Roger440

Welcome to buckinghamshire! Ive got a dump in towcester, but thats in northamptonshire. Still sensible there. Of course, they have got wise to peoplle crossing the county line. Proof of address required, though not always checked.

Context? What was the cost of it? So whats the "break even" point.

Well, your wish is granted! Energy costs spiralling out of control.. Inevitably it will force behaviou change. Sadly, i suspect it will be ugly. I think you will find yourself in a minority.

Very. You have to pay to dump anything that isnt "household waste". Which is basically what you put in your wheelie bin. DOESNT cover anything else. Replaced your kitchen, want to dump the old units. Er, not, that will be £10 a cupboard. An old pallet. Another fiver. You can, quite literally, dump nothing without paying.

If you can get an EV as a company car tax dodge, great. For the rest of us it makes no economic sense.Thats before you get to the practical difficulties. I tried to make it stack up for my wifes next car. It doesnt, not close.

Maybe. Im as cynical as anyone, but at £6k, there will be a lot of people that cant and wont pay. At which point it will become a government problem. They are simply not going to allow significant numbers of people to be cut off, so effectively the suppliers will be supplying energy free of charge. That cant end well and government will be forced to intervene. Of course, they could try being proactive, but i think we all know they will sit on their hands until its a full blown crisis.

Im hoping i called it right last week. Managed to squeeze 880 lites in.

Just filled my oil tank. Its a crazy world when heating with oil is substantially cheaper than heating with gas. One wonders at what point its cheaper to fire up my generator and connect to a set of batteries, than buying from the grid? Might be there already for non domestic?

Good post. I remeber Jeremy saying that running your average log burner was like having 300 diesel cars outside your house ticking over. On that data, that doesnt look to be that far wrong as far as PM2.5 is concerned. And the goverment wants gas boilers gone..........................................

The most critical factor to its thermal performance is, "is it dry?". A wet wall is a disaster. And lots of them are. Usually as a result of inappropiate materials.

The problem is, every situation is different. Some will get away with solutions that simply dont work on another house. There just so many vairables. On our current house i worked on a worst case scenario. Could i have got away with less? Could i have left the concrete floor in? Maybe. But you cant and wont know until its too late. While the place is stripped, taking up the old floor and installing an insulated lime floor wasnt that big a leap, though not cheap either. Overkill? Maybe. But ive given it the best possible chane of eradicating the damp issues.

Thats the route i toook with out current house, and if the next one comes off, will likely do the same again. You did, however, miss off air tightness. On anything this old, it will be an air leakage catastrophe!

Obviously you have an issue with water from above, which really isnt that difficult to solve. My render on the gable was the same. The easy fix was lead flashing at the top of the render. But are the walls damp at floor level? If they are, thats not going to get better if you insulate externally. If they are completely dry, then maybe.

Ahh yes, why did i not think of that. Obvious name is obvious! I dont remember the bar maid.

Lots of ideas. But no intelligent life forms to enact it. Jesus, 29bn for 6 months!!!!!

Thanks. Understand. There was a pub in watermead, the name of which i forget. For a while it was the place to go. And i did Mostly because the warranty lads were dossed in the horse & jockey over the road. Happy days.

It was. Economically illiterate. If they want to do something useful, first x number of Kwh at a low rate, climbing the more you use. So the biggest users subsidise the lowest. Simple. No tax payer cash involved. Well, may be not simple, but best idea ive heard.

IF they manage it. Yes. And ignoring the pollution aspect of course, which is hardly insignificant. Which is one reason there wont be any wood burning stove in my house. But very much an edge case though. Not too many people have enough woodland to do that. Nor the will and energy to actually manage it. Thats a lot of work, not a task to be undertaken lightly. Might seem a good plan in your forties, not so much in your sixties. So wont get done. And therefore wont be sustainable. There are no CO2 free solutions. All you can do is minimize. I think this thread may have drifted off topic

Id say burning wood IS bad too. I fail to see much good in doing so.

Agreed. Though it can no doubt contribute. Im never suggested that there was a solution. Just getting fed up with stuff being decribed as "sustainable" when it patently isnt. Just accept the fact our existence uses resources and causes pollution.

Solar? If you ignore the manufacturing element.

It is true. I know, you know, and everyone else knows, its just greenwashing. There nothing "sustainable" about the whole carry on. Not least because there no guarantee that the replacement tree wont just be removed early in its life.

Im asking?

With regard insulating solid walls, yes, several recent threads. Tread carefullly. Your proposed option further up isnt what i would do. There comes a point where you accept some losses through the walls, concentrate elsewhere, especially air tightness, which will be bad, and see how you can cover those energy losses at the lowest cost. It is, as you say, a minefield. The biggest issue with the various options, is, it will be a long time before you know there is a problem. Ive just stripped and replastered mine with a lime hemp base layer first. (and probably about to do it all again in another house) Partly because its a little flood prone, but also because i know it will be OK. Sure, its a thermal disaster, but its 2 walls (to outside), insulated below and above. Though, now the walls are dry, it feels so much "nicer" than before the work.

Thats a rather healthy consumption! If im understanding this right and using steamys numbers, with oil that would be circa 450 litres!! Or has my maths failed me again?