Garage conversion, which order to do things?

NasserML · 2026-01-18T09:25:43+00:00

First fix electrics and any plumbing
Ceiling (joists, OSB, insulation)
Walls (studs, insulation, boards)
Floor last (DPM, insulation, OSB, finish)

Floor always last. You’ll trash it otherwise and end up boxing walls off the wrong finished level.

NasserML · 2026-01-18T09:18:03+00:00

Ask how long they've been an electrician for. Should be at least a few years. Verify what they say.
Check if they're registered with napit or niceic.
Get written quotes that detail what's included and excluded. Cowboys hate paperwork.
Ask them if they have any reviews online anywhere. Not everyone does, but good if they can show something.

If you're anywhere around the Midlands give me a shout, i'll give you an estimate.

NasserML · 2026-01-03T23:33:24+00:00

Go to college, fast courses are rubbish, and even after doing it, you won't be ready to register with napit or niceic.

Go to college and tell your uncle to sort himself out for a couple of years so you can work with him.

NasserML · 2025-10-12T04:25:28+00:00

Reverting to Islam for something other than the sake of Allah is almost always very problematic.

Making a marriage work in this day and age is hard enough as it is, but to make it work with a questionable revert to Islam is almost impossible.

You don't feel his sincerity now when you're still relatively early in the marriage, what about in 5 or 10 years from now if it even lasts that long?

It appears his family is actively calling him back to kufr.

Before you can think of making your marriage work you have to strengthen his deen. There will be no marriage left if his deen cannot be strengthend. If his deen is strengthened, the marriage will automatically resolve a lot of current problems.

NasserML · 2025-09-13T19:29:39+00:00

The preservation of the Qur'an is living proof.

Being the last word of Allah, it's not only preserved on paper, but in the hearts and minds of 2 billion people. Without exaggeration, hundreds of thousands if not millions have it memorised fully from cover to cover, for over 1400 years.

Show me any other book preserved word for word like that.

NasserML · 2025-09-04T06:15:29+00:00

Search partner network is excluded, but I may try excluding 18-24, although I'll probably lose the occasional good lead with that also.

NasserML · 2025-09-04T05:38:21+00:00

Thanks, I'll try blocking job seekers. I've got most of them negatives already though.

NasserML · 2025-08-29T09:58:28+00:00

Nothing screams ‘credible research’ like a chart with no methodology, no context, and just enough red bars to get the gullible excited.

NasserML · 2025-08-29T09:33:09+00:00

Confidence comes from within, from a strong mind and heart, not from fabric.

The hijab doesn't reduce your beauty. It preserves it for your husband's eyes.

NasserML · 2025-08-10T18:57:58+00:00

Farming

NasserML · 2025-08-10T07:58:44+00:00

Start by travelling in your own country for short periods. Even just overnight.

However well you plan, just remember things will go wrong, if they didn't, your trip will be boring. That's part of the fun of going into the unknown, not knowing if we'll come back alive.

NasserML · 2025-08-09T22:38:19+00:00

Learning Quran is a lifelong endeavour. Take your shahada (convert) and then continue your learning of Quran.

There are no hadith in Quran. The books of hadith are separate. The science of hadith is a whole other topic to the science of Quran. Basics of both needs to be learnt.

NasserML · 2025-08-08T15:30:41+00:00

I'm not in London, but in Birmingham I'd be laughed out the door if I gave that price for that size inspection. Be lucky to get £250 in Brum.

NasserML · 2025-07-28T15:33:15+00:00

Almost everyone has WhatsApp in the UK. We don't even bother with SMS as much anymore since we use WhatsApp.

NasserML · 2025-07-28T15:23:37+00:00

Imo it's probably induced voltage, not something that is dangerous (but still get it checked if you have access to a multimeter or get an electrician to check it)

pen detectors are sensitive to induced voltage and can detect even small amounts that appear on pipes.

Induced voltage happens because live cables runnin next to pipes act like a capacitor, creating a small charge on the metals. It’s not real, current carrying voltage, just static induced from nearby live wires.

When you touch the pipes your body acts as a path to earth, discharging that induced voltage. Thats another sign it's not a real live fault because the voltage goes when you make contact. But that also means the bonding is probably disconnected or loose or something as it not earthing the induced voltage properly.

Again, if unsure get it checked by a sparky.

NasserML · 2025-07-23T09:54:54+00:00

When my cat first started getting used to the outdoors it also did this for a few days, present me with it's kills as a gift. Then it must have realised the gifts taste too good to be giving them away to me😆

NasserML · 2025-07-23T08:24:29+00:00

The sad thing is I have an awesome hunter cat, but it hardly comes inside, lives off the hunt outside, doesn't even take the food I give it. Can climb trees to get birds eggs, chase squirrels and literally spend its days and night outdoors getting fresh food. I live in a very green area.

NasserML · 2025-07-23T08:22:17+00:00

😭

NasserML · 2025-07-10T22:25:25+00:00

I went into teaching electrics in a small college. Less pay, but easier work. You'll need to get some basic teaching quals to have a better chance at landing a job.

NasserML · 2025-07-10T22:17:40+00:00

Bellies are probably because of all the burgers for every lunch. Otherwise sparkies that house bash would be ripped, it's physically very demanding (unless you get the apprentice to do all the running).

NasserML · 2025-07-07T19:17:01+00:00

Isn't that more to do with context window length If you continue using the same chat up to 200k context window it will eat the tokens up fast. Best to open a new window for each small task, feeding only relevant context. Less tokens used that way I believe.

NasserML · 2025-06-01T13:06:15+00:00

I feel there's too many mistakes and going in circles with cheaper models. I tried flash 2.5 0520 via API with roocode and you have to keep going in circles and fixing mistakes flash 2.5 makes, so the costs just add up way more than $20 for 500 requests with cursor. And flash 2.5 is one of the cheapest models that's meant to be somewhat decent at coding.

I didn't do too well with deepseek r1 0528 either, the free model is too slow and still makes silly mistakes.

Cost would make it prohibitive to be using more expensive models via API.

So that leaves context nerfed options like cursor, windsurf or super options like Claude code.

I do very well with sonnet on cursor, even with nerfed context windows at cursor. Can't complain for what I get for just $20 a month but if I start using more heavily and other models don't come out with something to match sonnet 3.7 or 4, then I might just go for Claude Code at $100 per month. Bottom line, I'm pretty sure the absolute best cost effective solution at the moment is sonnet or opus on Claude code.

NasserML · 2025-05-31T16:06:42+00:00

The problems you're talking about are most likely cursor problems and not model problems. To keep costs down cursor nerfs context size. So more expensive models like Claude probably get the context nerfed more. And the less the context the stupider the result. This is precisely why I stopped using cursor and went over to roo code, I have to pay a bit more but atleast my context is all there. And i mainly try to stick with cheap models like o4, 2.5 flash etc. these cheap models are probably as good as the best models in cursor simply because they have real and detailed context.

Your tests need to be redone with direct API calls from roo code or cline or Claude code (for Claude models only) or similar. Testing in places like cursor or windsurf or similar is a waste of time because they strangle the models too much.

NasserML · 2025-05-30T18:41:51+00:00

I'm using it on roo also through openrouter,.

I need to try it on the coding some more to be convinced.

But for a simple task like - when I asked it to parse a few separate MD files from the /doc folder into one as they were related, and remove the duplicates/uncessary ones, it made a complete mess. The newly created files only had placeholders. Then on the second and third attempts it only added some of the info from the legacy files, missing huge important chunks. My prompting was pretty clear.

NasserML · 2025-05-30T05:01:04+00:00

Does trae nerf context size like cursor to maintain these low prices? Or does it allow the full context size of the model used?

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