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Mine seems to have miraculously sealed itself after riding the last couple of days. Looks like it was just sulking through neglect…

Millilitres. Prescribed dose is ~80ml if I’m not mistaken. There should be loads sloshing around in there, but I can’t feel or hear it…

@snoops You’re probably right, time to muster up the strength to wrestle with this sucka.

Just started riding a bike I haven’t used in a few months, with 26x2.8 WTB Rangers, Caffelatex sealant.

Topped up with 60ml of sealant, rode a while, started slowly losing pressure. Topped up a bit more, took wheel off and swilled it around… still slowly losing pressure. Only the rear, front is OK.

No visible sealant peeking through anywhere.

Bizarrely, I can’t hear or feel any sealant sloshing around inside the voluminous tyre, and there’s no sealant sputtering through the valve when inflating/removing the core. Even though there’s now around 150ml of fresh sealant in there…

What to check next? Please don’t say remove the tyre, these are a bitch to get off the WTB rims…

Happy to contribute time, cash and responsibility...

Up for the wake/rebirthing ceremony...

I know many of us are just coping hard, but surely there are thousands of independent UK forums thinking about and navigating exactly this issue without contemplating wholesale pulling the plug?

My winter wish is to transurf into a timeline where everyone realises it's a load of hot air and just carries on 🥹

Came here to say this. I for one would be more than happy to donate a healthy chunk to keep this going. It’s invaluable for my mental health.

Was it outside mister ozzy’s fireworks zone?

That’s a very calming looking space, lovely.

What’s the plan with the ply panel and shelf? Treated/painted?

Yeah, hot water tank recharge is scheduled once per 24hrs, from 1am (when the 5p/kWh period begins and outdoor temps haven’t dropped too much).

Same here. This is why a well-insulated building just 'feels' so much nicer compared to an uninsulated solid brick equivalent, even if the air inside is at the same temperature. The surfaces and objects will be warmer, less temperature differential between them and your body, less radiant heat transfer from your skin and flesh to plaster and brick.

Half of my house is still completely uninsulated, solid Victorian brick. Moving from the well-insulated and airtight new extension and loft, to the old areas, feels like a night and day difference in comfort, even though the air temperature is always the same 21-22C throughout the entire house.

It's effed up. Looks like I switched away from Octopus at just the right time 😬

In more Tomato Energy news: yesterday's bill for me was £4.26 for 30kWh usage, including dishwasher, washing machine, tumble dryer, full hot water tank, heating the entire house constantly to 21C, cooking 3 meals etc (electric only, gas-free here). If I'd stayed on Octopus Tracker, the bill would have been over £10.

It doesn't give the quick blast of heat that a fan heater does but they seemed much less efficient.

Any direct electric resistive heater will be 100% efficient. Fan heaters slightly less so, as they need to drive fans as well as the element.

A fan heater will heat up the air much quicker, but will be doing fuck all very quickly once turned off.

An oil radiator will have a load of thermal mass acting as a buffer, and will continue to release heat energy long after the element turns off.

Both will impart the exact same amount of heat energy into a space, for an equivalent amount of energy consumption, only the way you experience this energy as a human over time may vary.

Fuck. Love to you Hayley, your words, spirit and self will be missed dearly.

Tomato update: went live today. I scheduled a full dishwasher load, full washing machine and tumble dryer loads, hot water tank reheat, and gentle heating boost from heat pump.

Leccy used so far today (midnight till 10am): 15kWh.
Cost for this period on Tomato: £1.45
What this would have cost today on previous Octopus Tracker tariff: £4.50

They’ll probably go bust in a couple of months…

Just switched to Tomato from Octopus, switchover date is today so I'll keep you posted!

Looking to load-shift dishwasher, washer-dryer and partially the heat pump, to the 1am-6am 5p period.

Bonkers ‘idea’. Ruinously expensive to heat a large house using any kind of direct electric heating.

Get a heat pump off Octopus/British Gas with the £7.5K grant, run it via the Tomato Energy tariff that gives 6 hours of 5p/kWh leccy per day.

What's happened? I've been with them for a couple of years, not had the need to contact them at all so far, everything's just worked... £29/m for 1Gb/s is nice enough to put up with slightly tardy support imo.

Mad ting

Also, has anyone else clocked how they've photoshopped out all the wood burner chimneys in the Dezeen photos? They're visible in Google Streetview.

And they've only gone and bunged a built-in fire pit into the patio as well...

Took the words out of my mouth. Why the fuck would you choose to do this? It's 2K24 ffs.

There's an ancient couple constantly burning wet wood in their house at the end of our road, stinking up the place and aggravating my daughter's asthma. It's beyond annoying, several neighbours have grassed them up to the council, but I can kind of understand their position as they're old, have "been doing it our entire lives", and probably don't know any better. An architect consciously specifying multiple burners in a built-up area? Get fucked, you selfish muppet.

Cute house tho still.

Massive difference. Don’t get shitty british double glazing.

Velfac/Rationel/IdealCombi/Nordan if you’re feeling flush.

Klar/Eurostyl for big bang for buck.

This. When I bought our house 9 years ago, it was mostly fucked, including needing an 'iMmEdIaTe !!' complete roof replacement according to the surveyor.

The whole roof at the rear of the ridge was unlined, with heavy non-original concrete tiles weighing the sagging Victorian timbers down, and many leaks. One leak was bad enough, and had been happening for long enough, to have completely rotted away the plaster in a bedroom. It was thick with black mould under the fresh magnolia paint. Surveyor claimed it was all in danger of collapse, and recommended to walk away from the purchase.

I bought the house for below asking price, replaced a few concrete slates, re-pointed a lead valley and called it a day for the next 8 years. Cost a grand, was fine. Saved the big money for an eventual loft conversion instead.

‘Leaked’… /rolleyes

Yes please! Got to sort my son’s bedroom floor, which has been wrecked by builders.

I’ll message you.