ProDave

Yes Not quite finished there, but when the top layer of tarmac was added, the drive was level with the end of the ramp. On the sloping part, the decking boards used are the ones with a non slip material in the grooves. The flat part at the top are standard boards.

Try swapping them over? How does the dimmer work if just one of the alcove light clusters is connected to it?

Then it's either the wrong type or a faulty dimmer. It's a 2 hand dimmer, what does the other one do? Or is it one for the left alcove lights and one for the right?

The Main media tends to hightlight what it thinks (or is told?) is the correct message.

Have you tried the direct connection without the dimmer yet? Until you have tried that we are no further forward. A voltage tester is not much use on a dimmer switch there will always be enough leakage to make them think it is on when there is no load applied

GOOD. So why are we not seeing this headline promoted as encouragement that we are doing well, but still a way to go? The article that started this thread showed a graph with emissions still rising. If you are trying to encourage people to do more, don't post a graph like that when it does not relate to the UK. Post the one showing emissions are falling, we are making progress and what we are doing is working. AND use it to also highlight that while the UK is travelling in the right direction the rest of the world is not, yet. We can't directly control that other than hold ourselves up as a model to follow. Can others not see what I am saying here, all the main media portrays is how dire the situation is how bad we are and we must change much quicker, where the reality is WE (the UK) are doing quite well have made big improvements but we must continue to do so. Perhaps I am just a grumpy old man that would like some thanks for what we have done and results to show it is working and might therefore be encouraged to continue. I was starting to get very fed up that we kept on doing the right thing, but nothing appeared to be getting better and nobody was thanking us or even showing the progress so far.

You dismiss my question without answering it. So I will try again and hope someone can, Since at least 2000 we have been closing down down coal fired power stations and building wind farms and installing solar PV. Now a greater percentage of our energy is produced by renewable generation and less by fossil fuels than ever before. Logic would dictate therefore that over that period our emmissions have reduced. BUT the graphs in the links above still show emmissions are rising. THAT is what does not compute and I am questioning, at best all I can see is a slight reduction in the rate of rise, no sign of a fall. So lets spell out my concerns with this. IF all this changing to "renewables" has NOT resulted in a reduction in emmissions, then something is wrong. Is it that the green energy is not as green as claimed? Is the data flawed? or has our total generation risen over that period? wiping out the benefit of greener generation? Is it that unmentionable elephant in the room, population rise? If course population rise will increase CO2 emmissiins but we dare not discuss that. OR since the graph does not tell us WHERE the data is from, is that in fact GLOBAL emmissions are still rising while the UK is a head of the curve and our own emmissions are already reducing? We just don't know. All I see is we have been trying to clean up for some time, yet the "presented" evidence does not show it to be working. No wonder people are getting fed up with this. I want a greener cleaner world, but I hate being "manipulated" as seems to be the case to achieve this.

I have previously taken the screws out one by one, used a countersink bit in my drill to countersink the fixing holes, and replaced the screws with countersunk. The bent one, remove several of the bottom screws, ease it away from the wall but a block of wood behind and hammer the bent bit straight again. Replace screws.

This is all a bit silly really as the public single track road we live on is only 3M wide, and the turning head at the bottom of the road does not meet the turning circle requirements. So it should "fail" and no new houses be allowed because a Fire Engine cannot get to them according to the standard. But strangely, the bin lorry, very similar size to a FE makes the journey every week and does not have trouble turning round, as have many larger delivery lorries. And on the one occasion a real FE came down our road, it was not troubled by the 3M wide road, and was not troubled by the sub standard turning space. It really is irritating when the "standard" is so detached from actual real world requirements.

If you had even a half decent multi meter you could determine a lot about the fault. Do you have a multi meter?

So since 2000, if not before we have been building wind farms, installing solar and shutting down our worst polluters, coal fired power stations. So WHY are emissions STILL going up? It seems like we have been trying so hard for well over a decade, and nothing is even beginning to get better? WHY IS THAT? And in true politics fashion, if we are doing what we think will solve the problem, and it does not appear to be solving the problem, then lets just keep on doing it. Aka if you don't get the result you want, keep doing it until you do get the result you want.

Solid Oak worktop from Howdens:

Only done it once this autumn. It has been down as low as 6 degrees overnight already.

We know ours is doing this frost prevention thing because we can hear the faint hum of the circulating pump come on. Can you hear anything at all when it happens?

So how did the previous warming / cooling phases of the earth occur before man came along let alone before we started burning things? What PROOF do you or anyone have that if we stop all burning, the planet will then be fine? Why did the planet not go into thermal runaway when CO2 levels were previously higher, again before man had anything to do with it? Of course we should continue to clean up everything we do, but at a sustainable rate. Or are you one of the believers that thinks the only way is for us to go back to the stone age in how we live and work, no or little ability to travel anywhere etc, because THAT is what is necessary to achieve net zero as quick as we are being told, but nobody is telling it that it will severely limit what we do.

You WILL get a postal address when you register for council tax. Ours was given our chosen house name preceeded by "Caravan" done that way so when the house was complete, the caravan address could be removed from the register and the house name added. Knowing this, bank accounts, car insurance, and everything else we just told them the new address as it was going to be not bothering with the "caravan" bit to save changing it a second time.

I have never found ANY documentation on that, so can you share what you know please? The IH I referred to is what is generally known as a willis heater, a standard immersion heater in a tube with a low volume of water passing through it. There is definitely one in mine. The LG manual referrs to it as a stage 2 heater, used for example if you want very hot water for instance. I have disabled all forms of stage 2 electric heating so mine never uses that now. How practical are you? you could always open the unit up and physically disconnect it? My suspicion is if you have the stage 2 electric heating enabled, it might turn that on for it's frost protection when mine only turns on the circulating pump and steals some heat from the house. Another theory is some heat pumps have a sump heater to heat the compressor oil. I have not heard of that on an LG but of fitted can be a cause of unexpected use at idle.

The most vigorous mouthpiece for global warming is man made and disaster is imminent of we don't all stop burning oil. They NEVER air anything whatsoever that might question if that really is the best way forward.

WHY are most of the wind farms still being built in Scotland, when it is so far away from the centres of usage and the existing grid cannot cope? How about more wind farms are built on the Cotswolds, Chilterns, Berkshire Downs, South downs etc etc, see how they like their hills blighted with wind farms and pylons? I was travelling the north coast from Thurso to Cape Wrath last week and a staggering amount of new wind farms are being built along that north coat which WILL require another large high voltage pylon running south, probably very close to my house.

That's where I sit. Our pollution is way less than it used to be but we rarely see any praise for that. And yes we should improve our renewable generation as fast as we can, but without setting unachievable targets that just serve to cripple the countries economy and kill our remaining industry * And then blame us for not all buying EV's when it is not achieved. How about acknowledging we will STILL need oil for a long time, but in hopefully diminishing amounts. So lets use our own, rather than increase polution buying foreign oil and trasnporting it long distances. Not to mention the energy security and employment by continuing to use our own oil. * We have closed down our virgin steel blast furnaces and about to shut another oil refinery. Because they are too polluting. Great WE might be a little bit greener but have fewer jobs and a poorer economy, but the WORLD won't be any greener as instead that heavy industry is being done in another country that is not so short sighted.

Can you post a much closer picture of the bottom rail of that manifold? Most manifolds have a flow meter for each loop where you can see, and adjust the flow rate for each loop. But I don't see that on your manifold. I am hoping if we see a closer picture of the bottom rail someone might recognise them and know a way to adjust flow rates.

If, like me, you are at all skeptical of the current push for "net zero" have a read if this. Try and read it without prejudice and for a moment forget all the media hype constantly fed to us about net zero. https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/weve-got-trouble-with-wind/ It does a good job of explaining how we stand no hope of reaching net zero without a massive amount of storage for when the wind does not blow. Yet like sheep most accept this relentless drive to build more and more wind farms on the promise it will lower our energy bills.

Do you have individual metering on the ASHP if so which ctace is that on your graph. My 5kW LG therma V does indeed turn on it's circulating pump as it sees fit if the water temperature drops below 10 degrees and circulates for a few minutes. the colder it gets the longer it needs to circulate to warm the water by stealing some heat from the house. It is presumably a frost protection routine that is not mentioned anywhere in the manual, does not appear anywhere in the setup and cannot be turned off. But it is only the circulating pump in my case. However I have all use of the internal willis heater turned off. I seem to recall if you have enabled the internal heater functions, that it may turn that on as part of it's frost protection routine. It is a shame this function is not properly documented.

This is a case where I say just what will you achieve by moving the wall such a small distance? A LOT of cost and effort for a small gain. You have a blockwork wall seemingly not bothered by the tree (because the wall is on piles) and seemingly the wall is not bothering the tree. Leave them all alone. Clad the outside of the existing blockwork wall with external wall insulation and cladding to upgrade it, and keep the rest of it as your structure. A full plan drawing of what you are trying to achieve might make more sense of why you seemingly want to demolish a wall and rebuild such a short distance away.

The top hinge is worn out. There is play in the various joints so it has all gone sloppy. change both the hinges, or get a window fitter to change them. As it may not be possible to get an exact replica, change top and bottom.