SteamyTea

Just this morning, I got my 2 new pairs of glasses. For the 4th time in a row they are not right. So next week I am going back in to see them to get it sorted. Every time they don't listen, I shall point to the Hearing Aid sign. Falling off a ladder very rarely results in a broken neck (which, when I was a lad, was always fatal, until I broke mine) as the saying goes. But it is a right of passage, talking of which, did you show your passage off again, cause it may not be considered an accident this time. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000wdgk (This one has a serious message)

Get a buffer thrown in with 3 grand cashback. Just teasing about the cashback, I don't know what this sort of install is worth.

Why not just take them from the A442. Or come and get the bent ones from the A30, it is holiday week, do many miles of it are now damaged. Put up a webcam, with sound recording, going to be riot what people speculate about it.

@pocster is only after £300k for it.

Disciplinary smacking would though.

As Bob Dylan sang. "Some men rob you with a fountain pen, didn't take long to find out, what he was talking about" Or something novel, that makes use of easy to get hold of materials and can be DIYed. I think builders, like many industries, like to make an easy job difficult. Simplify and add novelty. The large builders, who make the majority of 'boxes' that are so criticised on here, have not moved forward at all in 50 years or more. People still think that PVC double glazing is novel FFS. Think about how much money they saved not paying bills, and if you are naughty in prison, you get your food delivered to your table, that is better than we get, it just comes to the door.

Some of us do our best to lighten it up. Found the best way to learn, and teach, was to make light of difficult situations. Sometimes it can seem cruel. There have been a couple of people in the past, on previous sites (the old place and the other place) that have got in a right pickle, and then vanished. One of them lives near me and I saw her place most days, no work happen for months, but seems work has slowly started. I would call in, but think it now has new owners. The other person fell apart completely, a tragic story. Nice guy, technical education, but overwhelmed. I know my limitations in management, always thought it was the place to be. So set up my own business, because I was good at the technical side. Cost me my holiday home, car, relationship and all my so called friends, but two (and one of the (expletive deleted)ers died last month). Way to high a price to pay, so I take the attitude 'kill the baby at birth". Sorry, that was all about me. Over to you now.

Nothing wrong with selling the plot. You have done the sums, thought long and hard on it, and now taken the first step to a solution. But if you vanish from the forum I will miss you. My mother has lived in her house for 35 years, the garden was always her thing. It has hardly changed, when I discuss this with her, even now, she says 'in my mind it is many things, if I pick one design it will be wrong'. So she leaves it as is, and goes out to lunch a lot.

Band from three European cities, but only one country. That is a quiz question.

Ah, the demon drink, makes people do things they can regret.

Not my experience with my hot water. https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/uploads/monthly_2021_05/image.png.a202e32d89f5a9f2d49b7ef0a79302ab.png

Why do you think self build is appealing to get a house?

Just the lips and tongue. What we make pasties out of.

Means a 100 seagulls are about to steal the ice-cream. But only 1 gets it.

Yes it does.

There is a slight difference now is that countries in the developed world tend not to just physically print more FIAT currency, they back up this debt with bonds. Now, what happens if/when those bonds cannot be paid is a different matter, I think that is what happened to Brazil and Argentina in the early 1990s. Basically money, of any sort, FIAT or a rare commodity (gold) is a combination to time, talent and resources. Very rare that all three of those are available in one place i.e. Japan has time (lots of workers), talent (very well educated workers) but few natural resources. The UK has little time (low productivity workers), medium talent (not highly educated workers in some fields) but a lot of natural resources. It is really just a combination of what produces the most overall (competitive advantage). This is partly why the UK is good at insurance and finance (a highly qualified and diverse workforce), reasonably good productivity (had lots of inward investment) and a historic base to work from (think Lloyds shipping and oversees investments).

Still got mine, but now nicely wedged between others.

Do what we do in Cornwall, discharge to the ocean. @joe90 is in North Devon, he is pleased, almost, with what he has.

British variant spread by jingoism, ignorance, racism, petty mindedness, ........, and dogs.

That is where I have been going wrong. Used to sell a bog standard 24V, 25W lightbulb for 7 quid, then charge a tenner for postage and packaging. I told the customers to go to City Electrical and buy for less than a quid. Never thought to sell irrational panic. Shall start with something to shield us all from the next iteration if radio waves.

Missed this when you posted it. I like that idea, better get working on it, I have a few graphics cards kicking about in a box in the loft. I think there may be a radio play in the concept, how all our connected lives are really just making shitcoins, for no real purpose, with the side affect that the world's energy is all used up. Similar to Harry Harrison's Bill the Galactic Hero. Which was about a pointless war (written in the Vietnam War era).

I am always amazed how easily empty buildings burn down, then get rebuilt. If any of you lot have listened to this, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050z5cf you will know how entertaining it can be.

There was new guidelines issued beginning of month, so tell them to read their own reports. My sister has an unsaleable flat, what with the cladding, ground rent demands appearing out of nowhere, increasing service charge. Leaves her 200k out of pocket and an extra 600 a month. Told her to walk away from it before it bankrupts her. But she won't.

That uses the PMS1003 sensor I think. I set one running in my spare room a while back, seemed to be greatly affected by temperature and humidity levels. I tried to calibrate it (found some info about calibration somewhere on the manufactures website), but struggled to get coherent readings. It is one of those many things to do if I break a leg and have to stay at home for a few weeks.

As I am on Economy 7, I have two elements. The main one at the bottom 'that heats the whole cylinder' and one inserted at the top that heats about a third of the cylinder. But as my chart shows, the base of the cylinder us pretty close to the incoming water temperature. So assuming once the cylinder has settled the median temperature is a lot lower. That lower temperature settled at about 30⁰C. But the top third if the cylinder is over 40⁰C. The point I am making is regardless of the set temperature, the actual usable water is a lot less. But still adequate. I assume that you currently all live in a house together, take some measurements. Water flow, duration and temperature. Do this for a week or two and see what you actually use. By taking the guesswork out you can make a much better decision.