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I think I'd argue that's not the case - in fact that mindset has lead to a load of the backlash against them, as well as a lot of shoddy installs by g...
@watcher If you have sash windows, or a plastic door you can "re-engineer" a bit then the Midea is an excellent piece of kit. Shove it out of the sash...
I think it's great news. It's a good way of putting the installers on notice that they will have to figure out how to do the job for a proper price or...
You are correct that until recently the housebuilders would lay a sewage pipe or similar for each plot once they started and then used that to...
MCS mandates an insurance policy so everyone's MCS install costs even more despite the fact you are more likely to get your arm back from a pitbull th...
I know most of the folks I use pretty well so I'm fairly relaxed about it. My carpenter who is on the phone because his bricky mate needs some advice ...
An electrician who signs off work is responsible for it, so if anything electricians are very conservative in what is acceptable. It's got to be by th...
Mine is partly still on gas and partly tanked and tank + good old immersion element on EV tariff made the RoI on other solutions nonsensical on curren...
If it draws under 10A sustained and 13A peak you can just plug it into a socket, although the regs strongly favour wiring it in if it's "fixed". Perso...
There are a collection of tools around on the internet that will generate R and U value approximations for walls and give you graphs. It's never simpl...
I think it has an enormous impact on air/air users. The grant is basically dead in the water, most air/air people keep a bit of gas for the water heat...
The solar is baked in by the building regulations these days, it's also last time I looked at it about the same cost to put a tiled roof on a house as...
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