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I'm not really . I'm being perhaps being lazy and vague. I mean readily renewable, not laid down millions of years ago. Not my understanding. Unless the climate change is all down to pollution rather than energy release. Small nuclear sounds worrying. If VW, Dacia (and some others) start putting it in cars we have to worry a lot about the quality control and back-lot mechanics. (Easier to express for cars than with ships)

That's me, and most on here: thanks for acknowledging. Yours is a list of negatives though, some not limited to wind and some rather, if I may say so grasping. So would you like to complete your version of the pos and cons? Ie balanced not extreme. Please include pollution and health as well as economics. On which we live in a fairly remote SE rural place. But we really notice the difference in air quality (much better) when north of the Forth/Clyde.

The jobs thing is interesting. Whisky is oft quoted as a major employer. It is significant for the nearby village (a visitor centre problem has more employment than the production) but isn't on a regional or national scale.

I know it makes radiation and is dangerous but I've just twigged something. Boffins comments sought. Wind, sun and water all provide a fairly closed loop of extracting energy from current nature and releasing it as heat almost in real time. Effect on the planet fairly small.(?) But can a boffin confirm that nuclear does not have this benefit? Oil coal and gas are energy stored over millions of years , being released over tens. Bad. Burning timber from commercial forests is the sun's resources collected over a few decades. But Nuclear energy was created in the Big Bang, quite a whike ago, so is adding to heat gain in a sudden manner and is not "renewable". Bad. So we should only use sun, wind, hydro and tides, but perhaps some timber from waste, and from rubbish.

A read back will show that I have " got it" thoroughly. I am deeply in favour of non fossil- power (not so sure on nuclear). But, as ever, it needs a plan and policies for all, not left to the free market or the usual snatching of resources from otherwise neglected communities. Hence my proposal for a big electric meter at each development, and the tariff going to your local council

If the hoist hadn't been to hand, this guest might have been tricky to evict. Other than by messy gruesome means and some decorating. This might have been where it was born... feeling guilty now. this introdudes a practical matter: does anyone know a source of very light duty mewps to buy for changing of light bulbs 6m up? No more doing it by standing on a chair. A genie lift for a person.

Sounds as if it is straightforward. The SE will show piers and specify a lintel. Bricklayer forms the window opening which the window supplier measures (don't order by theoretical window dimensions as they can turn out different. , but you can get a quote from it).

A plan showing the house, all manhole and grille covers, & directions of flow. As well as flushing as a test, a piece of toilet paper proves where it is from. There is a product called drain trace. It is brown power that shows as luminous yellow when diluted. With that you can trace from toilet pan through each pontoon it's journey. It's unlikely, as you say, that a mains leak is getting in there, but perhaps an overflowing tank or wc.

Currently proposed near Inverness. Makes sense as a use for spare wind power. Like pump storage reservoirs it could be utilised only when there is spare power. But more likely a justification for more turbines With Loch Ness proposals for another 2 dams, it would make Inverness a major power centre. The downside being the huge local effect but not a lot of jobs.

Thd anomaly is that a stage is reached where it does not "benefit the local community". Planners work yo a tick- box system and cannot include approved but unbuilt projects, so more get approval Then the national grid takes it away. It would be a simple solution to levy £/MW and pay it into the community in perpetuity. Perhaps in real time. But that would be a UK government thing. or? Could it be levied as it is exported to the grid? That could be a planning condition. How big would the meters be?

we had a screed with ufh, over chipboard. As a last minute decision we decided to lay 5mm rubber matting first (between floorboards and the eggbox grid). the logic was simply that there was one chance to do it. as it happens it proved useful as the plastic grid did not fit well/ was not fitted well and had areas not touching the floor. Having the matting meant that normal staples bit into the mat and held the grid down. perhaps the staples would have gripped the boards equally well. we will never know if it makes a big difference. My hunch is that it will make a difference for low frequencies and running footsteps. we ordered online and it came in 2 days. very good quality , clearly made of car tyres and well bonded yet squidgy enough. it reminded me of the matting on a golf range tee-off area.... and surplus will become that and a football goal areas on our field. so yes, we decided to do it. The moral though is to diy the matting or watch the installation. Ours was very ropey with overlaps and gaps with speed dominating over quality.. followed of course by umpteen excuses.

Have they remembered to stop at tunnels?

It should be a routine framed opening within the wall construction. What is the wall construction? Your SE will have allowed that the wall construction can support vertical load (up as well as down) from the rafters. In reality the gable wall is often not a portal frame as it isn't spanning from foundation to foundation.

Lofts get silly hot in summer.

I'm of the same persuasion but we found some that comes in 20 patterns and I like it. Otoh a relatively thin skin of timber slows heat more, but doesn't stop it.