Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

kabayiri

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think I need a PC... as a fully trained typist, typing for over 40 years, I just don't get on with laptops. I also don't sit at a desk. I am sitting sideways on the sofa, legs curled up, keyboard is balanced on the sofa cushion and one leg. You can only do that with a laptop for a short time. Also, in the past, I've not liked the hot fan of a laptop spewing out heat onto my leg.

The modern gen of i3/i5/i7 processors don't generate massive heat.

You need to think about your seating posture. I have an office chair and desk, and a good chair is key to good posture.

I've only recently realised this. My core strength was not good enough, and posture needs improving.

ukmaggie45

I think you'd be better off with a wash basin in the toilet rather than a shower. Are there building regs for hand wash facilities in toilet?

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Don't quote, will delete

Used Tinypic. This is the current layout, plus 3 overall new design layouts.

http://tinypic.com/r/nq7jgp/9

Brief description of parts at the bottom of the image.

I will comment at lunchtime.

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I've got a keyboard case on my iPad, bought from John Lewis for about £75.

It keeps it small, whilst giving the convenience of a small laptop when a proper keyboard is necessary.

Whereas we bought DD1 a wiindows laptop / tablet with detachable proper keyboard for £99 for xmas.

Most windows tablets you can just put down somewhere and conect wirelessly to a monitor, mouse and keyboard and it might as well be a desktop CPU box but you get a tablet as well. If your curent monitor has hdmi you can make it wirelss with a 15 quid dongle, similarly a bluetooth keyboard and mouse starts at about 15 quid. Not sure what the cheapest i3 tablet costs - 150 quid?

kabayiri

michaels wrote: »

I will comment at lunchtime.



Whereas we bought DD1 a wiindows laptop / tablet with detachable proper keyboard for £99 for xmas.

Most windows tablets you can just put down somewhere and conect wirelessly to a monitor, mouse and keyboard and it might as well be a desktop CPU box but you get a tablet as well. If your curent monitor has hdmi you can make it wirelss with a 15 quid dongle, similarly a bluetooth keyboard and mouse starts at about 15 quid. Not sure what the cheapest i3 tablet costs - 150 quid?

I doubt PN's monitor has hdmi. It might have DVI but even that isn't a given.

You're right. There are tons of options ; a laptop / tablet is just not the constraint it once was.

(apart from repairability! Some iProducts have scored 1 out of 10 for repairability....how depressing).

kabayiri

PasturesNew wrote: »

This, in my book, is another reason for choosing a PC. I see it as a cheaper cost to buy a spec + more chance you can get some bloke round the corner to fix it.

Stuff that's made small, laptops etc, tend to be either impossible, or hideously expensive, to repair.

It's a pipe dream though now, the idea of repairability.

Of course you can upgrade PCs, or build from scratch. I've done both. It's rarely economic to do so.

You try and find the bloke to fix it. It will be £45 to £60 an hour.

If you want economy and value in purchasing, you have to buy what every man/woman/dog is buying; because volume dictates price.

Bang per buck ; laptop / tablet / chromebook is where it's at.

An exercise. Look up the type of memory in your PC. It's probably something like DDR2 ram. Then look up how pricey it is to upgrade now. Why? Cos nobody is buying it and the volumes have gone..

ukmaggie45

PN there's a free weekend at Find My Past.

silvercar

I wouldn't want my stairs in the lounge. Difficult to keep the room warm and wasting all the heat going up to the landing and noise carrying around the place and lack of privacy.

Not all a concern when you live on your own, but effect sale -bility.

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

Fitting a new boiler generally takes one man day. The boiler itself costs around £700. Other materials may come to £50. So, how come BG generally quote £2500+?

New pipework. Regs have changed so the gas pipe to the main boiler needs to be 22mm rather than the current 15mm.

Flue needs something changing......

Pipe work won't be right. Can guarantee if we just have one boiler there will be problems combining all the heating pipes into one system.

michaels

I thought you would simply be moving the lounge wall so that there was a corridor to the bottom of the stairs rather than them being in the lounge (yes I know this would also mean you needed close of the current front door and put an opening opposite the bottom of the stairs)

I assumed you would come much further forward with the new sun lounge /entrance hall bit (perhaps all the way to inline with the frontand that this would be the sun lounge/entrance hall bit, the bit next to the bathroom being just a corridor to the new utility room. However the new front bit would have a exterior width of 2.70 as opposed to 3.30 for the utlity room/bathroom bit, leaving space for an outside window on the small exposed front facing section of the shower room.

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

New pipework. Regs have changed so the gas pipe to the main boiler needs to be 22mm rather than the current 15mm.

Flue needs something changing......

Pipe work won't be right. Can guarantee if we just have one boiler there will be problems combining all the heating pipes into one system.

I think we may have got away with 15mm for our boiler because it is not a combi and not that far from the meter, we definitely didn't need to replace the whole supply.

Joining two heating circuits may well be problematic especially as current regs say abouve a certain sqm you need to have multiple zones.

Is there nowhere you could put a tank that could feed the different bathrooms/taps sensibly?