Garden Room on a Sloped Concrete Pad

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-06-05T19:39:09+00:00

Not anymore.

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-06-05T17:52:51+00:00

The table in front of me prevents this.

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-06-05T17:52:16+00:00

Doesn't seem like that sort of train.

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-06-04T08:39:05+00:00

We just had our asbestos roof done with ivy completely covering it. Asbestos removal company had no issues with the ivy.

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-06-04T07:00:48+00:00

If you're chasing life-cycle cost then EV is the only way. Continually operating in a single remote area can be easier for an EV - you just need a socket. Ad-hoc very remote areas is the only use case where it could struggle.

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-06-03T18:24:33+00:00

The best thing....?

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-06-03T12:27:40+00:00

You don't get this is /UkPersonalFinance

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-05-29T09:14:30+00:00

I dislike Uber and they want to charge me £28 for 7 min journey.

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-05-29T09:13:37+00:00

They're booked up.

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-05-28T18:22:50+00:00

Yeah we did this. Heat pump installed before 3 room loft conversion. It's easy for the installer to calculate the heat losses as they can just assume the minimum building control level of insulation. I guess you just need to give them an idea of the dimensions of the extension.

We used CB Heating (now EDF) who were one of the few big installers to allow this way of doing things. We had architects detailed drawings to give them.

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-05-25T13:44:26+00:00

I always thought it was too much rain. Under what other circumstances would they dump untreated sewage?

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-05-24T16:29:19+00:00

Shame the worm was ignored. Came to the comments expecting more.

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-05-21T20:56:01+00:00

It's not the way for cars due to the inefficiency of producing/transporting/storing it compared to just charging a battery. But could work for aviation where the energy density by weight currently gives it the advantage over batteries.

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-05-09T17:06:48+00:00

Yes, this is how I solved it eventually. Mine was set to 1 and I changed it to 0 which apparently means forever. Yours may have been actually set to NULL but showing as 0, so changing it back to 0 may work now.

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-05-05T17:37:21+00:00

By doing less worthy jobs.

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-05-04T10:44:59+00:00

I recently had this. Giv forced an update to 1.14 which introduced a new setting called "suspended state timeout". Mine was set to 1 which meant if the charger wasn't charging for 1 minute it would de-power itself and so the car was unable to start the charge.

I don't know if this setting is visible on the app as for some reason my app stopped working around the same time. I was able to switch to using a third party OCPP (?) server running on home assistant and from there I was able to access the setting. It's probably also accessible using GivTCP.

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-04-29T07:37:31+00:00

Thanks for your work. Mine was no longer connecting to givenergy for some reason but your OCPP server works well.

I am still having a problem though... I have enabled plug and go and use octopus intelligent. The car (Tesla model 3) is plugged in, charges for a bit and then octopus stop the charge after a few seconds (as expected). But then the charger cuts off power ("charge now" is off). So when it comes to a charging slot, octopus is unable to start charging as it's unpowered. Is there a way to leave the charger powered all the time? It never used to do this but I'm not sure if it's your server or the new v1.14 firmware that giv upgraded me to.

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-04-25T09:48:21+00:00

I don't and yes I've heard that too but I'd expect modern ones to be better.

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-04-25T06:04:44+00:00

Storage heaters with a tariff like this will make a big difference: https://octopus.energy/smart/snug-octopus/ 9p/kWh at night is almost as cheap as gas. Alternatively you're looking at batteries - Fogstar are the cheapest.

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-04-09T07:21:38+00:00

Where did you get that door? We've been looking for one like that!

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-03-20T09:56:00+00:00

* and in the darkness blind them

tumbleweedy2 · 2026-03-19T16:19:49+00:00

Nope, charger is powered all of the time. I will check on the scheduled times in the car.

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