In the mid 80s I was #painting council houses, £30 to prepare, undercoat and gloss all outside Windows, on 2 storey houses, incl fascias, front and back, 3 doors. Crazy low rates even back then. Managed to complete 2 every 2 days. BEST training ever for speeding Up my brush work. That paid dividends when working on more prestigious Jobs commanding high rates.. #silverlinings

¿Vives en España y recuerdes el apagón? Esta oferta de Atersa es interesante. (Tengo un sistema de Atersa, muy bien hecho hace 4 años, sigue funcionando perfectamente. Es decir, no es un engaño.) El reciente apagón nos ha recordado lo dependientes que somos de la red eléctrica. Al final, todo funciona con luz, y cuando falla… todo se detiene. Negocios cerrados. Electrodomésticos inútiles. Comunicaciones cortadas. Mientras tanto, quienes tienen paneles solares con baterías y sistema de backup siguieron con luz. Sin problemas. Sin preocupaciones. Eso es lo que podemos hacer por ti: independencia energética, ahorro en tu factura y en definitiva tranquilidad. Y hay más. Ya sabes que gracias a nuestro programa de referidos Red Solar, puedes ganar un dinero extra por recomendar nuestros servicios. ¿Cómo funciona?. 1- Pídenos tu código de referido escribiendo a: 📧 redsolar.atersa@elecnor.com 2- Compártelo con quien creas que pueda estar interesado. 3- Tras realizar la instalación con nosotros, te llevas: • 125 € por instalaciones de 3 a 5 kWp. • 150 € por instalaciones de más de 5 kWp. No hay límite de recomendaciones: cada nuevo cliente es una nueva recompensa. Familia, amigos, grupos de WhatsApp, redes sociales... ¡comparte como quieras!.

Rule 1 when building in inland Spain is to heavily insulate the roof - to keep the sun out. Keeping Heat in is secondary. Summers and winters are more extreme than UK, just for reference. Therefore if you have plenty of insulation but your house is still over heating in summer, you may well be using your Windows and Doors wrong! Keep them closed and shaded in the day, and open at night to let cool air in. Expats here make Big mistakes designing glam glass walled houses, a fast track to over heating or insanely expensive glazing And think about venturi effects draughts, dragging cool air in at the bottom and drawing It through the House and out the top. Solar powered fans are simple. Ceiling fans are low power and surprisingly effective. Sleep downstairs in summer. Plant trees to shade your house. Rethink patios that Heat Up rather than cool down the Air around your house. It's not expensive to insulate everything, roofs, floors, especially.. And winter energy bills everywhere are high in homes where people insist on lounging around in their undies. If insulation not work both ways, the question for me was if we have taken aerosols out, Now talking of putting protective geo engineerng back in.... Meanwhile wáter vapour is a great insulator compared to CO2.

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I have no plastic Paint , pintura plástica, in my home. That's in keeping with the property, Stone, lime render and terracota, most of which I restored and rebuilt. No off gassing here and the lime deals brilliantly with moisture all by itself. Everyone should live in a healthy home environment, not a sick house, which from experience,vis a real thing .One of the niches I'm going to explore with a new decorating business is to try convert modern home owners back to lime based paints and mineral paints. Fortunately Spain has a rich source of lime and a Hi tech #Paint manufacturer in Graphenstone. The BEST of both worlds

thanks to npub1wamvxt2tr50ghu4fdw47ksadnt0p277nv0vfhplmv0n0z3243zyq26u3l2 @primal and @nostr.build I have managed to compress and publish a couple of #podcasts I hope they get watched at least once! Censorship resistance is a negative feature if they have no value! 😉

#podcast Sharing a few anecdotes and lessons growing up and #painting and #decorating in the 70's and 80's. Start 'em young, on to technical college and London City and Guilds, Interior Design, and how I came to paint some metal doors in the sub-Sahara desert aged 23. Only posting originals on Nostr, and ending with different V4V music tracks. See where it goes.

Nostr 101 with @Derek Ross and @₿en Wehrman great explanation for newcomers/purple pilling

Here goes nothing, an intro to a Nostr-hosted data dump of 40 years of practical painting and decorating experience. Self-employed, widely travelled with assorted online-offline business experience. To make it relevant to a broader audience, I will try to go into the hows and whys and wherefores, as well as practical tips plus nudges for online normies to relocate to Nostr.

#asknostr - I have recorded and crunched 3 mp4 videos between 30 minutes and about an hour 800MB to 1.5GB What are the options to get them online and to release them on Nostr first?

I hope the dialogue and hand wringing about the outage in Spain and Portugal doesn't stop at the current level - phew, it wasn't a cyber attack. For sure, the technicians who got everything back on line probably deserve a medal, but anyone with a brain will be asking how the greatest brains in electrical infrastructure design in 2 nations could have come up with a system that can be completely crippled at the same time. Is it an ideological/political decision to have no decentralisation, to deliberately have a single point of failure? If not what, because the current national grid design is a lesson in zero resilience. How deep does this thinking go? How safe are citizens, really? If you have been skeptical of the quality of leadership and the dodgy intentions of leaders trying to centralise everything in modern society, yesterday was another vindicating moment. What is the point of me having a backup generator on site so I can keep painting for a client who is in the dark and cannot pay me because the bank paymet systems have collapsed and oh, there's no cash any more. Por ejemplo. "That's unthinkable," said the frog as the water heated up a few more degrees.

We're back. If you live off grid in Spain, the recent blackout was a nothing burger. If you depend on a national grid, you should be furiosly re-thinking your position. Talk of electrification as a cureall for the world has to include decentralisation at its core, otherwise the "unintended" consequence of electrifying everything is a doubling down on the trend turning society into a dependent sitting duck. Lessons learnt. Most people are calm in a crisis as long as someone else is working things out. The first reaction seems to be, how do we do exactly what we did yesterday when there was no crisis. Eg desparation for bread. Queueing for butane gas. Baffling. Wáter needs electricity to pump It around. There was a rush for supermarkets and wáter in plastic bottles. To be so unprepared is laughable, except It is not funny. Take a good look at Who you pay taxes to. Did they help you when the modern world was falling apart? The value of taxes tales on a different hue through that lense. Anybody taking the Mickey out of solar as a part of the power mix clearly is talking hypothetically with no experience or appreciation of the value of limited power. Crypto bros, make no mistakes, Cash is King, every other means of payment fails without power. So everybody needs to take that knowledge to the bank and demand cash is restored to the system, or find another way to get outside the financial system independent of national power supplies and financial providers. There is always Talk of mesh networks, but Talk is cheap. Time to swat Up on using papers ledgers. It is no consolation to know that Bitcoin tick tock Next block when nobody can access It. Bog standard radio waves are still the bottomline means of communication. I bet the price of transistors and short waves in Spain Will never be as low as they were the day before the blackout. I dont think anything meaningful Will change though. #Spain #outage #asknostr

The first painting memory I have is helping my father whitewash a Stone wall in the driveway. I was maybe 7, and I remember being handed a Jam jar and topping It Up with wáter till the lime based paint ran like wáter. Probaby a very messy operation and I Dont recall being given gloves. 50 years later I am organising a set of specs for Graphenstone lime based #paints. Still the same basic ingredients as Traditional limewash, but with extra properties. Creating cloudy wall finishes with múltiple coats of limewash I Will be like a wide eyed child again. No limits except my imagination. You can "limewash" with látex paints, but they arent antiseptic, Dont do well with damp, dont absorb CO2 when drying, don,t harden when wet and látex off gases. A place for everything but especially if decorating new build, consider lime based and mineral finishes.

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