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Check with the light manufactures, or a proper electrician, about ventilation/cooling for the spot lights. Many cannot be simply buried into insulation.
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Is it freeware, or does it have Apple prices. Are there any free vector packages for iPads? Is Vectornator still about, that used to be free.
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That is the best if reasons. When I first went to university in Bournemouth, I had just bought my first place in High Wycombe. I rented that out, lived in a mobile home, and was 10 quid a week better off than my classmates. I did suggest to my Parents that they buy a place for me to live in, got turned down flat. Bournemouth was pretty scummy in the student area around Winton back then, you could get a 3 or 4 bed semi for under £30k. Those places are now, 42 years later, going for around £330k, so 11 times the value. Using the Rule of 72, that is a growth of 1.7%. Not that great when you look at it.
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Who ultimately decides and how can I know upfront?
SteamyTea replied to flanagaj's topic in Planning Permission
Better with someone else's partner. We are not open evenings, had 15 years of that. (expletive deleted)ing customers turning at at closing time, then when they leave say 'you can go home now'. Apart from the hours cleaning. -
There is a thing called 'diversity'. This is what governs how much power each circuit is likely to take, depending on the type of load and devices fitted i.e. a cooker has a diversity of 1, only thing on that circuit. Bedrooms will be different as the largest loads will be vacuum cleaner, and that is only run for a few minutes. So Google diversity and you will find formula. Or ask @ProDave, though he is working under scotch regs.
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By spacing the UFH pipework to suit the losses for each room. Why a room by room heat loss calculations are done.
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I have no idea what is going on. But when sampling (in statistics) you have to make sure that the sample rate is high enough to capture enough data (Shannon sorted this all out and it is why we have MP3s and reliable internet). To me it looks like it is only sampling every few minutes, and they are not coinciding with reality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist–Shannon_sampling_theorem
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50m2 is about the same as my total floor area, 170m2, would include the walls and the roof. I know what you are say, and using forced air heating with a heat pump is away around it. But then why would you for no runnign cost savings.
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Yes. Kills the CoP though. We tend to let houses rapidly heat up from a cold temperature as that is what we have got used to over the last 60 years. We then let them cool down too much, as we know we can easily blast them with 30 kW of power at a delivery temperature around 70°C. Not many people (even in here) ever question, or measure, how efficient their boilers are. Shame that has boilers don't have energy meters on them. Would scare a lot of people when they see efficient numbers in the 50 to 60% range. A lot of people quite gas boilers as being 95% in efficiency. Not many will be once installed. It is a bit like car MPG. I can get better than the official figures, sometimes. But most of the time I am below them. Not surprising as my first journey in the morning has 9 sets of traffic lights, 3 roundabouts, two steep hills, and 5 junctions. All in a 30 MPH zone. And that is over 2 miles. So cold engine, stop start and generally 3rd gear. Bloody amazing that at the end of the week my Mondeo averages out 65 MPG.
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Yes, no, kind of. Combustion boilers are usually sized to heat the DHW so they can run a bath or a couple of showers. The space heating power requirements are generally a lot lower. Gas boilers have good modulation i.e. 25 kW down to 3 kW. A correctly sized ASHP of say 6 kW may only modulate down to just below 4 kW. There can be a bit of trickery with the flow temperatures, but to keep the CoP high, they are quite limited in power delivery. This is why they need to be sized correctly. Just fitting an oversized unit would not work, it would sense the return temperature, see it is close to the flow temperature, then throw an error and shut down.
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Insulating a (presumably hollow) metal door from within
SteamyTea replied to Garald's topic in Heat Insulation
With difficulty as they probably have a different electrical charge to the door. Have been told that graphite coated PS balls 'flow' better, but I have no personal experience. -
A heat pump is not used like a gas/oil boiler. You set the temperature you like your house to be at (this can take a few days and a bit of work as the installers usually leave them on default settings) and the heat pump warm and cool as necessary. You won't be needing a wood burner then.
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All circuits at night. Just saves having a timer to lock out the space heating and DHW. Wires in and out meter.
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Mine has dedicated circuits.
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About 150-200mm of PIR.
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I shall wait for the omnibus on Sunday. Then start shouting at the radio.
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How best to expand an existing PV system?
SteamyTea replied to richard_scotland's topic in Photovoltaics (PV)
Looks the the one outside my house. As you have a disabled child, see if you are on a priority list, or if any grants are available. -
Mansard Roof Edge Felt Showing - Is it OK?
SteamyTea replied to OliH's topic in Roofing, Tiling & Slating
Not sure. Next time I am near one, I shall have a look. There are usually some that are being worked on. -
I would think that the point where the pipes are is very thin. Hottest point as well.
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Mansard Roof Edge Felt Showing - Is it OK?
SteamyTea replied to OliH's topic in Roofing, Tiling & Slating
As @joe90 says, untidy. Not unusual to have the membrane a bit longer than the tiles, it then gets folded into the gutter. As you have a brick outer skin, is it a genuine Cornish Unit. They are concrete 'planks' down here. -
The number of companies they have been involved in.
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