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I've been in this house for a year and one side has been empty the whole time. If the other one was too I could crank it. I'd be happy if I could play well enough to match your "clangers". Nice amp, nice playing.

How do you get away with playing that loud in a terrace house? I have a Champ from a similar vintage and I never dare get past 1, which means it sounds really meh. I just bought a solid state Fender Sidekick so I can play even quieter.

Has anyone ever used Foresso?

https://foresso.co.uk/pages/about-foresso

We want to use it for worktops. They seem to have a calculator online where you put in all the measurements, cut-outs etc and they deliver you the exact shape you need. I don't see how there's any chance of that actually fitting in real life. Presumably the move is to order a sheet and have your kitchen fitters cut it?

Well, keep the updates coming. And don't zap yourself.

Mad scientist stuff. If you chase a flat response that obsessively is there a risk that it creates a really sterile amp, though? Like monitor speakers, sort of thing? I have no idea, by the way. Just a question.

Trying to. It's just one step forward, one step back, a third of a step forward, then a 360 spin, then picking a random direction and doing four steps. Very bored of it.

Just found out that the wood cladding we were going to use no longer passes fire regs and won't get signed off by building control. Architect says it just happened, but who knows. Cladding company can fire-proof a different tongue-and-groove cladding but that doesn't work for our concealed gutter plan which has gaps between boards. So now architect is thinking we'll use tongue-and-groove but have a concealed gap between roof and front wall to allow water to drop into gutter. Getting very bored of the ups and downs of this project now.

Absolutely fair enough. It's a lovely thing and you're doing right by it. Each to their own, right?

This is exactly what I want, and nowhere near as good as it needs to be yet. But it's very cool. Nice to know that I'll be able to get a good one eventually. I play chess every day on chess.com but don't like having to do it through a laptop.

450 seems steep - does it have nibs on the binding that they want to keep? I'd be tempted to lose them for a cheaper job and a more playable result. I know they're fancy but they just seem like faff and rougher bend to me.

Ooh, spendy. And a bit clunky looking. But yeah, it does the thing. Shame that there isn't more demand for these so that they can make them good.

I was looking at those while trying to find what I was after, before I posted here. But from what I saw on YouTube you still have to move the opponent's piece which makes it pretty redundant IMO. I want to sit at the table with no laptop, press a "start new 10 min game" button and play as if someone was there with me.

Does anyone know if there's a physical board that can connect to Chess.com that will relay your moves to an online game, and physically move the opponent's pieces when they move? If so I'm buying it right now. If not, can someone please make it happen?

We started looking at custom ply kitchens for our place, then custom doors for IKEA cabinets, and we've finally settled on an IKEA kitchen with a ply/formica worktop because life's too short and kitchens are too expensive.

Oh, we've had that. All the joists downstairs were rotten and got replaced, then insulation went in as well as a total re-wire and re-plumb of the house. Upstairs the floors are a bit slanted but putting them totally level would basically mean taking the house apart, so we're going for flat-but-not-level up there. But in a week or two it should all look like nothing's been done to the floor in years.

Floorboard guy is in this week (and we're out). They've definitely had a long, hard life but I'm here for the derelicté vibe of it.

Our rear downpipe does duty for two houses in one direction and one in the other. I'm plumbing in a 200 litre water butt and hope it to be full a lot of the time.

I'm so here for this.

This. Obviously there are limits: don't install diamond floor tiles in a 2-bed semi. But we're removing a bedroom and making things to suit our lifestyle with our current work, and it would limit value to some families I suppose.

It's pretty easy to retrofit, just not aesthetically pleasing. A guy on my road has slapped 20cm of insulation on the outside of his and rendered over it. Looks like a brand new house. Do that all the way around and sort the roof insulation and you're golden. The house just looks like a dull rectangle with none of the original features. And is still crumbly and crap on the inside!

I don't know that you couldn't. Would the council really say no? None of the houses on my street are listed or protected. They let people pave over the front gardens, turn them into 6-bed HMOs (basically battery hen living), pebble dash them, whatever. I'm sure they'd let you knock one down.

Downstairs feels really different. Hard to explain, but it feels more still, and muffled. You can definitely sense the insulation under the floor. I think it should be much more comfortable. The thermostat is showing higher indoor temperatures but it's really hard to compare like for like with weather changing.

No. They're not insulated anywhere at all so the whole wall is a cold bridge. The windows will be the only insulated part. Got to love Victorian houses. The downstairs extension is ludicrously well insulated - you can almost feel the bulk of it when you're in there, it sort of deadens sound too. But the rest of the house leaks heat terribly.

Humbling how London moves on. I'm sure people passing by who know will be touched by your gesture.

I like the texture but they let very little light through. One bonus is you can't see what the builders have done to my garden anymore.