SteamyTea

Try Whoopy Cushions, all the chuckling will soon warm a room up.

If you want to save energy, take shorter showers at a lower temperature, got to be easier and cheaper. The separation issue is a good reason to have a batch system using a couple of tanks, one for the waste and one for the incoming water. That way you can use a simple coil heat exchanger in each tank and a small pump. It can then run for as long as it needs to equalise the temperatures. You may find that a simple PV module or 2 and a cheap 500W heating element does the same thing.

The English way, when you disapprove of something, is to say nothing

Thanks.

Don't know what happened there, got a tripple posting. I won't treat it as censorship if someone deletes the first two.

When Jeremy and myself get together, we are like a couple of naughty schoolboys, combined age probably below 25!

Windows 10 and Firefox. No idea about on the tablet as I am using the laptop. Try it in the native browser Edge, or IE10 or whatever it is called now.

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Is there not a risk that the MVHR will draw in smoky air?

Seems pretty good too.

You can get elevation on Google Earth too, not sure at what resolution. https://support.google.com/earth/answer/148134?hl=en

Draw it up on the CAD and get that to work it out. One method would be to use statistics i.e. take cross sectional measurements at fixed/known points and get the mean length/width/depth. I think you can also use vectors to help with the estimation. Rotating it may help too.

It is another, non building, cost you can put down in your spreadsheet. it must be close to £80k by now.

Not really sorting the main problem is it. Most industries can hunt around for some sort of tax break, incentive or grant to use. Can't see that this is any different.

Put them back tonight, take pictures in the morning. Then tomorrow night, move them again. Keep doing that for a week and he will the=ink that he is going a bit mad. You could post him the legislation in an official looking envelope (brown with a window).

I decided to look at my temperature and RH data for my kitchen (25 m3) as this is the room I use the most, and is probably the one with the highest long term humidity (bathroom is short and sweet and is soon sucked out by the fan). By using the maximum RH and AH figures I can calculate what size extraction system I would need. In my place I don't think I have much of a problem.

PU adhesives would be my choice, but I would want to do some test on them first. Steam, boiling water, freezing and UV light (what sunbeds are for).

Too true, it happened to me during the 1980's. Why I always have a wry smile when people talk of 'apprenticeships'. The skills I learnt as a tool maker are long dead, life moves on. Closing down industries does not cause long term unemployment if you look at the figures. It does cause short term pain, but most people find employment again. Not always at the same level, but better than the alternatives. Crossed my mind as I was driving to work. Less environmental damage too.

Something like that for each area would be very useful, could stop a lot of the 'game of caught you out'. Maybe a few standards that people could work to, and if you want something different, then you apply like you do now. Would have thought it would help everyone.

Fittings i.e. bathrooms, kitchens and build in wardrobes could save a bit. I am not sure of the quality of today's starter homes, but my house has a cheap bathroom and kitchen (probably 200 quid each in today's money) fitted in 1987. They are still both working as intended. I should be possible for major housebuilder to do the construction for between £600 and £800 per square meter. That is really quite a lot of money for a wall, bit of roof and some window. The house factory near me was gearing up to make almost 30 houses a day. They would leave the place with the windows in place and the walls plastered. They did not employ any trades at the factory as such (though some of them may be skilled people from other industries). A properly designed and build 'factory' house does not need much labour and the machinery is pretty basic, saws, nailers and plastering machines. Even a wire loom could be machine made and just pulled though on sight. Reduce the plumbing to a minimum would save a bit. Simple UFH rather than radiators, plastic pipe to hot taps (no more than 3 needed really). If a small house is designed 'open plan' (which I loathe), then there is a saving on doors and internal walls.

Build the house in a factory, transport to site and erect. The best way to ease finances on housing would be to have two parts to the mortgage rate. One based on the variable bank rate (very low at moment) and a second part based on property prices to earnings ratio. This second part would need to be very high at the moment. By raising the overall cost of borrowing, the price of housing will fall. Another financial area to be looked at could be the professional fees and the charges that local authorities charge for building. My local council has asked for comments on the CIL, a very short sighted charge in my opinion. I am tempted to reply saying something along the lines of "no upfront charges, build the houses and get the council tax instead". There will be a sweet spot to the rate that new housing is built and the rate that local infrastructure needs to be increased, but charging up front is not the way to get development done.

It looks OK, but as others have said, it all depends on what you were trying to achieve. Another way to look at the data is to plot the internal temperature against the external temperature, then time slice it to find the effects of solar gain. Then you can look at the temp differences and variations, standard deviations and generally play about with things when it is dark or daylight. One other thing that is really helpful is wind speed and direction. This can give an indication of cloud cover as we tend to have a warm, but cloudy SW wind that is quite fierce, compared to a cold, but clear NE wind that is quite gentle. Is your data collected as a text file, if so, you can post it up and I can have a look. You can make your own quite easily and cheaply with a few 1Wire sensors (or some DHT22s) and a Raspberry Pi. All really depends what you want to log and for what reason. There is usually a WeatherUnderground weather station nearby which you can grab data from as a text file. Some of the weather stations are pretty good bits of kit and have a solar power meter on them.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/domestic-cctv-using-cctv-systems-on-your-property/domestic-cctv-using-cctv-systems-on-your-property Now I have looked up that, going to find these IP cameras in a lightswitch

Use one 'ring' and it will be about 9A. So a cheap 2 kW generator will do it.