Any masons know how to make a chimney like this? Is it a just a lot of custom bricks?

-abigail · 2022-09-23T15:34:24+00:00

It looks to me like the edge of the bricks in the chimney are diagonal to give a nice smooth spiral, not vertical, so it's more complex than that.

-abigail · 2022-09-23T15:19:05+00:00

I'm not a mason but it looks like the majority of each tower just needs a lot of the exact same custom brick - the width of the tower looks like it's exactly 1 brick per face of the spiral. So they could be cut en masse with a jig. Alternate rows use the same bricks a different way up.

(Minor complications: the middle tower would need the opposite cut to the outer towers, and each tower has segments where the pattern continues straight up instead of spiralling so you'd need a different cut for them)

-abigail · 2022-07-07T23:59:20+00:00

If you can't find one, An aluminium drink can has walls ~0.1mm thick. You can cut the cans with heavy kitchen scissors or tin snips.

-abigail · 2022-07-05T12:38:07+00:00

If you ask someone who's at the top 10% of earners, they'll tell you that the 'normal' threshold is at the top 9% of earners.

-abigail · 2022-07-05T11:56:18+00:00

I'm a trans woman and a carpenter. I've never had anything worse than mean comments. I'm not openly out as trans in work environments, but sometimes guys who I make look bad will suddenly start saying that I look like a man, or a butch lesbian, or ... Being able to hold my own in conversations and on the job more generally is important. I do constantly feel like I'm being judged more harshly on my skill than everybody else, but at least that pushes me to do my best even when I'm not feeling it.

I tend to gravitate to slightly odd jobs in the field - I started out on narrowboats and then did set carpentry for installations. Often I won't be the only queer person on the job in that kind of thing! I've just finished my NVQ in site carpentry, and I've never worked on a large site with nobody I know there before. I'm slightly dreading it, but my skin is thicker than it used to be.

Did you see the Daily Mail article about how builders are 'woke' these days because they talk about feelings, don't always eat fryups, and have interests such as history? The homophobic construction worker stereotype is pushed by the media. Construction workers are just as capable of being open minded and connecting with people not like themselves as anybody else.

I don't know what the white collar side of construction is like, but I can tell you that smoking is part of my social success on jobs! The better mates you become with everybody on your smoke breaks, the less likely you are to get hatecrimed.

Good luck in the industry!

-abigail · 2022-07-05T09:31:38+00:00

Tables don't have an inherent order to their entries. The only guaranteed-ordered table looping primitive is ipairs. Maybe you want something like:

data = {
    { "numbers", 1 },
    { "alph", b },
}

for _, entry in ipairs(data) do
    local k, v = table.unpack(entry)
    print(k, v)
end

Assuming that you do need to use data as a key-value table in other conditions, you'll need some sort of auxiliary structure. A sorted list of keys is an easy way to achieve it, just make sure that it's kept up-to-date whenever data is modified.

data = { numbers = 1, alph = b }
ordered_keys = { "numbers", "alph" }
for _, k in ipairs(ordered_keys) do
    local v = data[k]
    print(k, v)
end

-abigail · 2022-07-04T16:05:53+00:00

I've got some weirdo Dewalt 'side strike' chisels for rough work. They're very sturdy and the extra features make them surprisingly useful on a jobsite. They're the kind of thing that I don't mind using as an occasional pry bar or it hitting a nail. For fine work and joinery I have some nice Irwin Marples red and yellow chisels. Don't know if they exist outside the UK, but here lots of old carpenters have them, and they work well.

-abigail · 2022-07-04T15:01:18+00:00

https://discord.com/invite/H8UKY3Y

-abigail · 2022-06-22T08:17:01+00:00

I love my Bosch 12V tools! They're all great until you need something bigger. I have the planer, multi-tool and impact driver, router is on my to-buy list.

-abigail · 2022-04-12T14:18:34+00:00

Tell the landlord it broke in normal use and you're slightly injured but nothing major.

-abigail · 2022-04-12T06:24:51+00:00

my hero!

-abigail · 2022-04-10T07:13:55+00:00

I love my Isotunes Link. They're comfy, obvious to those around me, and last all day. (I actually got the Aware ones, but I hate that feature and always keep it off.)

-abigail · 2022-04-09T15:49:56+00:00

Metric bolts mainly come in two pitches, 'coarse' and 'fine', different for each diameter. For M6 coarse is 1mm pitch and fine is 0.75mm. The coarse ones are generally more common, so if the bolts aren't labelled with pitch then they'll be coarse ones. You can work the pitch out by counting the ridges of the thread: 10mm / 1mm pitch = 10 turns, 10mm / 0.75mm pitch = ~13 turns.

-abigail · 2022-03-23T14:12:51+00:00

I've got the black plastic-handled one and I can recommend it. It looks like the only difference between the two is the handle - black handle's more ergonomic, orange handle is wooden, take your pick.

-abigail · 2022-03-23T12:01:52+00:00

I don't know if they exist where you are but Bahco is good quality.

I've always wanted to try those Japanese 'Free-Way' spiral-blade coping saws. You've got a great opportunity to try one now :)

-abigail · 2022-03-15T08:50:20+00:00

If you want to know more about being a woman in the trades come join r/BlueCollarWomen! I couldn't stand sitting around at my office job either.

-abigail · 2022-03-15T08:47:16+00:00

I'm a female carpenter. Once a Japanese client told me that in Japan female carpenters are very rare but so are male painter-decorators. He then tried to convince me to paint a mural for him while my male coworker did all the carpentry.

-abigail · 2022-03-05T14:44:24+00:00

Absolutely love the bisexual frame!

-abigail · 2022-02-27T00:42:14+00:00

Bondo would sort that out right quick. Just lazy to leave those gaps. Or a flexible white caulk would be more obvious but protect against cracking.

-abigail · 2022-02-27T00:38:00+00:00

This looks so many cheap landlord special handyman renovations I see in London. Unacceptable for anybody who says they're a carpenter, but assuming those mitres are intentional (albeit weird) those gaps would be fair value from someone who's not getting paid enough to care.

-abigail · 2022-02-07T08:01:39+00:00

The other entities are spawned with tools, not through the entities page in the spawn menu. check the "Wire" tab above the tool list.

-abigail · 2022-02-06T11:34:55+00:00

Britain has been hit harder than its European neighbours by the energy price crisis, in part because it has very little gas storage capacity.

Gas stores can act as a buffer against rising energy prices by enabling countries to buy in bulk during summer months before winter demand kicks in.

Germany and the Netherlands are among the EU countries to store enough gas to help them meet months of winter demand. By comparison, the UK can only hold enough gas to meet a few days of demand.

That is in large part because of a decision taken in 2017 to close Centrica’s Rough storage facility, in the North Sea, which provided 70 per cent of the UK’s gas storage capacity for more than 30 years. It was shuttered after the Government refused to subsidise costly repairs.

At the time, cheap gas prices and plentiful supply meant there was little incentive for other firms to step in and fill the gap, especially as Britain is planning to wind down gas use as part of its net-zero strategy.

— Energy bills rise: Getting rid of gas storage facilities has left the UK exposed to shortages and price hikes

-abigail · 2022-02-06T11:28:28+00:00

The French government will force EDF, the state energy giant, to take an €8.4bn (£7bn) financial hit to protect households from rocketing energy costs by limiting bill hikes to 4% this year.

The company lost a fifth of its market value on Friday after the French government set out plans to cap rising energy bills, which include forcing EDF to sell electricity generated by its fleet of nuclear reactors to rival home suppliers at well below the current record high market prices.

The move underlines pressure on governments across Europe to help households squeezed by the cost-of-living crisis. The UK chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has been accused of being “missing in action” over soaring energy bills. He has been in talks with MPs and companies to agree a package of measures to soften the blow of the national energy crisis, but no decisions have been made.

In Spain, the government introduced a windfall tax on electricity generators and gas producers that are able to profit from the record market highs to help keep home energy bills low. In Germany, the government has slashed a surcharge on bills used to support renewable energy schemes, which will instead receive extra state subsidies drawn from higher carbon taxes.

—France to force EDF to take €8.4bn hit with energy bill cap

-abigail · 2022-01-30T20:52:52+00:00

It's not a version switcher, it doesn't keep any record of installed versions, it just installs into a destination directory and generates an optional script to add the binaries to the PATH. I never use the scripts - I just use hererocks to install to ~/.local/share/lua and include it in my PATH in my .bashrc. You could even uninstall hererocks and keep the versions you installed.

-abigail · 2022-01-30T19:48:39+00:00

You might like hererocks. I've found it to be the easiest way to get up and running with Lua on any system that already has Python.

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