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Boilerjuice chart for England says 88p/L but when I ordered just now the quote was 84.67p/L so not quite as bad as expected.

Think it might be time for me. Heating Oil has been ticking up slowly for about a week. Currently 88p/L.

Skylights. Sorry I was joking about white PV panels.

We have these nice white panels in Kettering 😞 First one is a Primark distribution Centre..

All over central England we have been build massive warehouses in recent years. None that I can see have pv on the roof. Some are millions of square feet. Then up the road there are PV farms being built on agricultural land. Madness.

Perhaps I should have said .. They can hire them.

"How to find and buy a Building Plot" by Roy Speer.

You can hire them.

+1 Imagine a down pipe has blocked and water levels in the gutter rise until overflowing. Can it get into the structure?

Google found "G98 certified Enphase IQ7 Micro-Inverters"

It's quite humid these days. Perhaps they open a bit for that reason?

We had good architect for our new build and a great builder. Builder told me he never builds off plans, he always builds off the last bit he's built 🙂 What he meant was he never trusts even himself so allways measures before buying anything.

Well it was until a few days ago. According to BoilerJuice it's gone up last 4 days in a row. I have a nearly empty tank and need to order soon. Sounds like it. I've been seeing articles like these .. "German Oil Refiner Is Seeing ‘Run on Heating Oil and Diesel" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-04/oil-refiner-omv-germany-seeing-run-on-heating-oil-and-diesel "According to Wood Mackenzie, the continent’s stocks of road diesel, heating oil, and other diesel-type fuel are likely to shrivel this November to the lowest level since records began, dating back to the beginning of 2011" https://www.offshore-technology.com/news/europe-set-to-be-short-of-diesel-fuel-in-winter/

Oil has now fallen to $88. This is less than it was before Russia invaded Ukraine. Yet petrol and Heating Oil prices are still way up there.

Telegraph is reporting.. "Rough gas storage site cleared to start filling up within weeks"

Worth a read.. https://www.neverpaintagain.co.uk/blog/roof-coatings-are-they-a-good-idea-or-not/ http://roofcoatingscam.com/will-roof-coating-invalidate-manufacturers-guarantee/

If moss is a problem fitting copper strips at the ridge is an option, but I've never needed to do that, or clean a roof or get one "coated". I do recall hearing of cowboys on consumer programs that cold call and pressure sell you cleaning and coating work you probably don't need. I recall seeing one outfit clambering about on a roof waving a pressure washer about damaging tiles.

I wonder how long it will take to get running. Statements like these are rather ominous.. Does that mean you will have to wait for your area to get a scheme running or could you buy credits in a scheme elsewhere in the country? Would it be better/faster if the government just required this to be funded by the CIL? That way money could be collected now and construction of houses begin while the mitigation scheme is worked out.

So 25 cubic meters full of stone can probably hold what 10% of that? or 2.5 cubic meters of water. Would some sort of surge attenuation tank be an option?

Not sure about g98 but CE marking is being replaced by UKCA thanks to Brexit. The deadline for that is approaching.. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/using-the-ukca-marking

OK so I should clarify...There should be no need to make them air tight if the ceiling void is reasonably well sealed to the outside world. However not all ceiling voids between floors are well sealed. Sometimes floor joists penetrate into cavity walls.

OK so the downright aren't in the loft void, they are in rooms below? If that's the case then no need for them to be air tight. If they are in the loft void then more info needed about how the roof is insulated.

Was that the Labour proposal? I heard that on the Radio yesterday and it was only a freeze until April. Then what? Apparently the cost would be more than was spent on the Covid furlough scheme.

Zoom in on the left hand picture. Just above the ridge there appears to be some sort of grill/vent that looks a bit odd. Edit: or is it the reflector of a TV aerial?

Did you get to see inside during the heatwave? How hot was it?