SteamyTea

Some of the older members and refugees may remember that Damon was working and a self setting/programmable room stat. He has asked me to post up a link to the website. Hopefully it is not too commercial and others find the project useful. https://myradbot.com/

Why I never go out with anyone unless they will sleep in a tent on a third date.

Just change the K to another L and spit all over the letter, works a treat.

What are the extra 2 minutes for? or is it best not to ask

Do you have long showers and full baths. I run my 200 lt DHW at 50°C (ish) and can get 4 showers out of it (or a half filled bath and 2 showers) usually. A couple of things may account for this. I have E7 and usually use the water within a couple of hours of the power going off. I have put a lot more insulation around the cylinder, reducing the losses from about 3 or more kWh/day down to about 1 kWh/day. There has been times in the past when my old lodger would stand under the shower until it goes cold, leaving me with a very luke warm shower at the end of the day, but generally that was the exception, not the norm. Are the modulating? If so, then, assuming the price difference is not ridiculous, go for the larger one. With regards to the efficiency differences of vented or unventilated, I fail to see the difference if everything else is equal i.e. insulation levels, surface areas, pipe lagging and run length. I may be missing something there (not being a plumber), but a small 'hole' to allow for ventilation is not going to account for much. Knowing what the weather is like down in Cornwall (he says sitting in a friends unheated house in North Shropshire), there are so few days when the temperature goes below 5°C in a year, and hardly any when it is below 0°C in a decade, you have to question the cost benefit of installing 'emergency weather heating'. Last year I only used a fan heater (was a mild year), this year was a little bit chillier, a little bit earlier, so the fan heater came out a week or two earlier, but it then warmed up again. I usually 'turn the heating on' when the daily mean temperature falls below 9°C.

I always used a daily diary when running factories, they called me Mr Pad in one place. Proved its worth many times.

Hans never mentioned making men redundant. Being single, I find that I can just lean against it for the desired affect.

Is that like tendenitis If you want to do this early Tuesday evening (set fire to things), I am going to be fairly close to you (well about 50 miles away). We can video it then. Hans Rosling thinks that the washing machine has done more women's health, education and independence that anything else.

Embalm it in 10/40 motor oil, then you can, at your leisure, revive it with WD40. Or for a more permanent disposal, cremation. Fill coffin with gasoline and switch on.

Can you get it via Kodi?

Bet that is a relief. Then the fun begin now.

You could test the idea with a fan heater. Just point it at the MVHR extract in the room and see what happens. I think the main problem is that MVHR is not designed to cope with the higher temperature differences and the greater airflow that a vented tumble dryer produces.

Not for much longer maybe http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37701427

About what I currently pay on Day Rate and E7

And here is some of the history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower

Interesting report, there seems to be no mention of the silicon finish. Or, again, am I missing something.

Slightly off topic, but as this is a free thinking subject, I am going to ask the question. If the silicon top coat moisture impermeable and the lime/Pavatex isn't, where does the moisture from higher internal humidity go. I may have missed something in the wall build up.

I like the idea and have often wondered why we don't use steel more than we do (along with GRP). A big advantage is that you know, right from the start, the quality of the material. You can't say that about timber. Condensation is juts a matter of calculation really. Thermal bridging is design. Both are probably easily overcome. I did my apprenticeship in toolmaking and smirk to myself when people talk of 'building tolerances'. British Steel knocked these up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BISF_house

Power or energy density?

Looks so good I am surprised that no one had thought of doing it before

Or highlight just the text you want to quote and click on "Quote this"

Yes, so maybe education is the real answer (not what we call education at the moment). Where I lived at the time of the Community Charge, I saw a huge reduction when the tax came in. Nearly everyone benefited. It was a well run council (Aylesbury). Where there seemed to be problems was areas of high population density and high unemployment, coupled with a lower than average age. So large towns and cities became worse off. Then there was also the removal of the 'shire counties' subsidies central government (or in other words, the local taxes where going to go up anyway). The really odd thing about basing local taxation on property wealth is that wealthy people use local services less than poorer people (based in household income). If any group should be protesting, it should be the wealthy.

Too true.

One of the things I find hard to fathom is why councils should be involved in social reform. It is not really their 'job' to make the country a more equitable place (or not), that is for governments to do. The council is there to provide local services in the most cost effective manner.

I seem to remember that it is only after June something or other, that the money we earn starts to become ours, so we pay a total of about half our wages in taxes of all sorts. I did work out a few years back that if all the UKs taxes where put onto income, then the tax rate would be 65%ish. Not too bad really when you consider that everything else would be totally tax free.