MikeGrahamT21

Was watching an episode of the great house giveaway only the other day from series 1 and that had a property on it with a single skin extension and the chap said it needed another skin to be mortgageable

Definitely much much better than 2G, and they also do one with thicker glass on the outer pane which lessens it even more, designed primarily for use in bedrooms, so may be worth looking at that unit

Definitely not ivy. If its a shady wall, you could look at Hydrangea Petolaris which is a climber

Mines wall mounted, and yeah some sort of sound absorbing is a wise move, maybe not to start with, but as the unit ages and the fans inevitably get slightly unbalanced, it will help to stop any vibrations making their way out and about.

How about just getting a shorter one? https://bpcventilation.com/collections/ductwork-silencers/products/quiet-vent-semi-flexible-silencer-range

Ahh I think I know what you mean, I remember reading or watching a video that the bumps will pull in when it dries, I got a few on one of my walls and no such luck! Hope yours did. As for the reason, I’ve absolutely no idea why it happens

Photo? Don’t forget to spray a little water on when you are doing your final trowels to help your trowel glide over it without pulling it up (may be what you are describing?)

seems even manufacturers are going to need to retest or reformulate their products for our planets ever increasing temperatures

Really interesting that, not what I expected. So essentially there are losses and the sunnier it is the greater they are, but even then it’s minimal and saves buying another inverter.

wonder how that comes about? Just can’t imagine it from my own install. Have you done this and observed the output difference?

I believe Tesla powerwalls do this, but it’s a hard thing to achieve in the UK as in the event of a power failure, any generation or potential export should turn off or island, and for that reason most don’t operate the whole fuseboard on backup, rather just a backup socket for emergency loads to be plugged into. Maybe someone else knows more about this, but mine certainly doesn’t as an AC coupled. Don’t agree with East and West connecting to same MPPT, my east and west panels are both active in differing amounts simultaneously, and in winter east does far better than west. Either use a separate inverter, or get a triple MPPT one to handle all 3 strings, these are widely available as normal and hybrid. A good question, do you get the feed in tariff? If you do then don’t go hybrid, as it will wipe out a lot of your income.

Work out the airflow capacity you need for your volume, and then double it so you run your unit only ever at 50% (less the better for noise), and then keep an eye out on eBay, loads of units come up, many are brand new and much less than buying from a store, they’re often mis-specified units which get sold on to recoup losses

I don't think any of us doubt the climate changes naturally over time, this is well documented, same with CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere, but as you see from the graph above, we are very much in unchartered territories now with CO2 concentrations, within the last 800k years, and not just that, but the speed of that change is where our climate emergency (and it is an emergency) will come from. All living things can and have adapted to change, its what we do best, but over 10's if not 100's thousands of years, not 10s to 100s of years, thats the difference here...at least thats the way i see it anyway. If the temperature follows the CO2, as it always has done albeit with some lag, then we are in for a very bad time. Your sea level argument, wrong again. The world isn't under water yet, as we are currently at the 'normal' peak over hundreds of thousands of years, but as above, that temperature will likely go skyward in the coming decades

Have a word with yourself... Yes the world is a corrupt place, and people are out for their own gain, but this type of post is why the right wing parties are edging ever closer to control.

We hit 36.5C here in South Yorkshire on the 26th, the humidity was an absolute nightmare, glad of the cooler weather now but it seems the next heatwave is just round the corner 😭😭