A question for TV techies if I may. I know about getting catchup TV etc from the UK by using a VPN and this works fine to a computer.
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Thanks to all who chipped in on the sweet potatoe chat a few months ago. You inspired me to plant one and now there is a 1m square of verdant bush in the orto and still spreading. It is weathering the drought really well too.
Sun, 09/04/2011 - 07:52
http://heatingsolutions.design.officelive.com/LatestNews.aspxThe latest issue of 'Heating News' is out and freely available on the site above, and a slightl
Wed, 05/04/2011 - 10:23
this may be a bit esoteric but I have just put up 3 updated Excel models on www.heatingitaly.com in the downloads section. These cover panel angles with a graphical study on how fitting ove
Sun, 02/27/2011 - 07:53
I promised a report on the 4.6Kw PV solar car port a few months ago. The full year isn't quite up yet but the results are now pretty clear.
Mon, 12/20/2010 - 04:06
Just read an old post from Bunterboy with regard to solar panel angles. The accepted wisdom is to angle them the same as your latitude which is moving towards a winter bias.
Mon, 09/20/2010 - 05:13
Recently we went to check in a bag at the counter at Stansted and the girl there said it would cost £35 but we could do it on line for £15...
Thu, 05/20/2010 - 04:28
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... further to Ram's comment; don't sasume that because you can't see any aerials on the horizon that you can't have internet and phones. I do have a good view of an aerial and a repeater at my house includes several neighbours who are across the valley.
SteveGW's comment brought back memories. I once worked in the lawnmower/chainsaw repair shop in Takapuna New Zealand and there was a large dent in the wall after one of the guys rebuilt a McCulloch chain saw about 4 times and finding it still wouldn't start he threw it across the workshop in a fit of temper.
a powerful 'man's' strimmer will do the job. You can get blades to cut through brambles and saplings. You can also get chain flails but I haven't tried those yet. For anything more grass-like I always revert to the nylon line strimmer head as the cutting width is big and one soon gets used to restringing the reel head. Don't do more than an hour or two per day or you might get a dead hand throught the vibration. If you cut back the brambles etc every year they eventually just give up and grass takes over.
A gas boiler is a bit like a car in that it consumes at the rate it's being driven. Modern gas boilers modulate their output depending on demand so it is not always correct to say that consumption is just on or off. My rule of thumb cost for running a gpl boiler of 28kW is €5 per hour and that is certainly conservative. It implies that the usual 25,000 kW.hrs an average stone house consumes would cost about €4,500 and many people exceed that. Most of us here use wood to stave off the bills as about €1,000 will produce those 25,000 kW.hrs. A small heat pump added to the mix is even better .... I'm waffling on a bit but hopefully leaving the question in the air about whether gas boilers are worth considering at all.
All AndyT's posts here jusy come up as a ! with nothing else, yet some of you are clearly reading something... what's going on?
Badger - is this what one would call a hare raising experience?
I wonder if you have considered the idea of not having rads at all. UFH is always better for living rooms and with their faster response times I would always go for fan/coils in bedrooms. As your system - I hope - should be heat pump ready then this set up would be ideal. There's a heating seminar here on March 18th - I'll PM you the details in case you'd like to get to grips with all the issues before you spend any money.
... the bombola might be 'free' but that's on the expectation that you buy lots of the stuff ... if you have a sensible heating system and only need a top up every 5 years or so you might find the gas co is not so happy. They might be responsible for correct installation but I bet you won't find them offering to put up a €1,000 fence so you can get your agibilita. I'm trying to use up the last of the gas then going over to bottles - no fence ha ha. Then there's this bollo blu certificate to worry about... mmm that heat pump looks more attractive by the day.
... thank you for the directions .... just the Tiptree orange marmalade to find and I'm sorted.
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