The Year Of The Fox

Yeah, they’re talking sense! Our jobs shite! Roll on retirement 😂

I’m a plumbing and heating engineer yes You had a one pipe system basically. Commiserate yourself in the knowledge that if you’d left those pipes under there and at any time now or in the future had decided to pressurise your heating system a leak could’ve sprung at any point, which would’ve meant you’d have 0 hot water or heating and you’d be chopping up floors, tiles, whatever in order to find and repair the leak. A few years ago I had to go to my Uncles and chop up a bit of their screed to cap off their gas pipe to an old gas fire. Cutting a long story short, in doing that I’d disturbed the old copper joint further back in the lounge. My point being, old copper is very susceptible to springing a leak. Best to do it now whilst your house is a building site 👍🏻

Sounds like you need a round of golf mate Are the plumbers digging up the screeded floors then?

Will do a lot to deter illegal immigration too

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15224639/Manhunt-Epping-hotel-migrant-sex-attacker-accidentally-freed-prison.html Oh good

Fully caught up on this now They should’ve opened the stadium and charge the fans a couple of quid to come and help Hoping they get a sell out tomorrow to start raising money for the club 🙏

Yes, maybe not within 12 months. More like 24

Don’t understand this- who’s ripping them out then? The fans? Disgruntled employees now free of their awful boss?

The one I’m in is across the 4 English divisions

Debating between Millwall, Chelsea or Man City in mine

It’s not going to happen though KPFC under Top would absolutely hate having someone hold them to account.

Contemplating having Milwall on my Last Man Standing. It’s the latter stages of that competition too. Says it all

Are we sure? I’m not 😅

Is it foresight or is it being flash? Or both? You could buy a very good second hand diesel car for £10k and it’d last you ten years. Imagine how many years gas and electricity you could pay for with the other £100k! Speaking of Tesla’s- how much ‘carbon footprint’ is taken up by recycling/disposing of their batteries?

Both governments have led us blindly through this last 6-7 years in terms of committing to things that are completely unobtainable. Traditionally a Tory voter, my Tory hater mates were well up for Boris’ committal to eradicating gas fired boilers by 2030 whereas I was outraged. I was dreading a Labour government, my mates were not, (I’m not enjoying it now either) but it was right for Starmer to push that deadline back almost as soon as he came into power. Each energy company, and boiler manufacturer are being given quotas of ASHP or GSHPs they need to sell annually. All are failing miserably. The last time I heard, hydrogen fired boilers were being looked at, where it’s almost (I think) like converting a natural gas appliance to LPG- it can be done fairly easily and is more cost effective. I think though there are doubts as to how successful they’d be. @splinterdream is bang on. Governments are making promises, acts, laws that are impossible to keep, scientifically and financially. Yet people are falling over themselves to do it, because it’s what the government are telling us to do.

The reality of the situation with air source heat pumps is; New build (5-15 year old houses) ARE sufficiently insulated to accommodate above. What these houses don’t have are walls large enough to site the radiator sizes required. Subsequently the existing radiators aren’t large enough for this kind of system. Neither is the 10mm pipework currently behind your plasterboard supplying each of the radiators Old houses tend to have all the above concerning rads, pipes, walls etc, but are nowhere near sufficiently insulated enough When my boiler goes pop, I can pick up another for £800, stick it in and carry on heating and powering my home for £80 PCM. If someone wants to supply and fit me an ASHP for less than that, and cover the cost of hiding 15 and 22mm pipework dropping down the walls to massive rads, AND redecorate for me, AND you can absolutely assure me I’ll be as warm in 15 mins as I would be if I stuck the heating on now, then I promise you I’ll rip the boiler out tomorrow

I don’t like your WWII comparison to be honest. The threat there was most definitely man made, and there WAS no alternative. Let’s not bracket those who are feeling flush and want to chuck money into a black hole with people who sacrificed their lives for man kind. I mean, even if this IS more than the planets natural ‘cycle’ the climate changing is not half as much as an immediate threat as the Nazis were in 1940. I’m not anti establishment or anti authoritarian by any means, but I’ll be fcuked if I’m putting £15k+ of my hard earned cash into an alternative method of heating my already perfectly functioning heated home. Just because the government tell me to. The council tell me to recycle, but won’t take out a stray fag packet thrown in the glass collection box by a passer by, so refuse to take the stuff I’m trying to recycle. It comes from the top. Don’t fly out 154 delegates for COP 26 on a bloody plane if you want to set an example of becoming ‘carbon neutral’ No doubt this will cause much derision in here, and I’m not particularly trying to create it either. I’m just pointing out that for every one person who’s well into the trendy ‘nett zero’ phrase, there’s another who simply wants to do whatever’s cheapest and most financially economical.

I have a feeling the majority are up for this zero carbon crap until it involves them putting their hands in their pocket to make the changes to their own home or car purchase I mean, I’ve got a gas fired boiler at home. Haven’t even so much as serviced it in the 12 years it’s been installed. I open a tap, my hot water works. I’m cold- I put the CH on. It’s easy Why on earth do rich people think I’m going to say to myself ‘oh I really don’t like my carbon footprint. I must do something about it’ Call up Eon and be told it’s going to cost me £15k for an air source heat pump, plus more to upgrade the heating system and pipework etc. Then extra on top to redecorate, which would be necessary. And not that you’d be told this, but knowing the probability that it won’t really work as well as a gas fired boiler either Whoever compared it all to what happened in Covid is absolutely bang on. There is no other narrative. The government and BBC have told us, and once again, sheep are following. At least following verbally, but not going as far as my example above.

Kinky

Not sure what you mean. I was on the road for 0600 today.

Probably started work whilst you were still cuddling your teddy mate

Not sure what’d be harder to get tickets for. An evening with Sir Nige or Oasis.

Agreed. But it’s not because they’ve won something that’s the reason the club should be tapping into them. It’s because they played for a guy who personified Leicester City and who fostered a team spirit we’re so badly lacking at the moment

Just wondering how many goals World Class One Foot Phil scored tonight? What about Rashford? Goodnight

Nothing surprises me