MikeSharp01

Where did the cabinet come from, I have not found slim one like yours?

@Adsibob I don't have much experience of employing professionals personally. To fix the issue on the building I spoke of, we employed an investigator from a very well known consulting firm and the multinational construction company who built the place picked up the tab. They found the leak as I described it but to this day I have no idea what it cost for them to find and fix it. Personally I like to know almost as much as the professional before I call them in, so I can spot a dud, I would do a heap of my own research so I had a good idea of what was going on before I go out for a professional. In your case because your detail has slopes you will need to cover up as far as the watershed to eliminate water running down under the cover.

I would just use some of the builders plastic, you don't need it to last just to confirm what is going on. This should do it: https://www.screwfix.com/p/capital-valley-plastics-ltd-heavy-duty-polythene-sheet-clear-620ga-4m-x-3m/20738

Looking at pic though might make it tough.

Is there any way you can pop a tarp over the suspect area and see if that sorts it. At least then you know the area of ingress. I once had a leak in a building which was found to be travelling 5 meters horizontally from the place of ingress.

It is not a euro barrel (Yale like) so changing may be slightly more difficult. Take the plate off and see how it is accessed. As for the stressing I would frame it as a 'cost' of having house sitters, get a new lock but keep the old one so you have a spare. I agree not telling you is a bit of a let down but some people may see it as just leaving it as they found it albeit with new keys - without thinking that the loss does put your home at risk.

One guesses that this is what the word vernacular was invented for - but it also tells you that much of the learning is transferable IE the Scottish insulation research mentioned above.

Just been looking through this again. I like the basic plan. I worry about the external insulation, in fact the insulation in general. Doing it on the outside means extending the roofing out to cover the top. On the inside you loose room volume and combination of inner and outer is challenging on the cold bridge front. How is your thinking on this front @lookseehear?

OK so that all makes perfect sense now looks like a good location with good outlooks. I will give it all some more thought now I get your objectives.

Looks like a great project can we ask a couple more questions: 1. Does moving the living space upstairs bring anything else to the party - EG better views, neater connection with the garden, and what are the downsides - is this your forever home or just a stepping stone on the path to it, have you worked out the long term implications of life one floor up - should you include a lift? 2. Do you have any planning / structural implications for all this work EG - change of external material, building footprint (extending too much), foundations able to take the additional load of second story.

Sound like there is a gap in the market for competitive products who can better the price point. Its only electronics after all but perhaps they need to avoid the complications of the Home Assistants - I wanted to integrate them into my home brew system but decided that the 988 page standards doc was better left alone and to stick with If This Then That only would be simpler.

Yes I see the cooled cases are not yet available so I will await one before stretching it.

Didn't bag one of the first batch but ordered this back in October, so very happy to see it arrive just now. This will be the core of the HA system for the house alongside an array of RPi PICO Ws that will run all the remote sensors and any actuators we feel we need. Lets see if I can squeeze enough time this afternoon to get it up and running and put it through its paces.

Not sure anybody with any sort of leadership charisma has either. If they had (both Charisma and thought it through) they would probably have risen to the top and we would be following them down the road of really solving the problem. As it is we follow the leaders we have more from a sense of bemused curiosity about what great big; blunders, errors, failures, cock ups and wrong turns they are going to make next than anything else. It's our fault though because as Jefferson said: “The government you elect is the government you deserve.” So to somewhat massage a phrase from classical antiquity 'we are sheep led by donkeys.' Time to become more like the lions and start snacking on the donkeys perhaps.

Yep - try it with your eyes shut if you want a real balance challenge - I would have fallen over 5 times filling our kettle!

If everything was IoT (Internet of Things) it could all be controlled by a remote system. It could even have look ahead capability to get ahead of the weather and be self tuning to the insulation / decrement delay.

You world need to surround the TV with radiant bars and reflectors then it would work provided you could stop the TV melting at the edges!

Does his mum need some tiling done or does she think tiling is a more reliable career than games design?

The sunamp system has to be a winning idea, it's just it seems not to be implemented that well as it stands give this and other threads but still not fully put off.

Glue (probably a PU would be enough - it's pretty good in shear) would help as well but perhaps too late now.

I notice that they are offering a 10year Warranty on the heating element in their latest marketing material. Looks like the OSO is about half as good as the Sunamp in heat loss terms ( OSO (150 Litre): 1.2 kWh/24hr (source) and Sunamp 150 0.67 kWh/24hr (source) so if you charge it each day on night rates @ 20p/kWhr the OSO cost you 24p / day (£87.60 PA) while Sunamp costs you 13.5p / day (£48.91 PA) and in a passive house you get less unwanted warming and no plumber calling every year to check your system over and re-certify. Sounds like a good plan. Looks like element failure, even with 10 year warranty, is still a return to base, no heating (although you have two units so not so much a problem for you), challenge though - which sounds like poor design at the very least - why can it / they not be pocketed one wonders?

When it was working did it do what it says on the tin? If it did then you wonder why, in the forth manufacturing age, it cannot be built to last. We are still on track to get one but the more I read the less I like the idea.

That is around 50 times the WHO limit (5 µg/m³ since 2021)

Yep that should do it as long as you don't have vast holes.

Not necessarily so... if you choose the same axis as the fan blade's rotational axis what are the implications?