer pictures (thought bubbles). All I can say is get used to lists, the act of writing it down is a good aid to memory in itself. -
So do I, there is no reason at all why we build such pitifully small homes. Except our historic class system, nimbysm, xenophobia and snobbery. We really need to change as a society and move into at least the late 20th century by becoming more inclusive and equitable.
