openspaceman

Yes I don't know what the effect on selling a house equipped with solar PV and battery will have on the price. In my case I have been here 43 years and unlikely to move except into a care home and that won't be for long. Of course the two are not mutually exclusive and I have both solar panels and I burn wood, as my house is small I only average about 6-7kWh of electricity per day and the shortfall during the winter is only 450kWh. I only wish I could store the excess that I have in summer to use in winter. In fact doubling my array and increasing battery capacity somewhat would make me self sufficient but I think I am on the right cost-performance part of the curve as it is. Although my wood is all free it does require a fair amount of labour and if I valued that at £10/hour... I don't want to appear too evangelistic about either just putting my case. @Billhook feels he disagrees about the solar PV but does burn wood, I have easily paid back my investment in solar PV in ten years (except starting now there are no subsidies so it has to stand up by itself) but didn't have roof space for solar thermal and felt the PV at around 15% conversion of incident sunlight to electricity offered far more utility as I only needed about 60 quids worth of hot water a year and the sun would only provide in the summer months.

This is the crux, it is unlikely to be worth doing on borrowed money.

Well I have to say that although we have a quote for £13500 for a 5kW array and 10kWh battery as the survey has still to take place there could still be a price hike. 2 years ago I reckoned a 4kW system and 6kWh battery could be had for £8k so yes much more than back then but with a likely 84% grid independence and an annual usage of 5000kWh there is still a saving of £1260 at 30p/kWh and that rises to £1848 at 40p/kWh. In her case it is likely even better as she has an EV to soak up excess solar power.

You are right but we're still getting reasonable quotes for a system for my daughter, for installation after October. Prices of many things are rising mainly because UK's performance has been bad in the last two years and the pound has fallen against the dollar a lot. With inflation biting it's probably better to spend the money now before inflation really bites.

No longer licensed for the purpose but ammonium sulfamate

...and again in Jan 23 it seems. 44p/kWh predicted for electricity and 14p for gas. It will have a minimal effect on me as my electricity bill will still be around £200+ standing charges and gas is only used for hot water but at these prices solar PV and a battery is a no brainer if you have an unshaded southish facing roof.

That is two or three species of lichen, it just denotes fairly clean air in your area as they don't survive pollution. Nothing to do with whatever is affecting the tree.

I lost my first reply which was long so I'll do a short one; It's strange that we first cleft planks from the round and now saw a rectangular cant and flip it in order to reproduce the cleft shape. Wouldn't it be logical to half a round log then dog one sector and index it through the saw?

Possibly but you cannot afford to mess with Lion batteries in case the BMS has been damaged, once they over heat they release their stored electrical energy as a fire which you cannot easily extinguish, all you can do is cool it down.

Yes on a big JD, badly plumbed in as the oil overheated.

The TP290 I briefly operated with the mowi crane mounted on it was all controlled by one joystick, which took a bit of getting used to, biggest problem was not being able to see into the throat of the chipper from the cab.

As far as I can see the ecodesign regulations only specify a manufacturer placing something new on the market. Whether one can get a tradesperson to fit a secondhand one and comply with building regulations is what we are discussing.

Do you remember how much the BCO charged for the visits and signing off or was it part of a bigger building project?

That's a job for a drill, a sewing needle, some carbon fibre tow and epoxy resin.

It's a short video showing a Husky 235 with the front handle snapped just by its attachment under the saw

No this was giving permission for one near me.

Not really, he probably still has dues to pay to his lords and masters, it will be interesting to see what his final fling will be. John Major hung in long enough to overrule planning considerations for a factory to be built on greenbelt land for his parting shot.

I'm a while out of date on this and the BCO should be able to sign off a flue and stove installation but I wonder how many are happy to do so, most BCO's will have no experience of wood burners and expect them to be installed by HETAS registered installers. A HETAS installer has a dispensation whereby he can self certify his work in the same way an electrician or window installer can. There would be a charge for the BCO to certify work as with any inspection he does.

As I said I am not qualified to say what a HETAS installer would do but there are parallels in the forestry work I used to do where members of a trade body for hydraulic pipe would not repair an old pipe that had burst due to chafing but one could still buy fittings to do the repair oneself for a fraction of the price of the new hose and still be lawful in use. The building regulations to do with stoves all look very sensible to me with regards to materials and distances from combustible materials, plus of course the CO monitor, that I would follow them. Other things like house owner's permission, certification and insurance need to be considered.

Firstly I am not qualified to install stoves or flues but I doubt the trade body would approve of anyone fitting a secondhand pre ecodesign stove. This does not mean I think it would be unsafe to install following the manufacturers manual nor that it couldn't be run cleanly. It must be installed within all the requirements of the current part J of the building regulations and especially with a working carbon monoxide monnitor

The user manual found online is dated 2006

I'd go on prunus but not narrow it down further .

No as I only know him from here and he's not read my last PM Yes and the angry Kevin doesn't seem to post now, mind the weather is so nice they are better things to do.

I take it that is a whitebeam? Topped some years back? I'd say those yellow leaf veins and the fact it has tried to set fruit and then wilted point to something more serious than drought.

You could buy and old tirfor for that. How far away from NW Surrey are you? If you can put in a back cut 4ft up a flip flop winch would probably do you with 30 metres of 10mm wire rope but not work for a novice.