The Retirement Thread

[gavroche]

by Just been talking to one of my brothers in France about cost of living and he said to me that all new built houses cannot be equipped with a gas boiler by law. They will be all eco friendly and insulated so no source of heating will be needed apparently.
The only energy provided will be electric.
No idea how all this is going to work though. Good luck to them

 

[numbnuts]

by Just been talking to one of my brothers in France about cost of living and he said to me that all new built houses cannot be equipped with a gas boiler by law. They will be all eco friendly and insulated so no source of heating will be needed apparently.
The only energy provided will be electric.
No idea how all this is going to work though. Good luck to them

Banking on global warming

 

[ColinJ]

Banking on global warming

Scandinavians (and others) already manage with properly insulated houses!

 

[welsh dragon]

by Just been talking to one of my brothers in France about cost of living and he said to me that all new built houses cannot be equipped with a gas boiler by law. They will be all eco friendly and insulated so no source of heating will be needed apparently.
The only energy provided will be electric.
No idea how all this is going to work though. Good luck to them

The UK is so backward where building is concerned. Planners are so behind other countries and are positively anal when it comes to using the most up to date materials

 

[Tenkaykev]

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The UK is so backward where building is concerned. Planners are so behind other countries and are positively anal when it comes to using the most up to date materials

It's dispiriting. When you look at the billions in profits made by the big builders, and their lobbying over the years to reduce minimum sizes so they can squeeze more properties onto a plot of land. It doesn't cost a great deal more to build houses to a high standard and that would pay dividends in reduced energy needs for households. Instead we get more " Barratt Boxes "
I could say more but I might get sent to NACA 😉


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUwUp-D_VV0

 

[welsh dragon]

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It's dispiriting. When you look at the billions in profits made by the big builders, and their lobbying over the years to reduce minimum sizes so they can squeeze more properties onto a plot of land. It doesn't cost a great deal more to build houses to a high standard and that would pay dividends in reduced energy needs for households. Instead we get more " Barratt Boxes "
I could say more but I might get sent to NACA 😉


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUwUp-D_VV0

The standard of houses is appalling. Builders should be ashamed of themselves.

They should take a leaf out of the likes of Norway and other Scandinavian countries on how to build well made fantastically insulated homes. But of course that won't happen

 

[Chief Broom]

Great news!



Er, how far above sea level?

Far enough im no spring chicken [or a duck ] so i'll be long gone before rising sea levels are a problem....i hope

 

[ColinJ]

Far enough im no spring chicken [or a duck ] so i'll be long gone before rising sea levels are a problem....i hope

Excellent!

I was thinking about this...

My mum was born in a croft on the west coast of Scotland. It is at 7 m above sea level and 300 m inland. She told me that there was a storm with a surge tide when she was a child and she remembered looking out of the window of her bedroom and seeing the sea a few metres*** from the building!

*** She said yards, but it is time to move on to sensible units!

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Afternoon folks im pleased to say the council have offered me a bungalow in Brora well thats better than a poke in the eye! I did fancy the des res down the road at Golspie, Dunrobin Castle.....electricity bill might be a tad high though!
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Pleased to hear your good news

 

[Chief Broom]

Pleased to hear your good news

Thanks Flick of the Elbow you'll be welcome to call in if youre ever in this neck of the woods and everyone on this forum come to that

 

[Dirk]

Thanks Flick of the Elbow you'll be welcome to call in if youre ever in this neck of the woods and everyone on this forum come to that

Blimey. Must be a big place!

 

[classic33]

They're not green wellies!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

When

Excellent!

I was thinking about this...

I was just about a teenager my parents decided the roof needed replacing after several leaks

My Dad found - probably via a friend who worked for the council - that grants were available for some houses
but only if they were built before 1911

so he checked - dunno how - it was pre WWW - for the young - yes the World did exists before the WWW and Facegram

anyway - turns out the house WAS built before 1911 - in fact before the MockBeggar wharf that protected the whole area from the Irish sea at high tides etc

Turned out that before the concrete barrier was built a few MILES down the road the tides on a big high tide would reach the roundabout - which was less that 100 yards away

It did occure to me when I was sialing on those waters that I could sail home if the barrier broke- but it might have been a bit shallow

 

[ColinJ]

Just watching the new series of Jack Teacher on Amazon. It's quite good and the new Teacher is better than Tom Cruise

I just watched the first couple of episodes. Quite fun, and maxi-TReacher is definitely more convincing than mini-TReacher!

 

[PaulSB]

I have been awake for too long already!! As forecast it's still and quiet outside until 9.00 when the apocalypse is due!

Wordled in four today, should have been three. Somehow I failed to notice at line two I had three greens and two yellows.

I think today's plan will be light the stove, ironing, admin odds and ends, general mooching about and at 5.30pm Swansea v Rovers is on Sky. You know it's getting serious when Rovers are the featured match on Sky In the unlikely event of the forecast being wrong I am very much in the mood for a ride.

Mrs P will be out. I will be making tea, well ferreting around in the freezer for something made earlier. It will be portions of the Red Hot Beef and Beans I made a few weeks ago - so I will have made tea twice.......