Ferdinand

I have just switched to a Lower Carb diet wrt to Diabetes as discussed elsewhere. Do you happen to know if BioFresh works with fake rice - eg Broccoli Rice or Cauliflower Rice? The 2-3 day fridge life of these is currently a bit of a challenge. Ferdinand

Which would reduce the use to a marginal buffering effect, for which I may as well use a housebrick.

Yep. The idea is that you lay berries or herbs out on a shallow shelf to freeze without squash, and you then transfer them to the freezer drawer and they don't stick together. You thaw them similarly - spread out on a tray. You and me clearly need to discover the Waitrose lifestyle. Currently experimenting with Aldi frozen berries, which are a fraction of the price of Aldi fresh berries - to see how they come out. I have some thawing between 2 dinner plates as I write. I still need to learn about the "Pull-out BioFresh safes mounted on telescopic rails with flexible humidity control for use as DrySafes or HydroSafes for longer freshness of fruit, vegetables, meat and dairy products", which comes with the £4.5k Liebherr. Apparently it doubles the fridge-life of fresh veg, which is why everybody is trying currently to sell counter-top food dehumidifiers. And there was me thinking that Bavarians kept their sausages in meatsafes with a flyscreen and a frustrated sheepdog. Perhaps @le-cerveau has one ?. F

No studs on that shelf here, either. Though I guess that since the top of an upright freezer is the warmest, the benefit is most at the top should something break. Yes.

Do you mean it had the volume, or is there a particular space where it goes? Suspect they may mean the Berry Shelf at the top, but I am a little bit reluctant on that since mum is under 5ft and they could come flying down if that drawer is pulled out by mistake. Tempting to have one in the fridge which cycles temp more as it is opened more often.

Here are the details. Mine has two of the item on the right in the pic. They are an accessory for other manufacturers too eg Siemens. http://household-appliances.frigicoll.com/liebherr/cold-storage-accumulator The type of thing I would expect to see in the Lakeland or Innovations catalogues, If the latter still exists. Application 4 is for super cool picnics.

It is not something that had occurred to me as an application, but our new freezer has come with a couple of 1200g phase change ‘Cold Storage Accumulators’, which 1 - act as protection during power cuts etc. 2 - provide a buffer when adding a quantity of food to be frozen. 3 - can be placed in contact with food for quicker freezing. A very obvious application, which had completely passed me by - possibly because our freezers tend to last more than 15 years each. Have these been a common thing for a long time?

@Ed_MK It may add to the speed with which it runs off the roof (drag of the surface vs gravity) but that would affect eg the size of gutter you have along the bottom edge to prevent water running over etc. Volume would not change, since that would be the same as they amount of rain landing per unit time. Perhaps there may transient effects eg when the rainstorm starts, but those should be minor. F

That makes me think that mischievous people could get ones like those fairground mirrors :-). Not awake yet, this morning .... I read that as ‘well-hung’. Imagining Clarkson with magnifying mirrors on the toes of his clown-shoes so he can see that Percy is still present.

This is a video taken at 6pm on Monday. We did not quite make it, but we reopen on Tuesday afternoon. The bricked up double-doors in the new dividing wall are in case the LL ever needs to recombine the units.

Up and running.

I would get the two costed first.

And what is the payback period?

Better not comment on that,

Capiwotsits are good. The fur can be used for insulation while the meat is used for lunch.

There speaks someone acquainted with management of an Information Technology budget.

You are in need of the Medieval insult generator. http://www.azkurs.org/eddies-medieval-insult-generator.html F

Why are you using offcuts rather than 5 sqm of spray foam and mummified squirrels? Not acceptable. Could you use 10% of whoever-it-was’s unnecessary shoes? I seem to recall it was @newhome who was then gazimped by @lizzie in the Imelda Marcos Derby.

In iKea, Billy is a bookcase. *innocent face*

For some, remember that eye examinations are free in Scotland. Once a year for <16 or >60 or certain conditions, once every 2 years for 16-59s. https://www.optometryscotland.org.uk/images/docs/patients/guide_eye_examinations.pdf F

If your genny is too small but new, can you Ebay and Trade Up? They are not massively expensive items. F

This is the stuff. As recommended by our previous landlord, who happen to be a commercial decorating company. They also said it was sprayable, and it is. I think it has been mentioned on BH, but only in passing here on the "Best Value Paint" thread and here on a blog entry. Previously I came a cropper on a house renovation when Wickes told me that Dulux Easycare was sprayable - not easily, it wasn't, and it took several roller-days instead. If I was using even a different Armstead product, I would test it first now. Because the consequences of something not being suitable are significant for me. F

True, but our top coats are also being sprayed. Also the closeup comparison is raw breezeblock vs plaster which may make the breezeblock cover look less dense. They did not move the scaffolding with one on board, I believe. They had a pep talk from me on that. Photo below taken this morning after one top coat at 8:30. The top coat grey is Armstead paint and sprayed OK. Another coat has been done this am which I have not yet seen. There has been change in the tone on other walls as it goes from repaintable-dry to totally-dry. So we will see how it looks afterwards, and how it looks once the accent graphics are done. It should even out. F

What did you do last weekend? I have mentioned discreetly a few times that I am involved in moving a gym to a new unit. We finally got possession of our new unit on Friday at 5pm. This thread will have some pics and videos, which may or may not be in date order. We open again this afternoon at teatime, at least in part. The two owners are both under 30, which is good to see. I am one of the friends and family who put some finance in 3 years ago. The unit is about 6000sqft, and the gym is called Crossfit Hexis. The location is just off the A38 in near the M1 J28.. The planning and landlord-restoration process has been a saga taking almost a year; that is *after* a search which took about 18 months before that. The place is 1/3 of the front bay of a textile company known as The Sockmine. The history is that they moved some manufacturing to China some years ago, then moved it back as circumstances changed, but that still left 18k sqft of empty space, which has been largely unused since. Now we are a long term tenant (subject to Planners making silly Use Class decisions at some point) they have refurbished it to be 3 units of around 6k sqft, of which we have the first. The refurnished part is known as the Sockmine Business Park - which I quite like. I've learnt a few lessons over the weekend, which I'll point out. (Note to readers: Copyright is asserted and the pics below may not be reused without permission, licenses from individuals etc). A few pics of the unit: The new car park Our new shopfront (with boys toy) Views from opposite ends inside Shopfront from the inside. The wall on the left is new - this is a third of the larger building. Changing and showers - former dye-house judging by the number of coats of paint it required:

I will also copy this piece to the existing advice one linked above. A couple of pics and a vid of our chap doing the inside of the new gym unit (subject of a separate thread). The unit is about the same height and depth as our Wickes, but with lower eaves and 25% or so of the width. The guys in the first piccie are the two owners, who are both under 30. I am one of the people who put some finance in 3 years ago. The unit is about 6000sqft and for a gym called Crossfit Hexis moving to a larger unit. Visits can be arranged if anyone wants a better look (but you may have to do a Workout !) The sprayer is one I bought secondhand on Buildhub last year. Having the longer 15m hose of a something just into the professional range of kit is really worth it for this type of thing where the wall apex is about 10m up. That wall is about 225sqm, and was done with 4 coats in about 8-10 hours overnight from 5pm Sunday, including messing about with the scaffolding tower etc. Paint used was 40-45l. Obviously in the context the first two coats were for sealing, and the second two for finish - no piccies yet as they had gone home when I dropped by at 5:30am this morning. So we were not spraying totally for a precision finish with the white - final gym fit out etc happens today, and we open to existing members at teatime. There is also some custom logo-work etc to go on it. Speed was the priority, and most of the wall is some way in the air so will not be examined with a toothcomb. The bottom part is breezeblock a couple of weeks old; the top is fresh plaster. Overspray would be an issue (rubber mats already part down), but running polythene roll 3m back from the wall dealt with it. The bit of paint spread around by feet, wheels and hose drag will need more work to remedy - an hour with white spirit will fix that. There is also a very sweet spot between speed, paint qty and the paint bouncing back - get in that sweetspot and it is 5 times easier. I was strict on using the exact paint I have used before, as sprayers can be temperamental - we used Leyland Trade Contract undiluted. The finish coats are Armstead, so I will be able to comment on that later. (Note to all: Copyright is asserted and the pics below may mot be reused without permission, licenses from individuals etc).