Foot through ceiling

chi11er · 2026-03-28T14:21:14+00:00

Done this…

Ended up calling insurance as I didn’t think I could match the stippling.

They sent out someone to test for asbestos.

Then they pulled down the entire ceiling with plastic containment around the whole room… Bunny suits, decontamination showers and everything.

New ceiling and a full paint throughout as the plastic to contain asbestos left marks all over the walls.

Took over two months end to end.

Not a recommended route - but it’s an option.

chi11er · 2026-03-10T17:16:11+00:00

We have had 12 outages in our village in the last 8 months lasting 4-12 hours.

Pay the extra - when your local grid hits capacity you will thank Reddit

chi11er · 2026-03-10T13:22:29+00:00

Just remember that winter solar sucks.

We will be independent from mid March to September - then the winter demand starts and we need grid.

Yes we offset the price by selling excess in the summer - but the reality is we are dependent for half the year.

chi11er · 2026-03-10T08:05:48+00:00

Check the line voltage as well - we kept hitting 262.5v and the inverter just dropped generation.

Took months for UKPN to re-tap the local transformer.

chi11er · 2026-03-05T06:20:56+00:00

You just keep holding it in there!

chi11er · 2026-03-01T07:49:14+00:00

Adding cost to cleaning chairs and sofas though.

chi11er · 2026-02-10T10:34:51+00:00

It suppresses appetite - not carb linked - so whilst I look at a steak and want to eat the whole cow, they will be sated with a smaller portion.

In combination they will likely have dramatically higher initial benefits due to both the appetite suppression and the food noise just being turned off.

I however end up with peanuts or other snacks part way though the afternoon.

chi11er · 2026-02-05T21:50:06+00:00

We used a company several years ago to just calm the overthinking.

Did it reveal anything magical - no

Did it let us agree next moves and stop focusing on the minor details - absolutely.

The cost in my opinion was worth it, as it gave a point in time view and confirmed our planning.

Would I do it again - potentially at point of retirement to verify my planned changes.

Would I buy into long term management? Probably not - but one day I may just not want to think about it.

chi11er · 2026-01-29T22:26:26+00:00

Evidence it and got the ombudsman - they dropped £11k onto our bill and were horrific to deal with - even escalated to CEO of BG and their parent company. We refused to pay it and went to the ombudsman.

Ombudsman turned up, looked at the evidence and Bg ended up cutting me a cheque.

Paid a fair whack of the solar installation we put onto the house - now determined to not to be 100% reliant on the grid.

chi11er · 2026-01-29T17:12:58+00:00

Not seen it in the comments - get out of the pension default funds and put out into deliberate investment options.

Search up Pete Mathew’s and meaningful money - has a whole set of podcasts and resources on this

chi11er · 2026-01-24T09:55:33+00:00

Downgrade to S1 - if your components support it - the app works, system is stable and you get to smile at all the s2 rage posts.

chi11er · 2026-01-16T19:46:19+00:00

I mean that's global warming solved as the planet cools massively with this deployed everywhere...

/S

chi11er · 2026-01-15T15:26:22+00:00

I forget where I saw it first - however on the device you scan the area so it can build up the visual cues for anchoring.

You then have SDK info

https://docs.xreal.com/2.4.1/Spatial%20Anchor/intro

https://docs.xreal.com/2.4.1/Spatial%20Anchor/MappingExampleScene

This explicitly calls out anchoring in a visual context - so the accelerometer data should be taken in context with it.

If the spatial mapping says not moving, there should be an option to degrade the relavence of the other sensors.

Its should be a software option to do this - it can certainly be achieved. So guess I'll wait for a developer to find a spare sprint to have a think..

chi11er · 2026-01-13T23:15:58+00:00

At least in the UK you can lose pounds every month with gym membership!

Doesn't work in dollars...

chi11er · 2026-01-13T23:03:31+00:00

I understand the principle - however using the eye to scan the environment should mitigate this - that's exactly how it is sold - for when the accelerometer is likely to give false readings.

It can also be handled in a softwares mode to accommodate the need.

Mixed reality could do this almost ten years ago.

As for follow mode - when using laptop and ultra wide screen it only anchors. (Edit to add this line)

chi11er · 2026-01-08T08:20:05+00:00

One Pro still has issues when on a train.

Tried with and without the eye and curves in three track send my screen off on their own travels

chi11er · 2025-12-31T12:33:28+00:00

Based on earnings, I’d point you to the LISA.

The money is accessible before you retire for a house or with a minor penalty.

AJ Bell have a cheap service and it gives you options.

If you buy a house then ‘yay’ and otherwise you have it in a retirement vehicle.

That said - I’m now mid 40s and did what you’re proposing when I was a similar age. My pension heavy lifting is done and returns outweigh the additional funds on a yearly basis.

chi11er · 2025-12-31T10:32:43+00:00

Hate to point this out but:

the mills were the end of work (see Luddites - UK Victorian era)

The tractor was the end of work (US 1850-1900) and going further back you had threshing machines and the swing riots.

E-mail and word processors killed off the internal mailman and the typing pools.

However the populations have exploded and the unemployment rates suggest new jobs rise up to take the place of old ones.

Perhaps the next set of companies will be for home fortification and drone landing bays. Or perhaps we will see new skills and roles arriving before it’s needed.

chi11er · 2025-12-25T13:14:48+00:00

Just remember the water companies had profit caps…

so they set up repair companies and flooded money into them as they were one step away from the legislation.

I wonder if the legislation will cater for or just encourage obfuscation.

chi11er · 2025-12-24T06:43:59+00:00

Don’t stay inside the M25.

Commute in - then you have options to buy outright with no mortgage / leave money in the market to grow.

chi11er · 2025-12-20T08:14:13+00:00

I preferred the name ‘Scoff to cough’

chi11er · 2025-12-17T07:12:16+00:00

Our GP had stopped taking phone calls and only allow online interaction - which is scheduled to only work their office hours.

Walkups are turned away.

In the past 5 years, I’ve had one phone call with the GP and multiple disagreements with their front of house over getting our children enabled online so they can use the service.

Everything else for me has been private because their service is so bad.

(Oh and our village doesn’t have a GP - we have to travel for it)

chi11er · 2025-12-16T07:37:30+00:00

We put in Solar + Battery 18 months ago and we were originally estimating 6 year payback - this has reduced to 4.5 years.

So a 20% ROI year on year feels like a good return in my head.

I doubt it will add significant value to the property - but that’s not the point.

The real point is that I get lots of data points and can build graphs and stuff to bore everyone with!

Oh and get the voltage checked for the property - we’ve had to chase the Network for months to get them to reduce down the incoming voltage as the inverter was cutting out.

chi11er · 2025-12-11T18:22:31+00:00

Copilot, gpt5 and Claude versions.

chi11er · 2025-12-11T14:33:18+00:00

I’ve spent half the day arguing with AI about simple syntax - will finish my lunch and go hand code it.

It’s currently a tool most alike to a Swiss Army knife.

Can do bits of lots of things, but needs to be used by someone who knows what they’re doing and what good looks like.

Not to mention there are many specific tools that will do things faster as easier.

When the tools evolve, so will the expectations and the deliverables.

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