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I've always preferred the safety system wherein you change society so it has less poverty and smaller income disparity, thereby reducing my chances of burglary.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I've always preferred the safety system wherein you change society so it has less poverty and smaller income disparity, thereby reducing my chances of burglary. In the UK? I think the class system is considered a Heritage Asset and can only be changed in ways that respect the original construction methods, sorry. 
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Mar 3, 2023 11:27
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His Divine Shadow posted:I've always preferred the safety system wherein you change society so it has less poverty and smaller income disparity, thereby reducing my chances of burglary. there is no space for L shaped homes in your weird utopia
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Mar 3, 2023 11:29
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His Divine Shadow posted:I've always preferred the safety system wherein you change society so it has less poverty and smaller income disparity, thereby reducing my chances of burglary.
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Mar 3, 2023 13:53
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The big pretty metal bar on the front door is really cold to the touch. Might try and add another wire and drill a heating element down the middle of it.
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Mar 3, 2023 14:30
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The ol' spicy door
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Mar 3, 2023 16:11
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NotJustANumber99 posted:The big pretty metal bar on the front door is really cold to the touch. Might try and add another wire and drill a heating element down the middle of it. Not too late to tie it into the radiant heating system
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Mar 4, 2023 01:24
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Yeah you should plumb hot water through it like one of those heated towel rails.
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Mar 4, 2023 02:58
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Metal door bar made of enriched uranium for handwarming
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Mar 4, 2023 03:52
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Failed Imagineer posted:Metal door bar made of enriched uranium for handwarming  Now dat'sa spicy door bar!
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Mar 4, 2023 04:23
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I just hang a paint can from a rope behind my unlocked front door
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Mar 4, 2023 06:03
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Well I like the door
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Mar 4, 2023 07:36
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sebzilla posted:This is how to stress test a door Use the Kool Aid guy instead
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Mar 4, 2023 17:10
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His Divine Shadow posted:I've always preferred the safety system wherein you change society so it has less poverty and smaller income disparity, thereby reducing my chances of burglary. the OP owns a tesla, so this isn’t an option for them sorry
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Mar 7, 2023 23:55
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Hi. I used to have a thread here that I abandoned. In the meantime I've largely been having a bad ankle and lying in bed like a gouty old monarch, but occasionally I've been to site to try and keep up the pretence of progress. Insulation in the vaulted ceiling space and loft too, in between rafters and trusses, and taping over all joints with silver foil tape. Because this house is apparently, above ground, mostly polystyrene and Sellotape.  I downloaded this batch of photos a while ago intending to make a post but I'm now struggling to understand the narrative I was attempting to construct.  The gist of it is I'm insulating. And trying to do it at the optimum envelope of the building, which means wedging some bits in and taping over the cracks.  And we've got the temporary floor still up in the main room to insulate and tape that first between the rafters, then under.  So at one end of the loft I'm going to install the data cabinet for the house brain and the MVHR (?) unit so need a physical space for those to go but also an insulated bulkhead between the in envelope loft space and the not in the envelope cold roof. Now that I'm typing this out I realise I need to do a lot more to explain this. So firstly a shelf really.  then start insulating all around it  OK so I've bought a bunch of metal trunking to run all electrics in.  100mm square profile to leave the plant room where the power comes in and goes into the consumer unit, then breaking down into 50mm square trunking for runs either side of the loft and vaulted areas. From these electric trunks, I will then dangle 20/25mm plastic conduit to each outlet/switch/etc. Its a whole clever system. And where it goes through the walls into the vaulted area I need to cut little holes and feed it through.   tada like that  Anywhere that individual sockets or switches need to drop down from it I will drill holes in it, like this  You'd think I'd have planned this all out first but no so now I am trying to drill holes in situ and  nope. So i have to pull some back out and re-pre-drill it. So this is the plan: Orange = electrics Purple = data blue = air     Heres the start of the trunking in the plant room, at 100mm, going through into the house.  and into the house. you can see the data baskets above. lol i dont think I am making any sense. trust me  and from that trunking, conduits will drop down as shown  into wall chased backboxes like this  But I need to get drawstrings in each one as I install it so I can later pull though all the wires. Which is tricky. so string  cut length of plastic conduit and clamp it high up. Tie string to a little scrw and drop it down the conduit. wiggle conduit until it comes out and tape up string both ends for later use. easy peasy   And the mvhr pipes ordered last year have arrived. to rental house, not site. Still no mvhr.  they are long, but thanks to my perfect collection of vehicles I have just the way to transport those up to site 
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NotJustANumber99 posted:In the meantime I've largely been having a bad ankle and lying in bed like a gouty old monarch, but occasionally I've been to site to try and keep up the pretence of progress. You're obviously showing us your royal throne.
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Mar 22, 2023 01:35
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Minus the last two photos looks like you're building a McDonald's
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Mar 22, 2023 02:16
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The loving convertible with the pipes in it slays me I love it. Nice job, it looks like it will be an amazing office (when it's drywalled and not looking like the inside of a microwave). I like the idea of having a space up there to focus just in work honestly. So did you fix the truck?
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Mar 22, 2023 04:13
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The natural evolution of the goon basement
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Mar 22, 2023 10:54
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It’s the fact that it’s a Smart Roadster that gets me. The only thing better would be a full on Smart.
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Mar 22, 2023 13:11
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A trick you can do for the conduit pull string (rather than relying on gravity) is to use a vacuum cleaner to suck the string through. If you have any particularly curvy runs or non gravity assisted sections maybe give it a try. If the vacuum won't pull the string by itself you can tie it around a scrap of thin plastic bag, sized to slip easily through the conduit.
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Mar 22, 2023 19:57
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I usually just use a foot or so of flagging tape for that. Easy to stuff in the conduit, and easy to straighten out at the far end.
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Mar 23, 2023 21:09
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Goon Garret
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Mar 23, 2023 21:34
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Are you having a goon house warming party and can I come please
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Mar 25, 2023 19:05
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Yeah sure. Keep summer 2026 free
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Mar 25, 2023 20:19
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I love your optimism 
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Mar 25, 2023 21:22
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"House brain"? Is this gonna be some sort of IoT-connected "smart" house?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Yeah sure. Keep summer 2026 free I can come this summer if my break room requirements are met
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Mar 25, 2023 21:46
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PurpleXVI posted:"House brain"? Is this gonna be some sort of IoT-connected "smart" house? The house is fully controlled via the Tesla and vice-versa
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Mar 25, 2023 22:09
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Even picked the right year.
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I am on a train to Edinburgh from Kings Cross station and somewhere outside of London, but before York I saw an L-Shaped House under construction and got excited for a second. However, it did not yet have a roof on it, just some wood framing, so I'm fairly certain it was not this L-Shaped House.
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Jaded Burnout posted:It’s the fact that it’s a Smart Roadster that gets me. The only thing better would be a full on Smart. My 451 carries all my equestrian stuff (including a full length lunge whip) to and from the yard. It's genuinly suprising the amount you can get in them.
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MetaJew posted:I am on a train to Edinburgh from Kings Cross station and somewhere outside of London, but before York I saw an L-Shaped House under construction and got excited for a second. However, it did not yet have a roof on it, just some wood framing, so I'm fairly certain it was not this L-Shaped House. Oh it is, he's just not posted THAT update yet.
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House brain installed. House skull maybe? Got this for cheap, unused from some company that went bankrupt which has got to be positive karma. The BT fibre to the home will come straight into this cabinet, as will all the various data sensors and so on, and all the network cables I'll run round to every room. Then I'll get some things in here with flashing lights and whatnot. Going to be very cool. Well possibly somewhat warm as its going to be within the insulated envelope of the building. hmm I dunno will figure out cooling later. BT gave me most of the bits for free to get the fibre to the house, so I've installed the final out of the ground and up the wall bits to the end of the house hidden away round the corner as they're kind of ugly where they have to run up thepretty brick plinth.  From here they'll dive under the timber cladding and run up to the garage ceiling, then across into the house through the cavity wall all in some plastic conduit that will carry on down my service triangle to the side of the loft then pop out into the server cabinet area. all stringed up so they can pull it through when they come. Lol I reckon this will be somewhat interesting.     Fire alarms! Decided to go with google ones because they are expensive and complicated. Building regs mean I need 4 of them I think, but I've just bought the one for now to see how they work and get fitted up. They also have a shelf life with the radioactive stuff in them so don't really want to buy them yet if its goign to take another 5 years to finish the house.  Yeah so need 4, 1 heat alarm above kitchen end of the big room, another at the other end to provide carbon monoxide fot the wood burner, then 2 more in the bedroom wing corridor to ensure there is an alarm within 3m of each bedroom door. A mixed update here with a few different things going on so got my braising torch out to sort out the water connections to allow some plumbing to get run.  So we've got the mains water coming into the plant room. First the BIG TAP on 32mm plastic pipe, then reduce down to 22mm and into copper. A double check valve, then drain off point, before going to the main house manifold that splits cold water to the two wings of the house (underground to the living wing, in the loft to the bedroom wing) and a third to the hot water system to become the hot water.  Actually I redo this a bit to lose that annoying bit of plastic pipe between the incoming run and the manifold. gently caress I just somehow deleted this whole post and a having to retype it all. Ok rewritten all that and like most times I have to redo things on the house I think it was probably better the first time.  So here you can also see the hot pipe awaiting connection to the heat store, and in between the smaller warm return. er so heres the gist of the plumbing setup  Water comes into plant room, hot and cold manifolds, then splits to bathrooms in the bedroom wing where they get a manifold each for hot and cold. And to the utility that has already been run underground where all those manifolds will be hidden away behind/under the utility room sink. both hot runs have a warm return come back to the plant room that can be cycled round periodically to prevent water going cold in the long pipe runs. So they'll always be hot on tap. In theory. Heres the manifolds in the ceiling above the en suite at the end of the bedroom wing. warm return comes back in the other triangle as I was getting annoyed with how tightly packed the hot, cold and return were getting.  This manifold will also feed the outdoor tap by the garage. which is handy as I want to use this to pour a concrete slab in the garage. Drill through the wall.   Essentially the same setup as the fibre cable in. I made a little timber piece to mount the tap on, that will also match the battens to take the final timber cladding to finish nicely.  Run this in copper in the wall inside as the bends are much more compact to fit in the walls.   Also got the mixer units for the showers and bath. These will sit in the ceiling above the bathrooms meaning all you have to run down in the walls is a single pre mixed pipe to the taps/shower heads. I've installed showers before and this seems way better than the thermostatic valves I've had to bury in the walls before. The controls are some funky electric dials that run off a tiny cable run down the wall too. But also theyre smart and connected to the brain. It means eventually I will be able to run a bath or take a shower in the comfort of my own home from anywhere in the world. But you do need access to them for when they inevitably go wrong. So I'll have an access panel in the loft to get at them. So ideally I want them fitted in one "bay" in the loft triangles. So I draw a sample rectangle on the floor and try to figure out how all the connections will work.  But its too hard. So I'll just split them across bays and have to reach a bit further through the access hatch.  Each unit also needs a fused 3A spur switch which again will be accessed through the hatch in the loft. 
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NotJustANumber99 posted:gently caress I just somehow deleted this whole post and a having to retype it all. If you're typing a post, and then lose it, SA has a saved draft! You can close the reply window, open a new one (don't use the Quote button to start a post from a quote, I think you have to use the Reply button), and then use these clever buttons in the bottom right:  "Append" will put the saved draft into the text field!
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e. lol doing this made me double-post
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Did Google ever fix that nest issue of them getting stuck active and neverending screaming?
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Not afraid to admit that my brain can't even start to comprehend how all of this poo poo works. I'll stick to doing a bad job at painting and decorating.
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99, the server cabinet needs to be somewhere that is easy to access; putting it in the attic is going to be a complete ballache to do anything with.
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