MikeSharp01

What about looking at a monthly pattern (well it is close), did it also happen on the 6th December but you not notice it, or could it be the router leases timing out / not renewing somehow - there seems to be quite a a bit, no pun intended, on this on the RPi forums.

I am no architect so please take my thinking with a pinch of salt. It does look a bit 'complicated'. Cannot see why you need the two doors in the corridor to the kitchen, (lounge exit - which would create more functional space in the lounge if removed & kitchen entrance - which adds nothing other than complexity in my view) - many like open plan living and no doors are a hint at that and would allow a view from the Lounge to the garden. The kitchen does feel 'pinched' there is no seating / dinning area there so not sure where you intend to put yourselves for eating - unless the run beside the dishwasher is a bar of some sort. So, overall, I think making the extension longer is a big plus.

And half a wind farm in a force 8 gale to get it to full brightness?

Wonder what the trick is to sound proofing them? We have one on our Utility, not yet fitted so I could change it.

Welcome to THE forum for people like us.

Farnell have been doing this for some time, they call it a handling charge - I save up my orders.

Nope - but we need to solve their problems or they will become ours. To do it we perhaps need to understand that there are many things in life that don't have a financial payback yet we still feel the need, perhaps mainly through social pressure, to do them nonetheless, EG Children, Cars, Holidays. To tackle this problem we do need to cohere and that is either a job for government, who as we have already said seem congenitally incapable of showing any sort of leadership on the matter, so as to make us pull together OR a small band of committed activists capable of ensuring we can collectively smell the coffee! There are bigger risks it is just they are not that well understood or recognised. Not moving forward together will ensure we all are, one can see the elemental approach to the status quo as classic defender mentality at work while this time, unlike most situations in the past, the attacker is the size of a planet!

It seems that there are 3bn people on the planet who use less energy per year than a standard American fridge!

Hope dies last!

Totally understandable and while that would be a classic tragedy of the commons example. We have known this for millennia. Aristotle said "That which is common to the greatest number gets the least amount of care. Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common." If we can make it payback early and in all dimensions then that would be ideal although we would then have to face up to how we make it affordable for all the planets residents. Yes

Not quite what I said - the payback does matter but it can be to our children's children.

This is also becoming a difficult point and is somewhat tied up with the much more 'wicked' problem that is climate change and our individual responsibility for it. I have said here before that although payback in my pocket would be a bonus a payback to the planet, eg my offspring's offspring, would be enough for me. I appreciate that this may mean us thinking more collectively but hey, and to bowdlerize George Washington - actually bowdlerize is perhaps not the right term, "If we do not all turn the temperature down together we will assuredly fry separately"

YES...but the basic physics is sound, which is probably why people keep banging away at it, you can, after all, store a lot of energy in a ton of sand (most things really) in a variety of forms, kinetic & heat for instance, and energy availability shifting is the holy grail, its just getting it there, keeping it there, getting it in & out efficiently and all for a reasonable sum that are the problems! The reasonable sum gap might be closing a little as energy costs rise and so close it.

That's an interesting read - 23T of water and you cannot make it pay.

Make it a basic cube and then use vacuum panels for insulation.

As in keep the oxygen input low and burn slowley - so letting it rip, as in force feed / allow free running oxygen, is a good / better thing?

Sounds like a good plan.

You should be so lucky.

I have the Bosch GLM 50 C (around the £150 mark) although its has an accuracy of of +/-1.5mm it will measure to 0.1mm if you fire it with Bluetooth and don't hold it so you can detect tiny wobbles / vibrations. I don't like the battery life, which feels like a couple of hours when you are working it hard but otherwise it is a great workhorse.

I quite like OnShape this is very like solidworks in interface terms but is browser based and more than fast enough, it also has full collaboration features so several designers can work on the same drawing / part / assembly at the same time. The free version, marketed for the maker community, has only one limitation in that every part you draw is open for others to work with (not shared). It creates all the standard file types.

Recess the vent - much the most likely to work and simplest.

Sounds like theft - get a crime number and / or start harassing the local Police to step in and investigate - they perhaps won't but maybe worth a try?

How about the whole reframe thing. Convert the current connector into a great looking pendant fitting, perhaps black to match the light fitting, get some similarly great looking cotton covered cord and run (loop down, over and then up) it into neat gland (you will perhaps need to spray that one) on the pendant box which can then go anywhere you like. See what the committee says.

Well done for getting this far and providing your insightful advice.

I think there is a recommendation on this 2m springs to mind: have a read here