CohPC
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I think bah humbug works for Halloween as well, alternatively you could open the door to trick or treaters wearing just a pumpkin strapped in front of your todger and shout "buy your own sweets you little ****s"
Just need to be known as the weirdo in the street
CohPC
Well-Known Member
If you open the door wearing only a pumpkin you'd soon be known as the weirdo
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Eye is honoured yer chose me fred for yer last message. They have Freelander's on the other side so yer should be ok. Farewell my friend.
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Gorra save lectric to annoy pootin....that the fitting of dimmer switches was indeed a "dim" idea.
There was not an adjustment position on the trimming pot-to-brightness pot combo that was satisfactory.
I just could not get rid of the "flickering". So the old On/Off switch-plate was restored.
I did get the "I don't know why you bothered" lecture from SWMBO but it is her that insists on having only one set of the lights on at night so we sit in partial darkness when watching TV and then she complains she cannot see the controls. Go figure.
Been pondering this for a while now - peeps in guv keep telling us we need more offshore wind farms to be energy secure and cut down on carbon. In a conflict they could be wiped out in an instant with a missile or two, leaving us with no energy at all. Pootin would have the last laugh.Gorra save lectric to annoy pootin.
doriz
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Warra day followed by warra nite. Drove to werk and the weather was reasonable. Then sent to a lat/long in the Boonies, on the way I end up first on scene at a two car smash on the A15 bout 10 mins from Brian. Had to reassure a young chap for a while whilst paramedics arrived. Then down to Holbeach where torrential rain and flooding nearly stopped my progress, then a lightning storm…
Rain stopped, moon came out temperature dropped, sandwiches eaten, then ‘ome for tea and medals by 0030. Elastic roller skate out of juice and now on charge again ready fer another go. Ney wonder I’m knackered.
Rain stopped, moon came out temperature dropped, sandwiches eaten, then ‘ome for tea and medals by 0030. Elastic roller skate out of juice and now on charge again ready fer another go. Ney wonder I’m knackered.
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Yer can get 15 years oot of a modern combi boiler. Me friend at wuk had to swop oot his donky years old boiler ferra new one to stop his mrs nagging their gas bill was far higher than others they know. His gas bill dropped by 2/3. He's now miffed at not doing it years ago. 2k6 sovs ferra boiler fitted. He drilled the exhaust ole imself.
Peeps in guv make money from off shore wind farms.. is why they want more
Hippo
Lord Hippo
If he started to do that there would retribution. Also wind fields are spread over a large area. Each one would need exploded seperatley. Wind is a great asset when yer an island. We have some of the biggererist oft shore wind farms int world.
My first job on leaving skool was on a nuclear power station construction site. Guvmint promises of cheap leccy for all. It wasn't. None of those first generation power stations were remotely efficient, only used the waste heat for generating the leccy. Many years later I was watching a telly prog, where a politician from back then, long retired, was explaining that we and the politicians were all conned, including himself. The only purpose for building nuclear power stations was to produce weapons grade fissile material for the bombs.
Just keep a couple of candles in yer cupboard, just in case -------
doriz
Well-Known Member
That’s why they built the Viking Link. When we get wind the excess goes to the Nordics, when they get excess that comes to us. Good concept really - I standby to told otherwise.
Hippo
Lord Hippo
They work by soaking up heat from ootside and compressing a liquid which is used to transfer and release the heat. Bit like yer fridge. Yer can use rads or have air pumped in the house, to get heat. Considered 300% efficient as yer only powering the pump to convert pressure as oppised to burning somefink which will always be less than 100% efficient.I don't understand how a heat pump can get the rooms up to 22c and hot water exchanger would be I presume, pipes on the roof. OK in summer but not on a foggy November morning.
Tis all magic to me
There are downsides. Old homes dunt have enuff insulation like new ones so they lose more heat. So yer haft to put in a biggerer heat pump. Sometimes more rads anorl. Heat pumps dunt have a lot of power so yer tend to leave the heating on to reduce temp rise and dalls that carch it oot. Yer cam more easily service HP systems compared to gas. Few peeps gave their own gas meter to detect poor gas burn.
Correction, WE don't. Most of it is owned by foreign companies and investment vehicles. Which is why we are being striped up on the cost of this "free" energy. See:
https://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/en-gb/what-we-do/on-the-seabed/energy/offshore-wind-farm-ownership/
So I can come home from a weekend away and switch the heating on and be toasty even when it's minus 5 outside ?
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Went to wix last nite. When yer run yer paw over the ply wood its gottid ripples innit. Mdf is smooth. Gorra sheet of 18mm ply oft and stood up. Bent like a narna. Not easy to straighten oot. Did same wiv 12 and 18mm mdf. 18 much straighter than 12. Fink yer can gettid the last bit of bend oot by securing it to a frame. Will go back when eye is ready to get one but it will be from a new pallet as the ones on top should be straighterer.
