Owning your own home

In the winter insulation helps home retain heat, which is great, anything which is using energy inside the house is also making heat (you/people/animals, computer, fridge, cooking, hot water, lights etc) so contributing to keeping the interior nice and warm. Sunlight coming in also converts to heat. Insulation doesn't stop heat energy transfer it just slows it down, so all those internal heat gains are compensating for the slow heat loss.

In the summer, that same insulation can slow/prevent heat coming through the wall from outside to inside, but it's not going to help with any of the other stuff. The best insulation in the world is not by itself going to stop overheating in summer if you have internal heat gains and/or solar gain. Shading, ventilation (cross, stack and purge), and thermal mass are key.

Active cooling (introducing actively cooled air/cooled surfaces) is going to be a lot more common in the near future. The regs for London are already different (smaller windows to prevent solar gain) to try to mitigate urban overheating.

In hotter countries you'd usually open everything up first thing in the morning to move cool air through the house, then close up the shutters mid to late morning.

The problem is our houses don't usually allow or lend themselves to that sort of thing.

Jizz a load of no more nails on the back. Then for belt and braces drill holes at the top centre, bottom left and right, countersink and pop through some fischer hammerfix. Fill the holes and touch up with paint.

You need to close the lid on the cereal box and store it in a dry and cool place.

That other mirror looks pretty badly hung too.

Moving day

We have all our stuff out, in the lorry, waiting to go.

Bank assured us funds were released from our buyer yesterday. Only they haven't arrived in our solicitors accounts yet. nobody know where they are? Fun.

Little nails driven into the fireplace so the mirror can't slide forward? One on the left and one on the right

Could always touch them up with white paint to try and hide them

Thanks
Yeah I'll definitely fix it properly via hooks in the wall and ignore Pinterest :-)
I suggested nails on the fireplace but was told no

(and yep the house is very much a work in progress...)

I can see, the ketchup isn't even in the fridge!

don't

I can see, the ketchup isn't even in the fridge!

gtfo

Ketchup in the fridge, Ed? U mad bro.

No, it can live in the cupboard if unopened, but once opened, it should be in the fridge, just like brown sauce.

Edit; according to Heinz themselves;

"Because of its natural acidity, Heinz Ketchup is shelf-stable. However, its stability after opening can be affected by storage conditions. We recommend that this product be refrigerated after opening."

Somebody should tell a millenia of cooks that pickled products should be refrigerated.

Most modern mass produced pickles don't have as much pickling agent as pickles from the past so aren't really pickles but people prefer the taste and have fridges so it isn't really a pickle.

A cold pickle is just better.
Fact.

Pffft. Ketchup is 100% fine not in the fridge. As is brown sauce. And mustard, hot sauce etc.

Heinz says its 'stability can be affected' ie you might need to give it an extra shake, but not that it will go off.

just exchanged on our purchase and sale today - has been super stressful trying to get dates agreed for completion..

I was incredibly lucky with mine. At the last minute (day of exchange) the bank said "ah yeah, we've got a bit of a backlog, it might take three weeks to release the funds". Fortunately both the people buying mine and the people I was buying off agreed to that.

has been super stressful trying to get dates agreed for completion..

Yeah but did you keep your ketchup in the fridge tho?

For the record: The ketchup does normally stay in our fridge...

Of course, I'm not an animal.

New reclaimed wood fitted with new insulated floor in the sitting room, spend half a day pulling out old nail from the old wood.

Should have double check (the wood itself is fine fortunately).

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Any idea where to find a rail and bracket like this? Have searched but everything seems to be either a lot chunkier or white plastic
(From: https://www.aucoot.com/2021/07/19/john-pawson-the-way-he-lives-now/)

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Thinking of installing a tado wired smart thermostat and some of their thermostat radiator valves.
Remember there being some chat on here about using them. How easy is it for you to install thermostat and valves yourself and what are the issues or problems that have cropped up since you’ve swapped over..

Thanks

Checked this with an anonymous very senior ketchup source (who used to be #onhere)

Edited: for anonymity/less golf club vibes

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