scottishjohn

is the barn floor only damp at that side of barn or is it over entire area? do you know what sort of foundations and how thick the concrete floor is ? if its an equestrian barn -does that mean it does not have a complete concrete floor inside and only concrete at edges was it built as such or a converted farm building If that is the case it could becoming from the ground upwards which would suggest you will need a french drain all round the barn and probably in the floor ,quite deep ,and then hardcore and final surface on top of that to get it to be dry all the time more info needed

last year we hard serious attacks from ravens -to an extent where they were hurting themselves leaving traces of blood on the windows ,as well as pecked rubber seals one presumes they were fighting their reflections hoping they have got the message now that there are people living here and do not continue this year i tried to shoot the buggers ,but they know exactly the range of a shot gun and which tree to sit which is out of range and just craw at us when we appear

I take you are not electric only but have a fire or oil heating my grid voltage is very stable here all the time

I will take a referral --and see how it looks

then I am going to guess you do not have many wind farms close to you I can see 5 windfarms on the horizon from my front window -in the distance ,so its like watching kiddies windmills on a beach and another 2 big ones to be built within 20miles of me very soon --which i will also be able to see i will look into it though-providing it does not up set my current contract

I,ve heard of it and they will only take it when they want it and that will be from people where there is not an excess of wind energy for them to get so it will not happen for anyone in scotland --cos we export it every day

it shows there is plenty of wind or they would not have sited it there

can,t see that being a starter

at that price iwill be dead before its paid itself off going by what they say is the annual production looking at wind chart for my location it looks like a mean 6.5 mpersec over the year but some months are 8mpersec I know there are lots of days when you would not even attempt to open the bifold doors If you look at my blog you will see it is very exposed and lots of space to put it away and above the house the big 125kw turbine at the farm cost 640K 13 years ago but is returning him 125-150k a year so it paid for itself pretty quick

I am on the top of a hill and get lots of wind there is a 125kw big turbine on the farm just behind me so it is the right place was looking for any real world experience if anybody has any this winter i spent alot of time in cloud --so solar had no chance the original house was not built with a front door of any sort as it faces south west and the courtyard at the back had walls and doors to keep wind out

are there any reliable and sensibly priced wind turbines that are worth looking at I have solar but that don,t work in winter ,but i do get lots of wind as I am in exposed position about 350ft above the estuary Is it worth t considering something at 5-10kw any working examples would be good

stress over time on the fixings etc -so they dig it up and start again

only if i sold osme -wind men get money when the turbines are sitting doing nothing --thats the difference

wind power --who in their right mind would sign a contract that says they get paid if they turn them off I would love to have run a company where i got paid if I did not produce anything and if you work out how much pollution is caused making the things and the amount of c02 in the huge concrete bases and when they get replaced they need a new base --it just don,t stack up its about getting a quick return not what is best long term we have hydro scheme on the river Dee in s.w scotland -uses same water 3 times and was built in1937 still running now --that is the right way hydro and tidal barages but they do not get a [payback for a long time compared to wind or solar the desert in america is full of old wind turbine blades that they cannot recycle economically - so they just lie there --thats not net zero

I suspect the design life is to justify the high price they want per kilowatt as if they gave it a 50 year life the capitol rite off costs per year would be 50% CHEAPER