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ooh I dunno. Shared experience? Perhaps someone had something similar happen to them and they shared the outcome? Perhaps this is common with the pure water system, perhaps it's not. But mostly as a cautionary tale to help others, I've never heard of someone's window being damaged by a window...

Sometimes I think I should use these forums more. Replies like this remind me why I don't :)

It's a professional outfit yeah, and we've used them for years with no complaints until now. And before we moved house the cleaners there used bush and soft water too. Whatever happens we'll be changing to a cleaner that uses a traditional system from now on, even though the 2 bathroom windows...

Go on then. How else has this happened? A bird attacked it with some flint? It's a first floor window remember. If you look at the picture closely you can see there's remnants of bird poop where the scratches are.

It never occured to me that this could happen, but yesterday I noticed scratches on one of our first floor windows that was cleaned recently. Our window cleaner uses a soft water system and I'm guessing he got a small stone or grit on one of the bristles. I will confront him but if he denys it...

Any love for meshtastic here? It's LoRa based firmware which can increase range by using other nodes to hop to the destination. All text based and can be used licence free of course, but there are a lot of Hams on there. I made contact with an M0 a couple of miles away and he has invited me to a...

Dump and charity shop run complete. I also did a small amount of gardening.

I had to work in the morning (double time at least) but mowed the lawns and rescued a bee which the dog found stuck down the washing line hole.

Been really unwell the past week or so, slowly getting back into it. Deep cleaned my window vac (which we mostly use for the shower), did my monthly check on the car, cleaned the washing machine, and removed a nasty dangerous nail from the loft using my new hacksaw

I can't do as much with these evening ones, but i'll take it

I've repaired our rain deflector on our upvc door. It had started to split but superglue seems to have done a good job. Is there a way to get it to stay in one place? Currently it's only resting on screws along the bottom of the door, so there's nothing to stop it travelling laterally. There...

8pm to 10:30pm tomorrow (wednesday)

yeah the mass is for dampening and the foam decouples it from the house. Suspending the fan is another way to decouple it, i'm just not sure I'd trust it not to come crashing down one day :D

I adjusted the upvc doors to close tighter and, hopefully, let less cold air in. second half of this vid shows how to do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4x1vwQiXIU

Yes to both, just a bog standard paver. I've never seen it done with an in-line fan, but I'm curious to know if it can work :D

One technique that is used in 3d printing to reduce vibration is to place the printer on top of a slab which is lying on a piece of foam.

I replaced a fence panel which got obliterated by the storm earlier in the week. I've had a spare floating around, getting in the way for the past two years. I knew I didn't get rid of it for a reason, once again lazyness wins It's the wrong type (close board instead of overlap) and too...

I'd quite like to use rigid pipe for the run from the fan to the wall as it's approx 2m and I want the best airflow possible. Insulating it is a good idea, I can even tuck it between the loft insulation layers. It's the bit between the ceiling and the fan that i'm unsure about, I guess I would...

**thread hi-jack** I'm looking at fitting an inline fan in the loft space as well, although it will vent to the gable wall. In terms of the bit between the ceiling and the fan, is it best to use a short run of flex pipe or some angle connectors with rigid pipe?

I agree, I take no issue with it really. Perhaps if it was a large volume of cuttings i'd like to discuss first just to minimise mess, but otherwise there are far bigger things to worry about.