Images of items I have purchased (except trainers [no feet pics])

[Chris Wilson]

Thanks for the info.

I found a comparison of using different dryers

• An example 9kg vented tumble dryer uses 5.34 kWh for a full load cycle and approx 636 kWh over a year (if you use your dryer around two times a week). This means that this vented tumble dryer costs £1.82 per cycle and £216 per year on average.
  In April, it was £1.50 per cycle and in November 2021, it was just £1.07 per cycle.
• An example 9kg condenser tumble dryer uses 5.2 kWh for a full load and approx 617 kWh annually. This means a cost of £1.77 per cycle and £209.78 annually – that's almost as much as a vented model.
  In April, it was £1.46 per cycle, and in November, it was £1.04.
• An example 9kg heat pump tumble dryer uses 2.16 kWh for a full load and 259 kWh per year. This means that you’ll be spending just 73p per cycle and £88.06 per year. Based on the April figures, this used to be 60p per cycle and 43p a cycle back in November.

you can see from the above that a heatpump dryer will cost a LOT less than other types, even if they run longer.

Thanks, very good info there. My only concern would be if the added complexity and risk of things going wrong in addition to the sddii purchase cost would sway costs over say a five year life period? I tend to buy the simplest, least processor intensive white goods I can, as with the basic stuff there less to go wrong and more chance if fixing it if it does give trouble. Something that's like a TV inside is a worry given the modern take on early obsolescence and spares being "no longer available".

 

[fez]

I have been tempted to get a heat pump drier but our tumble drier sits in a little outhouse that isn't necessarily super dry all the time and gets very cold in the winter.

My fear is that we buy a £500 drier and it dies from exposure in the first few years and we lose loads of money.

Our condensing one has lasted us over 6 years and cost us about £250, perhaps a little less. It died a couple of years ago but luckily it was one of the bad ones that had known issues so a tech came out, told me that the known issue was fine and that it was something else that was bust but obviously he couldn't fix that because that wasn't why he was there. Told me what I needed to buy and it was fixed for about £15 in parts.

We have a couple of babies on the way so I think we will end up using the tumble drier quite a lot in the coming years. Might be worth another look.

 

[randomshenans]

@Rilot what's in the box? That's a quality box none the less!

 

[Buffman]

I have been tempted to get a heat pump drier but our tumble drier sits in a little outhouse that isn't necessarily super dry all the time and gets very cold in the winter.

My fear is that we buy a £500 drier and it dies from exposure in the first few years and we lose loads of money.

Our condensing one has lasted us over 6 years and cost us about £250, perhaps a little less. It died a couple of years ago but luckily it was one of the bad ones that had known issues so a tech came out, told me that the known issue was fine and that it was something else that was bust but obviously he couldn't fix that because that wasn't why he was there. Told me what I needed to buy and it was fixed for about £15 in parts.

We have a couple of babies on the way so I think we will end up using the tumble drier quite a lot in the coming years. Might be worth another look.

I'm pretty sure heat pump tumble dryers don't work outside/in garages/in sheds and have a minimum temp requirement of around 10 degrees so might not be the best option. Might be worth checking.

 

[fez]

I'm pretty sure heat pump tumble dryers don't work outside/in garages/in sheds and have a minimum temp requirement of around 10 degrees so might not be the best option. Might be worth checking.

Seems to be 5 degrees by most manufacturer specs but the efficiency is reduced at that temp obviously.

Its a tiny little out house that is just about 2 tumble driers deep and 1.5 wide so with the door shut I imagine that it wouldn't have too many issues staying above 5 degrees. Even in the depths of winter in the UK it doesn't go under 5 most days in the south east at its warmest.

Will do more research on local temps in winter.

 

[ChrisD.]

Thanks, very good info there. My only concern would be if the added complexity and risk of things going wrong in addition to the sddii purchase cost would sway costs over say a five year life period?

My previous ~8 year LG condenser is still working, someone’s picking it up this evening for £100. I got the new one from AO on 18 months interest free. Ours is on most days and sometimes multiple times a day so it’ll save us in the long run. I don't usually like buying things on tick but 18 months at 0% is a great offer.

 

[Martynt74]

A long overdue battery upgrade.

Silly to think I have been renovating a house with these using just the 1.5ah battery I got with the drill.

All those tools look far too clean. Where's the plasterboard dust coating every surface, or bits of rust on the blades

 

[fez]

How on earth did you survive on a single 1.5ah battery. I have a 4 and a 5 and I regularly go through both of them when doing anything serious. The circular saw chews through them.

 

[Buffman]

How on earth did you survive on a single 1.5ah battery. I have a 4 and a 5 and I regularly go through both of them when doing anything serious. The circular saw chews through them.

Aye heavy knotted wood will kill a battery saw. I have about 5 batteries, 3x3, 2x5AH and I could have more! But I do use them a lot and also have the makita garden kit and lawnmower

 

[Relentless81]

I've just asked the wife for one of them those there multi tools for Christmas, what endy bit do I need to remove old window sill tiles? Can I just use the cutting one that comes with it or do I need a scraper type?

 

[R-evans]

All those tools look far too clean. Where's the plasterboard dust coating every surface, or bits of rust on the blades

I vacuum them after every use I think I gave them a little wipe down before that pic too. Our house doesn't have an inch of plasterboard thankfully and hopefully never will.

This past weekend I cut all the tongues off these floorboards, then ripped some battens on the new table saw from pallet wood. Luckily there's a lot of renos in our neighbourhood so there are plenty of free pallets laying around. This weekend I will start cutting and laying insulation before running the floorboards through the thickness planer and laying them back down.

How on earth did you survive on a single 1.5ah battery. I have a 4 and a 5 and I regularly go through both of them when doing anything serious. The circular saw chews through them.

I didn't, that's why I bought a new one. The heavy tool use has only come in the last few weeks and I had plenty of different little jobs to do while I let the battery charge. The new capacity and just having two batteries makes a huge different. My wife was pre-drilling the insulation battens for example while I was attaching them to the joists.

I bought another new tool too, this is more to try a bit of furniture making once the house work is done. Will probably test out on the rolling table saw stand I want to build soon.

 

[the shadow]

Thanks for the info.

I found a comparison of using different dryers

• An example 9kg vented tumble dryer uses 5.34 kWh for a full load cycle and approx 636 kWh over a year (if you use your dryer around two times a week). This means that this vented tumble dryer costs £1.82 per cycle and £216 per year on average.
  In April, it was £1.50 per cycle and in November 2021, it was just £1.07 per cycle.
• An example 9kg condenser tumble dryer uses 5.2 kWh for a full load and approx 617 kWh annually. This means a cost of £1.77 per cycle and £209.78 annually – that's almost as much as a vented model.
  In April, it was £1.46 per cycle, and in November, it was £1.04.
• An example 9kg heat pump tumble dryer uses 2.16 kWh for a full load and 259 kWh per year. This means that you’ll be spending just 73p per cycle and £88.06 per year. Based on the April figures, this used to be 60p per cycle and 43p a cycle back in November.

you can see from the above that a heatpump dryer will cost a LOT less than other types, even if they run longer.

 

[Vince]

I got some more lego! Already built the sonic but am looking forward to building the other 3.

 

[Martynt74]

I vacuum them after every use I think I gave them a little wipe down before that pic too. Our house doesn't have an inch of plasterboard thankfully and hopefully never will.

This past weekend I cut all the tongues off these floorboards, then ripped some battens on the new table saw from pallet wood. Luckily there's a lot of renos in our neighbourhood so there are plenty of free pallets laying around. This weekend I will start cutting and laying insulation before running the floorboards through the thickness planer and laying them back down.





I didn't, that's why I bought a new one. The heavy tool use has only come in the last few weeks and I had plenty of different little jobs to do while I let the battery charge. The new capacity and just having two batteries makes a huge different. My wife was pre-drilling the insulation battens for example while I was attaching them to the joists.

I bought another new tool too, this is more to try a bit of furniture making once the house work is done. Will probably test out on the rolling table saw stand I want to build soon.

Lucky, i can never understand why the moron that previously renovated our house (built in 1874) decided to whack plasterboard everywhere! Although to be fair, my tools were all a mess well before we moved in, just from general plaster/dust. I'm not quite OCD enough to wipe them down after use!

See you've gone for the higher end pocket hole jig. I went for the smaller Kreg one as i liked not being limited to wood widths from the clamp. Triton seem to be a decent screws at a better price than the official Kreg/Trend ones

 

[mid_gen]

I'm honestly a bit baffled by what has become of Lego. It used to be stuff you used to be creative and build things with, especially the Technik pneumatics and things.
It seems to have morphed into a corporate monstrosity selling grossly overpriced plastic merchandise tat Each to their own I guess.

 

[ci_newman]

I'm honestly a bit baffled by what has become of Lego. It used to be stuff you used to be creative and build things with, especially the Technik pneumatics and things.
It seems to have morphed into a corporate monstrosity selling grossly overpriced plastic merchandise tat Each to their own I guess.

Technic Lego still exists and is a big market and so is the market for kids building sets, but they've also started focusing more on display models too.

There is now an entire generation of adults who grew up playing with Lego as a child. People have been collecting models for years, this is just an evolution of model collecting IMO.

 

[peterwalkley]

I'm honestly a bit baffled by what has become of Lego. It used to be stuff you used to be creative and build things with, especially the Technik pneumatics and things.
It seems to have morphed into a corporate monstrosity selling grossly overpriced plastic merchandise tat Each to their own I guess.

On the plus side of it being so expensive: every piece gets picked up so you don't have that "lego foot" problem any more

 

[MOOGLEYS]

I have a heat pump dryer and it costs loads less than our older conventional one. It takes longer to dry fully but it’s no hassle really. Doing daily washes and dries as we do it has saved us quite a bit.

 

[cu3ed]

I'm honestly a bit baffled by what has become of Lego. It used to be stuff you used to be creative and build things with, especially the Technik pneumatics and things.
It seems to have morphed into a corporate monstrosity selling grossly overpriced plastic merchandise tat Each to their own I guess.

Its like the Ikea of merchandised stuff.
Lego for me was a big bucket of pieces of just sitting making stuff.

 

[R-evans]

Lucky, i can never understand why the moron that previously renovated our house (built in 1874) decided to whack plasterboard everywhere! Although to be fair, my tools were all a mess well before we moved in, just from general plaster/dust. I'm not quite OCD enough to wipe them down after use!

See you've gone for the higher end pocket hole jig. I went for the smaller Kreg one as i liked not being limited to wood widths from the clamp. Triton seem to be a decent screws at a better price than the official Kreg/Trend ones

I quickly wiped them for the photo, I don't do that every time I do usually vacuum them with everything else though once I'm done for the day.

Yea I noticed the wood width limitation after I'd ordered, considered returning and going cheaper but I bought it with birthday money anyway so might keep the nice one and grab the cheaper one if I ever need to go thinner. Thanks for the screw recommendation!