Got my work cut out for the weekend. Bedroom bay window is a stud wall filled with brick off cuts. To be insulated with 160mm of the finest German made woodfibre. New book for if I get bored too. More details in alt text. Current U-value is ~2.1W/(m²K), will be ~0.22W/(m²K) #retrofit #aecb

Good. George Clarke wants homeowners and businesses to shun ‘dishonest’ firms Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

There’s some very bad news hidden in the Ofgem price cap for January announced yesterday: the electricity to gas price ratio has jumped to 4.67, its highest level since before the energy crisis. This is a big barrier to households adopting heat pumps in Britain, and threatens our climate goals

Saw a video yesterday, someone talking about new Vaillant aroTHERM Plus #ashp : www.vaillant-group.com/news-stories... Distance req either side reduced: 100cm to 50cm Sound level (5kW): 51dB(A) to 44.3dB(A) Data: www.vaillant.de/heizung/prod... The video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czwk...

@archtesta.bsky.social Good to chat to you at the Homebuilding show! ubakus.de was the site I mentioned, and this was the data I got about phase shift: bsky.app/profile/snhd... PIR was even worse than my memory served at 6.5hr. Not a replacement for WUFI but feels useful for a layperson.

Wishing wood fibre insulation was as readily available in the UK as it was in France (this was at Brico Depot). This is something I should be able to buy from B&Q or Wickes not limited to specialist suppliers where postage is 3x the item price in some cases. #retrofit

Just starting your self build journey? I recommend listening to this podcast first. Andy Mitchell from 21 Degrees outlines the challenges of finding a healthy, comfortable and energy-efficient home. And he explains it all in simple language! www.houseplanninghelp.com/andymitchell #SelfBuild

"If it takes longer to make your coffee than it does for you build pipeline to complete, you're doing one of them wrong" - @abangser.bsky.social

A good day to re-read this post: charity.wtf/2019/05/01/f...

#passivehouse peeps, is the ~new "easyPH" compatible with #PHPP "Variants" worksheet? I see it's there but hidden, and I didn't see a mention in the manual. Alternatively, is modeling in easyPH then exporting into the full variants sheet an option. NB: not being used for certification just fiddling

PassiveHouse peeps, is the ~new "easyPH" comptatible with #PHPP "Variants" worksheet? I see it's there but hidden, and I didn't see a mention in the manual.

Spent an evening in Walkley at an SY Ecofit event. Chatting all things retrofit, insulation, moisture in buildings and also enjoyed this lovely curry. #sheffield #retrofit

She walked 6.5km for this photo but we forgot the biscuits.

Flat white, cheese toastie and the latest copy of Passive House Plus magazine. Solid bank holiday Monday activities.

Read this book at the weekend, would highly recommend to any homeowner, even if you aren’t planning a renovation. I especially liked this little illustration feat ASHP and solar panels. #retrofit #renovation #mvhr #ashp #passivehouse

Papers and magazines for free with your library card! Ask your library if they subscribe.

If you're curious about comfortable and well performing housing, I can't recommend this episode enough! An incredibly accessible explanation for such a deep topic. Touches on: why housing is so poor; what the future could be and areas to focus on when improving your current home.

Idea: Feature Flags but so users can turn off all the nonsense they don’t care about in your app.

Looking for examples of people who've done an "AECB Step by Step Retrofit" but struggling to find anything. I know it's somewhat of a new standard and that's likely why. Ideally blog posts or forum posts from homeowners but curious to read anything. cc @aecb.bsky.social and #passivehouse

🪪 My concerns about the Online Safety Act remain the same as when I last wrote about it nearly decade a decade ago when it was proposed as the Digital Economy Bill: 1) It normalizes uploading sensitive documents such as ID scans to random websites, which will likely increase identity theft. 1/3

Why do engineers talk like they're a fighter pilot? All 'merge conflict' this and 'deploy' that. 'Oooh I need to bisect the rangediff'. What are you TAlKING about? Grow up

We are finally ready to announce that EMF 2026 will happen on July 16-19, 2026, at Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire. Expect more updates soon as we start spinning up the organisation again.

This is some very expensive parcel tape…

@benadamsmith.bsky.social Hey, your website looks like it's having some issues at the minute

Curious how much air tightness in housing helps with this current hot weather? Its help is reasonably common knowledge for cold and blustery weather in winter. (Haven’t searched about it yet but the q just popped into my head, basically thinking out loud)

TIL my house has a built in summer storage heater. Bay window is tiled and filled with single skin of brick. 33c at 11pm at night! At the time of reading room temp was 26c and outside 21c.

This is the closest I've felt to being in one of those museum exhibits from the comfort of my own desk

@shed.gay I assume this is something you may have knowledge of. I think I want a portable heating/cooling/dehumidifying thing. I see that they exist but does a _good_ one exist?

Bristol has soooo many bikes! (I brought my own too)

We are gearing up for what could be the hottest June day ever in the UK. So how can external shading really help on a day like today? houseplanninghelp.com/paulmorris #Passivhaus #PassiveHouse #Overheating #ExternalShading

Yesterday I spent the day with @be-stbuild.bsky.social & @coaction.bsky.social putting Passive House theory into practice. In the morning sequencing insulation and membranes into a retrofit rig. So helpful even as a homeowner and not being in the trade.

PassivHaus Planning Training today!

@dataknotsdesks.bsky.social This was that site I had mentioned: www.ubakus.de/en/u-wert-re... And then with my plans: hachyderm.io/@seanhood/11...

It’s #O11yDayLondon time!

AWS costs for "Managed Prometheus" reads like that Dril candles budget meme

This is my favorite passive house and if (when?) I was to build a house I'd also likely chose the PH15 system.

Imagine a world where politicians presented a positive vision for the country. Rather than one focussed on negatives, on punching down on minorities. One where we celebrated differences and lifted people up. We built a country we wanted rather than trashed the bits we didnt Is that too much to ask

How's everyone writing tests for their instrumentation? Seems hard enough to find non-demo examples of good instrumentation never mind with good examples of tests too. #otel #opentelemetry

We have truly made computers fucking unbearable to use

My 3D printer feels like a waste of space half the time, but when you can go from “I have a problem” to “I have fixed that problem” in <30min it’s such a winner. Anyway, plz rain soon!

What better things are there to do on a bank holiday than a nice long ride. My 3rd metric century this year, I had only aimed to do 2. Visited Caffe Velo Verde outside of Nottingham, then mostly hard pack gravel for a fair way back. Popped through Sherwood Pines which looks fun but not after 80km.

@cilium.io Have you stopped doing release blog posts? Just seen 1.17.x has been out for a couple months. However not seen an article on: cilium.io/blog/categor..., the Isovalent blog nor the newsletter.

New circular saw go brrrrr. Built this raised bed type thing. Mitre joints on sleepers take some effort!

128km of Flandrian countryside and several sectors of cobbled climbs and pavé. Completed it! Only took photos with a disposable camera so gonna be a few days for those but here’s a nice map for now. The answer is eating far more carbs than you think you can.

i hate that they've ruined both the sparkle emoji and the word "vibe" can't we have anything chill that doesn't get sacrificed at the altar of capitalism?

In France in their version of B&Q, and they have this lovely lot in the entrance. Insulation with the build ups detailed, continuous ventilation, heat pumps and plug in solar. Quite a nice sight to see. They seem to have their heads screwed on.

Still blows my mind we have trains that you can drive onto that then go under the sea. See you soon France. #leshuttle

a discord is not a forum. I don't want to join your product's community; I want to read the solution to my technical problem from two posters who worked it out 4 years ago

There's a reason it's called "OpenTelemetry" and not "OpenObservability".

@benadamsmith.bsky.social Hey, slowly working through the HPH archives, managed 12 episodes on Saturday 😅. I'm wondering if you have any on the attitudes to self build/retrofit/housing between different countries? HPH150 & HPH268 making me wonder where we're going wrong in the country.