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  1. About 5 years ago Uxbridge Boat Centre gave me a tenner off the price of a new 110Ah battery in exchange for the old one.
  2. In all the discussion about toilet types I've never seen any mention of this. I can see the appeal for the squeamish RV user, but it is expensive both to buy and use (one review said €1.75 per flush), and each 'cassette' only has a capacity of 15-17 flushes, so frequent changes needed. And the waste just gets dumped in an ordinary bin, so raises all the same questions as disposal of 'compost' toilet waste. https://dry-flush.com/
  3. And the mobilisation and demobilisation stages of a construction project include the setting up and subsequent removal of the contractors compound(s) (I.e. site offices, plant storage and maintenance facilities, materials storage areas etc) as well things like temporary access roads needed to facilitate the main construction works.
  4. Intermediate gates of staircase locks are no deeper than the bottom gates of single locks of the same depth. The only difference is that you can see the whole gate whereas the lower part of bottom gates is always under water. Tuel Lane and Bath Deep locks both replaced two locks, so are double the rise.
  5. "The intermediate and bottom gates are the tallest in the country". Taller than those at Tuel Lane or Bath Deep Lock?
  6. Those sorts of anachronisms are common in TV and film if you look. The producers just aim to remove the most obvious examples, like covering up modern road markings, or as happened locally when a period TV drama was being filmed, putting up canvas and cardboard 'stone' walls to cover modern railings and building alterations. And in the classic film The Railway Children, the train which is stopped by flags made from Jenny Agutter's petticoat was drawn by a 1930s locomotive, even though the film is set in Edwardian times!
  7. I don't know if this is still the case, but when EPCs were first introduced I read an article by a chap who had renovated an ordinary brick Victorian house to incorporate energy conservation measures which went way beyond what Building Regulations require. He had fitted internal insulation to the solid brick walls, but it was all now covered up with new plaster lining. His complaint was that although all the work done was well documented with photographs etc. the standard EPC methodology couldn't take this into account, and his house was still assessed as if it had the heat loss of normal solid 9" brick walls, and hence the resulting EPC grade didn't reflect its actual energy use. He commented that if EPCs were supposed to encourage energy efficient housing then improvements like his should be recognised in the grading, otherwise the whole process was a waste of time.
  8. But you are not giving us any feedback on the results. So those of us online can't target our advice to address the things that may be happening, and avoid the red herrings. The most likely explanation for water overflowing from the inlet is that the tank is full, but you still haven't told us why you think this isn't the case. Water level indicators can be faulty and a failure of water supply to the taps could be caused by a number of issues.
  9. Have you checked that it's not something as simple as a blown fuse or a fault with the three way selector switch?
  10. You can check the Council Tax band of any property at https://www.gov.uk/council-tax-bands
  11. A heat pump typically puts out about three times as much heat energy to the house as it takes from the electricity supply. But domestic electricity is about three times the cost of gas or heating oil per unit of energy, so the running costs of a heat pump central heating system are about the same as one powered by a conventional gas or oil fired boiler.
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  13. Mike Carter in Northwich is not that far away.
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  15. More likely they would end up buying a strip of land beyond the current boundary so that the cutting can be reprofiled to a shallower slope. More like 2500 cubic metres. There are slips visible in the photo from the 1910s linked earlier in this thread. https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/catalogue_wow/brinklow-easenhall-cutting-oxford-canal
  16. The Chesterfield Canal Trust's cuckoo boat, Dawn Rose, is equipped to sail, although I don't know whether it has ever done so.
  17. It's urban/suburban, but pretty green. The redevelopment up as far as New Islington has gentrified the surroundings, beyond that the 1970s housing (which preserved the canal route through the infamous, and award winning at the time, shallowing scheme) is now being replaced and the area doesn't feel as rough as it once did. There are plenty of people using the towpath; most will ignore you, a few show curiosity about boats and locks and how they work - the locals don't see many boats through here. You will find kids hanging around, but I have always found them quite well mannered and happy to move out of your way if you ask nicely. The locks can be heavy, and suffer the usual problems of lack of use. But it's all doable, the main issue is simply the number of locks!
  18. The original image is no longer visible. Can you repost please.
  19. How do you know the tank isn't full? If you are not getting water to the taps there could be any number of reasons beyond an empty water tank.
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  22. In which case it would still be better to angle the flue pipe slightly forward or back to avoid the support beam.
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  24. No doubt a certain forum member can quote screeds of industry guidance (good practice but not actually a legal requirement) to this effect, but I doubt that it is specifically banned, as it probably didn't occur to those who wrote the rules that anyone would do such a thing!
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