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- Tue Apr 01, 2025 11:25 am
- Forum: Energy efficiency
- Topic: Passive stack chimney ventilation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 368
Re: Passive stack chimney ventilation
our house is a 3 floor 1900 ish mid terrace, in a conservation area. single room external vents wouldn't work on the front rooms, but might on the bathroom and kitchen which are in the back of the house, where there is an extension, so external walls on the side of the house. Are there companies tha...
- Fri Mar 28, 2025 3:01 pm
- Forum: Energy efficiency
- Topic: Passive stack chimney ventilation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 368
Passive stack chimney ventilation
Does anyone have any knowledge or expertise, or advice on fitting passive stack ventilation in chimneys? I previously found a company, I think they were called Ventive, and they did a thing where they put a heat recovery unit on top of a chimney, and fed two pipes down the chimney, one with incoming...
- Fri Mar 28, 2025 1:11 pm
- Forum: For Sale
- Topic: Hive plugs
- Replies: 3
- Views: 329
Re: Hive plugs
yes please, if they're still available
- Fri Mar 28, 2025 12:53 pm
- Forum: Spaceheating
- Topic: ASHP & triple glazing
- Replies: 1227
- Views: 431196
Re: ASHP & triple glazing
quick google search https://i.postimg.cc/14LJyP5D/Screenshot-2025-03-28-12-53-05.png we're in Norwich - 1900s ish house. we've still got single glazed on the back main room, the ceilings are high, so it's quite a bit of glass - wooden frames. It's the coldest room in the house as it never gets any s...
- Thu Mar 27, 2025 1:33 pm
- Forum: Spaceheating
- Topic: ASHP & triple glazing
- Replies: 1227
- Views: 431196
Re: ASHP & triple glazing
we have dormer windows that are currently wooden 2g units, and they're going to be replaced soon. Is it worth getting 3g units? we don't have ashp, and we don't have heat recovery ventilation, and the insulation could be better, but 3g will be the standard at some point right?! it is south facing, a...
- Mon Mar 24, 2025 1:00 pm
- Forum: Cafe
- Topic: Robotic moves
- Replies: 8
- Views: 303
Re: Robotic moves
Have you seen Westworld? Probably for playthings to do whatever people want with it... Imagine how much money a "human" robot would make the company that builds it, if its indistinguishable from the real thing. I know we aren't anywhere near that level yet though. But surely it will get t...
- Mon Mar 24, 2025 12:37 pm
- Forum: Cafe
- Topic: Robotic moves
- Replies: 8
- Views: 303
Re: Robotic moves
I'm not sure I get it - why are people spending billions on getting robots to be more human like? surely the point of robotics is to get machines to do things that humans can't, or things that they can, more efficiently. There was a competition to design a robot that could climb a rope. One of the e...
- Mon Mar 24, 2025 12:28 pm
- Forum: Spaceheating
- Topic: ASHP & triple glazing
- Replies: 1227
- Views: 431196
Re: ASHP & triple glazing
good that you're supplying them with tea, because when you have tea, you have hope, and when you have hope, you can achieve anything. very impressive new windows - I know a guy in Norfolk who recycles plastics, and he said that most double glazed frames are not recycled as there are 17 different typ...
- Mon Mar 10, 2025 3:58 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Positioning of speakers in echo-ey room
- Replies: 15
- Views: 53231
Re: Positioning of speakers in echo-ey room
Your description makes it seem like you're putting up speakers to play music to people in a swimming pool... in which case sound quality is not going to be that important, so I'd stick them as high as you can in the corners. Keep them far away from any water splashes, and wires out of the way of tri...
- Wed Mar 05, 2025 5:25 pm
- Forum: Cafe
- Topic: The Camelot Cafe/Bar
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3948
Re: The Camelot Cafe/Bar
I've been watching Escape to Rural France (a Youtube channel) for a few years, the guy, Dan Preston, is rebuilding a burned out French Chateau, which was destroyed by fire in about 1980, and left to the elements since (till about 2022), and he's been putting in some rockwool insulation. He started w...