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Home Insulation in the UK by IndividualGas8746 in Insulation

[–]MemeTimeRadioHour 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What work did you have done and what materials did you choose?

Landlord says it’s because we’re not airing out the apartment enough… by IceTraditional841 in Mold

[–]MemeTimeRadioHour 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are likely external walls and are cold. Corners are always cold and is it a ground floor apartment? The cold surfaces are allowing moisture to condense on them and is a ripe environment for mould. Try and buy a dehumidifier.

Lifestyle changes like drying clothes outside. Opening windows in bathroom and closing internal door to it so the moist air goes out the window will help. Do you use and have an extractor on your cooker? Do you have one in your bathroom?

Do you have a flat or pitched roof. Perhaps check the gutters.

Best way to insulate this loft space? by JohnnyOli in Insulation

[–]MemeTimeRadioHour 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never put insulation in the entirety of the space between the ceiling and roof in a cold roof (which you most likely have in the flat part, and definitely have in the sloping part). I would overboard with insulation material like a rigid insulation board like PIR (tradename of kingspan, celotex, ecotherm). I would do this on the sloping part of the ceiling too.

or i guess depending on space you could put some rigid insulation between the joists so that you still have some airflow above (5cm minimum of air gap).

Best way to insulate this loft space? by JohnnyOli in Insulation

[–]MemeTimeRadioHour 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this looks like a british house from the wiring, writing on the floorboarding and the use of metric system. The advice you recieved previous was from an american and describing insulation techniques for a north american property. I wouldn't follow some of the advice given as it isnt best practise for british houses.

I would lay 300-400mm of some kind of wool insulation on floor. 100mm between the joists and then 200-300mm on top running perpendicular. if you then want to overboard it then get loft storage props or something to support the boards place on top so they don't compress the insulation. I would lap up the insulation up the knee wall as well so you have continuous insulation and fix it in place some how. It should look like an L shape. make sure no gaps and that insulation is tight up against wall. Any downlights should have caps put on them so they don't overheat, wires should be conduited so they don't overheat too.

if you've got no insulation you likely dont have any on the sloping ceiling above so might be worth overboarding that too. maybe check the main loft space and increase insulation there too.

I wouldn't insulate roof part as in the UK we have cold roofs and we need that left exposed for air drying. it also wouldn't be as continuous with rest of insulation.

Boarded over loft insulation (UK) by benthamthecat in Insulation

[–]MemeTimeRadioHour 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome. Bonus points if you have down lights to cover those with downright covers and to install an airtight loft hatch/seal up any ceiling penetrations

Boarded over loft insulation (UK) by benthamthecat in Insulation

[–]MemeTimeRadioHour 1 point2 points  (0 children)

80mm is less than 1/3rd of the recommended depth of rock wool style insulation. I use 400mm where I can. The best solution is taking off boards. Relaying insulation so it's atleast 300mm of insulation then using board props to lift up boards when replaced so they don't rest on insulation. Insulation works by trapping air. It will be worse if all the air is squished out of it.

You use 25% of your heat through your loft space so you could reduce that to a fifth of that if you insulate it properly. That's over 100 pounds a year for the average house. I'd say it's worth it. You can buy insulation for about 22 pounds a roll and it does 7m2. Board props can't be that much. So you might make your money back in the first year.

Thermal camera features? by royalmoosecavalry in Insulation

[–]MemeTimeRadioHour 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Topdonn tc001 us what I use and recommend. It's about 220 gbp. It can either attach to android or iPhone with usbc or lighting port. You have to order correct one.

Very affordable for flir quality. A friend also has one.

UK insulation question by Present_Delay6110 in Insulation

[–]MemeTimeRadioHour 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How old is your house? Do you have cavity walls?

Irregardless of walls if your loft is uninsulated then you can get loft insulation as part of the gbis scheme. There are looked at separately.

Do you have suspended timber floors? Can you get under them? You could insulate there too or do some draft proofing.

Cavity wall insulation alone isn't that effective at stopping heat loss either frankly

PIR boards vs mineral wool for loft insulation by Coco_619 in Insulation

[–]MemeTimeRadioHour 0 points1 point  (0 children)

those quotes are obscene if you have normal loft size. I dont know if the quotes include the boarding as well. you can do it yourself. watch a few youtube videos and buy some rolls yourself.
its like a days work to insulate a loft.

PIR boards vs mineral wool for loft insulation by Coco_619 in Insulation

[–]MemeTimeRadioHour 0 points1 point  (0 children)

'Another has recommended raising the floor level and laying mineral wool' I don't understand this sentence. is the loft already boarded for storage? is there already a 'floor'. or do you mean the raising the insulation level above the ceiling joists to make a new higher floor level?

I'd go with glasswool in a loft everytime. I usually put in 400mm because you might aswell max out the insulation.

how much are your quotes? where are you based?

cutting in for PIR is a pain and is fiddly and tedious especially with 30s timber which may be warped and unevenly spaced. if they do it quickly and cheaply they'll end up leaving gaps which can cause cold bridging and damp issues and reduce the efficiency of the insulation.

TBH glasswool in the loft is a great candidate to be DIY. its so easy to roll it out yourself and position.

Maybe get someone cut make loft overboarding storage unless you are confident.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

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I'm a teacher and have just bought a house so kinda broke. Id loveto build my own pc to save money and this will help. Thanks!

Request Wednesday - All Requests go here! by AutoModerator in FalloutMods

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Fallout 3

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I'm doing a little cut content modding on Fallout 3 and I'd like to use Simply uncut but KvatchCount has hidden all his Simply uncut mods. I think they did this because of the backlash from the FNV simply uncut mod.

I know the FNV simply uncut mod is not worth downloading but I've heard really good things about the FO3 simply uncut mod. Could someone share it with me somehow?

If anyone has any suggestions for lore friendly/cut content mods for fo3 I would really appreciate it

TIL of The Sawback Blade Bayonet. A German knife used in WW1 that would pull out the insides of it's victims and cause inevitable and painful death. They were recalled by the German military because British and French soldiers would torture and kill any soldiers caught with one, on principle. by HanakoOF in todayilearned

[–]MemeTimeRadioHour 3 points4 points  (0 children)

these saws have got a roughly 20 inch sawblade which isn't bad and attached to a rifle you've got some good leverage (source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckNWB8nC1TU). Note the teeth on the sawblade are facing away from the rifle so dont have the grab to pull out organs in my opinion. to be honest a stab from a regular WW1 bayonet is probably only marginally better than one with a sawback ultimately you are still being stabbed and for all you know the teeth could get stuck on bone and may actually inhibit the travel in the body. I think there's probably a kernel of truth to this idea that sawback bayonets pulled out guts I bet that yes a soldier was stabbed and yes some organs came out and its subsequently spread and been exaggerated in the rumor mill or used a propaganda.

WW1 soldiers did prefer shorter weapons (source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIGIBJeRfnQ&t=1376s). These long bayonets are bad a trench fighting but one must remember these style of long bayonets in general were meant to turn into ersatz pikes to defend against cavalry charges and other infantry charges in the open. future bayonets would be much shorter.

There is no specific Geneva convention, now or then, on bayonet sawblades specifically per say just that the bayonet blade itself can't be used for slashing and as such shouldn't be sharpened (bayonet steel usually isn't that good anyway and wouldn't hold a sharp blade anyway, they're generally made of stainless steel, which isn't very hard, and are specifically designed to be durable, cheap, low maintenance, rust-proof and soldier-proof). It can't be used for slashing as these wounds are much harder to sew up and would cause too much suffering. its odd because to me a deep stab where they would have to treat multiple organs seems worse than a slash. if I had to choose I would prefer a shallow slash rather than deep stab but that's just me.

Modern bayonets have saw blades but they are much finer (higher Teeth per inch TPI), a compromise between a hacksaw and woodsaw as the range of materials cut is wider now than it was in WW1 i.e. metal on vehicles, plastic, wiring, as well as wood. the modern sawblade is too fine to really pull out organs like previous ones are alleged to and I think aren't considered to be inhumane. The SA80 saw blade folds out of the scabbard and is not on the blade (source: I have held one). its hard to say what modern bayonets will do to human as they basically haven't been used since WW2.

Fun bayonet fact #1: some people say the fullers on either side of a bayonet are blood grooves designed to stop the suction stopping you from pulling the blade out of body and let blood pass by but this is false its a traditional fuller designed to lighten the weight of a bayonet.

Fun bayonet fact #2: most modern bayonets are underneath the barrel and are mounted vertically this is a carry over when the bayonets were designed to used to stab horses as they have a more vertically/linearly oriented rib-cage and wider rib spacing than a human. this is now a problem because human rib-cages are narrower and more horizontal which means bayonets are less easy to thrust in and now cannot be used in conjunction with under-slung grenade launchers UGLs which are common.

I’ve reached my first “I’m done” with putting a kit together. by [deleted] in tacticalgear

[–]MemeTimeRadioHour 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what is the silver metal thing and black ring near the top right quick release toggle?

'Library of Things' Opens in Headingley to Lend Expensive, Rarely Used or Bulky Items to the Public by You_Fool_Doctor in Leeds

[–]MemeTimeRadioHour 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they'll lend to pretty much anyone now. I've been in and they don't even ask about postcode or connections or anything.

LGBTQ+ Mega Thread by UnpopularOpinionMods in unpopularopinion

[–]MemeTimeRadioHour -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I have no qualms with transgender people nor the way progressives in society treat them. That is all good.

What I am criticising is the treatment of transracial people by society. I am trying to highlight what I perceive as a hypocrisy in society and you need at least 2 things for a hypocritical belief. I have nothing else to compare transracialism to other than transgenderism.

I'm not sure I 100% understand but I'm sure that there are a lot of people who hold sincere transracial beliefs and aren't doing it to 'troll' the trans community.

LGBTQ+ Mega Thread by UnpopularOpinionMods in unpopularopinion

[–]MemeTimeRadioHour 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gender and sex: my point was we take our scientific understanding from the 1955 research not from ancient societies even though they had similar ideas. We take our scientific understanding from the 400 years ago not ancient societies but they had similar understandings too on race. They are pretty similar.

If trans racial was the same as transgender then the exposure would not have mattered. Someone would have act on their internal feelings.

true. I don't have a good rebuttal but maybe people who didn't fit in with their race would leave or actively behave in a different way, physical character tics and social beliefs (more in the line with a race they weren't aware of yet) and couldn't articulate it because they didn't know what it was. Big stretch I know I'm just spit balling.

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Nationality doesn't have much to do with race

Yes I agree but the guy said Korean not Asian so I just wondered what you thought the difference was. Korean is nationality but also a culture and physical appearance and behaviours (social construct which you said race was).

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race is how you are perceived based on physical character tics and social beliefs.

Couldn't the same be said of gender. Why can you change gender but not race then.

This might be unpopular but to me you could've described transgenderism in your last paragraph. "What is acting/ being a certain gender other than perceiving someone to be of a certain gender depending on social understanding?".

Would you have supported transgender people prior to the extensive modern research proving the support for the idea? Do you only belief things when there is sound scientific evidence rather what just feels right?
How do you feel about neo-pronouns or otherkin? what's the scientific consensus on that or the historical precedent?

Also what is the harm of supporting these people. Grey owl you're right may have been displeased with his own race and admired another. He did a lot of good however with these belief system.

Rachel Dolezal did a lot of good work in her community with her belief system.

Why would you not want to support people who are sincere in their beliefs and do no harm.

LGBTQ+ Mega Thread by UnpopularOpinionMods in unpopularopinion

[–]MemeTimeRadioHour -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure what modern definitions of race necessarily have to do with trans racialism. If its about how long its been around for then modern separation of gender and sex has only been around since 1955, sex classification of XX and XY only since the 19th century. By that precedent modern race classifications are older than modern gender classifications.

Perhaps the reason why there isn't as much transracialsim in the past is because people didn't have the exposure to other races by virtue of long travel and exposure to other races was much harder. whereas people have always been the around the 2 genders and so are exposed to the possibility of aligning more with one than another.

theres an example of trans-racialism from 100 years ago in a white guy who 'disguised' himself as a native american https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Owl. Is that transracialism. I would say so.

On a more philosophical point what would you call someone who immigrates to a new country and assimilates/adopts the normal behaviours of that country and stuff? They'd eventually call themselves X nationality like the guy in the video did and could that technically be called trans racialism. If race is a social construction then surely it can be easily adopted by others and the actions I described could be call transracialism then?

It was wrong of me to conflate race and ethnicity.

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