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By putting your grass clippings into the black bin, you are sending your waste to be landfilled, where during its breakdown, it'll produce gas and leachate which has to be collected & treated, therefore making landfills more difficult to manage. The Plan going forward is to divert all organic...

I've had three deliveries of three tonnes from Balcas, and haven't had any problems at all. Sure, there is a bit of dust each time they deliver, but I expected that. Have a purpose built silo, nice & dry, inside my garage, and manually feed the hopper every week or so. I remove some of the dust...

Funny story. Twas the night before Easter, and all through the house.... Well, I went up to get the eggs we had stashed for the kids, and started putting them out before I went to bed. The eggs were fine, but when putting a few little chocolate bunnies about the place, i noticed that one of...

Thats gas that they want to charge you, that stuff is like you say, worth a lot of money. I work in a, ahem, waste management related area, and would bump into a lot of travellers who would give you a few bob for them, either that or just take them off your hands at least, don't know if they'd...

My auld buck also recommended that we put this into the floor when we building the house. So I did, all it is is a piece of plastic piping (2''). As it is, each end is closed, but I would just have to break out the floor of the hearth and put a vent on the outside. I don't think one would have...

Re: A lot of fence wire about 4ft high to attach to my timber fence to keep the dogs Don't know about the chicken wire. I recently built a bit of a run for my two pure bred mongrels, and they keep busting out. The wire is pretty brittle if chewed on for a while, and snaps real easy, giving them...

Sounds like you're having a right old hard time of it. I also have a gerkros without the digital bits, and it is running grand for the past 6 months anyway, using about a ton every two months. New build and on a fair bit. When I was having the thing commissioned, as opposed to installed, the...

Changing the stats in the room wouldn't make a difference if the system isn't properly balanced. My plumber didn't seem to think that balancing the system was that important, but since then I have looked around a fair bit, and asked a few people, and have come to the conclusion that my system...

In these days of reuse, couldn't you really use just about anything. A 200L barrel would be just the job. If its just for the garden, you don't need to have a tap at the bottom, you can just take the water out with a bucket. you just need to make sure the overflow goes back into your surface...

Hello there, Is the zone you refer to i.e. kitchen dining room, a particularly large area, or long run of pipe? You may need to balance the system, in that you need to ensure that longer circuits receive more heated water by adjusting the valves at the manifold, plumber who installed should...

A non runner I'd say. Mats are heated using electricity, and for such an application, it would be wildly inefficient. UFH is generally done by running hot water through pipes in a concrete or similar floor. You could consider this option maybe.

In relation to the floor, I would say that if its just in the hallway area, the 30mm insulation would be sufficient (assuming that you're not going with underfloor heating.) You need the 3'' if screed to ensure that it is strong enough, but then again, the tile on top will be taking most of the...

Sustainable energy Ireland are responsible for administering the grants. They are available for systems such as bio mass (wood pellet/chip), solar panels, heat recovery and heat pumps. Check out , and go to the Greener Homes section.

If the Co. Co. are happy with a septic tank, then why bother going the extra few bob to install the treatment system? After all the Co. Co. should be considering not only the site itself but any vulnerable areas around your site. Because of the new focus on security of water supplies and their...

Like was said earlier, if it can be seen, to any extent, from a public place, then it is an offence under the LItter Pollution Act 1997. The Co. Co. would persue this. Also, an EHO (contact the local HSE office for contact details) will have an issue if it is likely to be a risk to human health...

Duffman, Yes, I was had it on for 16 hours a day for a little while, but that was only after having it on constant for a couple of days. Like I said that means that the heating is on, but not necessarily the boiler, which just kicks in as is needed. My problem at the moment is that I still...

Hello there, Iwas just thinking about going out to the garage to fill up the hopper on my gerkros boiler, and saw your post. We've been running it for about the past 7-8 months I suppose, and I'm just about at the end of my first 3 tonne load. We have been in the gaff for about 6 of those, but...

I got my septic tank from Murtaghs in Longford (http://www.shaymurtagh.ie/). Bog standard type (aren't they all I hear you say), a simple concrete, dual chamber tank. whether you need a ST or a treatment system surely depends on your ground, and whether the percolation in the area will allow...

I recently moved into my newly built gaff, where I have a wood pellet boiler and UFH (Roth piping etc.). Researched the options quite extensively, and find that this set up is working just fine. Also installed a dual coil hot tank, as I was considering solar panels for DHW, but am thinking...

oh and 15K sounds mental expensive to me btw.