We found the same thing last year as regards the boiler. I really tried to get solar panels a few years ago but it was too complicated, and now it's not worth it financially even though the cost has come down.
On heating, there have to be some alternatives viable to all before they stop us using gas. Top potentials last time I looked at it were either electric heating, or converting the gas network to distribute hydrogen instead. Somethings got to change, that’s for sure. And it’s something we will have to work out ourselves, as no one else relies on gas heating like the UK does (apart from bits of Holland).
We escaped the frost here this morning. But some of my plants are looking very tatty after the onslaught of sub zero night time temperatures for the last fortnight. And don’t get me started on the drought ☹️
Spent a happy day yesterday working in the Glasshouses. Clearing salad crops for a new display of basil (yum 😋) and thinning out tiny weeny nectarine babies so they were a fist apart from their neighbours 🍑 👊🏻 . Painstaking but very absorbing work 😀😀
@raisingirl is probably more up to date than me @punkdoc . But the ground source ones are ok if you have lots of land, the air source ones more widely suitable. Trouble is they can’t power the sort of heating systems (water running round pipes and radiators) that most of us have. Far better suited to underfloor heating, and better left on all the time so you don’t have to go from cold to hot quickly. So in most cases, they can’t be retrofitted to an existing heating system, making conversion a costly and disruptive business. Hence the appeal of repurposing the gas network to run on hydrogen (but I would say that, wouldn’t I 😉😉)
I recently spoke to a local lady out at work all day in fact long hours 2 jobs electric boiler,she pays a lot more than we do for gas and electricity combination and we are home, not out at work.I did get quotes for solar,was way out of our price and would take 15 years to pay for itself.
All this talk of heating and Bojo and his fellow clowns have scrapped feed in tariffs so the bottom has fallen out of the market for PV panels. Obviously they think it's ok for us to buy panels, generate electricity and the DONATE surplus to the Grid so someone else can profit from it. Carbon Neutral goals Bojo? really? How we laugh.
Hi all, hope you are all ok and sending hugs to those that need it
Question for you all. Currently in my nice new greenhouse I have got all of my annuals growing, lots of zinnias, sweet peas, sunflowers and borage etc... Once they are all planted out in may/june what do people grow in there over the summer? Is there something people would recommend? It's not big enough for grow bags for a tomato or anything so some inspiration would be helpful?
Hello all, late on parade today. Woke up at 7.15 am thought, oh no, far too early to get up, rolled over and next awoke at 10.15 am! Had a disturbed night again so really must have needed the extra sleep. OH getting up in the early hours to try to watch the meteorite shower didn't help. I'm not worrying over the replacement of all our gas central heating systems, it's not going to happen in my view, or at least not in my lifetime. The politicians are just making noises as usual. My niece has a groundheat exchange system in her large modern house, it has to have it's own control system in a large cellar room and looks like an enormous industrial factory set up. Her father (my brother) who looks after the house when she's away, had to have a special instruction lesson in person by the installers so he would know how to work it. I just can't see that happening throughout the country and especially not in newbuild small houses. I understand air heat systems are incredibly noisy as well. We'll probably have our gas boiler replaced during the next five years then hopefully we'll be exempt. We got in early on the solar panels and they still give us a good return. As for changing over to electricity, the supply just won't be there either, we need a lot more nuclear power stations before that happens. The politicians are just thinking short term as usual and are grandstanding as par for the course. it won't matter which party is in power, the result will be the same. Zero targets are just not going to happen.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We escaped the frost here this morning. But some of my plants are looking very tatty after the onslaught of sub zero night time temperatures for the last fortnight. And don’t get me started on the drought ☹️
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Obviously they think it's ok for us to buy panels, generate electricity and the DONATE surplus to the Grid so someone else can profit from it.
Carbon Neutral goals Bojo? really? How we laugh.
Question for you all. Currently in my nice new greenhouse
I'm not worrying over the replacement of all our gas central heating systems, it's not going to happen in my view, or at least not in my lifetime. The politicians are just making noises as usual. My niece has a groundheat exchange system in her large modern house, it has to have it's own control system in a large cellar room and looks like an enormous industrial factory set up. Her father (my brother) who looks after the house when she's away, had to have a special instruction lesson in person by the installers so he would know how to work it. I just can't see that happening throughout the country and especially not in newbuild small houses. I understand air heat systems are incredibly noisy as well.
We'll probably have our gas boiler replaced during the next five years then hopefully we'll be exempt. We got in early on the solar panels and they still give us a good return.
As for changing over to electricity, the supply just won't be there either, we need a lot more nuclear power stations before that happens. The politicians are just thinking short term as usual and are grandstanding as par for the course. it won't matter which party is in power, the result will be the same. Zero targets are just not going to happen.