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  • Tips to keep your home sewage treatment plant healthy

    by Mars 7 May 2020
    by Mars 7 May 2020

    We’ve had our Vortex home sewage treatment plant emptied and cleaned, and we’ve ensured that our tank’s blower has been configured and balanced properly. You can see everything in our…

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  • Sex sells, but this is ridiculous (or am I just being a prude)?

    by Mars 9 January 2020
    by Mars 9 January 2020

    We all know that sex sells, but this is truly ridiculous. We ran out of chainsaw oil this weekend, so I popped onto eBay and Amazon to buy some more.

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  • Our small sewage treatment plant

    by Mars 8 January 2020
    by Mars 8 January 2020

    The property we purchased came with a small sewage treatment plant, which is capable of receiving wastewater from buildings not connected to mains drainage and processing it so that only a clean, clear effluent is discharged into the environment.

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    Stihl Wood Moisture Gauge Review

    by Mars 30 December 2019
    by Mars 30 December 2019

    It’s key to burn wood that’s not overly wet in wood burning stoves to prevent the glass from blackening, being harmful to the environment and being efficient as a fuel.…

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  • Caernarfon Air Source Heat Pump Reliability and Errors

    by Mars 25 December 2019
    by Mars 25 December 2019

    During the course of spring and summer we experienced very few issues with our air source heat pump. Since November, when the temperatures dropped significantly, we’ve started getting regular errors and outages, which has brought our air source heat pump’s reliability into question.

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  • Chesneys Beaumont 5WS and 8WS Wood Burning Stove Review

    by Mars 23 December 2019
    by Mars 23 December 2019

    As documented, we had two horrifically installed stoves when we moved into this property, which we had to replace urgently as they were fire hazards. We opted for two Chesneys stoves and we’ll now review them a year on since they were installed.

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  • Autumn Solar PV Array Review

    by Mars 13 December 2019
    by Mars 13 December 2019

    Our 6.16kW solar PV array was tried and tested during the spring and summer. With autumn behind us, it’s time to see how well our array has done with shorter days and the sun lower in the sky.

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  • 23andMe vs AncestryDNA

    by Mars 6 December 2019
    by Mars 6 December 2019

    We had some money left over from a wedding anniversary activity that was called off as a result of bad weather so we took advantage of the festive season offers and purchased the 23andMe and AncestryDNA kits.

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  • Caernarfon 18kW Air Source Heat Pump Review – Autumn

    by Mars 6 December 2019
    by Mars 6 December 2019

    Our Caernarfon air source heat pump has now been operational since the spring. It’s time to see how it performed over the course of the past three months as part of our autumn air source heat pump review.

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  • Our chimneys have been swept

    by Mars 6 December 2019
    by Mars 6 December 2019

    It’s been a busy year filled with small and large projects, and we finally got around to having our chimneys swept. Last year, we had new chimneys and flues put…

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