Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

DW likes to put a movie on to fall asleep to (takes her about 5 minutes from TV gong on) whereas I can't leave a movie half watched so she has been asleep since 10.30 and will wake up fresh as a daisy at 5.30 (which of course I can't sleep through) whereas I am now half way through some girly mother/daughter movie knowing I will feel terrible tomorrow. Anyone any suggestions?

Does it involve relocating a ski resort?

michaels

CK just seen the news from Georgia, hope all is OK with you and yours.

CKhalvashi

michaels wrote: »

CK just seen the news from Georgia, hope all is OK with you and yours.

We’re all in Batumi now, I was born in Sukhumi (in the far North), so we’re all good.

Tbilisi and Rustavi (I have a lot of friends in both, who are all fine) are the two affected cities.

CK

LydiaJ

vivatifosi wrote: »

Wow, it would be great if you could have a month of those. What does it average out at? The more I think about PV the more I think it is the way forward, even if the payback is different. Our house is all electric so the comparison here is even more direct.

Well, I've had it since 7/9/12, so that's 8 and a bit months, although the inverter was down for a couple of weeks in November. (It had been installed with a loose connection that shorted. They replaced it for free.) In that time I've generated 2063.4kWh, and earned £936.90. It's *very* seasonal, though. There were a couple of weeks around New Year when I was averaging not much more than 2kWh a day, whereas for the week of the March heat wave I was averaging over 20kWh a day. So with the summer yet to come, I am waiting to see just how big a daily yield they can give me.

I'm on the old tariff, but of course I paid for them before the prices dropped in response to the tariff cut. I paid £12,863 for them. My mortgage went up by £50pm with the extra borrowing, so I'm definitely quids in on current performance.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Your PV is outperforming my poor Adsense

Only on sunny days.

michaels wrote: »

My parents use theirs for the swimming pool so I guess sort of the same concept...which does bring us to the point that you get most electricity in the summer when you don't need much heating....

It's not worth it for the free electricity to use yourself - that's a small part of the benefit. It's the FiTs that make it worth it. Who knows what will happen to fuel prices in the future, though? I'm not going to hazard a guess.

michaels

Thank goodness, kissing bit at end of movie. Goodnight all.

CKhalvashi

LydiaJ wrote: »

Well, I've had it since 7/9/12, so that's 8 and a bit months, although the inverter was down for a couple of weeks in November. (It had been installed with a loose connection that shorted. They replaced it for free.) In that time I've generated 2063.4kWh, and earned £936.90. It's *very* seasonal, though. There were a couple of weeks around New Year when I was averaging not much more than 2kWh a day, whereas for the week of the March heat wave I was averaging over 20kWh a day. So with the summer yet to come, I am waiting to see just how big a daily yield they can give me.

I'm on the old tariff, but of course I paid for them before the prices dropped in response to the tariff cut. I paid £12,863 for them. My mortgage went up by £50pm with the extra borrowing, so I'm definitely quids in on current performance.

Pastures sees a posh alert :eek:

michaels wrote: »

Thank goodness, kissing bit at end of movie. Goodnight all.

Night :wave:

LydiaJ

CKhalvashi wrote: »

We’re all in Batumi now, I was born in Sukhumi (in the far North), so we’re all good.

Tbilisi and Rustavi (I have a lot of friends in both, who are all fine) are the two affected cities.

CK

Glad you and yours are OK, CK, but feeling for the victims. Summer 2007 has permanently changed my feelings about flooding.

We didn't flood, but I had several friends who were out of their houses for ages before they were fit to live in again. One guy I work with had 5 feet of muddy flood water in the whole downstairs of his house, and had to live in a caravan for a year or so while his house was completely gutted back to bare brickwork and the inside redone from scratch. Also, a woman I work with was just beginning to sort things out from the June flood when the July flood came along and was even worse. When her house was finally sorted, she decided she couldn't bear to live it any more so she's letting it (it's unsellable because of the flood history, but tenants aren't as bothered by such things as buyers) and renting somewhere else.

PasturesNew

CKhalvashi wrote: »

ს You mean like this?

No, like this: Я я

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

....she decided she couldn't bear to live it any more so she's letting it (it's unsellable because of the flood history, but tenants aren't as bothered by such things as buyers) and renting somewhere else.

Doesn't the LL's insurance cost a lot though, as she'd have to rehouse them until the end of their AST? Surely that'd mean an immediate hotel for a few days while somewhere else was paid, fees paid, deposit paid .... and they'd still have to fork out to have her house fixed again.

LydiaJ

Pastures, Georgian is written in a different alphabet from Russian and it doesn't have those back to front Rs, but lots of other, more squiggly letters instead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_alphabet