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Considering the footprint of this L shaped monstrosity I am surprised you have not got in roof solar / solar heating / battery.
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Berserker robomower smashing straight through the glass to unload a bunch of wet logs on your kitchen floor
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# ? Jul 23, 2023 22:26 |
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99 explains the house layout to a panel of electricians
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# ? Jul 23, 2023 22:41 |
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Starbucks posted:Considering the footprint of this L shaped monstrosity I am surprised you have not got in roof solar / solar heating / battery. Change Order coming in
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# ? Jul 23, 2023 22:47 |
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totally going to get a battery, solar is a scam, also the lady next door has planted trees to hide me which will shade all my roof.
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# ? Jul 23, 2023 22:49 |
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there's pretty cool underground heat storage options these days, might be interesting heat is energy so you're basically building a big battery. trust me.
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 04:24 |
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I assume the historical society that insisted on rare mismatched roofing tiles would never countenance the horrors of modernity that are rooftop solar panels anyway underground heat storage just requires thermal mass, and I know where NJAN99 has like thirty pillars of thermal mass driven into the ground, just run water pipes down each one right, how hard could it be
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 05:40 |
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Theres also some missing elements like there will inevitably be a straight up electric immersion heater in the hot water tank for emergencies. this feels extremely optimistic about the capabilities of "smart" home technology. like, "JEFF BEZOS SHOWS YOU HIS ZERO-EMISSIONS SMART HOUSE" on some light program/entertainment tonight poo poo
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 06:07 |
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i'm sure NJAN99 will be coding his smart house himself, surely
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 06:12 |
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or perhaps he'll hire a python programmer off ebay
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 06:13 |
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Leperflesh posted:or perhaps he'll hire a python programmer off ebay Bargain. Also, what happened to middle guy?
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 08:37 |
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They refactored him out.
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Jaded Burnout posted:what happened to middle guy?
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 10:29 |
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Mission: Impossible 8!
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 11:50 |
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So this system will be able to recognize, isolate, and prioritize situations where you're running UFH in cooling mode but also taking a hot shower and drawing down your tank? That sounds cool but also like a bit of a headache to set up.
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 12:43 |
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Sarah Bellum posted:This is where he posts the end result: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3819901&pagenumber=168&perpage=40#post492921243 I’m glad “goon converts his bathroom into a loving DOOM level to enhance sex appeal” gets reposted every couple years. Cause I remember broad strokes like intentionally sabotaging the joists under his weird gravel tub but miss the finer details. The blood red shades Docjowles fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Jul 24, 2023 |
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I can't wait for the electricity price arbitrage shenanigans featuring code bought from some bloke off ebay at a motorway services.
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 14:50 |
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Sarah Bellum posted:This is where he posts the end result: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3819901&pagenumber=168&perpage=40#post492921243 I'm really upset about the misaligned but identical tiles on the wall / floor.
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Raised by Hamsters posted:So this system will be able to recognize, isolate, and prioritize situations where you're running UFH in cooling mode but also taking a hot shower and drawing down your tank? That sounds cool but also like a bit of a headache to set up.
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 15:38 |
NotJustANumber99 posted:
Eh it's just differential movement. Completely inevitable when you have a real wood panel in a real wood door. Caulk and paint it, no probs*. *You might have to do it again at some point.
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 15:39 |
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Docjowles posted:I’m glad “goon converts his bathroom into a loving DOOM level to enhance sex appeal” gets reposted every couple years. Cause I remember broad strokes like intentionally sabotaging the joists under his weird gravel tub but miss the finer details. The blood red shades bEamtesterJ
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 16:52 |
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yeah that's basically a design flaw. This style door: was traditionally built with floating panels, like this: The panels are the wide bits of wood that will expand and contract the most with moisture changes, and since they "float" e.g. are not nailed or screwed or glued in, they can do that without cracking the frame apart. They could still split the paint, but that was acceptable compared to destroying the door. NNJAN99's door having all those vertical slats made of real wood basically guarantees that with moisture changes they're going to shift and separate, but the cracks will be way more visible because the pieces don't slot into each other, they're just like... adjacent. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Jul 24, 2023 |
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vanity slug posted:I'm really upset about the misaligned but identical tiles on the wall / floor. There's literally no way to know where a tile will end up.
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 17:33 |
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How does one extract energy from an octopus, anyway?
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Muir posted:How does one extract energy from an octopus, anyway? very carefully
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 18:12 |
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I guessing the main pump should go on the cold side between the two valves there. The question will be if you ever want to run any of those modes at the same time. Whats the controller for all this? Is it some sort of industrial PLC, or is this running off a raspberry pi. Id probably do the same stuff as you (fan of the ethernets everywhere), and Id buy an ebay PLC with an HMI running Node Red so it can notify me and shut down if there are any goofy ebay valves that are not opening and my pump is deadheading into the heatpump. However, I am a controls engineer by trade so take that what you may.
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 22:29 |
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A housebrain programmed mostly by chatGPT acting as an interface between alexa and some binary slam valves.
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 22:35 |
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Muir posted:How does one extract energy from an octopus, anyway? Overnight when it's cheapest.
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 22:46 |
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Leperflesh posted:yeah that's basically a design flaw. This style door: lol was just explaining frame and panel to an architect in my job where i talk to architects about millwork and casement.
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 23:10 |
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blindjoe posted:Whats the controller for all this?
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 23:16 |
Leperflesh posted:NNJAN99's door having all those vertical slats made of real wood basically guarantees that with moisture changes they're going to shift and separate, but the cracks will be way more visible because the pieces don't slot into each other, they're just like... adjacent. Nah it's likely that the panel will still be a panel, in that it'll be a separate piece of wood that'll sit into a rebate, i.e. the panel will slot into the stile - you shouldn't be able to ever see daylight through a door like that. I think it's partially that doors like that would more usually be internal and/or would be either oiled or unfinished. The parts would be oiled before the door was put together (or at least before the panel was put in - if it's a beaded/nailed panel rather than a built-in panel). If it's oiled before assembly and the panel swells/shrinks you won't notice it because the parts will just slide past each other. Often these days with painted finishes, the door is only painted after assembly, and that's when you see the cracking of the paint finish. It can also happen to some extent even if you do paint the components before assembly 'cause modern paints will sort of cause two contacting painted surfaces to stick together, and it can still look like poo poo if a panel and door parts move separately. I've worked for a timber window/door manufacturer for ~18 years and it's basically just accepted that if you have a timber panel within a door you're gonna get some amount of differential movement between the pieces and have to do some refinishing. Also I was in charge of site visits for remedials for about 5 years so went out and saw tons of doors and windows etc. that had been installed anywhere from a few weeks to ~10 years (typically on the latter ones, our warrantees had run out but it was where the customer had e.g. bought some windows from us, then some years later also bought a conservatory). Generally, from what I've seen, after a door has been installed and acclimatised to its surroundings for a while, they won't move much after that. Usually they settle down after going through their first winter>summer or summer>winter cycle.
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# ? Jul 25, 2023 05:21 |
vanity slug posted:I'm really upset about the misaligned but identical tiles on the wall / floor. Nobody can predict where the tiles will go
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# ? Jul 25, 2023 05:54 |
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TheMightyHandful posted:Nobody can predict where the tiles will go -comments on a settled video
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# ? Jul 25, 2023 06:18 |
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WhatEvil posted:Nah it's likely that the panel will still be a panel, in that it'll be a separate piece of wood that'll sit into a rebate, i.e. the panel will slot into the stile - you shouldn't be able to ever see daylight through a door like that. I think it's partially that doors like that would more usually be internal and/or would be either oiled or unfinished. The parts would be oiled before the door was put together (or at least before the panel was put in - if it's a beaded/nailed panel rather than a built-in panel). If it's oiled before assembly and the panel swells/shrinks you won't notice it because the parts will just slide past each other. Often these days with painted finishes, the door is only painted after assembly, and that's when you see the cracking of the paint finish. It can also happen to some extent even if you do paint the components before assembly 'cause modern paints will sort of cause two contacting painted surfaces to stick together, and it can still look like poo poo if a panel and door parts move separately. That's good to know, that they're not just planks butted against each other, but the beauty of the floating panel is that the piece that expands and contracts does not actually press against adjacent pieces and while paint may split, there's no visible gap. It really looks like NJAN99's door has pieces that are flush and leave a visible dark gap when they contract after expanding. Even if it's not structurally unsound, I think that's poor design. Even if the gap gets painted after stabilizing it'd still be a visible gap unless you fill it with something.
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# ? Jul 25, 2023 19:44 |
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I've got more door issues. So getting this cheap plant room door installed. They've smashed these nails in. So I've tidied that up with some filler and sanding Bought probably the wrong paint. And my compressor driven paint sprayer thing obviously wasn't cleaned out very well cos it looks poo poo Also for whatever reason they didnt finish the door? Gotta cut these sticky out bits off? Same with the frame that needs glueing together. and paint the same, plus the drip guard thingy which also needs cutting to length. Of course I spray dust and poo poo all over each element thats just been painted as I paint the next one. Ideal. Its a midget door, but necessarily I guess. I think it will all work out What I don't get is the drip tray thing that gets stuck on at the foot of the door. But at the bottom of the door there isnt, externally a horizontal member so its the two slightly proud side verticals with the inset verticals between. So the drip guard thing is going to not fit nicely against it, flexing and leaving gaps? WTF? See the difference here between top and bottom of the door? Anyway also tidied plantroom as tomorrow should finally be the day of electrician visit!
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# ? Jul 25, 2023 23:20 |
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Can you set up a camera to record the look on their face when they see that the first time for us? The thumbnail for that image looked like the scrap wire bin in a panel shop.
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# ? Jul 25, 2023 23:56 |
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He’ll probably tip off George Clarke
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# ? Jul 26, 2023 00:12 |
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Just curious but why are you using what looks like Walmart store brand spray paint instead of exterior grade stain
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# ? Jul 26, 2023 00:22 |
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I think I've exaggerated my door price. Like that thing where you are annoyed and every time you mention it you add 500 quid. So I think the pair, front and back door were 3.5 k for the pair. Completely reasonable.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:
Unless you've got a real firm grasp of indoor humidity and dewpoint, don't do this. Unless you want to make water in places it shouldn't be.
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