GarethM
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You're effectively advocating for a nation wide clean air zone. Even the current system is woefully pointless as it's not enforced, most appliances sold are more than compliant but due to the cost of testing they aren't useable in a smoke control area. For example a lot of things are blue angel, German version of DEFRA exempt but there is no EU wide standard.
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You might get got for change of use, but should fall under small rate relief and effectively be free. Roughly 21x9m = 189m2 189m2 x £55 = 10,395 10,395 x 0.499 multiplier = £5187 Under 12k valuation should be free.
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So you want to ban existing efficient stoves or the fuel for them, what changes are you suggesting ?. Nothing will ever be enough for these activists tho, until your eating the bugs and cowering under your duvet with equal measures of fear and frostbite.
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Well we've had clean air zones for decades, 1960s I think. So either it's not enforced or it's something else. The typical knee jerk reaction to just make more rules is backwards and a waste of time and energy. It's like the current knife thing they are doing, knee jerk instead of enforcement of the current rules. It's like suicide is illegal, erm good luck with a prosecution!.
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Edge Sealing Phenolic Board recommended products? Help needed
GarethM replied to Bob_z_l's topic in General chat
Didn't think it was necessary, but presumably any epoxy sealer wouldn't be a bad thing. Just make sure your cuts are nice and smooth. -
Very true, but good to see someone use one going through a combustible material.
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It's the exhaust
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Plus you have to love the picture of clearly imported kiln firewood from a Lithuanian company.
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Laurel – Love the smell, but is it really bad for you?
GarethM replied to John Hancock's topic in General chat
Disposable arb approved hazmat suits coming to a dealer near you!. -
I'd expect nothing less. From an engineer perspective I would have thought they should be designed to remove or reverse drive everything except the cutting head/shield back out the tunnel.
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Laurel – Love the smell, but is it really bad for you?
GarethM replied to John Hancock's topic in General chat
I thought there was no point crying over spilt milk ? -
Laurel – Love the smell, but is it really bad for you?
GarethM replied to John Hancock's topic in General chat
Probably like the daddy longlegs being the most poisonous spider without large enough fangs to be a threat. -
I'm not so sure, bridge = maintenance forever of the structure. Concrete tunnel is a sealed thing, a lot of the recent tunnels are expensive because they actually buried 1 or 2 TBM as they started at both ends and did a 90 in the middle. If memory serves there's a couple still in the channel tunnels.
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Was that the one where they built concrete sections and floated them out after excavating a bit trench ?.
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US to get first dedicated high-speed railway – built by Network Rail INEWS.CO.UK The move comes just months after the northern leg of the UK's own high-speed rail service HS2 was scrapped
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How bad a condition are we talking, pictures would be good. Any decent metal shop should be able to repair most damage, providing they atleast have a starting point. As I'm guessing Timberwolf will be wanting a couple of grand at a minimum, unless they have a trade in pile for Service Exchange/Salvage.
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Already happened, new cavity wall insulation regs are 150mm
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It has been done, whilst not the same as today's standards, you can't just keep adding more and more. A better joined up solution needs to be found especially for the majority of housing which is terraced, sticking combustible foam on the outside is not a solution. Maybe a scheme allowing the rear to be extended in bulk with internal insulation along with the roof, maybe a pay now or we increase your council tax band for 10 years?.
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Because that's all been done during the great 90-2010 home insulation scams that bled subsides dry. Next you'll be saying standby wastes billions, TVs of the last 10-15 years use around or less than 1w which is nothing around £3. Try motorway lights, streetlights, empty offices all after midnight and that's before you get to TV and radio transmitters at 250kw+ Vs 10kw digital. Personally start rebuilding magnox, make the core larger and sacrifice higher temperatures as we aren't making plutonium on purpose. Calderhall cost 35m in 1956, even if you said 1bn now. That's still cheap compared to Hinkley at 25bn.
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Those neat french trees would predate the village, part of Napoleon and having shade for the troops along roads. Whilst maybe somewhat over romanticised especially in certain parts of france, Napoleon wanted his marching troops under the shade of trees.
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Is this the wettest (firewood selling )autumn you have known !
GarethM replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Does the cell structure actually freeze in living trees, as I would assume the tree could reduce the water content and change the freezing point ?. Maybe the freezing pops the cells on felled trees and helps to dry it quicker. -
8kw is only 35A on an average 100A supply, I'd personally be asking for a three phase supply, not a larger supply. Plus not touching batteries with a barge pole, maybe some old lead acid but not any of the new ones. If they won't do 3 phase I'd say hot tub for summer time relaxing 🙂. But obviously fit as large a hot water tank as possible but that's not going to eat much of the unused power.
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Is this the wettest (firewood selling )autumn you have known !
GarethM replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Whilst this isn't the best for calibration, I regularly stick the moisture meter into the underside of the wooden chair in the house. Anything other than below 19% and the meter is fit for the bin. -
8-10kw even on 3 phase ?.
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Even I have a 60x45 shed that could have I think something like 25kw. If these companies approached people like myself, there would be 150kw in just 1/4 mile. Offer them a reasonable return with maybe a alternative option of say 10 year you own it we'd all say yes please.
