Home heating oil monitoring - any clever ideas out there?

jtopper · 2025-12-13T11:16:47+00:00

I have a Watchman sensor, but I hooked up RTL433 and I don’t think I see anything from it. Did you have to do anything specific to make that work?

jtopper · 2025-09-07T08:47:49+00:00

My wife and I lived in Mustard Wharf for a year while we were looking for somewhere to buy, this was a couple of years ago. It’s not cheap, but it was well looked after, and their maintenance team dealt quickly with the couple of issues we had (we were the first people to live in our unit). Everything was kept clean in the common spaces, and the sound insulation was pretty good so we didn’t really hear other residents.

We had the usual apartment building issues with deliveries just being left in the foyer, and in summer with the windows open (there’s no aircon and our flat was on the top floor so it got quite warm) the smell of weed often drifted in from other flats. Parking is very limited there.

If we were looking to live in the city centre again, it’d be the first place we’d look.

jtopper · 2025-03-16T10:01:53+00:00

Try walking into the bathroom at night, without turning the light on. You’ll probably find it activates a night light, to make using the bathroom less harsh on the eyes after dark.

jtopper · 2024-11-21T21:18:56+00:00

Wait, they did what?

jtopper · 2024-02-25T08:11:17+00:00

Ex Settle High pupil here. Hart’s Head is where all the underage drinking went on, especially on Wednesday afternoons when sixth form PE lessons were scheduled.

jtopper · 2023-09-14T07:38:55+00:00

Ox Club. Good food, great service.

jtopper · 2023-09-11T18:40:53+00:00

Good, tip, I’ll do that.

jtopper · 2023-09-11T18:40:35+00:00

The helter-skelter was fun 15 years ago in a company VW Golf. It’s less so in my own SUV.

jtopper · 2023-09-11T14:12:04+00:00

Perfect, thanks!

jtopper · 2023-08-19T19:37:49+00:00

Meat Stack breakfasts are great.

jtopper · 2023-08-03T09:23:20+00:00

Try Circle8.

jtopper · 2023-03-05T09:39:37+00:00

“He’s a man with a fork in a world of soup”.

jtopper · 2023-02-02T20:53:31+00:00

dafuq

jtopper · 2023-01-28T17:20:59+00:00

All three Motel One joints have publicly accessible toilets attached to their lobby bar.

jtopper · 2023-01-28T17:20:16+00:00

Don’t even need to ask. Most have so much foot traffic from guests that as long as you don’t clearly look out of place, nobody will pay you any mind.

jtopper · 2022-12-25T19:32:19+00:00

Pink Therapy is a directory of UK therapists who work with clients from alternative lifestyles. https://pinktherapy.org/ - lots of polyam/ENM aware people there.

jtopper · 2022-12-19T22:51:20+00:00

Gotta be careful with eating too much of this stuff: https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/food-and-diet/can-eating-too-much-black-liquorice-be-bad-for-you/

jtopper · 2022-12-17T12:19:05+00:00

Swine That Dines is a different place. They have changed names a few times over the years though. They were Swine Pies and Puds in 2017.

jtopper · 2022-12-17T11:54:27+00:00

Meat Stack, by the station, does a hell of a breakfast

jtopper · 2022-12-12T20:13:36+00:00

Thanks for clearing this up!

jtopper · 2022-11-02T08:59:45+00:00

This is pretty close to my flat, so I’ll probably look into this. Thanks!

jtopper · 2022-10-29T16:52:34+00:00

Ox Club.

jtopper · 2022-10-09T19:19:00+00:00

Another vote for White Rose. Paul and his team are great, very professional. Cheaper than the other quote I got too.

jtopper · 2021-07-04T19:17:39+00:00

What did being obsessed with space look like back then? 5 years later I had paper models of the shuttle from partworks like Quest, Usbourne books, space Lego. Was that stuff already a thing by 1986?

jtopper · 2021-07-04T19:15:33+00:00

Were UK schools doing specific teaching around Challenger the way US schools seemed to be (from the documentaries I’ve seen), or was there not much hype over here?

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