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It sucks but based on your earlier description most of us were pretty sure it was a leak... condensation just did not make sense. If it was me, I would consider how long you will be in the house and decide to either take the sloped roof route OR just have the flat roof redone. While I am not a...

I will put this here as part of the renos was getting the bookcases installed which allowed me to get this back together, if this collection doesn't impress the ladies I am at a loss...

Bar ends were all the rage when stems were long and bars were narrow. With all the changes in frame geometry over the years now stems are short and bars are wide, sometimes stupid wide. Smaller bar ends on non-stupid wide bars have not been an issue for me. IMO many modern bikes would not fit...

That fire is part of it but it was a common building method in many places for Victorian and 50 years on (in some areas) brick homes where brick and trades were commonly available, for this reason it is actually pretty common in Southern Ontario. In areas where brick was expensive or...

As much as it is a fashion faux paux these days, right up there with wearing white after Labour Day, I run bar ends on my MTB and Fatbike. Small ones, they give me alternate positions for my hands on longer rides when you are cruising some distance. Not dissimilar to the hand position options on...

I have also never had an issue with either Presta or Schrader and have a mix of both in the stable/house. My floor pump does both (also does Dunlop/Woods valves...), so does both mini-pump and CO2 kit does both but I also leave an adapter on the rear valve on the Presta bikes just in case I need...

Are you sure the house is not double brick? If it is, pulling the brick down will pull the house down!

Many touched on this but when moving to a lower COL location... Keep in mind it may cause one to be priced out of the city/province/country if they decide to return in the future (missing family, health, death of one partner, etc.). The locals in the lower COL locality may have resentment that...

Seth (aka Bike Hacks, Berm Peak) had a good video on the subject: IMO like I noted before the laws need to change and the loop holes need to be closed and enforced. Europe did a much better job than North America on the subject.

Railing is installed in the loft.... I bought some iron railings on FBMP and after some quality time with my grinder and welder... behold.

The installer is likely told some easy rule like 20 times cable diameter or a certain min radius. There is loss due to bending but also the type of drop cable (it may be very stiff). For SMF (single mode...) just for loss I would make any bend no tighter than 30mm radius/60mm diameter but bigger...

aka... it is better in every way and that is why it is not as good.

As for ETFs I picked up SHLD six months ago and it has worked out well. It is a defence sector ETF with a mix of European and American defence stocks. I looked but I couldn't find one that was just European so I ended up with a mixed one.

Being near the end of the hot nighttime weather maybe just get a fan that fits tight in a window (highest window works best), blowing out. Turn it on and open other widows at night and let it pull the cool air in, then off and windows closed during the day. One problem, when you roll in Sat...

The baseboards and quarter round are done in the loft and office below, just some minor touch-ups left. These are the original baseboards to the house (84 years old) that I salvaged from other rooms over the years. The idea is... they have always been there.

AFAIK they still have a 12v system and battery and the car won't run when it is dead. I have boosted an EV (not Tesla) for this very reason.

Which ones did you have put on, we are looking? We had a guy that would come every November and clean them for $50, he didn't come by last year... fate unknown.

I am a little concerned that this is a summer only issue and not winter. While summer air will typically hold more moisture (humidity...) the temperature differential inside to outside will be much more extreme in winter.

The wood rafters actually have an R value of (give or take) about R1 per inch. If you have say 2X8... ~7.5, if 2X6... ~5.5 for R value for the rafters, but they also have thermal mass so it is not as simple as straight up R value. Unless there is other nonsense going on (extreme humidity inside...

IME and from what I have seen they never totally fill it to be fully flush with the bottom of the joists right across. It would take some mad skill to spray it in just right so it expands to be exactly flush in the end. If it expands below the joists the drywall won't sit right. They do not...