Good Morning Thread - Come say good morning, tell us what you've got on today. :)

We have this thread on TilersForums.com and it's just been restarted because the old thread had 20,000 replies and 500,000 views. And there were 700 pages. Started to lag a bit on slow connections.

I think we had a bash of this before, but I can't find the thread, so thought I'd start another one off.

If you have time in the mornings, come post in the thread before you head off to work, let us know what you've got on and what the weather is like in your area etc. Anything at all is fine. :)

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So GOOOD MORNING PEOPLE - WEATHER IS NICE TODAY IN STOKE. I'M THANKFUL IT'S FRIDAY, HAD A RUBBISH WEEK. THANK GOD IT'S OVER.

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pirate said:
not easy to get unless you order online.
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About 40% of a dairy lea should suffice in a pie emergency according to my reference material:
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Aye, that's a pie!
However...
I also received a Christmas present of 12 pies! Yup...12 of them!
They originated from

Lochinver Larder - Pie shop in the heart of the Scottish Highlands

Our Lochinver pie shop has been baking pies since 1986 and are so popular that they are delivered straight from our larder to yours through Pies by Post Restaurant on NC500 Lochinver restaurants
www.lochinverlarder.com www.lochinverlarder.com
and I have to say they are amazing!
The steak and ale is outstanding, and so filling, the savoury lamb is wonderful and I have still to sample the hagis,neeps and tatties, the poached salmon, the pork, apple and cider, the pork,chorizo and manchego...
Happy days ahead!
 
fuse selection should depend on the cable/flex size. 1.5mm flex deserves a 13A fuse. any protection for rhe appliance itself should be provided within said appliance.
 
Was heading out for a walk today when I met the neighbor outside on the footpath

Says he has a new hob coming Thursday

So i carried on my walk with him and I said I'll call tomorrow

So he said no it's coming Thursday and I realized and said oh ya I'll call Thursday morning to disconnect it before they arrive

He says Christmas day the ring blew and there was a big bang and I said ya there usually is with them

About half a mile later he starts hanging back and talking louder

dawned on me then and I says jeez sorry I thought you were out for a walk too when I met you , no he says I was only calling to your door lol
 
It's my first day back after the hols, it's cold, it's dark and I've got a 210 mile drive to work. It'll probably be cold and dark on the way back home too. I can't wait for summer!
 
Where you heading, @Moley ?

My wife is taking eldest back up to Aberdeen. Too much stuff to go on train…. And she’s staying the night and coming back tomorrow.

I’m taking 2 and 3 to dentist this pm, then onto drop- in to get their second vaccines.

I get all the good jobs…

Will spend tonight dismantling the decos.
 
I was at a power station on the Isle of Grain (its not an island!) In Kent. I'm back up to Scotland in a couple of weeks. Opposite side to you. It's Hunterston this time.
 
Fitted my first integrated cooker hood this morning

Was a little wary and the box came with lots of brackets and bolts and templates and instructions and thankfully I didn't need to use any of them😁😁

Reminds me of my old boss in the US in the computer industry
His first instructions to me were "Never read a manual " 😁😁
 
Boring day for me. Set off from home (S.Wales) around 11am, got to Irvine around 7pm. Up here working until Monday next week and then another little drive, this time to Deeside. I'm hoping to get back home on the 26th.
 
An unusual locking screw arrangement for the top. One for Lucien to look at and comment.

You could sell this to Daz2007- he needs a plug which lives up to its labelled 13A rating.
 
nothing on today, same as the last 6 months. bored shyteless, retirement is pants., but health issues have forced it on me. downt to a bit of fault finding and testing these days.
 
marconi said:
An unusual locking screw arrangement for the top. One for Lucien to look at and comment.

You could sell this to Daz2007- he needs a plug which lives up to its labelled 13A rating.
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I've a feeling that's a rivet on those plugs.
 
I thought he was showing the wood screw securing the top?

Finishing off building my new Greenhouse, Oh what I would give for a flat garden. 🥴
 
brianmoooore said:
It's a rivet holding the appliance side of the fuse holder in place. You can use it to check the fuse. without taking the top off.
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Interesting. Was 99% sure it was a rivet, but never realised you could use it to test the fuse. Nice one.
 
Don't know about you Tel, but I don't seem to have enough time in the day to do all I wont too since I retired, bit cold to work on the Greenhouse today, think I will have a coffee instead. 😂
 
I have started a project to look at expanding the power generated from two systems co-located on one roof. Currently 16 x 300W (6.5kW grid tie inverter) to a business supply and meter and the other 24 x 300W (8kW grid tie inverter) to a home supply and meter - both business and home home connected via the same cable to a pole transformer a few hundred metres away. No battery storage.

Talking with contractor who did install it looks like the roof with the 16 panel array can be increased to 26 panels. Technical and cost study by me into whether to increase smaller array from 16 to 24 and swap 6.5kW inverter for another 8kW inverter (or 26 panels subject to max voltage limit of current brand/model of 8kW inverter) or stick with as it is now and simply add a third solar system of 10 more panels and feed these into a third grid-tied inverter.

Not currently clear whether the expanded PV should feed business which has increased a/c and refrigeration load over summer, or the home which has just acquired a pure electric vehicle - the MG - with EV charger off home meter. Of course could fit second EV charger point on business supply too.


Octopus - current client electricity supplier have some interesting ideas for using EV car battery to store excess energy from PV which can be fed back into grid as and when required which is another interesting thing to study.

I don't know yet whether the MG can feed back the energy in its battery into the grid through its current charging cable/connection. Or which EV vehicles can now or can in the future.
 
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I thought there was a maximum amount of kW you where allowed on a domestic building?
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There may be local planning laws on how many panels. My project is on a farm. The DNO, as part of the application to connect the solar pV to the grid, state the maximum power which can be exported. This can either be set by the maximum power rating of the inverter or by using a higher powered inverter which has the functionality to limit exported power. We use the latter which require a current clamp around one of the meter tails.

The better return on investment is self-consumption (save circa 20p per kWh) rather than export (and be paid 5p per kWh) so sizing the total power of the solar installation and its cost is a key part of the analysis.
 
Thanks for that @marconi a Pal of mine put up solar panels way back when the feed in tarif was first introduced, he still gets the maximum even now, I think it's over 30p per kWh, he has an electric car and a heated swimming pool and gloats that he still gets a cheque from the DNO every year in the region of £1800.00, I say gloat, but perhaps thats me as I missed out when he was telling me about putting them on his roof all those years ago.
 
Quick update:
PCR fine
OP fine
Came home and made more pies
That was Thursday
Mate called round yesterday morning and we had a brandy brekky followed by a nice pub lunch
This morning, watched the Australian Open tennis...and got 3 more emails asking for quotes for smoke alarms to meet new Scottish regs, which I can't do for 4 weeks now, and can't get the units anyway!
Just like buses...
 
what's a PCR? hope its not R for rectum.
 
It was 25 degs in the Greenhouse today, proved all the gas struts work on the new vents and louvres, still have to wire up the socket to get the propagators working, that should be done tomorrow, completed the wiring for the lights,, I can soon start seeding.
 

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