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Hi, Leak at the back of the washing machine made its way straight to the neighbor below without me noticing. So now I wanted to put it on a vinyl in such a way that in case it happens again the water would travel to the front giving me a chance to spot the problem before neigbhours do! So I...

This is about a holiday house abroad that is visitited rarely. Upon arriving weeds are up to 2 meters tall. As the house is visited rarely and the amount of land is huge just cutting it or spraying several times per year is not practical. Are there any solutions that will offer a...

Very useful and quite counter-intuitive for some "forum resient physicists" - orgi registered or not. The interesting thing is that at low level it is the opposite corner that is the warmest which tells you a lot about covection currents in the room. Most O-Level passed-or-failed no...

WRONG!!! WRONG!!! WRONG!!! Radiation apart, simple heat transfer through surface is generally proprtional to tempreture diffrence betwen the two sides of the surface. If radiators are on internal walls tempreture on the inside pane of the window is about 20C. Suppose the tempreture...

Which clarifies why you are so much all for under-window radiators.

Talking about yourself aren't you? Envious about my huge house on a huge plot of land heated by very inefficient but extremely reliable 1950s boiler with pipes to radiators two inch thick - so never any blockages, no pumps no anything pure convection with boiler actually in the guest house...

And it looks like you have nowhere I could advise you to bog off because it is your advice that is stupid. And physics - what would you know about it? Little knowledge that you think you have gained through O'Levels might do you more harm then good. If you can produce a fluid dynamics / heat...

Oh really? I would think it has to do more with the fact that feet being less critical part of the body gets it's blood supply restricted when you are in a cold room. Of cause it does not but you will pay through the nose as most energy will escape straight away due to temperature between...

I do not spend money on premium rate and that includes those fraudulent premium rate numbers such as 0870, 0845 etc. My holiday home in Eastern Europe consumes about 4000 cubic meters per year yet the annual bill is around 500. So that's just over 1p per kWh. There is a very good cause to...

This is exactly what happens. Price per 1000 cubic meters in the UK is about $1100 while Russia charge about a third of that (and I am not talking about internal Russian charges that a less then twentieth of that. So yes with those prices it make perfect sense to have 50 year old boilers that...

Heat installer owes a duty of care to the customer and that involves enquiring about / predicting at least the most common usage scenarios - and yes that does include long curtains not the ugly short ones. Now if gas was too cheap to meter (as it onc ws bu not in the UK) I would definitely...

Well may be you can't argue with that - but even the fact that it implies that tempreture has to be as low as 19C for discomfort to start is already laugphable - most people need +22C for comfort. Placing near windows might (or might not) give more even tempreture in the room but it WILL give...

Also woud thre be any grants available (ovccupiers are not on benefits but OAP)?

Hi The house is three bedroom with three medium size radiators downstairs, one very small upstairs and tower rail. No radiators in bedrooms. The house is quite warm unless the whether is very cold but even now when it is just +3 outside it is +20 in the bedroom. Radiator temperature is...

Hi I built a retaining wall with dense foundation blocks like the ones in the link below ----> http://www.building-supplies-online.co.uk/concrete-hollow-block-tarmac-topcrete-dense-116-p.asp They were put without foundation on freshly filled topsoil which was compacted very vigorously by...

Hi I would like a very easy to maintain 2.5-4m, probably evergreen, hedge. Ideally the plant should grow very quickly to about 3m and the stop so that it never grows above 4m even if not cut. So ideally I would like something that while will screen the neighbhours off quickly will not go...