That’s not an unreasonable reason not to subscribe.
I do have a bit of a fear that the company may hit a turning point. And he’ll either tone it down a bit, or they’ll lose a lot of people, both staff and subs.
A long time ago, a government decided it was in the best interests of the country to sell off the water companies to private investors.
Over time, those companies were loaded up with debt to pay dividends to investors.
Lumbered with huge interest payments, and shareholders pushing for more returns, investment in the water systems were cut to the bone.
So now we’re seeing more and more failures as a result of cost cutting.
It’s a complete farce, imho. Especially since it’s another case of “buying a company by taking out loans against that same company”.
It’ll just be a waiting game for the promises to expire, then splitting off the profitable bits, lumping the debt onto the obligated post bit, and letting the state pick up the pieces.
The canadian chap has explained a lot of things well.
The biggest part is, water vapor in the air condenses to liquid water when it encounters a surface that is colder. For example, nice warm inside bricks connected to cool outside bricks after someone put something in the cavity.
If that water condenses in a place that is cold, and low airflow, it will be there for a while. It soaks into anything that might take it, and gives a fantastic place for mould to grow.
So if the cavity filling between two walls is not executed with a serious survey and planning, this can happen.
The two main options to prevent water are putting up membranes that prevent water vapor reaching the bad area in the first place, or by using materials that are breathable to the vapor throughout the wall, so it can wick away in either direction.
So in the bad situations, you end up with water condensing, then getting trapped by non-breathable insulation, in some cases pooling up at the bottom of the cavity, leading to the damp growing effectively out of the walls, and into the room.
And of course, non-breathable materials are often cheaper/more insulating, so generally get picked first.
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I honestly don’t hate this policy. Keeping at least 3 days supplies with rotation is just common sense, right?
If something knocked the power/water out for a couple of days, every person with something in store is one less person the authorities have to worry about, until things either stabilise or get worse.
It shouldn’t be “lump it on the tax payers” or “we can’t do anything, because innocent pension holders may lose out”.
It’s like the bad guy in the movie holding a hostage so they don’t get shot.
The haircuts should be extracted from the people responsible: The funds that felt it was appropriate to include asset stripping of public utilities in general pension funds, and the executives they put in place/votes they cast at AGMs to make it happen.
If that means that general pension funds fall, the holders should be going after the ones who mismanaged their pension, not the poor bastards having their water bills doubled, or having the cost of bailing out heaped on their government.
If you’d like to set up/help run a disability community here, I don’t think anyone would have any objections. @Blake hasn’t posted in 7 months, so I can give him a chance to respond, then add you as a Moderator for this community if you like? (Assuming Blake doesn’t have an objection/response).
I’ll ping him a message. Administrators get reports from all communities anyway, which may help. And obviously mods can appoint more mods as they appear.
Sounds good to me. If you’re getting a builder to do it, you’re almost definitely better off with whatever system they’re happy using.
Everyone will have their preference that they feel most comfortable with.
Honestly, I reckon it’s 6 of one, half a dozen of the other. Over 25 years, it’ll probably do the same job.
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