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Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2023 6:56 am
by weeksy
Croissant and coffee in the garden this morning while waiting for the world to wake up. Some of you lazy buggers who stay in bed don't know what you're missing
Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2023 8:03 am
by Count Steer
v8-powered wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 2:20 pm
Pool heat pump finally commissioned, time to get that water warm!
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When I scroll the page it looks like the fan is rotating.
I know, I know, small things please.....
Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2023 8:26 am
by Trinity765
Toasted brioche and single origin Ethiopian coffee, cool, fresh air and thinking about routes for the Picos and Pyrenees.
Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2023 8:42 am
by v8-powered
Taipan wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 2:25 am
v8-powered wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 2:20 pm
Pool heat pump finally commissioned, time to get that water warm!
20230526_141411.jpg
Awesome. I said that but I don't actually know the who, what and how?
Air source heat pump - works like an AC unit in reverse, magically pulls heat from the air
Count Steer wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 8:03 am
v8-powered wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 2:20 pm
Pool heat pump finally commissioned, time to get that water warm!
20230526_141411.jpg
When I scroll the page it looks like the fan is rotating.
I know, I know, small things please.....
It does, some more magic!
Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2023 8:44 am
by Mr. Dazzle
Next stop, work out how to make it do AC for your house.
Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2023 9:02 am
by v8-powered
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 8:44 am
Next stop, work out how to make it do AC for your house.
Sure there must be a way but doubt I'll find out as it has a full time job already. Certainly won't mention it to the wife or will turn in to my next project!
Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2023 9:13 am
by Mr. Dazzle
Presumably it blows - very slightly - colder air out than it sucks in?
Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2023 9:20 am
by Mussels
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 8:44 am
Next stop, work out how to make it do AC for your house.
I looked at that when I had a pool and couldn't find any instances of it being done. In the end I noticed that when it's warm enough to want AC on in the house then it's warm enough that you dont want any extra heating in the pool.
Heating a pool on mild days is probably a sweet spot of efficiency, better than heating a house in winter or cooling it in summer. It's still not cheap and I went down the solar collector route instead, good but the pool wouldn't be ready for morning swims.
Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2023 9:41 am
by v8-powered
Mussels wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 9:20 am
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 8:44 am
Next stop, work out how to make it do AC for your house.
I looked at that when I had a pool and couldn't find any instances of it being done. In the end I noticed that when it's warm enough to want AC on in the house then it's warm enough that you dont want any extra heating in the pool.
Heating a pool on mild days is probably a sweet spot of efficiency, better than heating a house in winter or cooling it in summer. It's still not cheap and I went down the solar collector route instead, good but the pool wouldn't be ready for morning swims.
I tried for solar thermal but absolutely none of the installers were interested. Was basically told that everyone is jumping on the solar PV bandwagon and they could pick and choose the profitable jobs.
Quite impressed with the ASHP so far, seeing an inlet to outlet differential of 2 degrees at the moment and is pushing the pool temp up pretty quickly - wait to see energy consumption though but would hazard a guess will be cheaper than the £150 a week in gas!
Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2023 9:47 am
by Mr. Dazzle
ASHP in general is a really good energy saving idea IMO. GSHP too.
Homes do need to be built with it in mind from the ground up though. One of my colleagues has a full on "eco house" with GSHP, turf on the roof and every fink, he only uses gas right in the depths of winter when it's well below zero.
Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2023 1:07 pm
by gremlin
Count Steer wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 6:51 am
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 10:19 pm
Fresh British asparagus on the BBQ on a sunny Bank Holiday Friday.
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Asparagus piss smell
Apparently that smell only happens with men, how weird is that?
Mrs Gremlin's bladder clearly didn't get the memo on that one.
Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2023 1:29 pm
by Count Steer
gremlin wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 1:07 pm
Count Steer wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 6:51 am
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 10:19 pm
Fresh British asparagus on the BBQ on a sunny Bank Holiday Friday.
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Asparagus piss smell
Apparently that smell only happens with men, how weird is that?
Mrs Gremlin's bladder clearly didn't get the memo on that one.
Looks like it might be baloney anyway. It seems 50% of people don't and it's genetic but I haven't found anything to support that the 50% are women. (Some people can't smell it either
...which is worrying as the pong is a mercaptan and that's what they use to odourise natural gas.
)
Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2023 1:30 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
It never used to happen to me either.
Must be a sign of middle age.
Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2023 3:32 pm
by gremlin
I've only got to look at asparagus and my piss smells like I've got the urinary tract infection from hell.
Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2023 8:57 pm
by Pirahna
Not happy but funny.
Just been to visit my sister in East Dulwich (London). There's an e bike and scooter rental company called Lime and the bikes are discarded everywhere. Some of the side streets are like a slalom course for cars, the bikes are left sideways across pavements, the local youth have worked out you can move them downhill with a loud clack clack clack, I found the whole thing as funny as fuck.
Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.
Posted: Sun May 28, 2023 5:31 pm
by weeksy
Gerraint Thomas leading out Cav to then go on and win in Rome!
Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.
Posted: Mon May 29, 2023 6:27 am
by Noggin
Just walked along some corridors in the hospital with the crutch as decoration/balance! And went and sneakily tried some stairs (was told yesterday I’m no allowed to do that on my own and the nurses aren’t allowed to go with me
)
Happy smiley me now cos I’m very happy to go home later as, whilst achy, I’m not in pain now
Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.
Posted: Mon May 29, 2023 3:05 pm
by Bigjawa
My eldest turned 28 yesterday, we've had our ups and downs but he's a good lad deep down.
Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.
Posted: Mon May 29, 2023 10:42 pm
by gremlin
Nice photos. Be proud.
Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.
Posted: Tue May 30, 2023 6:52 am
by Treadeager
Became a Great Grandad yesterday ! No pics yet as Grandaughter hasn't even announced his arrival to the wider family .
( and no ! I'm not the oldest ol' git on the forum ! )