MikeSharp01

What bash command will you use? Can you not get the ESP to expose its registers (memory) to interrogation by the RPi which can then write the net disk with the time stamp. Maybe you could pipe it, is that something the EPS supports. You could encode each EPS so even if the DHCP resets their IP address you still know which sensor it is.

Looks like a suitably rich picture of the system you are trying to describe, is it important to timestamp every reading or every round robin poll. (How often will you poll the sensors?)

Not sure I can agree with this. Two bits of evidence in support of my disagreement. Firstly just up the A2 from here they are working on the Ebsfleet Garden City and they have room, and permission, for 15,000 homes but they are being built at a trickle pace, there must be an underlying reason for this pace. The land is there and the demand is there, 17 minutes from central London on the fast train. The builders have a number of excuses but I suspect the rate is controlled by economics not housing need. Secondly, on the other side of the equation, if the houses were prefabricated on a large enough scale they could be assembled on site in no time at all, weeks instead of the the year which looks like the average lead time of more traditional construction, and thus bring the build rate up to something like what we need. Sadly we all know the old maxim that 'investment challenges change' so if you are invested in one method of construction switching to another does not appear to be in your interests until, as happened to stone age man (& woman) they get overrun by the bronze wielding hoards. Talk to my children's generation they get it, or rather they don't get the housing opportunities we had. Although owning your own property makes you 'heavy' it also gives you some security of tenure that is not available elsewhere.

I also have an interest in this and have tried to stimulate thinking on it here, to little avail at the moment, because it is a no brainer when it comes to solving the housing crisis, can't quite understand why it has not been forced through / enabled / incentivised by HMG - must be a vested interest I have not spotted - oh the house builders I suppose!

The man from the north speaks correctly - but you might ask your boy how he created an EXFAT format on what must be a recent USB key. MS used EXFAT from about 10 years back and I think they keep some of the 'secrets' to themselves. Other formats are faster these days anyway.

how long is your crash pad to work journey? That might give a pointer to what you need as in something that turns on the heating as you head home but if too close that won't work if you get my drift.

Great idea I will divert the shower run off through our daughters bedroom - that is something of a s heap, she does not live here anymore but she us coming over to see her mum later maybe I can encourage her to tidy it up.

Not quite true. Our problem is that we would have to teach many (100s) of languages to speak to them in theirs while they only have to learn one. I think we have discussed this before but max bangs per buck would be chinese and urdu but we teach french, German and Spanish none of which alone help you speak to the others. So while we are the custodians of the global 'lingua franca' ( oh the irony) there is no incentive for us to learn languages en mass.

Hmmm not sure that is a PC view and besides you need quite some infrastructure around you, acceptable toilet facilities of your local standard probably being among them, to get the qualifications necessary to gain entry to your son's uni no matter where in the world you come from.

No not necessarily but a bathroom would be good.

Chilling!

If you felt it was going to pay for itself wouldn't the effort be worth it in the end? Or is the complexity just not worth it?

AS JSH SAYS @jack has a system and it has been discussed here a year + ago.

Why is that a snag - do the locals like paddling

PS what I meant to say was that the 8gb does give you more time between slugs!

I have 8gb in my windows 7 machine and Firefox still gets it to 90% sometimes. I just use task manager to kill it and restore session brings it back to a reasonable 38%. Just why Firefox is so bad I have no idea but Chrome is not far behind sometimes. Autocad can be a slug as well though.

This is the best I have found out there, when I come to replace mine in a year or so this is what I will get my hands on: https://www.jsp.co.uk/link/en/head-protection/evo-8-en14052-safety-helmets/evo-8-linesman-safety-helmet/evo-8-safety-helmet-linesman-orange/ahs240-000-800/p/?parm=CAT1JSP&prdcod=AHS240-000-800 I wear my hard hat all the time on site, after all it s what it says on the sign on the fence! Without it I feel naked now when working on site and I have had a couple of knocks (nothing dropping) that I would have known all about were it not for my hard hat. Also because I have one, and I keep a spare or two for the purpose, visitors all expect to wear one - which it says on the sign. I am not sure what my site insurance says but I suspect that not wearing the appropriate PPE might give them a let out!

Get a good hard hat with proper webbing and that fits well. Whatever you are doing you will be protected. You can get carbon fibre hard hats now that will see you (and me) out.

If you have the drafting skills you should be able to do this yourself realy. Provide you stick with the main planning shape and limitations if any (EG ridge height) you probably only need about 10 drawings. If you look at the JSHarris blog site he gives a check list for all to follow which worked for us other than needing a part R note as some hinge about the flammability of the outer skin.

Wales is down hill from there.

Sadly, by the looks of it, good things only come to wealthy people who wait.

This will depend, one guesses, on where your air tight layer is. If on the inside of the Durasol and not including the roofspace then you might run the membrane under the roof joists, if above then the joists need to be included so you need to go around the ends but that also means a messy junction unless you go up and over the trusses with your air tight membrane. IIRC your internal floor / wall junction has something like it. I guess if you go this way then keeping the membrane out of harms way while the roof goes on.

What makes you think they might know anything about garage floors? PS if you saw the BBC prog 'worlds most extraordinary homes' this week that Porsche collector's garage was the sort of thing everybody needs - amazing.

Very tidy work with the dpc, what is the tape you are using and is it double sealed along both edges or one double sided and the upper edge over taped? I guess there is a rising section of EPS in the centre to be fitted as well. Why were you not a fan of the tie wraps?

I believe that with the permission of your slab designer and BCO you can use plastic tie wraps. So much easier than wire tying. Although when you watch a pro doing wire tying they go so fast tie wraps would be much slower.