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Best place to put them is the basement then.. Assuming you are not in the basement yourself.

Nyetimber is a champagne house (amongst other things, and not allowed to call it champagne) that has been winning awards internationally for a number of years. eg https://nyetimber.com/nyetimber-is-awarded-gold-at-the-champagne-and-sparkling-wine-world-championships-2020/ https://www.decanter.com/wine-news/nyetimber-beats-bollinger-roederer-in-sparkling-competition-60854/ They have 2/3 of a square mile of vineyard, so one of the largest ones in the country. Usual price for this one at Morrisons is £27 per bottle. My bottles arrive tomorrow evening, so I'll be trying some with fish over the weekend.

I am told that this 2010 Vintage English Sparkling wine on 25% offer in Morrisons is a Nyetimber 2010. For which £20 a bottle is a bargain. I have ordered some to try. https://groceries.morrisons.com/products/morrisons-the-best-english-sparkling-brut-vintage-2010-480635011

if all the circumstances line up as a worst case including too much vindaloo it needs to be resilient to an aerosol of high speed, liquidised, flying poo. (Warning: football song incoming)

At least one person on BH made access to the installer facility an express term of contract. Too late no for you, I'm afraid - but I add this for info.

Hmmm. I see the Beeboids reporting that business energy bills for the next 6 months are expected to be capped at half of what they would have been. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62969427

The *could* be a tunnel through. Sorry to hear that - an you clarify for me and @AliG where the RoW runs, as per the two previous posts, and what alternative access the neighbour (to see if extinguishing the RoW is possible)? I have no idea what caselaw is about filming a ROW through your neighbour's back yard, but that is what the nuisance and community safety teams at your Council are for. They *should* send an official letter and investigate if that is what you want - can have a bit of a chilling affect on neighbour behaviour. (BTW if you ask, we can consider hiding this whole thread, or parts of it, to make it non-public). F

Putting minimal kitchen facilities in the utility is a good call. When I did one a few years ago, the independent heater was an extra radiator and an isolation valve in the water pipe. May not meet current requirements - no idea.

I think you've both got the wrong end of this stick. 0.022w/m2k is the *material* U-value of PIR, so I think they are telling you about the material not the actual panel value, and being quite misleading in their blurb. So if it is 100mm PIR (which would be very generous for a panel system), that will be a u-value of 0.22 for the wall (ignoring the other elements), which is good for an insulated conservatory, but will not give comfortable year round temperatures unless shading, heating, cooling and ventilation are right. F

The previous thread, as I read it, suggest that they do, assuming that the "ROW" runs through the patio. SO there is the ROW past the table where the photog is standing, and the "right turn" across the end of the patio from the door along what I think is a path between the door and the iron gate. (OP has never supplied a map, so we are all guessing to some extent.) If the ROW actually just goes across the end then a simple short piece of fence may do it, or a solid gate could help. But it is now up to OP.

The only realistic options I can see are: 1 - Tolerate and ignore as you say. 2 - Get the LR to revisit their 'pass and repass unlimited' definition, since that is clearly more widely defined than 'carry a bag of coal'. That needs research. 3 - Stuff their mouth with loadsamoney and get it extinguished. 4 - Close off the 5ft-7ft wide section of the patio lengthways with a fence, and learn to live in a smaller garden. F F

Harrassment (or nuisance) would not help extinguish a right or way, as I see it. It might make them pipe down a bit. I would suggest asking the same Q on Gardenlaw.

Time matters there. If they have been using it for N years, they may have established a new one 🤔.

I'm Bosch for dishwasher, washer; Liebherr for cooling things; minor brands for toaster, kettle, microwave ; Gaggia and Delonghi for coffee; Rangemaster for the range. Skoda for the car. Basically happy with all of them. I try to buy appliances not labels.

Miele bundle offer from Appliances Direct - save £200. https://www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/b/miele/miele-cooking-bundle-offer-sep22

Miele Appliances. Appliances Direct have some offers if you buy more than one Miele appliance across some bundles. There is a £200 saving, presumably on their already decent prices. https://www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/b/miele/miele-cooking-bundle-offer-sep22

Good to see your sharpened questions. My comments. I think the core answer is that we are in transition to where a micro-power-generation market exists, but we aren't there yet. It is dependent on things like 2nd generation Smart Meters, and learning how to regulate MCS connections vs non-MCS to ensure safety, FITs were a way of providing an on-ramp for solar - an upfront subsidy for the investment paid over the period where power was generated which was made smaller in time and rate as costs reduced. Dave paid £xxx (15k? for 4 kWp?) for his 2009 (?) install and gets 60p per unit generated index linked for 25 years. I paid £12k for my 10 kWp 2016 install at under half the cost per kWp, and currently get 14p per unit generated index linked for 20 years. FIT payments come from fuel bills one way or another aiui, and I would put the total higher, which is still quite insignificant as perhaps a couple of % of total energy payments if that. FIT also covers wind, hyrdo and other sorts too, so you need to think beyond domestic pv. For now you can get wholesale prices for your exports, yet we do not have a developed market, and there are compromises elsewhere. I export about 3500 KWh per year, and I perhaps get 5p per unit for it. I think the question about getting market tariff is a temporary one that will go away when it stabilises. Just a wrinkle in the force that means come currently modestly lose and others gain. I have no divert device and default load, so I lose out export payments. 6 months ago I was hearing furioso noises from people whose Standing Charge had just doubled (to pay for unwinding bust companies etc) and was now 75% of their bill. This time standing charges are up by about 2%, gas rate by 50%, electricity rate by 25% (estimate). which moved the market for, which was also a transition My view. F

Thanks. I was looking at the National Grid Winter Early Outlook Reports for 21/22 and 22/23 and I could not see much difference - other than a somewhat lower risk this year. * Supply / demand differences 22 v 21 appear to be that: 1 - we have 3.5 GW extra capacity of offshore wind on stream this year. = 1.8 GW constant as a comparison. +2 GW capacity due 2023. +2 GW capacity due 2024. That represents 15%+ of total elec demand, which should be a straight reduction in gas used to generate electricity. 2 - we have an extra 1 GW of elec interconnectors on stream, this year. +2GW due 2023. +2GW due 2024. which looks much safer, and market differences 3 - Half of France's nuclear fleet is on the cronk, so they are importing 5-20%, and use significantly more than we do (obvs). A net importer for 2022 1st half. 4 - Norway have currently reversed their usual export flow, to preserve water in storage. which looks a touch more risky but at least the Norway one will reduce unless we have a drought this winter. F * https://www.nationalgrideso.com/document/264521/download * https://www.nationalgrideso.com/document/212691/download

An OT question on this thread for someone who may know. How close were we in the UK to power cuts last winter?

My kitchen cupboard legs are adjustable usually. Have you checked that yours aren't already?

Systems under 4kWp are something like 93%. I looked it up for a calculation on another thread. That data I quoted for the authoritative source to kill the silly numbers above is late 2018. FIT was hoofed in mid-2019 so the actual is a little higher at 860k ish, but I could not find a definitive source for that quickly.

The number of FIT installs is more than quoted here - somewhere above 800k. https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2018-12-06/HL12105 >To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of how many homes in the UK have solar panels to generate electricity installed. >17 December 2018 At the end of September, we estimate there were 805,000 domestic solar PV installations1,2. A small proportion of homes may have more than one installation but it is not possible to identify these in the available data. There were 789,122 domestic solar PV installations in Great Britain registered on the Central FiT Register at the end of September 2018, as published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/sub-regional-feed-in-tariffs-confirmed-on-the-cfr-statistics There were 17,267 sub 4 kW solar installations in Northern Ireland, registered for the NI Renewables Obligation as at the end of September 2018. It is estimated around 90% of these would be installed on homes. This is available at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/759558/Solar_photovoltaics_deployment_October_2018.xlsx Answered by Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

I've just had an email from Octopussy saying that my payments will be reduced by £67. Current monthly payments are £65, and the credit balance continues to tick up. Plus an FIT payment is due. So I am now officially in profit ! Until it reverses...

Great feedback, thanks. I have a worktop pizza oven which is also great for things like reheating Yorkshire puds (eg frozen ones), pasties, oven chips and similar. It has a kettle type element above, and pizza stone below. As it happens the £50 microwave from Curry's just conked too, as did the kettle and the toaster recently. So shopping incoming. Now to think. Ferdinand

IIRC that's one option for starting off in snow to stop too much torque on the wheels causing wheelspin. The other option being start in 2nd or 3rd and slip the clutch.