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I am watching the price of lead sheet. Could we temp @Jeremy Harrisback to the forum, he must have a blueprint for the construction of a nuclear bunker.

The news just in that France has intercepted a Russian cargo ship at sea under new powers moves this matter up many notches. We could be at a Cuban Missile type stand off within a week it this keeps escalating. The Russians could view this as state sponsored piracy which is awfully close to an act of war.

A few details would be useful. Location, budget, internal area requirement, house/bungalow, eco passiv house expectations.

I watched a video showing how the small claims mediation process works. The case in question involved a householder who sacked a builder 2/3 of the way through a job because she decided the builder would not finish on schedule and then she only offered to pay 1/3 of the total quoted job. She was not successful.

I am confused, how many arms do Boris and Vlad have?

What legal entity did you give this 5 figure deposit to? Getting that back would be a higher priority to me than knocking up a minimally functional budget kitchen.

@Russdldo you recall specific CO2 ppm numbers as the air quality declined?

A typical 1600 sq ft house built to scrape a pass mark for thermal building regs will loose heat at a rate of 6kW at a 20 degree delta. Once your room, mezzanine and hallway have warmed up where will the stove heat go? But to answer your question the Clearview Vision 500 with the mid height bungalow hat makes a statement in a large fireplace with a not ridiculous max output of 8kW. https://www.clearviewstoves.com/clearview-brochure/#16-17

You need a bigger phone screen. Today was a record peak for UK wind power, must be the result of Triton Knoll coming online. I regularly drive over its feed into the national grid and it clonks my suspension. Enjoy today while it lasts, how many turbines will tumble tomorrow?

GridWatch is just a weekend side project run by an enterprising computer programmer. He publishes data from industry realtime feeds. The PV data is synthetic produced by a model created by Sheffield University. GridWatch wind data should be good. https://gridwatch.co.uk/Wind

Your original post lead with data from GridWatch and I chose to debunk your predictions by exclusively using data from GridWatch. In response you now cherry pick from multiple sources including the Guardian. Rampant gas price inflation and astonishing kWh price inflation illustrate that wind is not yet delivering what you claim. There is a 5 to 10 year gap between reality and your happy clappy tree hugger view of the world. That reality gap is causing real suffering millions of Britons.

@Ferdinandyou need to rework your projections and factor in the following: Total installed wind capacity in the UK is 24GW Peak wind output in 2021 was 14GW Average wind output was 5.6GW You are greatly overestimating net increase due to new wind farms. By 2028 the UK power insecurity period will be over but until then we are in for a difficult time. Re. The new link to Norway. Is this good news from either a kWh or CO2 perspective?

What low carbon progress do you expect to arrive over the next year to achieve such a startling change in energy generation? The reality is that we will likely see a rise in carbon-based UK electricity generation because our nuclear capacity is being retired early with 1.4GW due to be lost this year. New wind farm capacity will only nudge the dial a percent or two each year, for example the biggest recent news in wind farms was Triton Knoll which took years to build and came online last year with 0.8GW capacity.

The issue is about growth rate. Your figures illustrate how many ASHP installers are new to the business and how many newly formed business in this sector will be inducing these inexperienced installers with more money to install the next 3 million ASHPs. This is the economic environment that leads to high prices and screwed up ASHP installations.

In the Sunday Times this morning there is a prediction of the oil price shooting up to $120 a barrel. Does the gas price track the oil price?

I don't know but beyond the cult-like belief system of this forum it is an incontrovertible truth that an ASHP setup costs way more than a gas boiler equivalent. The market might normalise one day because as you indicate the fundamentals should not lead to such a price discrepancy. Your were in IT and so you should understand that the leading edge of a technology trend is overpriced and human skills with a new technology command a premium. As the many tales of ASHP operational woes indicate the consequential suffering caused by ASHP installation incompetence will cost more than the premium price of a competent installation. Look at the @joe90thread, in his otherwise perfectly executed self build it took the combined wisdom of the best forum brains weeks to diagnose his wonky heating system. The ASHP/Gas decision is not just a financial equation of kWh prices and heat source unit prices. Any self builder needs to consider the probability of becoming the owner of a misdesigned complete screw up of an ASHP installation.

Have you inspected all windows or is your concern based on the removal of one window? With a decent box eave overhang I doubt the tray provides much benefit above the upstairs window apertures.

That photo reminds me of the landscape around Mount St. Helens in Washington State 5 years after the volcano blew. The main difference is that the volcanic blast aligned the fallen trees.

Feed the same cover requirements into the Protek online quotes Web page.

The rebuild cost influences the premium. My last 12 month premium was about £500 with £10k cover for the static caravan but no tools or plant hire insurance.

Have you looked at your Deeds to see what communal obligations and access rights are specified for maintenance of the shell of the building? How long has the flat below being vacant? If it is over 10 years and you have a right of access for essential maintenance then at some point you could initiate a claim for adverse possession and become the legal owner of the ground floor flat.

Is pressure drop a real concern given that most MVHR owners run their system at the lowest trickle rate once past BC inspection?

Yes but only once the tree huggers have installed sufficient alternative capacity to keep the lights on and price stable. Wind capacity needs to double before it is safe to demolish our last 4GW of coal power stations.

It was the gate pillars.

That was a fortuitous banding given your internal sq footage. Was it a drive-by banding?