Dimron

That's me sorted😀

I just see it as Darwinism

Thanks for the offer but we're now into the realm of PI insurances and conveyancing. Unless there is a proper disclosure of whatever information that might be available then my house purchase is dead in the water. I think my point is the fitting of an ASHP needs to be very seriously considered, I'm seeing too much publicity around "buy now, save money, the government will pay" but just like the External Wall Insulation schemes I suspect things are being overheated and a lot of unsuited schemes are being installed.

He only went in for a day-op 6 weeks ago... still I've got his porn-stash out of his flat before the family vultures descend. It appears to be pot luck, cancer or Parkinson's...

Don't tempt me... but the gas might be an issue with the eco-warriors on here 😉

The property is set on the high ground about 2 miles inland of Whitby... lovely views this time of year but it'll be effin' freezing in winter. Is freezing of condensate drains an issue? I recall the condensates were a constant headache when combis were first introduced. My problem is I just don't know, the old boy had the kit installed and the family now have probate and are selling up... I have been asking for the documents... design calcs, conformity certification, warranties, maintenance records but these have not materialised and its got to the stage I don't believe they have anything, for all I know it could have been installed by Dave down the pub! This would not happen with a conventional Gas Safe set up and to my Builders/Mechanical eye it just "doesn't look right" but then again, I am no expert. And I don't want to be freezing my nuts off in my retirement home!

It's the Labour MPs in the Home Counties he will need to watch as they will be worried about losing their seats... I note he is citing National Office for Statistics which state that Londoners pay 24k in tax per head but only receive 19k in public services whereas up in Tyneside they pay 13k per head and get back 17k, so in that way the south is subsidising the north... this builds a case for investment into the north, London accounts for over20% of GDP which make us an oddity amongst developed economies

It offers an opportunity to involve local people in political decision making rather than just thinking its just for Londoners, very similar to the Deliberative Democracy model I have been banging on about for years

Good point but my concern is with the actual design and installation of the complete system not the handling of the gas inside the unit. To my eyes the entire set up appears "Heath Robinson" and I'll be living there in the middle of winter, I'll wait and see whet the vendor comes up with but I'm not hopeful

I could but I have promised to expedite my sale, hopefully completing mid August. The only statutory enforcement in installing these things relates to the bloke wiring it into the mains, any other shortfalls will be a matter for Trading Standards. There is an "MCS" scheme which consists of a three day tick box course for plumbers but this is not compulsory, it just entitles them to work on Government grant work.

Interesting stuff coming out of the Burnham camp... slash Whitehall budgets and divert funds to empowered regional mayors to spend on social housing, transport, welfare and education. Going to establish a Northern No 10 office and split the Treasury to establish an economic growth department. Discuss?

At a crossroads I suppose. I let my motorbike go last summer on permanent loan and I don't think I'll be asking for it back. Not flown as pilot in command since last summer when my eyes started gving me gip, missing my usual birthday trip to Glenforsa again this year. Might hang my headset up but then again... wifey tells me she wants me to carry on, it'll be another 2 months at least owing to my eyeballs

I've been looking into ASHPs quite a bit over the past few weeks. We are about to buy a house on the (cold in winter) coast in North Yorkshire with an ASHP but the installation all looks too "mickey mouse" to me. The family now selling their late father's property cannot produce any design, conformity or warranty documents... if it was a "Gas Safe" installed heating system I would have much more confidence... I am worried that there is another Government grant fueled bubble being pumped up here, not dissimilar to the external wall insulation scams that are now blowing up in everyone's faces. I'm probably going to pull out of the purchase if I don't receive proper assurances and warranties... so their late Dad could have devalued their inheritance by installing a poorly designed (if designed at all) heat pump system

We have a very good gas distribution system with adequate heating boilers installed... what can't we simply adapt the system substituting an alternative green hydrogen gas mixture?

Get a Manchester Terrier... best ratter known to man and a bloody good laugh

The White Bear Yard was where we used to dump all the crap at the end of the jobs, pre marina days. Used to have a couple of pints in the Bridge every dinner time when working in head office, glad to hear its still going.

Best memory of Adington in the summer? Upending the office junior from the typing pool in the lunch break near the canal 😀

Thanks for that... the displacement from what I know is the scary bit but I've been dropping into the local pub as our caravan is nearby. Spent a couple of hours at the hospital having the criach with a mate dying from cancer today and I'm off to recover his various personal odds and sods from his flat tomorrow... as you say if we don't do it now we ever will

I was working for Faircloughs (Adlington) in 1976 on the Cardiff North Bypass (now the M4).... we couldn't pour concrete on the bridge decks because of the heat... but I did get to see the Quo at the Castle 😄

I was washing my car and one of the local stop the boats gammons told me I should use the hand wash in town.... "I'd bet this is the first time you've seen somone with an NI number wash a car" I replied, he soon fked off... where else are folk going to buy their Japanese fags, vodka and Class A drugs?

It'll do my head in... the brewery is in sight but there isn't a direct walk, as I said to the missus, we can see the sea but it's a bugger to actually walk to without walking into Whitby first

Starmer made too many promises in opposition and in his manifesto then couldn't deliver owing to his self-imposed fiscal rules. The rules effectively stopped growth so he and Reeves reverted to austerity... "we'll do it when we can afford it". People didn't see the promised progress, just him playing Billy Big Boots on the world stage

Now they have found rotting bodies in the hospital mortuary

We did this to Caen to "liberate" the population. What is the Israeli reasoning?

I can't recall any "similar" conflicts... other than the genocide in Rwanda