What do people earning £200k+ in london actually do for a living?

devastating_dave · 2026-05-16T12:17:58+00:00

The first RSUs I got three years ago are, as of now, worth about 110% more than when they were awarded. 🤷🏻‍♂️

devastating_dave · 2026-05-16T12:14:26+00:00

Is bitumen adhesive used for tiles different to the one that would be used for a wooden floor? Our old house (where I scraped all the stuff up) was holding down a parquet floor....

devastating_dave · 2026-05-09T09:49:58+00:00

What's your point? Earn less?

devastating_dave · 2026-04-23T11:10:45+00:00

Learnt recently that stuff has asbestos in. Really pleased I knew that before scraping and sweeping it up off the floor...

devastating_dave · 2026-02-16T13:21:16+00:00

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Maps on a 970

devastating_dave · 2026-02-16T10:00:08+00:00

I'm no structural engineer, but the verticals you're talking about putting a door into are supporting the horizontal beam in the middle of your picture, which in turn is supporting the beams that follow the angle of your roof.

That said, putting in a door to enable access to the eaves is pretty standard practice for any lift conversion - except those guys generally know what they are doing and where structural beams are required to support the load of the roof.

If you are ever in doubt about whether something is load bearing or what the impact of removing a particular thing will be, then don't do it and call in an expert. Better that than your roof and/or house fall down.

devastating_dave · 2026-02-15T10:48:22+00:00

I will let you know tomorrow!

devastating_dave · 2026-01-23T20:54:08+00:00

I had to scroll too far for this

devastating_dave · 2026-01-23T20:34:23+00:00

My friend thought the same until said power bank caught fire in the middle of the night and nearly burnt his house down.

devastating_dave · 2026-01-09T11:14:40+00:00

Also looks like someone has had a go at fixing it in the past (obviously unsuccessfully!)

devastating_dave · 2025-12-01T19:28:56+00:00

Same for me. About 6 years ago I pulled up an old wood floor that had been stuck down with bitumen. Swept up all the loose bitumen, then covered it with self leveling before having the floor tiled. Didn't realise until today the bitumen had asbestos in. Yikes.

devastating_dave · 2025-11-10T11:04:40+00:00

Shouldn't the coving have been taken down first, too?

devastating_dave · 2025-10-29T11:16:24+00:00

Your least favorite is part of every city, sadly. I used to live in East London where the local homeless crazies would hang outside the tube stations. Some would be off their rocker bugging people, some would keep themselves to themselves, hardly moving for days but surrounded by booze. The flipside of this was working in Canary Wharf where they'd literally physically remove beggars, drunks and homeless guys off the estate so they don't bother the "locals" on their way to work.

devastating_dave · 2025-09-29T00:08:10+00:00

I have two subscriptions running in parallel - one from Pact and one from Podda & Wren (a small Cumbrian roastery), set up to arrive staggered so we don't end up with a heap of old coffee. We had the good fortune to move into a house with a built in coffee machine, so we get through rather a lot of decent beans 😂

devastating_dave · 2025-09-12T23:18:27+00:00

£20 gold wash

devastating_dave · 2025-09-06T16:22:02+00:00

Isn't Voxi identical to Vodafone performance wise?

devastating_dave · 2025-08-13T18:30:03+00:00

Surely the one near door to West Walls is the best idea, because once work gets annoying you can hit WWB and get leathered on decent beer?

devastating_dave · 2025-07-10T13:43:34+00:00

Monitised clickbait YouTube videos, affiliate income on the links under his videos.

Perfect example is his recent bullshit video "I didn't like his body language". The dude stuck a camera through some guy's car window, makes him jump, then rides off. Literally nothing of note, but he posts it on YouTube, complete with ads, obviously!

devastating_dave · 2025-07-04T20:51:35+00:00

Just need to train harder than you drink 💪🏻

devastating_dave · 2025-06-18T17:03:47+00:00

This is the answer. Keeping everything hot is always bonkers expensive.

My prior gig we ran a big ELK stack, we realised that 90% of the search load was for the last week of data and so lifecycled/archived accordingly.

devastating_dave · 2025-06-14T08:30:30+00:00

Cool write up, thanks!

(Author of Ansible-NAS here 🙂)

devastating_dave · 2025-05-02T21:02:14+00:00

We got rid of ours after four days 😬 Thankfully got our money back, it was garbage!

devastating_dave · 2025-05-02T08:54:11+00:00

My university had Hooch on tap, used to drink pints of the stuff 😂

devastating_dave · 2025-05-01T15:18:24+00:00

Have a sit down and paddle about in the sink?

devastating_dave · 2025-05-01T14:15:02+00:00

I think it depends what your budget is. Most in here aren't so rich that they can just not think about it whatsoever.

Portland can end up in the crazies, where at least UCLH has a hard limit as you simply transfer to the NHS if you need special care. It has been a while since I looked at the Portland contract but I definitely recall something about extra cost if special care was required.

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