We might have to re-tile the house for various reasons , so were looking at the inset panels that replace tiles.

The salesmans figures were very funny – it was amazing how many things cut 30% off the bill

Voltage Optimiser – to reduce the voltage supplied to the house to 220v

Tado central heating controller – to reduce heating costs ?!

Hot water switch (save gas by using electric) ££

Solar income ££

electricity savings from solar ££

but crucially all of these were on a 9% inflator each year so by year 25 the  £68/year voltage optimizer savings are £430/year

Full system installation cost £15k !!!

Using the salesmans numbers the total savings / income of the system was £25k

Energy saving trust = £6k

But aside from all the fluff and waffle the solid point made was that domestic energy prices will go up as we have to pay for all the domestic feed-in tarrifs for others and the cost of building Hinkley power station.

I cant see that we will be going ahead

Freshly made Jam filled or ring only – certainly not custard filled

The commands look scary indeed

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<td class=””>Excludes extra files and directories.</td>
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<td class=””>Excludes “lonely” files and directories.</td>
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is it a lonely file??

I find mine were a bit too keen to try to hold the handlebars and would have had a go of the brakes if she could have reached them – but she has grown into a bit of a control freak so maybe it was just an early sign.

Second about the cold, especially as they are acting as wind break for you, but at least you can see them and notice this is happening – rather the point of having them sit where you can see them

As a hijack – I have one that needs a new home – based Guildfordish

Brakes would be another concern for me – a few hard long stops to get any corrosion off the face of the disk

and make sure that the handbrake works & releases

Take a good look around for perished rubber , hoses and gaiters / boots

From https://interactive.planningportal.co.uk/mini-guide/outbuildings/11

Outbuildings must be single storey with a maximum eaves height of 2.5 metres and maximum overall height of 4 metres with a dual pitched roof, or 3 metres in any other case.

If the outbuilding is within 2 metres of the property boundary the whole building should not exceed 2.5 metres in height.

Can you post a MumsNet link to what she is saying about you please  :-)

The size of the chasm between perceptions sounds quite epic

Based on the info in TilleyDogs chart

Your in-frame length limit of 260mm is the dimension E – all the posts require less space than you have so every post will fit your frame just fine.

However the distance between the top of the seat post clamp and the saddle rails of 150mm is dimension G

only one post (Kind shock Cobra) has a dimension that will fit. All the other posts are longer – even the 100mm reverb requires 170mm – ie if you tried to fit the 100mm travel reverb, your saddle would be 20mm too high.

The charger should have a label that should confirm that the center pin is positive.

If there has been a short circuit it might have tripped the protection board on the battery

sometimes this self-resets but I have had some that require to be put back on the charger to reset – (the point being that there will be no voltage on the battery output if the circuit has correctly protected the battery.

Morning commute – 20km in Surrey
Mostly just lots of huge twigs / branches on the road

But was surprised at some of the flooding

I guess it has been raining all night

At the less spendy end of things – the Lindy BNX-60 are about £60 and work pretty well – good on planes and for concealing mindless drivel in the office
I was persuaded by a good review in WhatHiFi

N

I ended up with an Orbea after much searching – I wanted something with nice short chainstays and good standover.
MX 24 (10speed deore + hydro-discs + alloy rigid fork) – the kit is all proper stuff – really pleased with it.
Will look into the chainring etc so see about changing for N/w
Wheels seem a bit heavier than i was hoping – might all be in the tyre

OK – Partial Update

I changed the gear back to a twist grip which did not actually make any improvement on the ability to change gear – so still need to improve.

I Took 7 speed cassette off and it is indeed a normal Shimano spine free-hub (almost) as it is a 7 speed one so a bit shorter than an 8,9,10 speed one.
I tried to fit a 9 speed XT casette but I can only fit 8 out of 9 sprockets on, so I might be able to bodge up an 8 speed using the limit screws but there is a nasty step-down of gears past the missing one gear.
Jump is from 15t to 11t lock-ring (13t removed)
so either get a 13t lock-ring (or machine down the 8speed 13t one I have)
or make up a basic 8-speed cassette with 9s spacing using all plain sprockets rather than the fixed xt spider.
alternatively, it might be possible to unscrew the freewheel from a spare shimano 9speed hub to allow all 9 gears to be used. But that depends on the same fixings on the free-hub and that there is not some further impact on wheel dishing or other clearance type things.
Need to get some more garage time.

Excellent – hope they use the same hubs

You save (2.25%-1.54%) on a big amount £60/month saving on £100k

You put £200/ month in an isa and earn bugger all

Flaperon – possibly the most informative thing on the Internet today :-)

Would explain last weeks 2am escapade
It would not explain the three flashes of light in rapid succession in the hallway though – proper freaked me out 8O

Thanks – what I am looking for is indeed the most worn sprockets , just it does not show up yet.
The gear calculators are good for working out when you are going fastest and when you are going slowest but it is hard to pinpoint those gears for a little bit uphill.
I downloaded a commute from strava and it gives power cadence and heart rate – but not speed?!
will try to look at the fit file – but you need a viewer for that

Strava insurance has an excess bigger than the garmin out of warranty replacement. ie pointless

I have had:
Garmin 305 – still working but too big to use
Garmin 305edge working great till lost in floods
Garmin 500 – still going strong
– needs to have all ant+ sensors connected before zeroing power meter
– curiously the battery value has started to say something other than 100%,
-faster connection of satellites would be nice
Garmin 520 – being delivered tommorow new @ £199
Garmin Vivoactive – very happy until I broke screen
Garmin 235 – to replace vivoactive – bit chunky

The only thing that plain did not work was the garmin scales that would not connect to my WiFi so now have withings scale

the hardware is good but the software could be so much better

N

“Paired” is I assume linking two together to form a stereo pair
which given that a Play 1 is about half the price of a play 3 it is not as wasteful as it first sounds

Sweethome3d

As above it should be in the contract that he removes all rubbish from the house at its sale.
Our seller was out the country and had a garage clearance company come round as his cost.

OK – £28 from evans – I can deal with that :-)
I was struggling as the only ones I was finding were I guess the last of the 29er race rims a bit too light and expensive.

Thanks

Deck it over with an inset trampoline

Assuming it is a town house with living area on the middle floor and beds on the top floor then I would be inclined to separate out those floors also.

I have a “dumb” two zone system that simply has thermostat on upper and lower hallways (two floor). It does not really achieve any benefit as it all comes on and goes off at the same time (driven by the single timer at the boiler) and there is too much crossover between the air that was heated by the downstairs radiators going upstairs and affecting the upstairs thermostat.

The benefit for hive & co is that you can have several time/temperature points during the day and so you can heat the downstairs in the early evening and then only heat upstairs before bed etc.

You might be able to get a timed wall thermostat that does that, but I suspect by the time you have two or three of them you have spent the same as hive where you get to do the timings on a nice app and not trying to program each thermostat by pressing “Prog” 16 times until screen show tmr then happy

Oh – the keys thing reminds me – our new house had been rented so we did not know how many keys were around with various agents and cleaners.
Pretty cheap to replace the locks – both the cylinder type and yale, you can replace the key bit only.

Pack all your valuables / holiday cash / handbag (yours and the wifes) put them in a bag and lock it in your car.
Also passports / ipads / ipods etc – but they are identifiable so less likely to be nicked.

Yes our removal men stole from us :cry:

& take a photo of the meter readings now – you wont remember on the day

I tried to fit an old 2*10 crankset (Campag 52/38) on my 26″ hardtail and the rings hit the chainstay.
So I have ended up making an old hybrid a v-brake drop bar commuter.
I have to admit it does roll faster -but I had a powertap on the 26″ and am missing not having it.

Well that was kind of where I was coming from-
The Hulls and the wing size and sail size is a fixed design. The stated aim of that is to reduce budgets – surely that is a good thing that you would vote to keep.
The only thing that can be changed is the foils and rudders
but when foiling they are the only bits in the water so in that sense the design is unrestricted.

There is a big difference in the performance of the foils and it is obviously not easy to get right bearing in mind that Martin Whitmarsh who did all the aero for Redbull F1 was working for BAR and they did not get it right.

So – Lets say TNZ hold it together and win.
They are the only team that has not signed up to the proposed new rules ( Basically the same boats again – AC competitions every two years with some world series type racing beforehand – much like this time).
However, they would have the right as winners to decide the rules of the next cup, they could decide to race it in Optimists in Alaska if they wished or back to big slow mono-hulls in 5 years time. (which would kill the commercial and technical momentum making it much harder to get sponsorship)
Does anyone know what it was they did not like about the proposed rules? do they just want them tweaked or are they going to junk them completely?

^^^ I did that – W10 image from Microsoft on a USB stick
It just worked – drivers and everything correctly picking up that the PC has a SSD system disc and two mirrored normal discs for data.
I would have been in trouble if I had to tell it to do that..

But to be sure might be worth going to the laptop manufacturer website and getting the drivers on another usb stick – hopefully wont need them.

This morning I tried to avoid a cow pat
Which not only did I fail to do but managed to wash out the front wheel and fall on the spikiest cheese-grater concrete farm track.

I am now sitting gently bleeding into my work shirt and trousers – and I need to straighten my mech hanger at lunch time. :cry:
And try to clean the cowpat off my camelbak and shirt

I use the Turnigy Accucel 6 but actually that Ripmax one looks to have similar capabilities.

The turnigy one needs a separate power brick to run it – might be worth checking if the ripmax one does also

Nick

For the cost of a bottle a month you could just buy the premium Diesel which I would have more confidence in.

Proper company – Normal UK delivery time – I have been using their forks for several years – still going strong and looking good.

If you have a main work bench then get a shelf above it and mount a strip of LEDs under the shelf, gives good task lighting to what you are working on and you dont block the light if you bend forward.

I need to improve on my main garage lighting which is three 21w florescent spirals, it needs to be cheap as it is non-permenant. I am thinking of getting some adaptors to fit two GU10 lamps in the ES24 holders. – will not be pretty but the rustic / shonky look fits in with the rest of the garage.

Just checking back to this thread as we did get ours fitted a couple of weeks ago. No real issues during the installation of the meter(s) I was only really thinking about the electric but of course there is one for gas also.

They (Southern Electric) give a little wireless monitor with a running total of the amount spent that day. Need to find instructions for the monitor as it appears to do other stuff.
We are on about £5 a day for a cool day and heading just over £7 for a bad cold day at the weekend.

so heating is our biggest variable – slightly confused by our boiler being serviced a week later and losing all the timings and temperatures.

I need to look at the kitchen cabinet lights as I now realize that they contain some halogens – had been using the cabinet lights as the dim kitchen lights option – but using more power than the main lights. :oops:

N

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Except it only lets you do an hour

Glad not to hear Horror stories – ours it getting fitted Thursday
But our supply looks a bit old skool as it goes into the existing meter
Not sure if they are going to object connecting it up.

@ Makecoldplayhistory

Glad you enjoyed it :D

Nick