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  1. MikeSharp01
    Lucky blighter(s) - always wanted hydro power ever since I saw the tiny turbine at Rudyard Kipling's house (Batemans) as a child. Best I could arrange would be pumped storage I suppose.
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    Yep, then people standing at the door won't be looking at your stairs but down through the house to Garden Vista. Although moving the stairs has improved things for the old arrangement but does impact the house all the way up.
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    The only a couple things that spring to mind are: Move front door to other side so you can see all the way through the building - give an impression of depth. Nice car in garage. Look at how beds will be organised in the bedrooms, use a king size as a starting point and see how it could be laid out, reducing to single trying all sizes in between, it will help you optimise the storage now and power points later.
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    Great post @caliwag I wonder how we can arrange a larder - of which I am a great fan, in a passive house environment? We have provisioned the space in the new build but I have no ideas yet on how to ventilate / insulate it - but love the idea of marble shelving.
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    +1 ours worked with us and the Architect to get things the way we wanted.
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    Thanks @JSHarrisThose are the very ones I have - I will get the piranhas and have a play.
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    All the ins and outs of the main cabinet will be glands only the internal wiring into the the little CU at the top of the cabinet will have grommets, so lets hope we can keep the creepy crawlies out of the main cabinet and then they will struggle to materialise in the internal CU.
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    Thanks @ProDave for that. The Commando is not designed as a site socket - just a socket I can use in the garden / drive, I can make it TT though. Is the image below what you expect to see for the TT scheme via the Commando Socket? I think we will have a PME supply although its the old supply just moved to the cabinet next door and the earth rod at the bottom of the power pole is less than 1m from the cabinets, so will have to drive in the earth rod a good distance away to meet the depth / distance rule. I have included the gland / sheathing earths for the main outputs as well.
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    I am just about to wire the distribution box, see pic below and drawing below, This distributes the incoming power from the meter panel next to it out to the garden room 1x80A fused unit (upper), the main house - 1x80A fused unit and a local commando socket (16A) and the garden lighting (1x small CU 16A / 6A breakers). I have three things I am not sure of so any ideas greatly appreciated; Should I use ferrules on the ends of all the 10 / 16 and 25mm2 tails across the cabinet (they are already on the internal wiring in the small CU). I would have though I would but installations I have seen don't always use them and the regs look agnostic (526.9.1 in 17th Ed)! To get the cables in and out of the CU I propose to just use simple grommets around the holes, I don't think I need to seal them although I could. Do I need to earth the earth connections, and run the earths through, on the Switch Fuse units as the earth common block will be used to terminate the earths from the cables these supply, it seems daft to introduce two additional points of failure by connecting the outgoing cable earths via the switch fuse units. The cables will all be held down on the board by cable ties through table tie plugs in the board. All and any thoughts appreciated.
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    Just did it, its PEDIT - Close.
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    Just click on the line it will show the nodes and then you can investigate each one, if you move a node and one line stays still there is your gap but IIRC you can close a shape with straight lines or curves and set a gap tolerance to close.
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    Looks like you are going to really poop his party on this one if you can find the sweet spot.
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    +1 For Henry. We have a VAX for wet dry work and a Henry for everyday it's very good at least as good as the VAX while the cable wind and two speed control make it excellent. Only brought it to clean our sons uni room when he moved out and we now love it.
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    I got a rather good O level with SMP, and I think I had a crush on the teacher - her name was miss slowly, wonder where she is now.
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    Yep - my bad - 292. Off day yesterday, have rechecked everything else I did yesterday and it looks like the only one though. Given all the above I guess you do have some levers you can pull, should you wish to, in your response to the application.
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    As they are clay you will have a double row at the bottom with the lower ones as half tiles then one stretching back over it as a full tile to the next batten up @Temp links show this as does yours.
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    There is a location plan on the main drawings, 400m2 is the total land area so they will need almost half of that as amenity space. I make the houses 7 x 8 meters (external - guess) = 56m2 x 2 =112 + 180 = 392 so a few m2 under the available area. Someone did their homework or are very lucky!
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    That was discussed in the programme as a mechanism for grid balancing. I guess it means that they guarantee to have your car fully charged by a given time when you put it on charge but they can fill it and empty is as many times as they like during the period.
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    Sorry Dave, maybe I came across badly. I felt the programme was focused on batteries and ranged far and wide across economics / physics / technology of wind / solar and storage technologies. It didn't seem to come down one way or another but gave some useful insights into the bigger picture.
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    Just listened to bbc R4 Bottom line on battery technology. Well worth a listen. "The last sentence is most interesting: went something like: UK and France have announced zero carbon emission cars by 2040 my guess is that ministers know there is a technology about to break." Is it lithium suphur?
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    Have you got that quite right @Pete you say that the 90mm screws are spaced at 50mm and the 75mm screws are spaced at 150mm. 50mm spacing must be overkill and going in 90mm when you have 35mm of mounted material - so 55mm into the sub strata while the other one only have 25mm seems too little or in the former case are the battens held on independently of the backer board? In which case less of a problem. In the end you need to go with what parex recommends as anything less might lead to problems if there is a problem - if you get my drift.
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    Welcome, sounds exciting, looking on with interest.
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    You're a cynical blighter today Ian. You never know things might get better although I appreciate that optimism is a grubby word thsee days.
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    Hey @Barney12 I thought your question, 'can anybody tell me exactly...' was a bit like the crystal maze for very 'clever' people as the number of ways of getting it wrong are myriad, the whole thing appears simple at the outset and for each situation there is only one right answer nestling like a needle in the haystack. Get a normal crapper or get a head ache. Alternatively you could settle back and wait for @onoff to finish his thread on boxing in because I think this same question is in there, and answered - well sort of, about page 10.
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    My Brother, not well known for his mathematical ability but still wealthier than me has calculated that since the invention of the ball point pen enough have been made to cover the planet in a layer 75mm (3 inches he said) thick but can you find one when you want one. Nope...
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