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• Keeping your home warm / heating / energy crisis / insulation etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 22 hours, 36 minutes

  

  Does anyone do a vertical oriented triple panel radiator?

• Keeping your home warm / heating / energy crisis / insulation etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 17 hours

  

  Thanks, digging a bit further led me to speaking to a well informed local design/install company who's going to send me some info. He seemed to think their survey was free (by wrapping the cost into the price of the install). He had a look at our EPC on the phone and seemed to think we might be ok with the 22mm and that 10mm can even be made to work in some cases, but agreed that at the least it might be a sensible time to get a water supply up to the airing cupboard (something I hadn't thought of), decide where the heat pump would eventually go and install supply/return pipes, and upgrade any radiator pipework that needed it. Said it all hinges off the survey.

• Keeping your home warm / heating / energy crisis / insulation etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 22 hours

  

  We may well have to tear some ceilings as part of our renovation of our living space. Seems like a good opportunity to do some upgrades to plumbing with a view to a heat pump install further down the line, but I'm not really sure what's required or even the correct terminology.

  I do know our heating system isn't suitable currently: vented hot water tank, but would like to get the pipework in place now if possible & reap the benefits of a lower flow temp in the meantime. The upstairs radiators are ancient too so could probably do with being replaced.

  Is there such a thing as a 'standard' install that I can works towards? We currently have 10mm tails on rads and 22mm coming to and from the boiler (manifold?).

• Android phones, apps and tablets

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week

  

  I've got an old Zenpad I just found in a drawer. Is there anything I can do with it? 3rd party OS options seem to be out the window, maybe keep it off the internet & use as a plex remote?

• Keeping your home warm / heating / energy crisis / insulation etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 2 days

  

  Does this mean you designed the install, or the plumber did, and is there a way for me to imbibe this knowledge (reading list)? We're looking at a renovation to pay of our living space in which I'd written off UFH, but a redundancy payout means it might be obtainable now. Although EWI + air pump is out of reach for now I'd very much like to make decisions now which make it easier in the future.

• Fashion eyewear, NHS glasses, sunglasses and more

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 3 days

  

  Ok, got some non prescription Bollé Trackers from Screwfix, I think they'll work, they can be ordered with a prescription insert that sits in a groove on the bridge. My only concern is for fogging when used for sports, as they have a foam pad that sits close to the face and secures the inserts, good for DIY, not so much for ventilation. What I couldn't see online is exactly where they attach but it seems they clip in at the sides and at the bridge, so if needs be I could potentially cut away everything but the bridge and still be able to secure the prescription inserts I think. That should have me covered for sports and DIY in all weathers. Will just try with anti-fog initially though.

  Any recommendations for anti-fog treatments that also act as hydrophobic for the outside? Or am I looking at 2 separate products?

• Bread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 4 days

  

  agricultural soul health

  Was going to send this straight to the Waitrose thread before I realised the typo.

• Fashion eyewear, NHS glasses, sunglasses and more

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 4 days

  

  Anyone using safety glasses for cycling/running? I used to do this with cheap safety glasses from Screwfix + contacts, but I'm thinking about getting prescription ones so they're easier to throw on (for DIY too as that's where the majority of damage happens to my specs I think).

  Any recommendations? Have just ordered a load of 2nd hand frames before and sent back the ones I didn't like, but not sure that'll be possible with these. Thinking something along the lines of these:

  

• Internet Of Things / IoT / Connected Home / Smart Houses

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 weeks

  

  Yeah, as basic as it gets. Heat pump is a way off, need to get the house up to scratch thermally first which is probably not far off 10 years away realistically.

  @jellybaby because the door is always open so the cat can get to 'his' bed of course.

  I'm not sure I'm sold on having individual TRVs though I realise that's the major benefit of that kind of system. Maybe I just need a slightly better dumb thermostat with a weekend programme.

• Internet Of Things / IoT / Connected Home / Smart Houses

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 weeks

  

  What's the state of play with smart thermostats in 2025? I have an ancient dumb thermostat that needs upgrading, would go full @ectoplasmosis eventually and do EWI, HVAC & heat pump, though for the moment it'll just be the convenience of having the heating come on an hour later at the weekend.

  Leaning towards Wiser because of local control, cheap & good integration with HA if I get into that.

  Can't tell if theirs has Matter, or if it... matters.