TerryE

I am surprised that you aren't into sextb.net or isn't your Japanese good enough? 😂

Yup, the forum went offline. Some gremlin still TBD. We are peaking at something like 5 topic views per second during peak hours these days.

You wouldn't have too much probs doing @torre's suggestion. It shouldn't introduce to much of cold bridge as I assume that you've also got insulation between your roof joists. You just need to be careful with your finishing. Where is your VCL?

What's the problem? We were constrained by BRegs on our landing placement and this is a solid wood fire door because our warm 2nd floor loft is part of our living space. The architrave and frame liners were a bit of a fiddle (22½° mitres) but nothing that a decent chippie couldn't handle. I did all of our internal woodwork myself. I don't think I can recall any visitor even noticing the missing corner. BTW, the door will have to open into the room and away from the landing as mine is hung.

Ah. A couple that runs a separate his and her finances. Life is too complicated for that. 🤣

I've just updated companion Rehosting the Forum Virtual Server topic. TBH, It didn't help that Heart Internet offered us a reduced spec VPS (less RAM, less SSD, less performance) for the same price, and this has involved quite a bit of pissing around / effort on my part to mitigate this. But as @Sparrowhawk commented: the price that we're paying is really at the bottom range of what you'd expect to pay for a 6-core VPS of this spec. You get what you pay for, I guess. We try to keep the annual costs as low as possible to keep the forum free for all, and unencumbered by the need to advertise. We'll just have to keep a close eye on actual performance post cut-over to see if we have any noticeable performance issues. The GitHub issues give all of the technical details, if you are interested in more details. Thanks to @Sparrowhawk, @MikeSharp01, and @AliG for your support.

Mike, I can't recall. Are you using HomeAssistant and do you have Zigbee? I have a dozen Aqara temperature sensors around the house with a couple stuck on the undersides of external lintels front and back. I do use the Metoffice day ahead forecast for my weather comp, but the Aqara sensors are easier to use for trending actuals. As to DD, this is driven by the external S.H per m2 and U-value. In our case our DD is well over a day but that is largely down to the ~125mm external stone skin acting as a huge heat capacitor. This does nothing for the U values but this plus the cellulosic filler gives a long DD. If we'd had PUR insulation and a render or brick-slip cover then we could still have fantastic U-values but short DD. Have a look at my ~2016 blog posts on this. Yes theoretical models, but 9 years later and that how the house behaves in real life. Having a high DD makes using a ToD tariff more effective.

I have just posted a new scoping issue on GitHub: Rework to Support the New VPS Environment . My thanks to @Sparrowhawk for his input and advice. After some discussion, we've decided to stick with Docker for now. There is just too much else to be done to try to fit this in the Migration time line.

@Sparrowhawk, no CDN at the moment though the ICforum app does support using CDN. This would drop our Apache requests and network traffic by maybe 4× though not our processing load as this is 90% PHP-FPM and D/B load. As we talked about offline, I agree that it makes sense to stay with docker / compose for now. I currently use Alpine for my docker images but having looked at the CLIB vs MUSL performance issues, it makes sense to switch to bullseye-slim. I will ping you on the Github issue when I raise it.

@MikeSharp01, podman in essence has two modes full native podman and docker compatibility mode where docker compose projects are configured the same but the execution is in a user mode account. There are niggle and bumps as you can hide the fact that you are running rootless entirely in the host environment, but I have the stack up and running, first cut. The performance hit for using a container approach is a couple of % at most and having the entire stack under git just has SO many pluses. As far as working with AIs. I actually prefer Deepseek, because its chain of reasoning approach gives a more systematic approach and analysis, but its a bit overloaded ATM. However, Genimi is a standard on a Chromebook and it's fast. The issue is that by default its a bit patronising and treats the user as an idiot, but to be fair to Google probably 95% of its interactions are with idiots. It's definitely a knack getting the AI to kick into expert mode. The risk is that these AI are sincere and convincing but maybe 10% of the time the advice is flawed, so you always need to check -- trust but verify.

You have to reconfirm that you want to stay on Agile before the end of the 12 month term. Just raise a polite case with the helpdesk mail address ASAP saying that you missed the fine detail on the end of contract email and that you do want to stay on the (current) Agile tariff. I say current because they tweak the T&Cs every year and you can stay on an old Agile tariff. You have to accept the current T&Cs or leave Agile. PS. the error message is because some context cookie has expired. Signing out and relogging in will fix this.

By way of background, I am the very aged IT geek that has done all of the SysAdmin since we first set up BuildHub about 9 years ago. I am no longer involved in Forum Management or politics; I just in keep the forum up and smoothly running, pro bono. i have also administered and run a number of community forums and wikis over the last few decades, mostly using open source forum packages such as phpBB and MediaWiki. However when the founding members set this forum up, we decided to use a commercial Forum package (there was a one-time purchase, plus an annual maintenance fee), because this customer funded business model offers us a better feature set and continuous through life improvement. We chose the forum app from the company now called Invision Community. This a PHP application that runs on a LAMP stack on a hosted Virtual Private Server (VPS). The VPS has grown in cores / RAM / storage over the years as the size of the forum and its user population have also grown. Three years ago, I moved the LAMP stack into a Docker Compose project, and the VPS runs this single dedicated Docker Project which is on open Github. If you want to know more then read the README at Github: TerryE/docker-buildhub which explains the setup. Our Hosting Provider is currently doing an infrastructure refresh so we have to migrate to a new VPS and at the same time I am retiring the use of Docker and switching to the open-source equivalent, podman. See this issue, if you want to know more: A Gemini Conversation about Migrating VPs and switching to podman. Warning: it's a bit long (17 pages) and technical, but it lays out the issues and context. This topic is just to keep interested members informed. Any technical discussion / comment is welcomed. I have opened a companion topic in Forum News and Site Issues: Rehosting the Forum Virtual Server to discuss the more general / policy aspect to allow this thread to focus on the nerdy stuff. 🙂 Can I ask you all to keep to the technical discussions here and use the companion topic for general / policy stuff. @TerryE is my user account but I also have the Godlike @Admin account to hide / delete off-topic posts if the mods don't move them to the general topic. 🤣😱

I know that the Geberits are designed to be fully maintainable through the panel opening that is accessible behind the flush plate, though it is a bit like open heart surgery. Small nimble hands help, so in our case this will be a job for Jan.

You shouldn't use a typical smart plug. Some might be nominally rated at 3kW at 240VAC they can rapidly heat up especially when powered up for a few hours. I control my 3×immersions (2 in the UVC and one in a Willis heating my UFH) by decent din-mounted contactors in the MCU. These are rated at 20A at 240VAC for a straight resistive load. These have a design life of 50,000 cycles. Their coils are driven at 24 VDC (at 10s mA) by an IoT relay board controlled by my HomeAssistant system. I've done posts on this if you want know more. My TL;DR is that it can be done but you need to know what you are doing to avoid the fire risks.

BRegs for new builds state that it shouldn't go to the drain, but I think you can be pragmatic when tweaking an existing patio area. You need to do one of the two: feed to soakaway or to the drain. My inclination would be to do whatever is the simplest / least disruptive. Your "usual builder" seems to be suggesting what we did.