Review of run-time performance post the LFS changes
LFS moves code and read-only strings that are represented using various Lua VM record structures into Flash memory. ESP8288 hardware only supports word-aligned data access from flash, so 8 and…
A Lua Cross-Compile Web Service
There has been a lot of discussion on the NodeMCU issues list (#2315 et al) about the challenges that many Windows developers having in installing and building luac.cross. To help…
Plumbing Design – Part II
This is the Part II roll up of a couple of earlier blog posts and Buildhub forum topics which provide the groundwork and context. Plumbing Design – Part I Heating…
Harveys Water Softeners
If you have a Combi boiler, or SunAmp, or pretty much any device with a built in Plate Heat Exchanger (PHE) and live in any region which has hard water…
Plumbing Design – Part I
I have been doing the design validation of my plumbing solution partly so I am comfortable that it is feasible and partly to write this up so that others have…
Heating the Slab – an overview
I have no idea whatsoever what you are talking about in your topic thread on modelling your slab? — joe90 on the Buildhub Forum 27/01/2017 at 09:52 [link added -TE]…
SunAmp – our alternative to a UVC or TS
I just wanted to include a brief post explaining from a self-builder perspective why we have decided not to use an Unvented Cylinder (UVC), Thermal Store (TS) or combi-boiler for…
Window and Door Detailing on a Stone Clad MBC Timber-framed House
As I've previously discussed we have an MBC Passive Slab and Timber-frame, but unlike most builds, our house also has a very traditional stone cottage-style exterior because the new build…
Coping with a Thermal Flaw in the Design
(This post is a précis of a post and thread discussions that took place on the eBuild forum October last year and subsequent discussions with my builder.) Many of the…
Fun Surveying Site Levels
One of my preconditions it to provide an accurate survey of site levels across my site. The last time that I did anything like this was just under 40 years…
Planning Approval Down, Conditions To Go
We've had our second planning application in the system since mid December. Our first application was in May and the main reason for the delay between these was negotiating with…
A Little Aside On Radiance
I've sort of covered this topic buried in various Buildhub threads, but since I need to use this info for my heating calcs, I thought useful to cover this in…
The Thermal Design – Using An Active Slab
I am writing these posts for two main reasons. The first is for my benefit, in that I find that if I have got to the point where I can…
Modelling Thermal Lag
I was really unhappy with my discussion of this on my last blog entry, so I want to get a better quantitative understanding of how this would impact my house…
Traffic Survey Blues
The latest turn in our planning journey has occurred. As part of pre-planning we send an early draft of our submission tried to consult with LPA Highways department and got…
The Thermal Design – Part 2
I discussed my overall static thermal design of my house in Part I. In this second post, I wanted to discuss the dynamic characteristics of its design – that…
The Thermal Design – Part I
Janet and I want an energy efficient house, but what does that mean in practice? The whole concept is still largely rejected by the UK building industry. In our initial…
Our Design Drivers
We've live in a 300 year-old farmhouse with lots of beams, wobbly walls and character -- and the odd draught. It's a large family house and, after 30 years living…
The Plot And Its Context
As I discuss in my last post, we have a large garden that is side-on to our road, and it is large enough for us to divide off a strip…
The House at the Bottom of the Garden
Thirty years ago my company wanted to relocate my group to Milton Keynes. I was working in the West End, and Jan and I were living in Croydon at the…