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What is water hammer
Quite interesting to learn about plumbing.
Orcon connection problem fixed
So today I checked the connection again and whoa, it’s been fixed! See graph below. It only required a few angry phone calls and emails to get it sorted.
Last day at GrabOne (NZME)
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Time is the enemy of the privileged few. Cost is the enemy of the masses.
Stumbled upon an youtube video: Why Planes Don’t Fly Faster Turns out making travel cheaper is way more important, very well said at the end: “Time is the enemy of the privileged few. Cost is the enemy of the masses.”
Current state of solar energy for NZ customers
Recently there is a wave of ads/posts on my facebook about solar energy, ranging from installations to solar tax. I did a quick calculation from https://www.energywise.govt.nz/tools/solar-calculator/, using all the standard attributes and costs, it worked out that I will save a HUGE(not) $1100 in 22 years, that is without any issues within 22 years. I don’t really think… Read More »
Building a bed rail
As Casey grows older, wife would like her to be able to climb out of her own bed(cot), so we have to replace the bed rail. No worries, I had some scrap timber laying around ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]I had some trouble with the scrap timber as they were not straight so the measurement was… Read More »
Building a shed
When we went out to parks, my daughter seemed she enjoyed playing in mini-houses, which made me want to build one in our backyard so she can play whenever she wants. Since it’s a bit more complicated structure than previous ones, I had to draw it up somewhere, and I used an online 3D modelling… Read More »
Mini Deck
Another retrospect to my wood work hobby, so I was looking for things to make (and make more use of the mitre saw), I managed to find a small project to do, building a mini-deck between the main house and laundry room, we used to leap across the concrete foundation between the 2 areas since… Read More »
Wood work, something that I have never done before.
This is a small post goes back to July 2016, my dad bought me an AEG mitre saw from Bunnings which I had no project in mind and have never done wood work before. So I did big clean up in the garage in the morning to make room for the to be built workshop, then… Read More »