Recent content by Harry Bloomfield

My daytime load is around 100 to 300watts, and so a 800w panel should match it, during daylight, but would it be worth it?

Any odd-job type of person ought to be able to tackle it, or have a go at DIY. It's fine here.

You fit them, with the item you are fitting it to, full open/extended. Struts are specified by the unextended length, extended length, and their pressure Newtons.

As a mere mortal, I will continue to put my faith in inhibitor. It has kept my system free of rust, blocked pipes and radiators, for 40 years.

Did you employ someone to come out and do this, if so it's a rather strange response to suggest that they advised 'you to find out where the fault was'?

It looks to be fairly accurate, and these systems might be something I might consider investing in, once I have done the calcs - I've avoided the roof type so far, because I'm not convinced by the idea they would be worth my while, on the roof, they would be out of my direct control to maintain...

Yet another glass shattered, due to differential expansion. These are the tall, plain, cheap drinking glasses. I went through a period, of managing to break several of them. They break cleanly, down at the base, leaving a base, and a glass tube. Av has just managed to break one, in the process...

A simple slip on the keyboard, now corrected!

The good old days! I would walk/hitch all the way from Yorkshire, down and back to Cornwall, I would usually manage it within 30 hours, with a heavy rucksack on my back. My father was on trawlers during the war, mine sweeping.

Yes, it will take some time to mix in the system if you just pour it in the tank, but it will get there. Better though, if you can drop the level a bit first, before adding it, by bleeding water from a radiator, after turning the mains water off, or holding/tieing up the float arm. Even easier...

Inhibitor can be added at a radiator, but quicker/easier to simply add to the loft tank, before the water is turn back on to refill the system. If you have doubts, it's cheaper to simply buy a bottle of inhibitor, and add it, than to test with a kit. Having double the amount in, is not a problem.

Or, maybe not. Some people just cannot be got through to.

Pork chop, apple sauce, green beans, and baby potatoes, with Eton mess, for afters. Smoked haddock, green beans, and more baby potatoes lined up for tomorrow's dinner.

Not if it has value, if it is done just to make an attempt at a free advert, then that is not permitted here.

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