MikeSharp01

or "congratulating themselves on having sold the public sector such a wonderful system"

Have you tried dealing with your internal intellectual / emotional challenges so as to get some headspace to 'just let it rest' and / or put down a marker - letter to the local paper copied to planning authority and the relevant officers professional bodies (CIH / RTPI) setting out your concerns, so you can return to it later, with incontrovertible evidence you raised it, when things ease, and then move on. Either, or other similar, would have the effect of reducing your stress around the matter and allow you stress about something else - those wardrobes for instance, and neither is an admission of defeat just a regroup.

We did have to compromise on the site to build where we wanted to but we still have 150m2 house and a 30m2 garden room with 460mm thick walls (340mm of insulation). The PV is all on the garden room (worst case is tiny amounts of shade at one time of year), we have enough wood burners here at millstone manor to know we didn't want one in Whitstable, just Jackie and me really - and we get on just fine (mostly) but room for the kids to visit together if they want, we have laid in gas pipe but will not have gas as we want rid (dont we), not yet fitted sound insulation but the layout means that its floors between bedrooms so I need to pack it tight - but it should be better than 100mm walls do you not think. We designed out the tank because of the grief JSH described on his path from conventional thinking to Sunamp - so we will be with @ToughButterCup on that one. We have also chosen ASHP as our space heating solution, UFH with three towel rails and I am working on designing out any sort of buffer tank. I have not purchased the ASHP yet as I am waiting for the promised, by HMG, price drop when everybody has to get one - no really don't need it cluttering up the site. Just got to get a very quiet one as it will run mostly over night on E7. I won't hijack this thread by asking for recommendations (we need only a 6Kw device anyway)

Making that center finder on the bench would be a massive pain owing to the chamfer CNC only or 3D printing. Still new generative design techniques come up with parts you can only make with additive manufacturing (3D printing) perhaps as the path to casting, injection molding or some such. Photo Credits: Autodesk

We are on oak logs from a local pro tree fella this winter, not unusual, and we season them, after splitting, for a year in our woodshed then stack them by the front door ready for use. Next years are being delivered tomorrow. If we have to fell a tree here we always log half of it and leave the other half as log piles to encourage the wildlife. Outside temp is 7.6 right now but think it will be a bit cooler over night, one log burner running very low.

The effects will get to us by a roundabout route when parts of the world become very difficult to inhabit and the people there start to migrate to more temperate zones.

PS have you checked that the thermostatically controlled flap is actually moving - we have a log burner where this happened and it roared away all the time, until I fixed it, maybe yours has gone the other way.

Welcome to THE forum for people like us! Someone will be along shorty to help I am sure Although I know a bit about steam locomotives I am not sure that experience will help however putting air in above the fire sounds like a no-no for over night running. If we want to keep a fire in over night, not a frequent occurrence, we tend to shut the damper, below the fire, right down to almost closed and if the wind blowing hard we close it down even more but avoiding shutting it completely. Locomotives don't have dampers above the fire. Unburnt coal sounds like a lack of air to keep it burning too much air and you will be left with ash and too little and you will be left with coal!

True but the thing that caused the problem was yesterday's technology - coupled of course to the knock on effects it had in terms of standards of living, and hence the ability to acquire 'stuff'. So people, perhaps wrongly, look to technology for solutions but of course it won't on its own - unless there is some humungous breakthrough somewhere but that in itself is likely to come from a technology route. (PS My definition of Technology is science AND engineering working together - the one being the exploiter of the other. I suppose we could link in social aspects as well but most of that will be science already EG behavioral science, and if you don't think behavioral engineering is not already happening then you need to get off social networks!)

Worse than I thought then.

So it is not a very efficient way of storing renewable energy but round trip pumped storage is only 70-80% efficient.

The operation is somewhat as you say but also prevents vacuum build up in the waste system when you flush. If you don;t have one of these you may have a breather somewhere else on your system, usually out side somewhere and / or a vacuum breaking valve (Called Air admittance Valve - AAV) somewhere in the house. If it is a new build building control won't sign it off without one or the other or both depending on your situation.

Looks 'imposing', perhaps its the camera angle , welcome to THE forum for our kind of people. Sounds like the planners were on your side as a complaint from an MP usually, well in my experience, either buggers it up completely or slows it down so much that you give up. That is also a lot of glass! What direction is it facing?

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Well done Dave...

I was thinking of a guarantee of performance not the actual install, the challenge being to get the insurance industry to somewhat control standards as it would be in their interest.

Or only installed in the right situations.

Make it an insurance backed scheme - the premiums will be so high nobody will do it and the message will get home. Possibly somewhat cynical and, given we now broadly agree with him, you may think of it as a good move. I guess I have no problem with him backing what I think long may it continue.

+1 to that. To turn this over we will need more than education because we will be up against capitalism, not a bad thing in itself, which will need careful control if @ProDave's prediction is not to crystalise. As a for instance we could regulate the installers in such a way that they have to guarantee, and pay any difference for the life of the system, the energy input and performance of the house once installed (EG Kw in for 20deg inside at 2deg outside with a wind speed as well.) That would force them to get educated to ensure they put systems in that work and very quickly HMG would realise where this does and does not work in terms of homes.

I guess we are all entitled to change our minds when we discover we were wrong - some may say it was big of him to admit it and move on - I think it is called integrity.

and be prepared for the electric bill! Although you may be able to sell the de-ionised water you will get.

Planners accept a vast array of detail in drawings from Sketches to full blown architects drawings and 3D walk throughs. The things they need are the principle dimensions so they have something to refer back to. In my experience around here they don't even need drawings of consistent scales but the dimensions written are what they take along with relative features of the drawing. So if you show the top of a dormer as below the roof line but put a dimension that would make it higher than the roof line then the drawing not the dimension stands when you build it.

2.3 should be fine, 2.4 used to be the base minimum but now there is no minimum and 2.3 is only 100mm less. The room shapes with be something of a factor. A large room with a low ceiling is more of a problem than a small room with a low ceiling because of the way it feels.

That's the whole idea then!

If you have a signal then it is likely you can get a better one by using a modem with an aerial and / or directional aerial. This one HERE is not massively expensive but has two sim card slots so you can be connected to two providers giving you more certainty of connection. Obvs that means having two accounts but I have an unlimited data 4G package from one of the big providers at £32 PCM, and I find it works very well I can work from it without a problem. Also as we are all with the same provider I can gift up to 100mB a month to my family which works well as they have limited data but I can top it up for them. It does mean we are on the same provider though which is all eggs in one basket!