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07/10/2025 1:02 pm  

@majordennisbloodnok Emm, it is not very often you see the word ‘trumps’ in an article about clean renewable energy!😉 Toodles.


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07/10/2025 1:05 pm  

I think we need to distinguish simple from standard.  For sure installations differ, sometimes markedly, because houses differ.  Also for sure there are miscellaneous onsite issues to solve.  That doesn't necessarily make them complicated though, it just makes them different.  A installer that can't deal with the differences isn't an engineer, he is a fitter, trained to do a few things well by following instructions and using acquired skills, but not necessarily to think deeply.  Put another way he is a poor installer (in the way we use the word ie encompassing design, specification and fit) suited to executing designs that have been made by others, but quite possibly he is a good fitter.

By using the word complicated, or avoiding the word simple, we shroud it in mystery, which gives the poor installer licence to use BS to fool us into thinking he knows something ordinary mortals never can, whereas the real problem is that he can't actually explain what he is doing or why.  Please don't afford him that luxury.

 


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07/10/2025 1:12 pm  

@editor The season to start inviting prospectives to ‘Visit a Heat Pump’ is almost upon us again, (our doesn’t need to run during the summer as DHW is separate) and though in the past I have kept off the subject of recommending an installer, perhaps I should revise this? Having had a good experience with our install, suggests that we should celebrate the good eggs so that others may be assisted to avoid some pitfalls. Toodles.


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08/10/2025 11:49 am  

Having just watched the latest Podcast of Mars talking with @pirate-rich  I must express my disappointment.

Not only was no pirate in sight, but there was a complete absence of any Swashing and Buckling.
Moreover, the accent was clearly from the wrong side of Bristol... a real poke-in-the-eye for those of us who've spent generations rolling our R's.

I appreciate that he might've wanted to dress-up a bit for a formal podcast,
but we must hope that he'll revert to wearing a tri-corn hat and scimitar when he's undertaking the house survey.

As avid readers of this Forum will know, it's whilst assessing energy losses that piracy really comes to the fore.


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08/10/2025 12:31 pm  

Oh I do a good pirate accent alright... 🏴‍☠️😂👍

I'm sorry i've disspaointed on the previous occasion... But tbh its a bit weird doing full pirate when there is only two of you and Kirsten doing the camera work! 🎥📸🤳

Anyway, here you go this is what I am capable of (when I can be bothered)... 🏴‍☠️☠️😂

 


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08/10/2025 12:48 pm  

Posted by: @transparent
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As avid readers of this Forum will know, it's whilst assessing energy losses that piracy really comes to the fore.

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Actually, there's a rather greater degree of cattle-herding. It's precisely because of the extent of cowboy influence that the pirates have been brought in.

 


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Mitsubishi Ecodan 8.5 kW air source heat pump
18 x 360W solar panels
1 x 6 kW GroWatt battery and SPH5000 inverter
1 x Myenergi Zappi
1 x VW ID3
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09/10/2025 2:03 pm  

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Oh I do a good pirate accent alright... 🏴‍☠️😂👍

From Mevagissey to Mousehole, and Portmeon to Polzeath me shipmates 'ave a view which do differ from your description of "a good pirate accent".
The considered opinion is to stick to the day jobby.

I could've enquired even further West, but that would just be scilly.

In meantime, we'd be appreciative of your views on that there uner'grnd pipeworks at Mars' cab'n
'n whether the inslashun 'n bore be sfishunt t' leave 'e unde'sturbd.


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Topic starter 09/10/2025 3:40 pm  

We’re filming more content with Rich tomorrow... we’ll see if we can sneak in a few pirate references and persuade the Cap’n to deliver a line or two in his finest seafaring accent.


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09/10/2025 3:56 pm  

@editor Arrrr, Shiver me Timbers ol’ Mate that ye be! Toodles without Tri-Cornered Hat


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09/10/2025 4:23 pm  

My God, Robert Newton really has something to answer for, doesn’t he? What about the real historical figures from other parts of England, or other parts of the UK, not to mention France, the Netherlands and all manner of the Americas.

Fun fact; were you aware that one particularly famous historical pirate - Edward England - was, in fact, Irish.

Personally, I love the idea of celebrating “International Talk Like A Pirate Day” by sounding like Inspector Clouseau.


105 m2 bungalow in South East England
Mitsubishi Ecodan 8.5 kW air source heat pump
18 x 360W solar panels
1 x 6 kW GroWatt battery and SPH5000 inverter
1 x Myenergi Zappi
1 x VW ID3
Raised beds for home-grown veg and chickens for eggs

"Semper in excretia; sumus solum profundum variat"


   
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09/10/2025 4:42 pm  

@majordennisbloodnok Is that an attempt to Panther for all tastes?


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09/10/2025 5:01 pm  

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@majordennisbloodnok Is that an attempt to Panther for all tastes?

If I managed that, I’d be tickled pink.

 


105 m2 bungalow in South East England
Mitsubishi Ecodan 8.5 kW air source heat pump
18 x 360W solar panels
1 x 6 kW GroWatt battery and SPH5000 inverter
1 x Myenergi Zappi
1 x VW ID3
Raised beds for home-grown veg and chickens for eggs

"Semper in excretia; sumus solum profundum variat"


   
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