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And I also have to add another thanks - for the laughs. You guys - some of you - just crack me up :-) Reminds me of Donna Moss's line in 'The West Wing' - 'Half the people on those forums don't take their meds'. And when oil and gas become really scarce resources, the government will order...

That's a very petulant attitude. No-one knows what their fuel costs are going to be in 18 months time, never mind the 20-year+ view we're taking. The world isn't just running out of oil and gas, it's running out of clean water as well. When all the countries that rely on the Tigris/Euphrates...

Thanks for the link. I've bookmarked it for future use, but it's not a lot of use right now as the heating we're having to use now isn't going to be used in the long term. Later... much later:-)

GSHP - yes, we looked into it, together with a hydronic UFH system. We'd love to, but the cost is way outside our budget. There are essential works we have to do, like adapting the house for a wheelchair-bound person - widening all the doorways, adapting the bathroom, etc. Insulation and...

Er... can some kind person advise how we can find an independent consultant to advise on heating, ventilation and insulation, please? We're willing to pay for genuinely independent advice, from someone with no vested interested in selling particular types of products. I've Googled on several...

Thanks for the responses! Very helpful. I hope there's more to come:-) The reasons for getting rid of oil: The tank is ruptured so several hundred pounds would need to be thrown at that straightaway. We were told the 12-year old Worcester Danesmoor boiler wasn't suitable to fire a water...

We want to remove the oil boiler/radiators central heating from our 1960s bungalow and install electric underfloor heating. The hot tank is the usual indirect system fed from the cold tank in the loft, water is heated by the boiler with an immersion heater as back-up. The pipework in the loft...

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That's a handsome kitchen, it's good to hear you're happy with it! Now the OH and I have found a compromise I daren't lead him back to Ikea - bad karma - but thank you for the info :-)

Thanks for the input! The Ikea furniture in my home office is wearing o.k, but it doesn't get the kind of wear a kitchen will. Running the water pipes along at skirting level is o.k. for incoming, but getting the drain pipes out would mean hacking the cabinets about. The new kitchen is in a...

Does anyone have one of these? How long have you had it? What was it like to fit? How is it wearing? We have a kitchen from a well known builders' merchant/kitchen supplier that's five years old, fitted by them, and falling apart, it's garbage. Think of an outfit that has almost continuous half...

It doesn't stop spam because the spam harvesters read the source code, and your email addy has to be in there, either in plain text or hidden in a script, usually javascript. Script encoding is a bad idea for a business because people who use assistive technologies can't contact you either - ATs...