Ferdinand

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.

Really good comments so far. Mine: 1 - I think you could enlarge your shower trays. Something like 1.2x.8 is better than .9 x .9, just to use. 2 - I can see no provision for boots and cloaks. Is there space at the end of the utility by the back door for a big cupboard? 3 - Not really sure about the front door area. If this is Scotland do you not want a porch, or at least an overhang? 4 - The upstairs bathrooms look as though they could be improved wrt plumbing runs - especially soil pipes. 5 - I might go for a sliding door on the plant room entrance, to help the door clash and carrying things around vs swinging doors. 6 - Think a bit more extensively about how to manage heat wrt views vs window size. There are solutions like Sage Glass or verandas if you want both. 7 - I think you need to consider carefully integration of indoors and outdoors for doors, windows, walking routes and so on. Especially as it is in a national park. Try drawing a location plan with views, sunrise-sunset and so on, and matching that to your room locations, times of day when you do different activities and so on. 8. I would consider windows sites to give you sunlight into the stairwell and the interior - perhaps including a roof window over the top of the stairwell - to give shafts of light in the heart of the house that can be viewed from the entrances and rooms as you walk around. Also some thought about glazing in internal doors and perhaps even walls. I can see a fully glazed door to the snug / lounge working well with a rooflight above the stairwell, for example. Or a tall narrow stained / frosted glass panel from the lounge to the stairs. Also possibilities of using mirrors to reflect light around. A subtly placed floor to ceiling narrow mirror in peripheral can create the impression of an entire extra room, and make the space with the mirror seem much larger, for example. My thoughts. Ferdinand

I made my neighbours move their boiler flue round the corner onto their property, rather than over my drive.. I think the issue is around the need to ensure and undisturbed exit, which for a discharge over a boundary cannot be guaranteed. May be different for low / high level. Check with your BCO.

The air temperature is design to be warm enough so that the Maillard reaction happens. I'm presuming, but that would surely be the basis of the claimed crispiness, which was the usp of the air fryer initially. Ferdinand

For BHers I'd say use bulk bags that materials came in. Fill with leaves, possibly stack up 2 high, and leave for 18 months-2 years. It contains little nourishment, and is good for soil structure - which is why I'd guess the person quoted suggests mixing with compost.

If you don't use them they become utility room clutter 🙂 . I'm trying to find out whether I would use it. The R4 piece you linked before compared them to a fan over with an ultra strong fan, which seems a good analogy. Which! apparently have 14 different recommendations, and they now come with many different programmes. They deal with the Mallard reaction by you making sure that the Mallards are dead. I have one in my freezer waiting, and hopefully it won't react. Taste reports seem good. Ferdinand (*) *innocent face*

I'm having a look at one of these, as a general rapid cooking device for the kitchen. Does anyone have any experience or recommendations? Household size is up to two. Thanks Ferdinand

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Correct, or you may not. Which doubly reinforces the point that you need to use your skill and judgement, plus advice you think appropriate. And be sure where your appetite for risk is on the scale, and that you will still be standing if you buy this relatively-less-expensive opportunity and it goes tits-up.

I think fencing off the roof from behind might be easier. Suitable height fence then grow a similar height hedge behind it?

Call @pocster ...

On the seller motivation for not going for Outline: 1 - it may be the cost of getting outline. Applying for PP for a potential 6 or 8 bungalows is not cheap. Quite a few thousands. It could also take 6-12 months. 2 - It may be an elephant trap in the plot that is not in the sales literature reducing the probability of getting PP, and the same could be the reason for going to auction. Could be a former use of one building requiring expensive land investigations, or services or drainage being difficult, or a mineshaft, or a former oil leak from a heating system, or made ground, and so on. Do some digging (research, not literal 😁). Have you spoken to the people in the bungalows on the other half? 3 - Has it been marketed before? What happened if so? 4 - Or it could just be a quick sale required for any number of reasons. Death, divorce etc. In situations like this you need more information to allow you to trade off part of the risk. F