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This is a big bonus. I didn’t expect the heat pump on my mini split to work as well as it did this winter. Our bedroom over an unheated garage was more comfortable than it’s ever been. It needs repeating that you can buy 3 or more of these self install units for the price of a dealer...

That’s often on sale isn’t it?

If you don’t need to cut any of the lines (people just loop the excess if doing a self install) then the process is cut a small hole (it’s smaller than you think) to run the lines from the head unit. Install the head unit and run the lines outside. Install the condenser unit either on a stand...

Not any more. Many mini splits come in kits with pre-charged lines now. As for coverage, the kits are getting cheap enough that you can install multiple units and come out ahead...

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Some of the spray foam application has pulled away or shrunk a little from the rafters. Not the whole ceiling but maybe about a quarter of it. The shrinkage isn’t huge, maybe half a cm, but the company is coming back to see what needs doing to rectify it. My concern is that it’s supposed to...

The S Korea game last night had tons of empty seats.

“Hydration breaks” yeah right. Totally not ad breaks at all. They’ve turned the game into one of quarters.

That looks like a rebrand/non brand of the one I have. Mine is a steady performer. You can jam it up if you overfeed it but it’s easy to clear the jams. It prefers brown wood over green but will mulch either. The mulch you get out of it is basically chipped but not super fine but it’s...

Battery mower probably isn’t good for a mower business unless you have a bunch of batteries. My 80v will do a reasonable sized back and front yard and not have that much left over afterwards.

World Cup opening match just played. That was a bit of a damp squib. 3 red cards, 2 of them a bit debatable. If this is how the officiating is going to be the Dutch mixed martial arts squad that moonlights as the national football team will be down to 5 men in every game.

I have a similar tool. Mine is a greenworx 40v extendible pole saw and it’s used a lot. I take off the extensions to use it as a mini chainsaw when I need to. One thing that is super useful that I have is an electric mulcher. It’s a Joe Blow brand one and it comes out whenever I’m doing any...

Saw my first surron here the other day. A kid was ripping wheelies up and down the road which does look cool, but I wondered what happens if he wipes out at that speed and takes out a pensioner or damages someone’s car. Some kind of obligatory insurance band might make them ride a little more...

England are in and play Panama. I don’t have an England shirt (kind of tarnished by rabid nut jobs) but I do have a Panama jersey. I’ll be wearing that. I have a collection of old soccer jerseys to confuse my neighbours. Colombia and Mexico and Brazil are around somewhere. I gave away my US...

Someone did a study on these once and found that they increase fuel consumption in your vehicle by a not inconsiderable amount! The person that did the study was probably Dr Debbie Downer but still…..

I can reliably get hot peppers if I start early enough but for any that might turn red from green that would be rare but it’s happened before. It’s a harvest in the last weeks of the season though. Toms are good but I have lots of green left at the end of the season on the beefsteaks. We...

They do but that’s not where the majority of the valuation is. It’s in relatively untested (for SpaceX) AI crap that’s heavily interwoven with his social media platform. It seems like if you just whisper those two letters these days investors wet their pants and throw dollars at you.

My wife had a sporty version of one of those in France a while back. She had it on two wheels briefly going round a roundabout. We don’t have any sporty cars currently or since then. It’s a fun little lightweight car with a decent engine. A decent recipe for smiles.

I'm in Kingston so that may change things by a degree or so.

We have two varieties. A variegated and a plain one that are doing well in our crappy clay soil. It could be the microclimate here or we could just be lucky. I may be able to divide one up if you ever get out this way, I’d need to see where it’s spread this year first though. One is in the...