Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

rozeepozee

You guys. It wasn't so hot today. I had a fleece back on at one time. Had to be remineded to take it off!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

rozeepozee wrote: »

You guys. It wasn't so hot today. I had a fleece back on at one time. Had to be remineded to take it off!

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

I'm melting just thinking about having a fleece on in this weather

rhiwfield

PV for quarter ended yesterday was 14 kwh a day, above last year but same as 2011. This is the big quarter, followed by October, April and Jan quarters, the latter is down to average 2.7 kwh a day.

I see the Gov's response to RHI consultation was released 12/7, we would be eligible (off gas grid, burning fossil fuel) and they will accept bivalent systems which would take away our concern at underperforming ASHP in cold weather. But the complexity :eek:. With PV it's dead simple, very little to go wrong. But a bivalent system, doubling up on pipework, increasing rad sizes, water must be heated with ASHP, meters installed, house epc asssessment, servicing two linked systems??????????. Not one to rush into

Itismehonest

While on the subject http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23334466

This has become another biofuel (great swathes of land being used for biofuel production) debacle.

On the individual user side, we're eligible for the Green Deal wood heat thing.
http://www.exmoortrust.org.uk/files//exmoorwoodheatnewsletterfeb2013.pdf

I can't see how it's going to be possible to provide enough wood for all the country's open fires, log burners & biomass without importing it wholesale which makes a bit of a mockery of the thing.

As the BBC article said "Critics say that it would take 50 years or more for a new tree to absorb the CO2 released when an existing tree is burned.

But calculations by the government's chief energy scientist, David Mackay, on the carbon emissions from wood-burning are so controversial that they remain formally unpublished."

I think the price of wood for burning will go through the roof & lead to timber theft in much the same way as we saw metal theft go when people started stealing cables, plaques & any form of metal they could make a few bob on.

Oh, forgot to say on the sale front, CAB were no use. "Much too complicated for us". So we're just left with MP now.

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

Oh, forgot to say on the sale front, CAB were no use. "Much too complicated for us". So we're just left with MP now.

Oh dear, I hope he's more amenable than ours.

We wanted to see ours to speak on behalf of kids like those next door (not about the kids next door) who can be held under house arrest by controlling parents, never sent to school., not even let outside for weeks on end....etc. simply because the powers that be seem to have no power.

We never got past his secretary. Far too busy for stuff like that.

Davesnave

Started on the back of the big barn yesterday, as roofing sheets were still too hot to handle. Unfortunately, DW has some kind of thumb joint injury/problem, but we managed to get the supporting frame for the Yorkshire board into place.

Will try to catch up properly later...:o

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

Oh dear, I hope he's more amenable than ours.

We wanted to see ours to speak on behalf of kids like those next door (not about the kids next door) who can be held under house arrest by controlling parents, never sent to school., not even let outside for weeks on end....etc. simply because the powers that be seem to have no power.

We never got past his secretary. Far too busy for stuff like that.

Not good, Dave.
No we've passed the preliminaries so just the main man to see.

lostinrates

Should I eBay or skip the sash window with no sash mechanism we have taken out? It's in my barn. I'm wary of starting a new hoard but I'm finding it hard to let to of any part of the house as we bought it. If we had more windows at once I could make unwieldy cold frames, lol.

rhiwfield

lostinrates wrote: »

Should I eBay or skip the sash window with no sash mechanism we have taken out? It's in my barn. I'm wary of starting a new hoard but I'm finding it hard to let to of any part of the house as we bought it. If we had more windows at once I could make unwieldy cold frames, lol.

They dont seem to do very well on Ebay, cold frames looking favourite

alfie_1

i am sat here in agony...:(

my hip is so painfull. thing is doc said it was due to [when it hurt before] this sponge-something itus ???? in lower spine and its pain radiating... BUT it is definately deep inside the joint and gives me a dead leg above the knee.
i dont like to think doc has got it wrong but.. i am really uncomfortable today. i cant get a docs app via attila the hun receptionist so do i go to casualty and que jump....:(