ProDave

Re thinking this, if a planning application is refused they have to state what planning policy it fails. In this case it did not appear to fail any planning policy, the case officer had approved it, but then some random councillor voted it out at committee So the reason for refusal was in fact "a councillor, not trained in and familiar with current planning rules refused it for no good reason other than he did not like it"

The middle 2 flow meters are black with crud. I doubt you can read a flow rate from them, let alone trust it. I would swap the 2 black middle flow meters for the 2 spare unused ones on the right. Then you will be able to see what the flow rate is. I suspect your system needs a good flush to get all the crud out and replacing with clean water and inhibitor mixed in.

I thought I had a problem with size. That tells me I need 86"

I dislike a television that high up the wall. It's a personal thing. Mine is at eye height. We have a clock above the tv now and I would hate to sit for hours looking up at the height of the clock. All the wiring hidden for various feeds (from the AV cupboard under the stairs) and for the surround sound speakers. Thats the surround sound amp in a pocket built into the wall under the tv. That's a 50" plasma. Takes 2 to lift it.

Choose your tv mount then plan the wiring. As a minimum fit a DOUBLE socket with two USB outlets so you can power other devices, e.g. a firestick. 3 hdmi cables to "somewhere" you might want to locate set top boxes, game consoles etc. A spare conduit and draw cord for whatever supersedes hdmi (if you were doing this 20 years ago you would have installed a load of scart cables....) And some coax for a good old fashioned television aerial seems a pretty good idea. Sockets are best just above the tv bracket, there tends to be a little more space, as long as they are not so high they show above the tv. Are you happy with the generally lousy sound from most inbuilt speakers in tv's or would you like a nice surround sound system?

Why are you wanting to replace all the old pipe? It looks okay to me?

It's all about confidence if you are going to invest in such a project, and when some of the claims are a little bit suspicious, the confidence drops. I am more inclined to spend that £3000 on some more PV and some batteries (I have still to work the numbers on that so that is not a given yet) but it would be more tangible assets than a bit of paper saying I own a small share in a wind farm, and immediate start to payback as soon as I connect it.

Like I say, I am uncovering "creative statements" So if 4600 investors is about right, then the claim the windfarm can "power 20000 houses" is somewhat ambitious is it not?

Contractor wants shooting. He has taken an inadequate, not fir for outside feed to a light, fitted a crappy non waterproof box, without even trying to waterproof the conduit entries and joined his SWA gate feed to it. It is full or water, witness the rusted SWA gland. you have found the solution to your tripping. Rip it ALL out and start from scratch with SWA from the house.

And the rest of us just go and buy AICO alarms who will do a nice heat sensor without any butchering to integrate with all their other various types of smoke and CO alarms. Yhey even do a combined heat and CO sensor which was perfect for our kitchen / diner with a wood burning stove in it.

There is at best some "creative spin" going on here. From Ripple's website: "Made up of 8 turbines in windy west Scotland, Kirk Hill has the potential to power over 20,000 households and businesses with the cheapest and greenest electricity" So this 8 turbine wind farm can power 20,000 households. So you would expect there to be 20,000 shareholders? This page https://renews.biz/75861/ripple-opens-membership-for-kirk-hill-wind-farm/ suggests there are 4600 co owners? And says it expect to start production in "March this year" (that article was dated February 2022) Ripple's own timeline for starting production is Project timeline: At a glance May 2022 Share offer closes May 2022 Pre-construction preparation October 2022 Track works start December 2022 Crane hardstandings construction January 2023 Turbine Foundations works start February 2023 Grid connection works March 2023 Control building construction July 2023 Turbine deliveries begin November 2023 Turbines start So production (and payback) not likely to start until the end of this year. I am not out to rubbish Ripple, I am doing due diligence before deciding to invest or not, and am uncomfortable with the conflicting evidence I am finding.

80 by 38 studs is a bit skinny and only 51mm (read that as 2 inch) polystyrene insulation in the frame. It's certainly not the best but at least something. That's Taping and filling, usual method in Scotland, you just fill then sand the joints on a dry lined wall. If you want to upgrade it, I would suggest over boarding with insulated plasterboard if you can stand a slight reduction in room sizes. Contrast that with our 2003 timber frame with 150mm studs and 150mm rockwool insulation filling the frame.

What a fight, glad you did not give up. So what has been approved by the appeal? your original plan, or one of the modified plans in your attempt to get approval? I think the lesson here is in a situation like this, don't mess about trying to please the unpleasable, let them fail it and go to appeal much sooner.

Not looking very hard? This would make a good tower, you might want some more boards if you want an intermediate platform, and a set of wheels if you want it to be mobile. A lot more sturdy than some of those DIY towers discussed and for less money. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/113283387488?hash=item1a60375060:g:C04AAOSwxCxT91~0&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoI0EPLXtRA09x%2BqzQLCYg9guHwi4YYGZijbYpv84s5aRZBj2UHM95anc4GScfGRf24nXBr%2FnolHF2H3MX6afHzE9U6CRfETyM4UbFYOJynTF66ivk1m0lf%2FdBqCxLjCnw2dasDGmsv2wNIX6ZLqmbi9RUOTnHOTyxw3d4QVfexSRZ%2B2TowdW6Z1AVDpz5fJPtH4g6zgm9Olj9CHcEvYHXNk%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR4Cl2s2vYQ I bought a load more than that, and as I could not find any local to me I hired a 7.5t flat bed and went and collected it from England.

For the price of those towers, you could get a load of second hand KwikStage and use that. That's what I used.

I would personally plasterboard the lot and then skim it. anything else is asking for a crack to appear where the upper plasterboard meets the lower plastered brick.

I suspect ripple actually have nothing to do with the maintenance of the wind farm. My guess (and it is only a guess) is they have bought a share in the wind farm and are sub selling smaller shares to individuals. I would give the project more credit if they were more open with the actual arrangements.

There is a long thread about Ripple on the MSE forum https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6177271/ripple-energy-wind-farm/p62 A lot of people there thinking it is a good idea and a few questioning it. I did ask if anyone who signed up to it how long it took from paying your money to getting first payment and the one person that answered it was about 2 years. That tells me 2 things, the wind farm you are buying into is a long way through it's planning process, it is a lot longer than 2 years from planning permission to generating power. But secondly, when you are presented with a payback time calculation of say 6 years, you really need to add that 2 years on so it will be 8 years before you have recouped your investment. For me it is looking too risky and too long payback. Putting more money into more PV and battery storage looks a lot more secure and likely a quicker payback.

That's an odd arrangement. I would first be asking does the wall need or would benefit from extra insulation? This is the once chance you get to easily add insulation before proceeding so think about that first.

Most on here including me would advise keeping the manifold pump and blending valve. I did wire a system with a Grant ASHP earlier this year where they only used the single pump in the ASHP but I don't know how that worked out in practice.

I have started this thread to discuss Ripple energy, and to prevent a thread where it was recently mentioned going too far off topic. Ripple Energy is a Wind Farm Coop where "members" buy shares and their payback is they then get energy from the wind farm at wholesale rates. Their website is here https://rippleenergy.com/ To "buy" enough capacity to supply all the needs or our all electric house would cost a little over £3K and you would then get wholesale priced electricity for 25 years (the life of the wind farm) Drawbacks as far as I can tell: You pay £25 to reseve a place on the next wind farm to be built, you then pay for it when the shares are oficcially offered but don't start receiving your wholesale electricity until the wind farm comes on line. They conveniently don't tell you what that time interval is.

Might I suggest I start a thread to discuss Ripple Energy? I was thinking about doing so anyway, and it would stop this thread going off topic. EDIT: Thread for Ripple Energy discussion is here.

You lifted the "trap" out of the shower to clean it and did not put it back properly.

Can we set a time for the release of the answer, I can't take the suspense.

You forgot to tape a joint in the air tight later?