Given its all controlled with UFH and thats slow to respond

Then you program it to be at a set temperature when you want it. UFH shouldn’t be thought of in the same way as regular heating because you don’t use it in the same way.

^^I suspect b r means something like that.

For a starting point, you could use a calculator:
http://www.stovesonline.co.uk/calculator.asp

Calculate your total room size, then go from there.

than wanabees like the Clintons

Do you think they are a poor family?

Let’s see what Trump stands for – other than himself.

Ashton Court, Bristol

If you want to see the best of the riding out there, I can recommend Magpie Adventures. Mike the owner is a fantastic guy and superb rider. He knows every inch of every trail and takes some longer trips way out beyond where anyone else goes. You’ll get the most out of a trip with him.

Why do you think Costco is so great? Yes, they have their own brand for some things, but the rest is just branded stuff you buy in vast quantities. It’s usually not much cheaper, there’s own brand or generic elsewhere that’s often cheaper, and you have to transport and store it all.
I used to think it was great – then did the smart shopping and realized I just bought larger quantities of stuff I didn’t really need to buy.

I dont even have the right stuff to be an Aldi Caretaker

I doubt I do either. We’re all different. Or is your issue that you think you’d be a perfect Aldi Caretaker and find it a fulfilling career choice and this has dashed your hopes?

Must look very amusing from up on the hill, looking down upon the peasants.

If you think peasants are splashing that much money for log sheds, then that word does not think what you think it means.

British mountain biking was, for me, about the journey, the exploration. I learned to read maps (a dying art in the age of smartphones) very well as a kid because you have to if you hike in Northumberland! I moved around the UK for nearly 20 years and a local OS map and curiosity saw me exploring from every house I lived. Joining up those RUPPs, BW, ROW with short road stretches gave me far more enjoyment than any trail centre. Less rad, but more involving, educational and remote-pub-findingly good. You’ll find sets from Dr Who, Glen Miller’s last public concert location, random trails through woods, alpaca farms and even the YOI that Stephen Fry was locked up in.
Love maps, ride.

If you’re paying granite countertop prices, I’d expect a granite countertop.

If you’re paying crazy paving prices, then you might be OK with that. I doubt I would be. There’s several faults here.

Old coal mines and old quarries are very different in geological terms. Quarries tend to be nice strong rock – hence why it was a quarry. Coal tends to be layered with a load of shale and sand and sandstone – not so suitable for anything other than filling in again.

I tried to watch it on Friday night. I only managed the 1st 20 minutes before having to turn off. It just seemed like an amped-up Americanized parody of what it had been.
Despite having Amazon Prime anyway, I won’t bother with trying any more of this.

I’ve got an XXL Turner Sultan from 2009 and it’s still kicking my fat ass when and wherever I want.

My FS 29er is now pretty much retro, so you lot are in a niche that time forgot.

The chaps not even got the keys or company credit card as yet and some already seem to find him failing…………

Have you seen the people he is likely to give responsibility to? Talk about heading back to the age of belief and quackery over science and evidence!

Given his already broadcast views on climate and international affairs, someone would be monumentally dim to think his election had nothing to do with them, no matter where on the globe they lived.
(I’m a Brit living in America, so I do have a certain right to talk about this, even by your odd standards).

I would hope that anyone proposing to build 2,300 new homes would have a master plan, but maybe it’s just me.

As long as you don’t hear they have been masterplanning cos that would send you MAD WITH RAGE.

Do all words that are new to you cause as much angst?

Master plans are good things to have. They have been around as long as people have planned what they build and where. Masterplanning is an activity that would produce a master plan.

It is considered sensible to bring your kids up in the US with some gun training.

Not by most of the parents I know.

Do the RAF get a discount on the planes they buy for the Red Arrows?

Sort of, but they are not bought and flown the same as other RAF aircraft.

How can this possibly matter?

If you don’t want to progress as a rider, not at all. If you do, then it’s a skill worth practicing for all the good points raised in a couple of the above posts.

He makes some fair points about the unfolding disaster in Syria and Iraq.

Are we watching the same debate? He’s throwing poo like an angry monkey with perfect 20/20 eyesight and no concept of foreign affairs.

Can the little one sit upright unaided with a helmet on their head without their underdeveloped neck getting injured for that length of time?

I know it is a seat with a harness, but adding a large percentage of weight to their noggins at an early age and then jiggling them about isn’t a great idea. Just make sure their physical development comes higher up than your desire to ride a bike. It’s not a long time.

People who look tired are often tired. Medical fact!

I went back to a rucsack because I didn’t like how a bike with panniers felt.

How about reducing your daily load as well? Take a week of clothes in on a Monday would be a start.

Here’s a list of some of the biggest bikes on the market – stack and reach being the factors defining ‘big’.
I’m 6’7″ with an arm-span of an orangutan and I’ve just got a 66cm Soma ES and it’s a fantastic fit for me – I’d like a tiny bit more stack but the reach is great.
Just to give you an idea of the top end of sizing and what reach might work.

https://www.cyclingabout.com/list-of-xxl-xxxl-bikes-for-tall-cyclists-62-63-64cm/%5B/url%5D

Sorry to be a pain but stack and reach are measurements of mountain bikes.

Nope

stack is seated, reach is standing, sorry,

According to this one website you picked, yes.
But it isn’t either and s&r are very useful when comparing frames. Also, most road bikes have far less slack seat tubes than mtbs, making reach more useful again.

I’ve just attended a rally for Mike Pence.

I’m not really sure how to explain the whole thing. It was rather odd and I think I’ve lost a little bit of faith in humans.

My fave of the Gulf nations. Friendly people with a good historical link to the UK. As said, avoid in summer but great spring and autumn. Good surfing if you know where, good windsurfing and developing diving.

California – VERY expensive to live there compared to much of the rest of the USA.
Most all UK professional and trade qualifications are worth squat in the US. They have completely different associations and ways of doing things so the transfer of that side of things is far harder than academic quals.

You would need to qualify for straight immigration or find a company willing to sponsor you. Sponsorship tends to only happen if your skills cannot be found fast enough in the domestic market. Renewables is a good market in CA but it isn’t the boom it once was. The federal and state systems that go towards financing the renewables market are also hideous and, to a Brit, very complicated.
As for taking a few steps back for the work – you’re then getting into the really lower skilled end of the market and there will not be positions there for visa sponsorship.
I know you don’t want to hear this but I moved to the US from the UK 3.5 years ago (American wife) and I have more than a passing familiarity with the renewables industry here.
If you really want to move to the US, I would look at moving TO the US, THEN look at moving to where you want to be. If your wife doesn’t have transferable skills it could be a real backward step and see her unhappy without a decent job as well.

Education isn’t as big a deal as he said up there. In addition, a British accent gives you 10 more IQ points and far more gravitas!

I bet he’d really enjoy mountain biking if he bought a big enough bike.
That looks like a Brompton mountain bike!

Type ’12v tv’ into Amazon. Take your pick.

I’ve posted on here for years, lived all over the UK.
Now I live in America.

Can I post about Americans and guns? Would that be valid?

How do the bad guys get guns? From stupid good guys.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/21/gun-theft-us-firearm-survey

For the first time in my life I work in an office with cubicles and there is a white noise generator across the whole office.

Strange and breeds strange, solitary people.

Address why it’s cold ?

The cheapest most efficient and long-lasting answer is ‘find out why it’s so cold’.

Lack of insulation.
Lack of airtightness.
Existing heating system faulty / badly designed / badly installed.
A major problem not addressed by above.

Buying some extra heater to push more heat in without finding out why it’s so cold just masks the problem.

Pellet stoves are very efficient and produce very little ash for the quantity burned.
As to how convenient it is – that depends on how you can buy and store the pellets. If you load the stove direct then you still have a hassle of ensuring there is enough on hand and you moving it. Probably in bags.
If you have the space and location, a hopper is possible with a screw feed. That takes the hassle out of it, gets you better prices on (bulk ordered) pellets and is really the best way to set up a pellet burning operation.

Most of the current enduro-ish Shimano range seem to have a lot of toe room.

I like to call mine ‘a fan’.
I just have a fan in the bedroom (not someone cheering me on) and that does the trick for me.

it would take some brain training to get right.

Only if you had some serious deficiencies. I’ve ridden bikes with brakes both ways round for years. No problems at all. I currently have 2 mountain bikes each with different brake setup and a road bike with ‘UK’ brakes and live and ride in the US with no brake-related issues.

I’ve had a pair for nearly a year. Way better than my old Tevas. They are a bit stiffer than other flat shoes I have had and I really prefer that for riding. Less clumpy than most 5.10s with the same rubber sole.

I am enjoying some of the worst dressed men in the United Kingdom discuss the rights and wrongs of what someone who has nothing to do with them wears.

Let us not forget why the burka is worn.

Not for anything to do with you, so why care?