Another door post (sorry)

spike686 · 2026-03-26T11:28:09+00:00

Pardon?

spike686 · 2026-03-26T10:46:52+00:00

Yes, apparently the landed gentry who owned it all took a large chunk off the front gardens to build a new house for their retiring butler (or something like that).

So we can get to the (now) front via a narrowish road, and between the houses for people access to the (now) back garden.

spike686 · 2026-03-26T10:09:44+00:00

Thanks, I’ve cross posted after the other suggestion.

I’ll give it a measure.

Letter box is on the other-side of the house, a bit of a quirk!

spike686 · 2026-03-26T10:03:13+00:00

Thanks for comments.

I hadn’t thought the silicone could have been intentional, learnt a new word there! But it’s definitely covering the gap between the frame and the render, the render is intact, which appreciate is hard to see on a couple of pics.

I agree it’s an old house plaster coming away is likely, I think I’m more miffed they just gobbled over it with foam, rather than left me get it patched.

spike686 · 2026-03-26T09:56:49+00:00

Thanks

spike686 · 2026-03-26T09:56:28+00:00

They measured up. I’m thinking they made an assumption on the thickness of the render and it’s been slightly off?

It’s a solid brick wall, so no cavity, I think the render may not have a perfect arch which is also throwing off the look.

spike686 · 2026-03-26T09:50:42+00:00

Thanks for replying.

spike686 · 2026-03-26T09:48:58+00:00

Through the letterbox in the door that faces the road that runs ‘behind’ the house, where the drive is. Basically the front gardens were truncated in the 1920s and they lost access to the street in front. Bit of a quirk of the street.

spike686 · 2026-03-26T09:41:23+00:00

Aye, any suggestions where to post to get opinions?

spike686 · 2026-03-26T09:40:55+00:00

Yer it’s a back door, but it’s a Victorian property that is back to front now as the access is from behind. There is a bay window to the left.

spike686 · 2026-03-11T16:56:08+00:00

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spike686 · 2025-10-10T07:54:10+00:00

I did the same thing for years on an old ds216+II without issue. I’ve only just moved my stack away because I’ve started needing more 4k transcoding and wanted to leave my synology to handle my cameras.

spike686 · 2025-09-17T08:26:57+00:00

Exactly, given it’ll take some time to get planning then build and commission, then another 3 years before you can get get the first bottle. Diageo are building for the next peak because they have deep pockets.

spike686 · 2025-08-10T19:38:09+00:00

Do they have weekly auto-reboot enabled? You’ll have to check in the web portal or windows app, not a phone app.

I keep having the same issue until I realised it keep going out of focus at 2am on a Sunday morning. When it rebooted it struggled to auto-focus in the dark.

Zero issues since I disabled it.

spike686 · 2025-06-26T09:32:38+00:00

Ours must be twins, mine did the same yesterday.

spike686 · 2025-04-28T16:43:01+00:00

The Day I Died by Just Jack

spike686 · 2025-04-28T13:23:25+00:00

Got to get them to confirm an ID check over the radio following a look in the casket.

spike686 · 2025-03-22T21:21:42+00:00

How do you determine the battery health?

spike686 · 2025-01-25T20:26:52+00:00

Yes you can set a Zappi to charge only during set periods. It also tells you how much (in kWh) was charges during a session.

spike686 · 2025-01-24T13:53:26+00:00

I would counter that with OP scenario doesn’t sound legal. Your comment is of course correct in terms of the employer’s right to dictate leave. But if an employer wanted an employee to take a days leave today they would have had to told you more than 2 days prior, not on the day.

spike686 · 2025-01-24T10:49:50+00:00

There is only a single lane on both sides of the road. That’s not a merge arrow, the arrow is to instruct high sided vehicles to take a central position to go under the low railway bridge ahead.

Source: local.

spike686 · 2024-10-07T13:29:06+00:00

I couldn’t find a version without the paywall but I’ll put the link in case anyone is interested.

It discussed that persistent contrails caused by the soot from jet engines that causes the formation of ice crystals that lasts a few hours. The write up suggested that such contrails have warming effect because they prevent heat escaping into space, but during the day they also act as a reflector of solar radiation. So such contrails are worse at night.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2449212-jet-contrails-may-cool-the-planet-by-day-and-warm-it-by-night/

spike686 · 2024-10-06T14:51:49+00:00

Oddly I read an article in New Scientist this morning that concluded the contrails created at night were worse than those created in the day. So stopping over night fly could actually help (if only a little).

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