Owning your own home

With the current gas price?

My electricity is 4x the price of my gas rate.

9 litres per minutes on a running tap.

The other thing with bucket that I have used in the past, they do get dirtier the more you wash vs. dishwasher, in a small flat where we can’t have two bucket for dirty and clean water.

I honestly don’t get the hate for dishwasher, moreso when it use very hot water that would send us to hospital.

Family of 2 has 20 sets of place settings?

On this chat, I've always been curious whether the 30 minute cycles on things like washing machines and dishwashers use less water and power than the eco mode which always takes about 3 hours

Good lord that is dreadful. Anything interesting under that carpet?

Just replaced a Hotpoint washer-dryer after 9 years hard service, about 3 more than usual

What a dredge! I’m assuming some decent wide boards based on what the neighbours have got, but if we revealed them I’d want to insulate under and that’s more job than I can face right now. Instead we continue to live in misery.

Yeah fair point, but could do if you eat from a mix of bowls / plates / dishes

What does it do instead? Nothing?

Our kitchen literally doesn't have space for a dishwasher, I brought Miele up on their 'every kitchen has space for a miele dishwasher' campaign, alass no free dishwasher for us.

Many mates/family come round for dinner, always with the 'we'll do the dish's, usually results in about every third plate gaining a new chip, few broken glasses and none of the cutlery being cleaned. All of these folk have dishwashers and seem to have forgotten how to clean anything.

Old machines from the 70s' and 80's, yeah fair enough, they use a tonne of water and a tonne of electric, anything this side of about 2000 is pretty efficient on both*

*Live in Scotland, and would prefer it if appliances used more water (especially washing machine) as they often are designed to use the least possible, means you end up with cloths that aren't that well rinsed. The cycles take longer too, more soaking/steeping in small amount of warm water, than flushed with lots of hotter water, so by the time you've got a machine to do a proper pre wash and then an 'extra' rinse its upto 4 hours.

Has the concensus turned on cavity wall insulation? I.e. is it seen as a bad thing now? Our 1970 mid-terrace, on the face of it, would be an ideal candidate.

Also, does it get blown in at every level or can you just drill holes in the part wall of the attic and start filling? I just had the house plastered so dont really wanted start ruining nice fresh walls.

Also, does it get blown in at every level or can you just drill holes in the part wall of the attic and start filling? I just had the house plastered so don't really wanted start ruining nice fresh walls.

I think they do it from outside, no? Or did you have the outside of your house plastered too?

mid-terrace

^ I, perhaps wrongly, assumed you had to do it along with width of the walls, not just the short bit accessable from the front and back.

Presumably your neighbours heat their houses? I would imagine most of the heat loss is to the outside world. Does the dividing internal wall even have a cavity?

I'm actually thinking for sound rather than heat

Does the dividing internal wall even have a cavity?

Do you think I'd ask if it didn't?

I'm actually thinking for sound rather than heat

Ah OK. No experience wrt sound reduction rather than thermal insulation objectives so will pipe down. We had it done in a previous house and the party wall was solid, hence my comment.

if you're using foam, make sure you use Icynene. Most foams will mould because they attract moisture and insulation tends to reduce a building's breathability. Icynene doesn't have these problems.

Overall though if you're insulating your house to any significant degree you need to consider ventilation at the same time. They need to go hand in hand.

only front and back, usually. People don't often insulate party walls in a terrace

For sound insulation I think you want air gaps thermal insulation might make it worse. There are acoustic engineers who can advise.

The organ from that house in Bristol got sold to this guy on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PwwRR8deHk

He doesn't know what he is doing!

Have a mate who bought a similar pipe organ about 5 years ago and has done precisely fuck all with it since, LMNC is the exact right guy for the task, ADHD enough to take on mad projects, engineering brain enough to actually finish them.

External wall insulation is where its at these days. Several 60's/70's ex council houses on our street now have it, if done well you can barely even tell its there, coupled with 50-100mm PIR on inside + correct use of vapour barriers + correct use of vents = a considerably easier to heat property. Side win, also keeps bugs out.

I'm a big fan of LMNC, need to get to Margate.

Prefer hygroscopic material to PIR tho! Like woodfibre.