| zxmpi_ | with the king having his own line of biscuits i wonder if they'll be getting more attention | 06:02 |
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| * penguin42 is in the midst of trying to convince an electrician to fit a new consumer board with RCBOs; I've had to learn too much | 12:49 | |
| daftykins | penguin42: what's causing the change, do you have an old thing atm? i've still got a porcelain fuse wire Wylex xD | 19:55 |
| daftykins | also wooden backboard which i understand is against regs now | 19:56 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: Right that sounds like what we have, we decided it was about time to get the fuse board itself changed | 19:58 |
| daftykins | ah ha, if natural gas prices go nuts i may be better off with a heat pump which could require a switch | 20:00 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: Hmm you say that, but the elec/gas price ratio is still very high | 20:02 |
| daftykins | electric hasn't been so bad here, not sure how it compares to England | 20:04 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: I think it was something like 28p/kWh elec, 7p gas | 20:08 |
| penguin42 | that was due to go upto 50/15 but they've introduced a new as-yet-unspecified cap | 20:08 |
| daftykins | D: | 20:09 |
| daftykins | yeah that's ouch, in fact i have a bill here somewhere | 20:09 |
| daftykins | normal rate was about 19 to 21p, low was maybe 13 but i forget | 20:10 |
| daftykins | (load balancing cheap rate time system) | 20:10 |
| penguin42 | but the heat pump stuff, only had a power advantage of something like 3, so if your elec is more than 3x as expensive, I'm not sure it helps, even if you had a house insulated enough to cope with it's lower temperatures | 20:11 |
| daftykins | it's certainly got a fair amount of room for improvement on the insulation front due to the numerous single glazed windows and listed-building status | 20:12 |
| penguin42 | the prob is that most of the heat pumps dont get the heating water that hot | 20:13 |
| daftykins | ah that wouldn't be great, my shower runs off the gas boiler | 20:13 |
| penguin42 | there are some that can get it hotter, but they're even less efficient | 20:14 |
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