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Italy by train

Italy by train. Since I won’t fly this seemed the most practical means of my family getting me there! How did it go and what did we learn? Clearly the journey is part of the holiday. I’m not making the … Continue reading

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Is Octopus right? Is zonal pricing the answer to high bills?

Wouldn’t it be great if when you live in a part of the country where there are loads of renewables the electricity was cheaper? Or would it? Is this just a chimera? At the moment in the UK we live … Continue reading

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Freecycle

I’ve been vaguely aware of Freecycle but never used it before. I took up our Parquet floor for reasons that will be explained in another post. It came up easily and most of it undamaged. The floor underneath formed of … Continue reading

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Does double glazing pay for itself? Part 1

Over the summer of 2022 one of our doubling glazing units ‘failed’, the dried air has gradually leaked out of the gap between the sealed panes. The symptoms of this are that moisture appears in the gap and the glass … Continue reading

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Upgrading the house heatwise

In January 2005 I had an infrared survey done of the house by a professional whose day job was decommissioning nuclear power stations.  Last year someone at church did an EPC (Energy Performance Certificate) for us.  We were at the … Continue reading

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The Three Stages of climate denial.

Stage 1 was to deny it’s existence at all. This was prominent from the 60’s to the 00’s. When the sceptics came up against the science and the overwhelming agreement of the scientific community they had to drop it. Stage … Continue reading

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Quick update on commercial rooftop PV capacity

I did a blog on potential PV capacity in the UK here.  There is an article from the Solar Power portal here which suggests the capacity is much lower (but still considerable).  I looked at this again a few months … Continue reading

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Recycling

One of the most frustrating things in life is recycling (what you can and can’t recycle). I’ve just read an article in the Guardian on difficult to recycle stuff. I’m not going to recycle it (sic) here. It’s well worth … Continue reading

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Does doubling glazing pay for itself? Part2.

So has the double glazing paid for itself in its lifetime taken at 30 years? Sort of – probably. The graphs below show the total payback, bills for Q1/4 and return on the investment in very simple crude terms. By … Continue reading

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Does double glazing pay for itself? part 1.

Over the summer one of our doubling glazing units ‘failed’, the dried air has gradually leaked out of the gap between the sealed panes. The symptoms of this are that moisture appears in the gap and the glass looks dirty, … Continue reading

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