MikeSharp01

Interesting insight into the challenges of fixed price contracts, they are only ever any good in times of low inflation or predictable inflation times.

Interesting challenges don't know which pump would be best but if you are having an internal ASHP as you will need VERY good ventilation in that space to get the air throughput you are going to need.

Think we looked at this a few weeks back. @JanetE posted this: 12 packs of salt blocks last a year. They are £72 from: Greens, https://water-systems.co.uk/ on the thread: not sure how it compares as weight not know but I guess a quick look will help.

If it is Japanese Knotweed then you have a problem, everything about the challenge is here: https://www.rhs.org.uk/weeds/japanese-knotweed hard work ahead if it is.

Think that post took a chunk off my life, still this coffee time Apple will take the edge off!

Interesting observations.

Got one (Well similar) and thought I would have a dig around the amplification of the IF stage to make it read with arduino / EPS. Anyway found this video - some of this chaps gear will make you jealous I think the Keysight MXA is around $80K. Insightful video.

But means feeling up to walking on the ridge with a watering can, a packet of Copper sulphate and dragging a hose. 😧 Why have I got a funny feeling in my gonads?

@nod gives you a couple to try above.

shouldn't it be supplying in the office?

If it has been there for more than 4 years (I think it is four years) then you can get a lawful development certificate anyway so maybe that's what they will be asking you to do and nothing more.

Looks very impressive - glazing issues raised by others would also worry me. Good luck on the journey - we will be here for you but you will have to have all the fun.

Thought I would get one of these to play with: https://www.unmannedtechshop.co.uk/product/24ghz-mmwave-radar-sensor-fall-detection-module/ Does your your normal extraction rate meet the building regs requirement purge / etc?

Where abouts are you planning to build - Telford or out in the countryside.

This is the challenge for me, inactivity can include just sitting there reading a book, you will need the 'heart beat' sensor @Radian was mentioning to capture that.

Yes unless they are using something like the trust approach which would allow dividends to be taken before tax. If a company is listed / embodied outside the UK it probably won't pay much tax in the UK, all companies of the size above will have a 'tax strategy statement' somewhere that will set out what they do but these are generally quite vanlilla and careful management of crystallisations usually means that the local business does not make a, or much of a, profit even if the group as a whole does. You will have seen this in the case of Google and Amazon which even HMG feels might somewhat be outside a reasonable envelope.

That's the whole group, as is EON they don't split out their UK trading, so it will be a % of the above. SSE is wholly UK and if I had time I could have looked at Scottish Power and British Gas to see whats what. Interestingly I looked at Octapus - that is a private company but its latest accounts show losses as a group (they trade all over the planet and there are perhaps 30 companies in the group) but they are growing very fast. They also have what looks like a small set of directors that look after everything and look to be the owners of most of the shares but that is also somewhat obfuscated by the number of share classes they have so hard to get any details but it is clear that they have a very engaged staff base (with share options - not sure which class) and their founder is leading strongly.

And some: (Just three of them) SSE market Cap £17.54b dividend earning 5.21% = £0.91bn to shareholders. EDF market Cap £30.00b dividend earning 7.17% = £2.15bn to shareholders. EON market Cap £21.43b dividend earning 4.93% = £1.05bn to shareholders.

Perhaps - given prices for installed charge points come in around £1-2K here. Still doe not answer the self generated power issue or the V-L (Vehicle to Load) options coming down the track.

Looks like 'autocorrect' has already worked.

Interesting read, raises so many interesting questions, but in the end just another parasitic load, still I guess you can turn it off. Interesting point. My Questions / issues: See above - how does it deal with self generated power. I see no provision for V-L in this scheme as defined. I assume your EV will still have a 13A charge lead you can use to top up where you like - have I got that wrong. It can stop me charging but it looks like I can over ride it if I wish - seems daft it either is, or is not, a control. Not sure I like the DSR / ToU agreement idea but I guess many already have that. Thin end of the DSR wedge or what as this technology will soon be inside our homes controlling all our consumption.

This was always going to be a challenge but I wonder how this fits with self generated power you may want to put into your EV during the summer days!

Probably best, saves us reading all the way back to the beginning - picking up all the details, filtering out the various side eddies (where eddy = onoff), endeavouring to work out what the question was and try to frame an answer while sustaining the will to live and giving a dam.

Make sure it's appropriate toughened if people could run / fall / lean on it.

Presumably it was an accredited degree (JBM / IStructE / ICE or some such) in which case you can get chartered (You may already be Incorporated?) with a bit of work / study (Depending on how long ago you got it). Otherwise you just need the insurances. The PI will not be easy without your charter but you may find an underwriter who is up for it. Alternatively think about your business model and try looking for paid work helping out your local SE's with CAD or other duties to earn a curst while you get set up. Good luck.