I learned recently that a chunk of my zigbee gear actually runs on its own (not wifi) 2.4GHz.

So I decided that was a good excuse to turn off the 2.4 wifi.

I’ve also been quite tough on myself that all smart devices need to be Ethernet or Zigbee/Zwave.

It’s a great feeling, isn’t it?

A similarly good one is turning off the 2.4GHz wifi.

I am a creator!

Happy birdthday!

I think I recognise that fella, pretty sure he’s buzzed my bedroom window a few times.

For me, the price difference between chain pub food and nice resturant food is now too small as a percentage.
If I’m going out, and the choice is £20 a head in a half decent local restaurant, or £17.50 for something mediocre in a pub full of sports fans, it’s not a hard decision.

Same as happened with a lot of the fast food places: When you’re approaching “proper food” money, people will spend a couple of quid extra for something nicer.

My local does decent cheap food, and does well because of it. (And in this comparison, it’s the £12.50 option)

The ninjas will get you.

It also gives you a retreat space if you’d like to stay, but want half an hour to yourself midway through.

Never sample your own product, I guess.

Nowadays, unfortunately, the whole buying and selling process seems to get massively rushed (and changes to stamp duty won’t be helping the panic).

A good mortgage broker, particularly if you’re first time buying, saves a lot of work/stress while you’re juggling other things.
They (should) know what can and cannot be done, which can save you a lot of time during the search.
If you’d like to try an alternative, JustMortgages have been good in the past (not official advice or anything)
Although the guy I used to use there now has his own independent firm!.

I think Brum lives in the Cotswolds.
CT would never make it there, too many A roads.

The UK trots out legislation like this every few years.
So far, it’s not gone through.
However, to paraphrase a parasomething, “You have to defeat the proposal every time, we just have to make it law once”

Geralt is a very popular man.

80% of the noise over 75dB in a French city is two stroke petrol scooters going “baaaaaaababababbaaaaaaa” at 3 in the morning.

Pleasingly, most of the comments are people saying theirs if fine. For a change!

Honestly, this all just seems to stem from the ASHP breaking down, and possibly being undersized in the first place.
If it as having to run on resistive the whole time, then yea, it would cost a blooming fortune.

Building regs on heat retention have also tightened by 20% since 2020, so newer builds should require less to heat them now.

What I don’t get though, is that if it was a newbuild, would it not be covered by NHBC’s warranty? Which should include the heating system, unless it is already under another warranty.

Always nice to have a silver lining!
I really don’t want to think about a 10 year future where everyone has to go through this.

The bioaccumilation of PFAS in mortal blood is concerning for me and my colleagues.
It would be very sad to live for 600 years, only to be killed off by fire suppressant.

Somebody didn’t get the memo: OSB is not a sensible wall finish.

IIRC, the owner chose to support brexit because it might mean the UK implemented minimum alcohol pricing sooner, which might have increased his trade when the gap between supermarket and pub drinking got smaller.
It really rubbed me the wrong way that was his reason.

They’d catch a death of cold.