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Australia has 160 billion tons of thereabouts of proven coal reserves. Reckon the Chinese will be running coal fired stations for a good while yet.

It's almost as if they're suggesting a lot of public funding issues are caused by uncontrolled immigration and the costs entailed supporting/dealing with it. Weird eh?

Just loving my EV 😉 Jump in and look and the range. Then turn the heater setting up and watch the range drop before you've even moved. Green washing BS.

I think I'd lay down a permeable weed membrane then do gravel grids so free draining. How uneven is the grass exactly?

I believe you in that I've a similar issue and feel your pain. Since this crisis we've not used our oil for heating. Very uncomfortable is how I'd put it. We only use the oil for hot water. It's genuinely often colder inside the house than outside in the sun. As I write this, waiting to go to work I'm huddled under a blanket in the lounge. With the house so cold you can feel a constant, gentle cold breeze across bare arms. No doubt coming from multiple gaps in the building fabric. It's pretty miserable tbh. We've put a curtain across the lounge and run a 2kW electric heater in there. It eventually takes the edge off after a good few hours. My lad has taken to showering at work. Luckily my daughter is at uni. SWMBO and I huddle in the lounge at night like one of those old couples living in fuel poverty. I'd put oil, gas, coal even wood in the "high quality" as in high temperature heat bracket. ASHP is "low quality" as in low temperature heat. It can and does work but you're building fabric needs to be proofed against heat loss and the effects of (cold) wind washing. I can't imagine how long, if at all, it would take for that to heat your big old stone wall fabric house at the same time compensating for the losses. Yes I could have the oil boiler running at full chat and it'll eventually bring the house up to a reasonable temperature. A wood / coal fire would be great to get some instant heat. Is there a room in your house where you could in effect do all six sides of the "box" with seamless, internal wall insulation as in no gaps in the insulation where the walls, floor, ceiling meet? That and have good windows and door. Think of it as a thermos flask. The better the insulation, with no gaps, the less loss through the walls of the flask, the hotter it feels and longer the heat stays in the flask "room". You would then need less heat to heat it. You would still need to be careful.ref ventilation.

Ah! Didn't realise he was in foreign climes.

Does it have a current transformer attached to the incoming house mains live or some other "intelligence"? As in what stops it drawing too much and popping the main house fuse when you've the electric hob and shower on full chat then decide to charge the car? Mine has a current transformer at the house connected to the EV charger via 37m if Cat-6 that also connects the charger to the internet router. I did the bulk of the work myself on mine and then the sparks came along and certified it. Mine's a company supplied charger. So I have an Electrical Installation Certificate for the charger. On top of that I'm pretty sure there should be a form done for your DNO, in my case UK Power Networks, the form being a Low Carbon Technology Application Form. Not saying it won't all work etc but things to be aware of. I'm on 22p/kWh. Looking to get a smart meter to take advantage of lower night time tariffs.

Similar situation here where my mains water comes up through the footings / slab then into a suspended floor space. I ran the MDPE water pipe in a blue corrugated duct: I then rolled a bit of perforated, galvanized sheet and wrapped the exposed section of duct within the suspended floor space: Like this:

I'm thinking the duct/cable should be at least 50mm deep if in a floor and of course RCD protected.

Cheap stainless steel pot scourers scrunched in and foamed. Crushed, broken glass is good. Round here it was de rigueur to lay bottles down if building a shack, smash them all and cast the slab on top. Just to stop the tunnel bunnies gnawing their way through.

Galvafroid, MIO (micaceous iron oxide), black bitumastic etc. But then I'm old school.

It was @MarkyP I believe. He still looks in on here I think:

Cover it in stainless mesh like an in place gabion.

Very, no gas, no main drainage, overhead lines, no streetlights, no pavements, single track roads with passing places etc. The phone lines are copper to the exchange a couple of miles away. Openreach have "no plans" to put full fibre down here as yet.

We have the original BT line, still copper which wasn't great for my lad's gaming etc. As soon as he got a job he paid for Starlink, the £75 a month option I think it is. Speed wise, though x10 better than BT it doesn't seem that great to me as in for the money. The dish is set up correctly. It may be because we are at the bottom of a steep valley so have line of sight to fewer satellites? BT: Starlink:

There was a chap on here, down in Deal from memory, went on a course then did his own EWI. He offered for me to go down and take a look but I never did. Can't recall his username...

I bought a part roll of Cat-6 on FB marketplace when I ran it for the EV charger recently. Bargains to be had etc!

I just simply lack empathy but fake it to make it. Failing horribly btw

We've turned the oil off for CH. Down to 150 gallons. Only using for HW now.

@Pocster?

Absolutely. Galling is a thing to be very wary of. Use copper slip or aluminium anti seize. A bitch if they gall. Another trick is to use A4 nuts on A2 studs as well as an anti seize medium.

"A far better mix is to use 100gm citric, 40gm of washing soda (tesco green bags) and a squirt of fairy liquid per 1L of water. It is reusable many times. Doesn't turn the metal black. And doesn't etch the metal so much. It is a similar solution to Evaporust".

Aluminium foil and water.

No tow bar. A mate was going to get the same as mine but decided not to as he wants to tow. It feels funny only going into garages now for Ginsters and wine gums mind.

EV. Skoda Enyaq x 85 SportLine. AWD, 175kW DC charging, 82kW battery, 0-60 in 6.6 seconds etc.