Recent content by Artiglio

It’ll be interesting to see what happens when all the subsidy backed generation comes to the end of its payment contracts, will the generators be expected to carry on in the real world or will the nation be blackmailed by producers who say they’ll stop energy production unless they get another...

Just as the requirements for energy conservation have changed over the years so have the regs in respect of acoustic insulation and the passage of sound ( my first house , 1900 two up two down) the neighbour had a rotary dial phone on the party wall, you could clearly hear when they were...

I’d assume because its a patented process and so the chance of competition is pretty small. Not sure how long its been about, but if its claimed properties are verified over time it pretty much becomes a one off purchase, looked after its likely to last a long long time. I’ve no idea on the eco...

My father was a carpenter joiner all his life , started when he 14 in 1950, for a while he had a joinery shop with a couple of older joiners working for him. Opinions varied but common threads were, People forget about the old timber that rotted and was replaced ( Little Ron, spent his...

As above , is it something that absolutely must be done? Some will never come out without trashing the tank. If it has to be done, make sure you start early and know that all the bits you need for replacement are available asap.

I bought a 20 year old Omega Seamaster 14 years ago, I’d always liked them. Been worn just about everyday since, has cost more in servicing and repairs than I paid for it. Crystal must be made from “indestructiblonium“ the metal work is scratched bashed and very much worse for wear, but its a...

I bought a makita belt about 20 years ago, in that time its had occasional but steady use.No complaints, i chose it at the time as they were the only range that i could get ordered locally that did a left handed drill /driver holster.

We live in an odd world, there will be millions of people fixated on dieing from covid when the chances of them actually doing so are statistically tiny, yet those self same people will be making many other choices that will have much greater life limiting effects on them, (including increasing...

Everyone has their favourite , but if you do go for a new boiler a Main /Baxi is worth looking at. Pay for the premium version and you get a longer warranty , make sure its fitted with a magnetic filter, water conditioner ( does nothing really) and run the condensate drain internally if at...

From my diving days two phrases that endured ”if you can’t tie knots, tie lots” whats that- its a double overhand (insert name of creator) with complications. Both usually used when something was recovered to the surface.

A popular auction site has a never ending stream of felder machines being advertised in an area of scotland each time by a new seller. Quite how they get away with the listings is beyond me.

Do you honestly believe they’ll be allowed to mature and be carefully managed for 200 years ?at which point they’ll still not be a a real replacement for whats lost, not to mention the wildlife that has lost its environment. I’d rather have seen HS2 purchasing equivalent areas of similar...

I worked in brazil around 2000 , get talking to the locals and refer to conservation of the rain forests and in just about every case you’d be told that coming from a country that used all its old growth forests to build ships with which to invade the world gave me me no right to talk about the...

Julianf The railway system is probably not a good example when it comes to costs and privatisation, to some extent its a victim of its own success, but to increase capacity on lines with the demand is nigh on impossible in any practical manner ( we’d effectively have to build other lines...

In some ways it was worse when we had british rail, to keep suppliers going there were sytems where contracts were handed out on either “competitive“ or “allocated” basis , not surprisingly the allocated comtracts generally ran up bigger bills which in turn were used to justify the prices in...