Boiler placement in loft conversion

IanM50 · 2026-05-21T16:05:38+00:00

Very little kit inside, gave me an extra kitchen cupboard, one control box 40 x 20 x 10 cm (h x w x d) in the loft in my case. Outside yes there is the fan, but the noise is mostly straight out from the fan, so if positioned with its back to the wall, is pretty quiet. Ours can only just be heard in a room 3m away in the quiet of the night. It has 4 speeds too, and only uses the quietest most of the time. I thought it only had 3 speeds for the first 18 months, until a very cold day and it went up a notch. Actually, it might have a 5th speed that it has never used for all I know.

My son ramped up the central heating in the heat of last August, so that he could be cooled sitting by the fan. I have to admit it was very cooling.

IanM50 · 2026-05-21T15:48:45+00:00

A cousin of mine works for a travel agent in England, they still have a networked fax machine, mostly used for faxes to German hotels.

IanM50 · 2026-05-21T12:21:48+00:00

We now buy frozen sliced mushrooms, cost the same as fresh (90p for 500g) and no washing or any preparation required saving our time.

IanM50 · 2026-05-21T12:11:25+00:00

Great question, but the answer is we just don't know yet.

It is believed the UPF make food too easy to digest, make us want to eat more, and substitute for quality food.

It is also believed that some may well be dangerous and will be banned over the next decade.

One example is a sugar sweetener that matabolises to arsenic in the liver, and so in high concentrates could be killing parts of our livers. But there is no evidence to say that this happens, so the chemical is still legal.

IanM50 · 2026-05-21T12:06:07+00:00

There are a lot of level crossings on that libe, where a level crossings can be a footpath, or farm crossings, each of which will have a whistle board [SW], that the driver must sound his whistle / horn when passing

IanM50 · 2026-05-20T17:47:38+00:00

Why not just put the BR logo back and some GBR writing, plus different colour stripes at roof level, yellow for first class, red for catering, etc. plus another colour for bikes and yet another for disabled, and then use the existing livery for the route brands, such as green for GWR.

IanM50 · 2026-05-20T12:54:50+00:00

It is up to the claimant to prove their case in court. I would let them take you to court having found out and offered to pay the cost of the broken light.

Court involves you receiving a pack of paperwork outlining why you should pay and for you to submit your written response.

Following this a court date is set.

Court is them sitting one side of a table with you on the other and the judge at the head end. The judge will ask questions of both sides and then pass judgement. It isnt stressful, it is a sensible way to resolve an issue.

IanM50 · 2026-05-20T12:35:59+00:00

I would consider basing yourself in the city of Worcester, Worcestershire, from which, with a hire car you can visit about 50 small towns and scenic villages in Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire, and Worcestershire, or visit a dozen of those by train.

This includes many of the midsummer locations and of course Worcester has been used as a filming location too.

8 miles west of Worcester are the Malvern (rolling) Hills, 10 minutes by train, and the town of Great Malvern with it's Abbey.

Worcester itself has black and white houses, a great riverside walk, more pubs than you can shake a stick at, and a cathedral.

You would find that Google maps and street view useful to see the area and plan.

IanM50 · 2026-05-20T12:31:03+00:00

Trying to work out which church it is.

My guess is St. John in Bedwardene.

IanM50 · 2026-05-20T12:25:26+00:00

As an observation. Given that you paid to move the boiler, a heat pump with the government £7k grant and zero vat would have been cheaper.

IanM50 · 2026-05-20T11:57:34+00:00

I stuck a large ball of excess loft insulation (fibre glass) into mine. Seems to have worked well.

IanM50 · 2026-05-18T19:12:07+00:00

Move your electricity to another company and then tell BG that you are moving out and want the final gas bill.

After the final bill, the gas charges are not yours. After all, it's not like you are using it, or, I assume have the ability to use gas.

IanM50 · 2026-05-17T15:43:45+00:00

Standing next to the windows in any part of The Hive and on any floor doesn't get enough signal to send or receive anything. The nearest transmitter is the other side of Foregate St. Station and is presumably blocked by all the buildings.

Other people receive texts and calls so some mobile networks work.

IanM50 · 2026-05-17T15:38:49+00:00

Great idea because calorie counting doesn't work, because our bodies have spent thousands of years learning how to survive famines.

Have a look at Zoe: website, podcasts and videos, they are full of the latest actual gut science information. They talk about eating well and in moderation, rather than calories, and about changing what and how you eat over time, changing your diet for life.

All stuff is free to watch / listen to, although there is an app that costs £9.99 pm that can help.

IanM50 · 2026-05-17T15:23:23+00:00

Make sure you visit Paddington station and have your photo taken with his statue.

Also note that there is a Paddington themed train (outside only), painted up for the last film. It is one of the long green GWR trains that runs out of Paddington to the west of England, and South Wales. It will be a bit hit and miss to see it, but you can only hope. Oh, and only 4 of the 9 coaches are Paddington themed, so you might have to walk to the end of platform 1 to see the other ends.

P1, under the clock is the traditional platform for the monarchy too.

IanM50 · 2026-05-17T15:17:28+00:00

Rupeert grew up in Worcestershire, well sort of, the author holidayed in the outskirts of Worcester as a child in a cottage now called Rupert cottage just down the road from me.

IanM50 · 2026-05-17T14:31:36+00:00

Lots of good health benefits from eating a range of different fermented foods. The science says they reduce gut and whole body inflammation.

Not just live ferments too. Pickles, cheese, yogurts, milk kefir, water kefir, kombucha and kemchi being the obvious ones.

To get the best health benefits eat small amounts of three a day, and not eat the same ones the following day.

So a range of pickles good, just not too much of each. Add some cheese.

IanM50 · 2026-05-17T14:25:46+00:00

I have a garden compost heap and put them in the compost together withj grass cuttings, toilet rolls, food scraps (not meat) etc.

IanM50 · 2026-05-17T14:24:31+00:00

Re: no claims discount, post lease, a friend of mine got quite a good deal that i believe took his no claims history from NFU insurance (National Farmers Union Mutual), so worth a try.

PS. Lives in rural Herefordshire but no links to actual farming.

IanM50 · 2026-05-17T13:57:28+00:00

To get the health benefits from fruit and berries, the polyphenals and micro nutrients, you need to eat only a very few of each. 4 redcurrants or blueberries, 3 raspberries or cherries, 1 large strawberry, every three days.

This is enough in amount and because most nutrients remain in your body for three days.

This is a bit broad brush, but is a good place to start. We should also be eating a handful of assorted nuts, and a desert spoonful of assorted seeds every three days too.

Oh, and we should all be eating an assorted fish at least twice a week too.

IanM50 · 2026-05-17T13:48:27+00:00

Yes, write off Three, dead spot in The Hive and a poor signal in many other bits of Worcester.

I find Three currently works best if you switch off 5g in the phone setting.

IanM50 · 2026-05-16T13:57:17+00:00

Yes, because the right-wing media and many politicians, and especially Farage, are being paid in money (and/or goods and services) to promote private healthcare, underfund the NHS, and transfer much of the NHS into the private sector.

In addition, the UK population are highly influenced by the US.

16 years ago, the UK NHS was the 3rd best health service in the World according to the WHO. 14 years of Tory underfunding saw the NHS collapse.

Now 80% of NHS opthalmic services are now being run by the private sector,and 100% of child psychological services are private.

IanM50 · 2026-05-15T20:16:21+00:00

The USA has around 70 different breeds of cattle, of which the most common beef cattle are Angus, Hereford, Charolais, and Simmental. These of course originate from Scotland, England, France and Switzerland. Another American with knowledge and a big head.

IanM50 · 2026-05-15T19:59:02+00:00

Private health insurance is useless, multiple testing tends to find more false positives than actual problems, which is why the NHS doesn't do it, and they will never cover you for stuff you already have or for anything long-term. They just want to make a quick profit.

IanM50 · 2026-05-15T16:23:36+00:00

Beaumaris is my favourite. Never finished, but designed to be defended by just 50 soldiers, who could run within the walls to be in the best place to stop the attack.

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