Owning your own home

My washing machine has "downloadable" programs. Which intrigues me, but I can't seem to get it to pair with my phone. Not something I thought I'd ever type.

Might be the wrong thread for this...

Has anyone ever taken OSB to a decent surface finish? I'm going to buy a sit / stand desk frame and stick a top on it.

I have a huge neoprene mouse mat that everything sits on, so it wouldn't touch or irritate my arms, but probably needs some sort of finish. I imagine sanding to c.180 and varnishing it with something would do - anyone got any experience?

You'll struggle to get a nice edge (where your forearms rub all day). I'd go for birch ply.

IIRC (50/50) someone did this using a thick layer of PVA, I'm prob remembering wrong though.

It must be a Panasonic or an LG.

Anything else will not have an inverter.

I went with the traditional method of just buying whatever is highest rated by Which

This

What's exciting about an inverter?

AFAIK it only means the lower power modes actually do what they say rather than alternating on and off, but who uses those?

Yes - that's true. Might not be possible to build sufficient finish on the cross section of the board. I could maybe put an edge of ply around it and rout a radius, but that's likely more effort than I want to go to.

defrosting stuff seems to be significantly better on my panasonic than my girlfriends cheapy microwave. in that chicken for example comes out defrosted on mine, and cooked at the edges and ice in the middle on hers (unless you take it out halfway through and chop it into pieces then put back)

For a desk i wouldn’t use OSB far too rough, ply or birch ply if you wanna splash out

yes - I think looking into a bit more, you can get a decent finish using epoxy etc, which I can do, but not sure I can be bothered with that much work.

You could get away with a sand and a varnish on a piece of ply for a desk no bother without the need for epoxy if you cba with that.

It must be a Panasonic or an LG.

Anything else will not have an inverter.

I got this Panasonic

I'm getting that.

If only for the 'Chaos Defrost' mode

Microwaves are good for about 3 things - heating milk, reheating cooked food, and reheating from frozen.

Two of those don't need full power, particularly reheating from frozen.

An inverter means that you can heat more evenly over time / volume, without as much risk of hot spots & cold spots.

Inverter. 1000W. What's not to love.

And (less the cash I had sitting in my PayPal account) £130 delivered, which is around half what I anticipated a decent microwave costing, which is nice.

Remember; if you use epoxy it will rot your brain and you will end up finishing every conversation with "don't forget to like and subscribe".

Making scrambled eggs too.
And cooking rice in the microwave rice cooker

I have never not used full power

Microwaves are good for about 4 things - heating milk, reheating cooked food, reheating from frozen, and ruining any other type of food you can imagine.

Maybe I could seal it with epoxy, and include a small concrete 'feature' section in the middle somehow?

That would be sure boost my patreon numbers...

Scrambled eggs in the microwave is an absolute abomination.

We've gone from zero viewings on our flat since October to three this week, looks like most banks now offering 10% mortgages is having an effect.

also seen an uptick the last 10 days, although also had a few book in and just no-show

Yeah its not a bit of butter and some eggs in a pan.