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- Comment on The grand prize 3 weeks ago:
Possible but the expense ruined my plans in the end… I did consider collecting broken tungsten end mills and inserts from machine shops and throwing them in molten lead, like croutons in a lead soup.
- Comment on The grand prize 3 weeks ago:
I really wanted to use Tungsten as the base ballast for a custom narrowboat, for better headroom. Other than the cost you also have the problem of tungsten’s melting point being so high you can’t pour it into a boat hull without melting through.
- Comment on 'Botched insulation means mushrooms grow on my walls' 1 month ago:
I’m not aware of any insulation and rendering options that allow breathability of the sub structure. This is why any internal leaks need to be fixed and rising damp needs to be mitigated with DryRods.
Pretty much the only buildings that cannot be insulated without a massive amount of work is where the floor of the building is sitting in groundwater without a waterproofing membrane.
- Comment on 'Botched insulation means mushrooms grow on my walls' 1 month ago:
I agree, but then articles like this are the reason these people are so annoyed at the installers, they make it sound like there are mysterious procedures and practices which are not being followed, while failing to detail any of them and making the problem worse.
Anyone reading this will only ever come to the conclusion that they had a bad installer and won’t want their help, all while their house is turning into a stroganoff.
- Comment on 'Botched insulation means mushrooms grow on my walls' 1 month ago:
I know a lot about building and insulation. The most likely cause of this is pre-existing damp that was just exasperated by the insulation making it warm on top of the damp.
If there is any sign of “rising damp” the modern way of dealing with it is by installing a layer of DryRods, however if the insulation was installed during a particularly dry period there might not have been evidence of a pre-existing problem.
Other than that possibility it could be an unrelated pipe leak, physical damage to the insulation and render, or an issue with the guttering.
Finally cold-bridging where a portion of the envelope of the house is I insulated and forms condensation, this is pretty much the only issue which could be a mistake on behalf of installer, but even then it should be obvious and made worse by failing to open windows or turn on extractors when showering, drying washing or cooking.
Any of this information could have been in the article, it’s absence is suspicious. Whatever the reason the first thing you need to do is let the contractor investigate.
- Comment on 'Botched insulation means mushrooms grow on my walls' 1 month ago:
It sounds like the company is offering to come back and fix whatever problem is causing the damp but the homeowner is refusing to let them fix it. Sounds like they’re just idiots.
The article doesn’t say what installation standards are not being adhered to. It’s not rocket science, you take insulation boards, you glue or screw or both to the house and you mesh ad render over the top. It sounds like whoever wrote this didn’t do much investigation.
- Comment on Government pledges nearly £22bn for carbon capture projects 1 month ago:
What a waste of money, ask any independent climate scientist what you could could spend £22bn on, carbon capture and storage wouldn’t even be in the top 100 suggestions.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Thermoelectric cooling: it's not great. 1 month ago:
Some power tips…. F12 opens and closes the console window, and in Brave browser at least it remembers your last command so you can just press the up arrow and enter to run the last command. YouTube will reset to 2.0x on each new video as that is their highest value. There are browser extensions that can do all this for you but every new extension is another possible attack vector or potentially malicious party you are adding to your digital world.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Thermoelectric cooling: it's not great. 1 month ago:
Er… I’ve only ever tried 2.x-3.x.
All work… some creators speak fast and I’m limited to 2.8, but others I have at 3.5 or 3.8.
Not pushed it further than that but if you want to try 1.7*10^308 you do you my dude!
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Thermoelectric cooling: it's not great. 1 month ago:
TBH it’s well worth the 30mins… or 15mins at 2x… or if your Chrome console-fu and listening skills are high enough just 10mins with “$(‘video’).playbackRate=3.0”
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Thermoelectric cooling: it's not great. 1 month ago:
These devices always remind me of these guys trying to make Solid State Refrigerant: www.exergyn.com I suspect they fall into the same category of “neat concept but commercially useless”
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Thermoelectric cooling: it's not great. 1 month ago:
Just because you want it to be hot back there doesn’t mean we all do.
- Comment on New Technology Connections: Door closers: ubiquitous, yet unloved and often maladjusted 2 months ago:
This guy I swear is looking at my internet search history… The closers most popular around here are the sprung chains in a cylinder hidden in the hinge style. Not sure they have close/latch speed options though. I need to sort out my garage and stairs fire doors, as they are currently always held open by a fire extinguisher (for irony) and a stuffed dog respectively.
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch Accepts £10,000 From Chair of Tufton Street Climate Denial Group 2 months ago:
Maybe, but if you are a disgusting human being anyway you may as well do everything they want and they might give you another 10k next year.
- Comment on Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about 4 months ago:
I’ve put 500mm of insulation in the loft, plenty of mistakes made there.
Just managed to get an electric awning to go over the lounge window for £140, fingers crossed it all goes well and if so I’ll do the upstairs windows too.
15 more things on the list though.
- Comment on Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about 4 months ago:
I’ve been planning for the last year some eco home upgrades, and awnings on the south facing windows are high on the list. With so many possible upgrades and so little money it’s difficult to know what to do first.
- Comment on better out, than in 11 months ago:
But there is an element of fun about being defenestrated
- Comment on Is it safe to use pans with peeling nonstick coating? 11 months ago:
That’s the stuff, serves me right for only half paying attention to a documentary. Either way I’ll probably steer clear of Teflon pans in future.
I did try to find ScotchGuard a few years ago when I got a new Sofa (Couch for the Americans) and I found it was discontinued because it was probably just PFOA in a spray bottle :)
- Comment on Is it safe to use pans with peeling nonstick coating? 11 months ago:
There was that town in the US where 3M dumped PTFE into the rivers and it made it into the drinking water, I watched a documentary where people in that town have a cancer rate 169 times the national average. IIRC
PTFE is one of the greatest chemicals to ingest… if you want to grow some extra body parts.
- Comment on Petition: Call an immediate general election 1 year ago:
Don’t let prefect be the enemy of good. Right now Sunak is enriching himself and his friends with corrupt policies (HS2 Land sale, India trade agreement, net zero rollback, etc.) if Starmer did that Labour would be minced by the press. Better to have a (so far) non corrupt leader who will be held to account.