What's Up in Your ZK? Week starting 2026-03-09

ctietze

We haven't had these in a while --

• share what happened in your ZK recently
• what are you up to this week?
• what do you read, process, think about?
• what blocks you in your progress right now?

ctietze

New department: building houses

Our family (including my widowed mother) will probably move in together within the next 12--18 months into a house that we're going to buy together-ish.

I have no clue about houses, and I notice that there are old German words used by all trades for everything. Never heard these, can't keep up in conversations. I need to become fluent to project-manage the renovation, though.

Starting at the roof, I went to Wikipedia and processed a bit of vocabulary with public domain imagery. This started bottom-up, i.e. I noticed that I didn't understand a term again and then went to change that and learn a bit about these things. 30min later I figured I might as well create an overview note for the topic of "roofing", which is sparse if you're a domain expert, but shows much more than I knew before about constructing roofs.

Not included, yet: insulation (both of the roof itself, and of outside walls, and what that means for the roof), tiling, and solar/PV.

Getting there. Hectic times