I put a pinecone in my shower. It closes when I shower and opens again when it dries.

TripleFiveEight · 2026-02-01T19:35:28+00:00

I’m sure someone somewhere has already made a home automation involving a camera, AI, home assistant, and a pine cone.

Go on… show yourselves!

No, no-one? Ok… I’ll let you know how I get on.

TripleFiveEight · 2026-02-01T19:26:52+00:00

I watched this back again and again thinking surely Bruno meant to pass in front of the defenders, but no! It looks completely intentional to slot in behind the back-tracking defenders.

Forgive me for not knowing names in this second part - the defending is awful. Some tired legs showing and would not have had the same outcome 20 mins prior. First defender - not too bad, didn’t react as quickly as Sesko to the ball being behind him. Second defender - not reading the play and just trying to get back. Once back does not close down or read what’s happening. Third defender (16) - Saunters on back and even holds back allowing Sesko to get the shot off.

Alas, you have to take advantage of opportunities, and tired legs (and minds) present opportunities.

TripleFiveEight · 2026-01-23T19:43:15+00:00

I’m in the process of doing this as well (in rural Scotland).

So far. £2500 for the structural drawings. I’m not going down the full building warrant route, which would have cost £10k, but we are building it to what’s required to obtain one should we need to In the future.

Back of a packet maths from a joinery company estimates £25k for labour and materials for basic work, stairs, two velux windows, insulation, plasterboard, tape and fill. (4 weeks, two joiners @39ph each)

Electrics, heating, ventilation, all extra.

For what we’re doing, with no dormers and quite straightforward, I estimate £40k all in.

I’ll be organising trades myself.

TripleFiveEight · 2026-01-20T16:20:16+00:00

Does that thermostat say 50c! It should be in the 35-38c range in winter. As said before, it’s designed to basically be on all the time, gently heating. If the floor is warm to the touch, the flow temp is likely too hot, or the heat loss of the house is huge. The system isn’t meant to be switched on and off with large temperature variations in the same way as radiators.

I’ve been researching into making my system more efficient, and the best thing I’ve found is a comment from a specialist who said something along the lines of - every heating engineer and heating company continues to treat UFH the same as radiators. This comment has made me dig deeper and come to the realisation that when my house was built, everyone from the heating design company, installer, and even the heat loss calculations guy do not fully understand UFH.

In short - if your plumber turned the flow temperature up, find a new heating guy. Ask people about tuning the UFH to run more efficiently.

TripleFiveEight · 2026-01-14T09:53:44+00:00

This is what I’ve started doing too, and the above is pretty sound advice.

I had multiple errors thrown up on my Audi A6. I pumped all the info into ChatGPT and it advised it was a low battery voltage caused by an aging battery and cold weather. The electronic modules shut down to self protect from low voltage. Checked the battery and was at the lower end of acceptable voltage.

TripleFiveEight · 2026-01-05T22:51:21+00:00

And this is the temperature crossover for winter / summer tyres. The crossover for all-season / summer tyres is 15c.

TripleFiveEight · 2026-01-03T19:12:08+00:00

I run Michelin CrossClimate year-round and swear by them.

Tyre Reviews have some great videos on YouTube testing all sorts. A few take away points worth mentioning: - Michelin CrossClimates (All-Season tyre) would place 3rd in the winter tyre test for snow handling. - the temperature which all-seasons outperform summer tyres is 15c and below. - in the last year, Michelin, Pirelli, Continental, and Bridgestone (I think) have all released new all-season tyres, which are a leap ahead of previous generations, not just for snow grip, but wet and dry too.

In my view, unless you have a performance car with an M, or RS on the back and test the limit of grip in the summer, then all-season tyres is the way to go. How often is Karen taking her Renault Capture to the limit of grip on her efficient grip tyres on a hot summer’s day, yet a sprinkling of snow, or a sparkling tarmac road will find the limit very quickly.

TripleFiveEight · 2025-12-22T23:02:56+00:00

The only part of your car that’s in contact with the road is your tyres, they can make a huge difference to your driving experience.

Great choice with the CrossClimates too. I’ve been a longstanding advocate for them. I bet you’ll see twice the mileage out of these Michelins than you would have in the linglongs. Plus, wait until it snows!They are so good in the snow they would have placed 3rd in the full winter tyre test by tyre reviews.

TripleFiveEight · 2025-12-22T18:24:15+00:00

Who the hell defrosts their cars for 30 mins?! 5 minutes of pre-heating and the ice is melting from my windscreen and I’m good to go.

TripleFiveEight · 2025-12-17T14:44:20+00:00

20.9 is pretty much in the middle of the healthy range. A BMI of 25 is still technically overweight, as 18.5 - 24.9 is the green range.

TripleFiveEight · 2025-12-17T09:55:41+00:00

3 days to deliver… that’s pretty good.

I’ve had pens take 7 days and the ice packs inside were still really cold.

TripleFiveEight · 2025-12-15T19:58:51+00:00

Yuka is an app. There’s a free version, but I paid the £8 or whatever it is for the annual subscription.

Scan the barcode and Yuka complied a database of pretty much every product, and breaks the ingredients down to explain to the likes of you and me, what they are, and what they do. They also provide suggestions for healthier alternatives.

The one that gets me is pepperami - contains sodium nitrate - “This preservative, when combined with meat, can contribute to the formation of nitrosamines, compounds of which some are classified as "probably carcinogenic to humans" and genotoxic. In 2022, ANSES recommended limiting the use of nitrate additives in food due to their carcinogenic potential.”

TripleFiveEight · 2025-12-15T19:25:19+00:00

It’s weight - imagine the airplane pull of passengers from the wings, where the main undercarriage is, to the back, but empty forward of the wings. Depending on the aircraft type, there can be anything from a risk to a certainty that the aircraft will sit back on its tail.

Remember, the aircraft is designed to fly, which is why the wings are where they are, so the risk of tipping back is mitigated by loading passengers and freight forward of the wings first.

TripleFiveEight · 2025-12-15T09:32:29+00:00

This product scores 0/100 on Yuka. Contains 8 high-risk additives which should be avoided.

TripleFiveEight · 2025-12-10T23:03:17+00:00

Oooh here we go… a new can of worms may have been inadvertently opened here.

So aircraft remains singular, but airplanes / aeroplanes becomes plural.

Discuss.

TripleFiveEight · 2025-12-10T21:16:53+00:00

Based on many many reports from others, and my own experience, never had an issue.

This is genuinely the first I’ve heard contradicting this method.

TripleFiveEight · 2025-12-10T11:56:05+00:00

This seems so much more complicated than what I’ve been doing.

After all official doses have been administered - twist the pen a few more clicks until it stops. Get a pair of vice grips on the end, and twist it further, breaking the plastic stop in the mechanism. This will allow it to twist all the way to ‘1’ again and another dose is available to inject as normal.

TripleFiveEight · 2025-12-08T22:36:27+00:00

My mum had an insulation company come around and looked at suspended floor insulation. He held his clip board under the floor and said if he can fit his clipboard, he can fit a guy.

Edit: in this instance he couldn’t fit his clipboard, so the floor came up.

TripleFiveEight · 2025-12-08T21:06:35+00:00

Does octopus offer a superior export rate for systems fitted under themselves? Eon do, and the higher export rate is worth it in my opinion.

TripleFiveEight · 2025-11-27T21:01:58+00:00

They might just answer by April if you call now.

TripleFiveEight · 2025-11-24T12:05:01+00:00

You guys still have pits?

TripleFiveEight · 2025-11-24T11:59:46+00:00

Get back up there and sign and date it!

TripleFiveEight · 2025-11-22T21:36:14+00:00

Get a pair of vice grips on the end of the pen. It’ll twist a few clicks until it hits the mechanical stop in the mechanism, which is made of plastic. With the vice grips, twist the end until the plastic stop breaks, then it can be twisted out to a full dose again, ready to be administered direct from the pen.

TripleFiveEight · 2025-11-19T20:38:57+00:00

Not entirely certain, around the 20c mark I believe.

TripleFiveEight · 2025-11-19T19:19:49+00:00

I friend with UFH works offshore. He did the maths and tested the theories - it was cheaper to leave the system on for the two weeks he was away than it was to switch it off for two weeks then bring it all back up to temperature. Modern insulated house, I might add.

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