SteamyTea

Check the fuse size while you are at it.

Should that mains lead be resting/rubbing against a gas pipe?

Things like this can happen: https://www.cnet.com/news/truck-driver-has-gps-jammer-accidentally-jams-newark-airport/

15 years or so ago, I had a conversation with my then girlfriend's father, who described himself as a property developer (whatever that actually is). The conversation came about because he had a bit of land just outside Hemel Hempstead that he had bought about 10 years earlier, got planning permission on it for a few houses (4 I think) and needed to renew the permission or start building. I suggested that he just sell the land as spending money building some houses on it would make him less money overall. He did not agree as he thought that the 'hard work of building' was what put the value into land. I then asked him to put some numbers on it all, which he could not, so I showed him some figures for general house inflation (was about 4% a year then I seem to remember). I then asked him how much it would cost to build these houses and he seemed to think that they would be about £50,000 each (so around £200,000). He got the land valued and found that I was right and he would be better off selling the land. What he had done, in his mind, was forget about the relatively low price he had paid for the land (without planning) and just looked at the difference between the cost of building some houses and what he could sell them for. Strange how some people cost things out, but I suspect that it is not that uncommon.

Shame that the owners set up a facebook page, I won't be bothering to read that. I did see a picture of some plumbing in the Guardian article. Is that the main problem? Or is it general 'finishing' rather than structural stuff?

Not sure, and like most legislation it has holes in it. But 5G is now being rolled out, 3G is getting the chop (maybe), so new infrastructure is being done. Then there are other providers or set up your own community service, all the hardware and software is there. Wish I had more time to get to understand it.

The government has legislation about it though, so profit is a secondary consideration, not paying the fine/bad press should be the big worry for the providers.

There will come a time when everywhere gets a good signal, Cornwall has improved massively over the last decade. Even got 4G in St. Ives. I am still perplexed as to why we have locked ourselves into the internet access model we currently use. There is a project going on in New York that is trying to free up the access (https://nycmesh.net/) I would have thought that with the advent of very cheap computing and components that the general public would have just got on with setting up meshes. If every car had a mesh network device fitted, we would have a fantastic network without central control.

Some things are getting to complicated, an electric gate should be simple and repairable.

Not read the whole thread, but can't you just you one of those power line network things and forget about the CAT5/6. Then just plug in a Raspberry Pi by the gate.

Here is EDF's rates: https://my.edfenergy.com/gas-electricity/unit-rate-comparison Be careful, they assume a certain usage. When we paid a lot for mobile phone calls, I always looked at the price of the most expensive call i.e. once any 'free' calls or texts were used up, then picked the cheapest. I did not pick the cheapest headline figure and assume that the rest was equally as cheap. Mate of mine got seriously ripped off like this.

Did you hear the bit on the radio (MoneyBox I think) a while back about how they work out these fixed deals. Apparently they compare it to what they could charge you, rather than the best deal (or something like that). So it is always worth checking the rental and unit prices as well. You bills will tell you the amount in kWh you have used, simple sums after that.

It will hit 100% RH very quickly I would think. Probably before the bath is full.

Generally by between 5 and 8% over the next two years. Nationally demand is set to call, but imported prices are up and the cost of new infrastructure is high. Trump could play a strange one here (don't he always) but encouraging coal extraction for the export. This will then affect world coal prices, and coal is the 'back stop' energy price. Generally, over the last 40 or 50 years, domestic energy price is about 5% of national mean wage (pretty true across the developed world too). So taking a stab at energy prices is similar to taking a stab at wage growth.

Good boy

I am so tempted to say something, but we now have a 'special' thread for all that sort of thing.

The logging is pretty simple with a Raspberry Pi. Just a couple of temperature sensors (or more) and something to detect when the pump is on. Then a bit of Python code. There are also "Libraries" (addons) for Python that can be used for plotting, take your pick from the easiest tutorial to follow. StackOverflow is always worth a look at. Though can be a bit pompous about the questions asked.

What shrinkage have you added on? Reminds me of when I worked at a model and pattern makers. @Onoff said " This thread is "what it's all about" as far as I'm concerned. Ed doesn't "have to", could indeed take an easier route but wants to see "if he can". Rediscovering a lost art and some of his local history at the same time. Great stuff! " Why I am building a boat. Not going to be the greatest boat ever, but it will work, in a fashion and I will have designed, built, sailed and sunk it.

That seems the easy approach, silicone should bond it. You can get them already pre-wired and waterproof. There is code to sense when the temperature changes too.

Eden uses hexagons that interlock. The frame is quite large and made from aluminium. There are two sheets of polythene in each hexagon and they pump air between them to create a bubble. This helps insulate. Also means you can change smaller areas is there is damage. I think they probably based the design on this chaps ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller

They have some large poly tunnels just outside St Awful. I was more interested in how they made them than what was inside first time I went in.

Some 'farm' wiring is dreadful, other are brilliant, until you you want to put on a clamp meter.

Us men really should man up and say about our health worries. I am dreadful at going to the doctors.

No, keep it a dark secret to catch out the unwary.

Isn't it a 'race to the bottom' rather than 'top trumps'.