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That copper looks really good. I mean it’s the scrawling of a maniac but you’ve done an amazing job realising it.
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Gasmask posted:That copper looks really good. I mean it’s the scrawling of a maniac but you’ve done an amazing job realising it. Thanks.  er... lol... Its not all soldered up yet though. Just a dry run. Its going to look like proper poo poo once I've done that. If I can even do it. I'm dreading it to be honest. In other news I cant remember if I said this here or elsewhere but another BT fibre deadline passed by on Thursday with no resolution. Got another email from my internet people with a new deadline of march 15th. So like 5 weeks away. FFS. I'm honestly considering just renting a Stihl saw myself and cutting up the pavement outside the pub myself and just sorting it out. As long as I wear a hivis no one would know I'm not a real person. It's loving ridiculous. loft  vaulted  parents are painting. they are quite blind though so quality is a bit wank. But what you gonna do? Also my brother has declared them in a toxic relationship and refuses to take part any more. They just sort of bicker relentlessly. Its very wet. Pond is overflowing, water level well above the overflow from my soakaway overflow so thats probably pretty redundant.   electricians been and shoved up my big cable into my consumer unit. Still not connected other end. You can see here one of the reasons I havent soldered up all the pipework as needed to make sure this could get in behind the removed bits. ready now though. unforutunately.    A few more probes to my name  electrician said get all the sockets and stuff on and we can get everything powered up, tested and done so need to press forward on that. which means mum and dad doing some painting. So opportune moment to recover that lost socket the plasterers tried to hide.     smashed it. Less smashed the holes through the wall for the heatpump pipes  Just didnt pay attention and poo poo they needed to be higher to come through above the brickwork. I'll fill and make good.     Might get real stone floor tiles rather than porcelain? Found a place doing them cheaper than porcelain... theyre like twice the thickness of the porcelain which I have not allowed for.   But it sint an issue under doors  thats bit of wood is representative thickness But they wont slip in under the profile of the bifold doors  But I could just butt up against these
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If you're feeling confident just shave the stone slabs to go under that door edge with an angle grinder godspeed
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I dropped and broke some nice things a few weeks ago, I was really swearing at the kitchen floors which are tiled. I wish I'd gone with something else. Wood preferrably. Or vinly or plastic mat even.
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We have engineered wood-look flooring in all our rooms (the bathrooms have marble-look flooring) and it is comfortable and durable.
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Your loft looks a bit like the recently discovered void in the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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Dead Goon posted:Your loft looks a bit like the recently discovered void in the Great Pyramid of Giza. That would explain the foundations.
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tangy yet delightful posted:That would explain the foundations. As well as the curses.
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They sent a robot down one of the jeffreys tubes to see why such a small house needed so much infrastructure but turns out they just point at the stars in the constellation Cancer
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Yeah I've kind of gone full on-board with engineered materials for most flooring and surfaces. Especially vs. stone. Really porous and not resistant to staining, pain in the rear end to clean, easy to damage.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:So I adapted and I overcame. From a few pages back, but these are very serviceable joints. I'm not sure if your youtube videos suggested having a wet rag available to wipe the joint with after it's set, but that usually gets rid of beads like that. Having wet rags available to cover anything you don't want to get melted or scorched is going to be useful when you do all of the joints in the plant room. I recommend 100% cotton rags for this, as synthetics and blends can melt or catch fire if they dry out too much; cotton just smolders.
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I watched this guy some years ago and he seemed to know what he was doing. He prefers soldering over brazing and I used soft soldering to do joints for my homebuilt air compressor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJD712DB6S0
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A one hour YouTube video? Who has the attention span for something like that
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Starbucks posted:A one hour YouTube video? Who has the attention span for something like that Obviously you watch it at 2x so you get the full effect of Busta Rhymes teaching you plumbing
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Starbucks posted:A one hour YouTube video? Who has the attention span for something like that My brother in Christ that's all YouTube is trying to be now. Hbomberguy convinced like a quarter million people to watch him wax philosophic about Deus Ex for two hours and it opened the floodgates.
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Starbucks posted:A one hour YouTube video? Who has the attention span for something like that Somebody who really wants to do a good job Long form content rules, short form content is actually damaging to your brain and reduces your attention span.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Somebody who really wants to do a good job
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Starbucks posted:A one hour YouTube video? Who has the attention span for something like that How exactly do you think I get to sleep?
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His Divine Shadow posted:Somebody who really wants to do a good job It's this. Normalize long form content 
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Starbucks posted:A one hour YouTube video? Who has the attention span for something like that You do understand that YouTube has replaced TV for everybody under 40, right?
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Starbucks posted:A one hour YouTube video? Who has the attention span for something like that This house build is nearly into its fifth year and is on its 92nd page
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Gasmask posted:This house build is nearly into its fifth year and is on its 92nd page Yeah exactly. I haven't got the time for an hour long YouTube video.
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do both of those tanks in your plant room contain water? why do you not have them each in a pan that has a water sensor that can give you a notification if they leak? the pan will contain the possible leak, enough for the sensor to notify you and you can get there quick before the room fills up with water.
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Some Guy From NY posted:do both of those tanks in your plant room contain water? why do you not have them each in a pan that has a water sensor that can give you a notification if they leak? the pan will contain the possible leak, enough for the sensor to notify you and you can get there quick before the room fills up with water. What, you don't think the plants need water too?
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His Divine Shadow posted:Somebody who really wants to do a good job God save me from the 10 minute youtube video that should have been a two paragraph text document.
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Brazing copper pipe looks so satisfying. Is it as satisfying as it looks? I love soldering so I feel like it must be the same sorta experience.Liquid Communism posted:God save me from the 10 minute youtube video that should have been a two paragraph text document. I prefer this to the jump cuts every 2 seconds between someone's words, once I notice it I can't pay attention to anything else anyways. I also watch 24hr car races on youtube so I'm damaged.
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Sagacity posted:Somebody who can't edit and thinks everything they say is extremely important to the viewer I watched this entire video and I didn't feel any of it was pointless or badly edited. I really did feel he used his time without wasting it, he just had a lot of good info to impart.
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Turns out it's possible to have a 10 minute video that's all filler and a one hour video that's all killer, and vice versa.
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Jaded Burnout posted:Turns out it's possible to have a 10 minute video that's all filler and a one hour video that's all killer, and vice versa. Things can sometimes be good and sometimes be bad??? That goes against everything the internet has taught me.
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Feels like ~the algorithm~ very much favours an extremely frequent production-line of ten-minute videos, though, hence the proliferation of plagiarised and generated videos.
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You can just look at the little graph at the bottom now to scroll to the good bits of the videos.
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CancerCakes posted:Those stone floors will be a nightmare to clean in the kitchen area, and if you drop something on it will probably chip. I mean, that sounds like the perfect choice for this build Especially if he gets them cheap, with a good story
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And each stone has its own IP sub-address
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Failed Imagineer posted:And each stone has its own IP sub-address A really complex IPv6 setup would match the rest of the house perfectly. 
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NotJustANumber99 posted:You can just look at the little graph at the bottom now to scroll to the good bits of the videos. or, to each place where something was so unclear that viewers had to rewind repeatedly to try and get whatever happened in that one second that needed to be a lot clearer or to the end of each ad, lol but yeah long form videos can be great, sometimes a short video is best, etc. I agree with the notion that soldering some copper pipes up isn't that hard especially if they're all dry inside and you're not doing it on your back to pipes right above your face in an 18" crawlspace in January and having serious, deep thoughts about whether spending more money than you've ever had in your life for this cheaply-built 1948 house was merely a huge mistake, or the worst mistake you'd ever make Get a wet rag, try to test segments before you block them in so if a joint weeps you can get in there and solder it a bit more before it's totally inaccessible, and don't forget to stand up out of your horrible crouch every few minutes to let blood flow to your legs or you'll be a complete cripple by the end
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