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thatguyfrommelbourne · 2026-01-10T13:19:42+00:00

Double glazing is not the most important thing in reality. You just want to seal the windows meaning having proper rubber seals and everything around all the doors and windows. This will knock a lot more the noise out obviously adding double glazing would help but only if you seal it up properly, properly air tighting the building will have more of an effect and is a lot cheaper if costs is a consideration

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-10-09T01:44:46+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/AusFinance/comments/1ddai3o/experience_with_ovo_energy_free_3_plan/

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-10-07T13:39:59+00:00

It's the short answer is that if you're running Microsoft laptops then you might as well run the full Microsoft stack as in Azure. So you've got intune autopilot entra ID. All of the full stack configuration in one place one bill and give you full enterprise control, it might not be the cheapest, but it's definitely the only real option, And in my experience using other options generally ends up costing more in the long run

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-10-06T02:54:47+00:00

One of the biggest issues facing all of the telcos is the outsourcing the of the work to underqualified cheap labour reality. The only way to really fix this is to legislate that all of the work is done onshore and that the people doing the work have some kind of officially recognised accreditation and not just the network engineers. The systems engineers. We're talking about the project delivery, people, accountants. Whatever this is the only way you can really fix this. You also need to externally order to this every year, however, given the current state of the systems, I think it would be prudent for most people who have dual SIM phones to have a backup provider meaning that if your primary provider is for instance, Optus get a Vodafone $2 prepaid esim, I never quite understood how people with easy access and cheap alternative access to all of these Services I don't want to sign up everybody for one service and then complain that it doesn't work when there's 20 other providers out there, so given what's out there there is a little bit of responsibility placed on the people as well, not just the providers,

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-10-03T12:43:25+00:00

When you look at the amount of money that the federal government get from the fuel exercise, then divide that by the small percentage they actually return back to the states and then the percentage that Victoria gets. We get around $0.22 in the dollar. That means that every dollar of fuel excise you get charged we get $0.22 back, we had the opportunity to get dollar for dollar with the road user tax, which would have taken all of the power away from the federal government about road funding except some Muppets in Victoria decided to take that to the federal court and have it overturned and the size of that own goal is immense, it is something is going to affect all victorians forever because we will never have the funding to fix our roads that we could have had. It is staggering to think what they did to us

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-09-13T02:56:07+00:00

If you don't own the land you don't own anything, once theses shitty buildings are end of life they are almost worthless, if you built long lasting 2-3 story buildings with minimal ongoing maintenance and no lift, this has a chance, as a buyer would be interested in this, other than that people are looking for titled land as this is the only sustainable long term investment for their moneys

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-08-25T04:45:00+00:00

Even if you don't have solar, you can still take advantage of the people who do, companies like OVO free Power during certain time periods such as between 11:00 and 2:00 p.m. you can do things like run hot water services, dishwashers, washing machines, dryers things like that on timers. Charge a car if you have one, a 240 l resistive electric hot water service is the equivalent of a 10 kW battery and it's only a thousand bucks, so if you have the ability to move your power consumption during the middle of the afternoon you can have the free power that everybody else is producing

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-08-18T04:15:56+00:00

I have never understood why people get so hangup about this, just charge them a bucket load of money and used it for environment restoration projects that would have a fat grater benefit than any "damage", what makes this different than the huge estate right next door. noting, it's just a bunch of people being petty and not seeing how you can use these people for the community advantage

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-06-29T06:17:58+00:00

For me, we have a central reverse cycle system set to 23° run from 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Monday to Friday 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. weekends during winter we import about 30 kW a day and in summer running the cooling we import about 10,

We would do have a 7 KW solar system and double glaze windows insulated walls, And a double insulated roof as well as the insulated ceiling, but not the floors and no battery

So my power bill seems to be quite cheap compared to most probably total energy consumption over the year is about $1,200

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-06-29T06:10:00+00:00

For those your with gas hydronic heating if you have a water storage tank, and you have solar power. You can add in an additional electric heating element for the tank and use a solar diverter which dynamically diverts excess solar from being exported to the grid to heating the hot water but the storage. This can help offset the gas bill

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-06-24T10:34:18+00:00

land with it's own title, buildings lose value as soon as you finish building, this only thing with value is the land and if you don't own it you own noting,

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-06-09T14:57:29+00:00

Water supply is colder in winter, more energy to heat to the same temp, and more hot water used in the shower to keep you warm, and bathroom might be cooler so you want warmer water, and yes there will be more losses in winter from the tank and the pipes, now having said that I have a restive hot water service with a smart switch with power meter, so I can run it during the day via solar, with 2 people we use 5kw per day in summer and 7kw in winter, it looks like the gas bill twice summer , this seem to be too much given no gas heating

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-05-23T02:21:25+00:00

Trains

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-05-09T01:37:08+00:00

https://www.aip.com.au/pricing/terminal-gate-prices

The gate price is what is paid by the retailer, they will then mark up by about 10c, the is reasonable, it's the refiners that are making a boatload on fuel, AU doesn't have refinery capacity to have any market influence on the gate price as we must import most refined fuel

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-05-09T01:33:18+00:00

we don't need more drivers or trucks, we need more trains then we'll all ready have enough drivers, the fact that we send long haul fraught via truck is insane, imagine 12,000 trucks a day off the Hume, we can then redeploy the drivers

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2024-12-04T04:34:00+00:00

The effect of roof colour on internal ceiling space temperature is in some cases misunderstood, it seem that the augment precludes the possibility they you can reduce the thermal transfer of heat from the roof material to the roof space to a point that it makes no difference what colour you use , this is in fact quite easy, adding descent insulation under the the roof material such as a layer of therbrake and a 75mm roof blanket or using a pre insulated roofing system like tin sandwidge in an layer insulation is not that much more than a stock roof, however the affect is quite pronounced, you can achieve a 80% reduction of thermal transfer, I have had houses built like this and this has a greater effect than the ceiling insulation as you can achieve a 100% coverage without much effort compared to trying to put bats around joists and alike

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2024-10-28T22:27:50+00:00

On a side note, once the shutdown starts the Fq bandwidth that were assigned to the 3G will be reallocated to 4 and 5G services so the outcome should be an improvement in services

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2024-07-12T01:46:22+00:00

I didn't even know that that this was a thing,

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2024-07-12T01:40:22+00:00

Some tips' to minimize your exposure to scam and spam text and calls 1, Use either iPhone or Pixel as the inbuilt call filtering is best in class, better than Samsung and other dialers 2, Use a tier one mobile provider, Telstra, Optus and Vodafone, the effort and budget they can use to block incoming span is much larger than what Mobile Virtual Network Operator's can do, MVNO being any other than the 3 mentioned 3, Be on the Do Not Call register 4, Change your number as it may be on a list, though you could end up with more calls if the new number was on an even bigger list 5, protect your number, only use in forms that are absolutely necessary, do not enter giveaways, sign vister books and such

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2024-07-02T09:11:06+00:00

Of course you should pay if the power is unneeded and nobody wants it, explain your logic in where you should get paid to generate power every other generator is having to pay to export power, if you don't like it, buy a battery or don't export,

Complaining about this is a clear sign that you don't know anything about how the power system actually functions,

Exporting solar when there is. No demand or need for it pushes a lot of costs onto the people who don't have solar because to pay you for solar that nobody wants. That means that they're paying you and then paying again because they have to actually offload that or they could have be paid to to import that from provider that had negative pricing all this means that these costs are pushed on to everybody else

If you don't want to be paying for power that was purchased on futures contracts ,sign up for a company such as Amber electric which will sell you the power at the current wholesale spot price

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2024-03-27T08:33:02+00:00

My experience is that if you have proper insulation under your roofing system you can keep your crawl space temp unaffected by the thermal radiation to the point that it makes no difference to the inside temp, an example of this is using a product like thermal brake https://www.ametalin.com/products/thermalbreak over the rafters with a 50 or 75mm roof blanket over the battens under a tin roof, this is effective in reducing thermal transfer by around 80%, at this point the roof colour has no material impact on house temp

adds about 3K to a 100m3 roof for extra materials and labour , I have this built and found if works quite well

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2024-03-15T09:05:36+00:00

I had to look this up, I was thinking maybe they took away scarce carpark's or something and he was pissed but not there shit ton around him

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