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Old friend of mine's brother died cutting up trees after the 1987 storm. Sometimes it is better to "assessing the risk of removing it!"........FFS!

Log down your gas usage at the same time. It is easy to get external temperature data afterwards to correlate it with.

I used to be able to post stuff up as it was for education and research, but technically not allowed to now. An online calculator is probably good enough. http://myelectrical.com/tools/cable-sizing-calculator

Can you post up the tables that show the sizings. My OnSite Guide is out of date (and I don't know where it is now). I seem to remember that is was pretty simple to work out any derating because of insulation.

Was a pretty calm day down here, wind got up a bit this morning, so popped over to North Coast to have a look. Nothing exceptional, Mount's Bay was very calm and the sun was out. Not even the Boy. My daddy left home when I was three And he didn't leave much to ma and me Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze. Now, I don't blame him cause he run and hid But the meanest thing that he ever did Was before he left, he went and named me "Sue." Well, he must o' thought that is quite a joke And it got a lot of laughs from a' lots of folk, It seems I had to fight my whole life through. Some gal would giggle and I'd get red And some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head, I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named "Sue." Well, I grew up quick and I grew up mean, My fist got hard and my wits got keen, I'd roam from town to town to hide my shame. But I made a vow to the moon and stars That I'd search the honky-tonks and bars And kill that man who gave me that awful name. Well, it was Gatlinburg in mid-July And I just hit town and my throat was dry, I thought I'd stop and have myself a brew. At an old saloon on a street of mud, There at a table, dealing stud, Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me "Sue." Well, I knew that snake was my own sweet dad From a worn-out picture that my mother'd had, And I knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye. He was big and bent and gray and old, And I looked at him and my blood ran cold And I said: "My name is 'Sue!' How do you do! Now your gonna die!!" Well, I hit him hard right between the eyes And he went down, but to my surprise, He come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear. But I busted a chair right across his teeth And we crashed through the wall and into the street Kicking and a' gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer. I tell ya, I've fought tougher men But I really can't remember when, He kicked like a mule and he bit like a crocodile. I heard him laugh and then I heard him cuss, He went for his gun and I pulled mine first, He stood there lookin' at me and I saw him smile. And he said: "Son, this world is rough And if a man's gonna make it, he's gotta be tough And I knew I wouldn't be there to help ya along. So I give ya that name and I said goodbye I knew you'd have to get tough or die And it's the name that helped to make you strong." He said: "Now you just fought one hell of a fight And I know you hate me, and you got the right To kill me now, and I wouldn't blame you if you do. But ya ought to thank me, before I die, For the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye Cause I'm the son-of-a-bitch that named you "Sue.'" I got all choked up and I threw down my gun And I called him my pa, and he called me his son, And I came away with a different point of view. And I think about him, now and then, Every time I try and every time I win, And if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him Bill or George! Anything but Sue! I still hate that name!

She is a Good Girl, and still doing it. Got roped into taking a workmate's girlfriend's friend out on a date once. She got very drunk, dropped her trousers in the high street and widdled. That was in Thame, Oxfordshire, and it was only about 7:30 in the evening.

For 6p and no debt against it, I will have it

To Hull and Back was a good episode of Only Fools and Horses. And then there was this from London 0 Hull 4

As I understand it it is a balance between the amount of energy in the gas and the amount of energy recovered when the boiler is condensing. You will probably have to play about with the settings a bit to work out what is best for your set up.

Did he die in the bath?

Someone I used to know had a gas fired hot air system in her house. She used the same guy for years to service it annually. Then she had a fire (probably dust in ducts). As the Fire Service attended they did an investigation. Found out the guy was not qualified to do even a service (think he may have been commercial only, I can't really remember). Just another good reason to avoid gas if you are self building/DIYing.

From an acedemic viewpoint, would building control just check the paperwork and accept it, or would they deem it unacceptable?

Could try a wall paper steamer to get some moisture in.

Savills have a bit of info (watch the scale): http://www.savills.co.uk/research/uk/residential-research/land-indices/development-land-index.aspx And there is also this: http://eureka.sbs.ox.ac.uk/5365/1/2015-8.pdf

You should be able to change the fuse. Not sure of the rating, but would have thought that 2A would do it.

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.