MikeSharp01

where is wingdings in the font drop down and does this not use the ASCII set anyway? Encrypt everything or politely ask for your data not to be transmitted over Huawei kit and see if that gets you anywhere - it won't. HMG are being driven - as they always are, by cost £ now and not cost £ in misery later. Here is a brilliant opportunity for UK PLC to develop a technology lead and we sell out - don't get me started.

You need 3rd party cover as anything happens on your land you coukd liable. There are products for pre build but once you start it would not be sensible to proceed without insurance.

Presumably this means that when you buy the car you sign away your rights to the data, can you not turn it off / take out the nG sim card??

Was shown this today - interesting and a bit OTT, perhaps too 'big building' focused but if you are contemplating a connected home lots here to point up the pitfalls to be avoided. https://www.iotsecurityfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IoTSF-Smart-Buildings-White-Paper-PDFv2.pdf I was also watching a sensor demonstration on Friday with an 02, CO2, Humidiy and Temperature capability and wondering just what you could make of the data from a room with one of these it it! EG "Hello there are two people in this room exerting themselves rather". Curiously the people demonstrating it had not thought of the implications of logging their data into the cloud!

Welcome to THE Forum for selfbuilders and like minded individuals. We are round the M25 at J4 but building in Whitstable.

There is your answer - sorry, everything 'up the smoke' has a premium because ... well I guess you know. Just bringing a van in CL for a day cost serious money, room rates for overnights are sky high. Took our two children out for brunch on Saturday in CL £180 for four - I nearly collapsed. If you are half handy you could probably do a chunk of it yourself of course and let the pros do the rest.

I downloaded the .dwg auraplus and I got 10.5 mm from Autocad. 1

I would download a section drawing, I think you have Rationel windows, they will show you exactly.

Bit more reading and I find this: "Today we’d like to take the opportunity to kill the idea of the Kitchen Work Triangle as a design tool that is out of date and should be out of our thinking process." [Source accessed 11.01.2020] More work needed this end I fear.

Hmmm. Looking into my comment above I found this ref: "Developed in the early twentieth century, the working triangle—also known as "the kitchen triangle," also known as "the golden triangle"—is a theory that states a kitchen’s three main work areas should form, you guessed it, a triangle. Specifically, the sink, the refrigerator, and the stove. By the mid-twentieth century this theory was widely disseminated and still, miraculously, applies today. According to its tenets, each leg of the triangle formed should be between four and nine feet each, and the sum distance of the triangle should not be less than 13 or more than 26 feet. So neither too far apart or too compact. (In my own kitchen, the segment between the sink and the refrigerator is far shorter than the requisite four feet, thus creating a bottleneck.)" [Source accessed 11.01.202] So our idea of having the fridge, dishwashers - yes 2, sink and hob all on the island just got a knock back.

Not odd but interesting. When entertaining you want to talk to your guests so I am not sure why you would not have both sink and hob on the island, suitably separated of course. I find the most interesting thing when looking at other peoples kitchens is where the oven is in relation to the hob, if not directly under it. After all they have no direct relationship unless you are finishing off something under the grill that was previously on the hob and of course most peoples hobs are the landing places of trays etc from the hot oven. Wonder if there are any stats other than those associated with the well known triangle to show the average time spent at each of the stations of the kitchen when prepping an average meal.

Net present value / Real rate of return needs also to factor in inflation as this eats away at investment now over time against interest lost or otherwise paid.

Welcome to THE forum for self builders and like minded individuals - sounds very exciting and we look forward to hearing more about it.

Makes me wonder what to do next - I am about to order the 7+ Kw of solar panels and I know that is too much to export all at once but given that it is spread over the roof segments. 3.66Kw 20deg west of South @ 30deg elevation - no shade, 2Kw 20deg south of East @ 30 deg - shade early AM and 2Kw 20deg north of West @ 30 deg no shade I think our max output will be slightly above 5 although I have room for about 5 Kw more on the East & West roofs combined. I had intended to control loads and charge things like the Sunamp using solid state contractors, rough, ready and somewhat wasteful, so as to keep the peek below 3.66Kw, so I used it all and export a bit but I am now thinking I could export if I went for a G59 application - used an inverter system with the relevant protection - so no relays, the other phases are on a pole on our land! Even at 5.5p I cannot see it being a good financial call but imagine what it will do for the SAP rating! Need to do the math!

Interesting....

Time to order the first floor floorboards. 18mm is structurally enough on 400mm centres of our I-joists but I was wondering what the advantage of 22mm might be if it isnt structural.

Welcome to THE forum for self builders and like minded types - looks great.

I refer my learned friend to my previous answer....

You don't have to be cynical to get that this is exactly what will happen because the profit motive will drive it - something like this... "Which charge option would Sir / Madam like, we have the always full model where you pay a small monthly premium on your standing charge and a charge anytime rate, for your connection so that we allow you to charge your car anytime and we never use it for load balancing OR you can have the hope it will be all right where we can stop your car charging if the grid is overloaded you pay slightly less for the electricity you do get but we cannot be sure you will get it all the time" as we, he says under his breath, can charge people on rate the always full tariff more for it." The alternative, where the power of the consumer really comes into play, so when he grid is suffering the DNO gets into a bargaining position with you about how much they will pay you to flatten your battery - imagine the trading algorithms, won't be allowed so you can forget that. Better off building yourself a power station and doing your own thing - suddenly off grid becomes more attractive if you can generate it and store it.

Or find way to burn / denature it - the promise of fusion - MAYBE.

Not sure I would trust a smart meter as far as I could throw it - but the low points must, commercially, be in the E7 periods so at night when the sun does not shine so we loose PV as a possible then and - once everybody is using the E7 period do you think our commercial thinking managers will allow us to to keep it - suddenly it won't be a low point anymore!

Save me Googling it and doing the maths - you will probably have it in your head, by how much, multiples of current production, will we need to increase generation capacity by to move all our people transport needs to BEVs then?

Yep - I know & CAT 8, but I have a 500m drum of CAT6 so that is what I will use.

I am almost sure we will use CAT6 to all our switches and power anything there with PoE if you used a deep back box you could get enough processing power behind an ordinary switch to do most anything! I am experimenting with mesh networks, based on THESE, and THESE self powered switches to see what I might make them do around the house.

As I think I mentioned earlier on another thread this is all about data and we give it away as if were our exhaled breath IE of no apparent value it has real value and the fight is on to get as much of it as possible. I am not as worried about Alexa type devices as I am about the NHS, well HMG actually, selling the UK health data set, however much anonamised to the tec giants because they will then joint the dots at the top and know an individuals health condition. If think that sounds unlikely then just imagine if google were tracking your use of searches and trying to spot you looking up some health condition then tie this up with a diary entry about a visit to the GP then your orders to an online pharmacy even if they cannot see tge prescription they will know what is wrong and bingo.... Remember that in this big data Klondike there are no models.