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Unfortunately there is a wall on one side of the washer, and the tumble dryer on the other. The tumble dryer only just fits as these heat pump ones are 610 deep and the waste pipe has to run behind it to serve a toilet basin regardless. Having the washer drain hose feed across to the sink unit might be an option but it would need extending. I am looking to be able to pull the machine out in case of maintenance. There is no accessible valve on the water feed to the washer apart from the tap on the end behind the washer. I'll draw a diagram and post it - it's complicated - as they say. One thing made be laugh - I suggested moving the water feed to a different point on the copper pipework to ease routing the basin waste - plumber moved it, but left the feed stub I was trying to do away with and just sealed the end of it. After all why unsolder a T and replace it with a 90 when you can just cap it off. Then added the new feed position using these compression copper fitting things.

Heil Fuhrer Nick ! If it is a good idea people will want it. If people want it, the market will build it. End of. Even Nick doesn't know what is 'the greater good' for everything. https://youtu.be/IoKK5b4aTG0?si=WPjsuOhNkcARt6_i

Sigh. I used my best efforts to provide dimensioned drawings & photos of the pipe arrangements on the back of my washer, showing them to the plumber and taping them to the wall. Despite this, now I have the machine here it will not fit properly because of crossing spaghetti pipes. I have a 45mm outer diameter drain pipe, a 25mm water supply hose, and of course a rear drum projection beyond the permitted 60mm machine size by another 30mm. A ridiculous 100mm required to fit a washing machine that is supposed to fit when plumbed into 600 by 600. (I have over 80mm behind the machine proper but not 100mm.) While I do the plumbers job for them because they can't do it and draw up a new pipe arrangement so they can change what they have done to something that works, one or two questions. Can the water supply hose fitted to my Siemens washer with an integrated leak detection/stop leak thing fixed into the end of it - be shortened - or must the pipe be used at it's full stupidly long length ? What are the rules for a washing machine drain upright height and for the length of a washing machine drain hose ? can they be cut down ? Thanks in anticipation.

Should we be putting cooling loops into the loft so the cool air descends through the house ? OK, people will tell me this is mad and a very very naughty waste of water. What about passing mains water through cooling loops and then erm purging it back out ? How much water would that use ? And when you say you have no condensation - do you mean onto the floor ? I am finding my now levelled suspended floor is a couple of degrees cooler than my insulated concrete slab. Foil over the bifolds seem to help a bit, but I havn't tried covering the rooflights.

I think many with underfloor heating would be interested in using it for cooling. I don't have a heat pump. What temperature water are you circulating to provide your cooling ?

The problem with 'for the greater good'... https://youtu.be/IoKK5b4aTG0?si=djzkUwWTweM0m524 Forced vaccination just one example and the not the point here, but the same principles apply re imposing energy choice or pricing 'for the greater good'. If people are not choosing solar panels or heat pumps for themselves then imposing it on them will be very unwise.

I am not rejecting renewables, they have their place. Going all in on something when we don't have robust answers to all the questions is foolhardy. I don't think we can or should wear rose tinted glasses when looking at renewables. There are pros and cons as there is with everything. I don't want UK farms shutdown and paved over with (chinese made) solar panels. I don't want to look out at views ruined by thousands of wind turbines. I don't want pylons everywhere. Etc. Anyone that thinks it is all pros with no cons or issues is treating it as a religion not on a rational basis.

As long as you ignore a need to fight a war during winter anti-cyclonic gloom.

Mixed sources - fossil fuel gas and coal, renewables both wind and solar and others hydro/geothermal where economic, nuclear (both fission and fusion when it comes). I think we should have a national energy infrastucture designed to meet demand including variability in demand. I don't believe in charging people 3 times as much to cook their tea at 6.30pm. We need ample and growing energy supplies available as required by demand.

I think Halon not permitted for new installs now anyway. But I thought there were other gas options now, and used correctly they don't kill people. What does the MVHR do to the smoke ? Extract it, or circulate it ?

A little strong I think. I am quite happy with mixed energy generation, and with people having their own solar panels and batteries if they wish, and insulating their homes and other energy efficiency measures. What I don't see is any proper hard scientific evidence for anthropogenic global warming which remains an uncertain unproven theory, and in particular for the UK sacrificing it's own economy on the back of the highest electricity prices in the world when we account for 0.8% of CO2 emissions even if the theory turned out to be correct. We have most of the population really having no knowledge of their own but being fed a constant stream of anthropogenic climate change propaganda. We have active censorship and cancellation, and even calls for criminalisation of anyone that wants to question 'the narrative' and NO mainstream TV debate or presentation of the uncertainties and complexities. We have Ed on a personal crusade to 'save the earth' as he knows with evangelical certainty what is the greater good and is going to force it onto the country regardless of costs and economic damage. Such extremism is not neccessary or remotely wise. I am not a luddite and I am all for developing energy technologies of all types. They will and do all have a place in a sensible and diverse energy infrastructure. There are very real issues with implementing a renewables only energy system, and with its economic and security wisdom. I don't believe we should ignore those issues. And generally speaking when debate is cancelled and censored rather than taking place, it is never a good sign. I believe in the wisdom of free speech, constant doubt and questioning, and following the truth as it emerges and is understood, and always being open minded and willing to change your mind according to realities. The problems of intermittency and unreliability with renewables are hugely significant and not to be trivialised. Engineering a cost effective national energy infrastructure which is reliable, secure, and highly cost effective is quite a different problem from an individual householder going off grid. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/07/11/battery-storage-for-grid-backup-better-keep-working-on-it/

Can MVHR be used to distribute gaseous fire suppression ?

Yes SWMBO (as a fully formed fascist 🤣) is extremely self disciplined and charges overnight without fail. I am a night owl that then falls asleep as soon as I reach the perch, and generally absent minded, which I claim is because what is left of my mind is contemplating greater things - like what building disaster lurks tomorrow, whether the plumber will turn up, and the true nature of quantum entanglement. The other pain with charging cords is that we (well I) end up with them all over the house, and they regularly fail from too much bending about. As you say, a first world problem, compared with that guy in Lebanon some weeks ago whose amazing self build/refurbed house was blown to bits by a rocket. Fortunately rather than worry about that or how to get food, I can reflect on which is larger, a FIFA football, or my own prostate. Come on England ⚽

Mad man at work... https://dailysceptic.org/2026/07/11/miliband-overrules-his-inspectors-to-approve-britains-second-largest-solar-farm/ https://edmhdotme.wpcomstaging.com/a-few-graphs-say-it-all-for-renewables/ That should get things going this weekend. Come on England ⚽

It may sound daft but the seemingly trivial difference between having an annoying and unsightly trailing wire, plus the extra effort of having to plug in and possibly pull a lead out of a draw, does seem material to me. At least with a charging drawer you can permanently wire a charging pad into it out of sight. I have just found the charging pad in my car so helpful, pop it on every trip, grab and go. Tells you it is charging with a simple light. Whereas before it was fumble about finding the end of the charging lead, plug it in, sometimes have to reathenticate to the phone before it would connect, similar fumbling when getting out. Currently considering this one...? https://www.master-charge.co.uk/products/shop/