Recent content by EngStudent

Exactly this. In my last place I had a credit check (I think), which was ~£60. 'Admin' fees were ~£200, and they charged me an extra £60 just to add my fiancee as a 'permitted tenant'. Obviously I have no experience on this, but depending on the tenants you might not have to even bother doing...

I'm on the other side to you. My advice: use an agent to advertise it, don't use an agent to manage it. Agents' fees are ridiculous. The last flat I rented cost me nearly £300 just for 'paperwork'. This one cost me the sum total of £0. If I had a problem in the last place, I had to get in...

Have a look in the backbox - does the black, yellow and blue come from one cable or two separate cables? Same with the two reds. Looks like whoever fitted that switch has got themselves confused, somehow, and put the two lives together. Is it the switch on the left of the first picture (so...

Because electricity is dangerous. Nice. Except you make no mention of how the OP should do that. Do you know how to calculate the anticipated load? Does anybody else read this as 'don't connect the cable to earth at the house'?

Still waiting for him to post his solution to the problem he posed.

I dare say BAS, like most here, can quite easily do simultaneous equations. What you've done is invent some figures, not bother to work out the solution to check that it makes sense, then go 'HA! You didn't answer the question BAS, you're dangerous!' To be honest dizz, you come out of this...

I think BAS is alright. He knows his stuff and he, IMO, correctly pulled you up on not knowing how to fill in an EIC. And dizz - you haven't posted the solution.

Can you solve it? With the data you've given us, I bet you can't.

Thanks for the advice. I don't think I'll tackle it myself. By the time I've bought tools etc it'd probably be cheaper to have it done at a garage. Not to mention the most I've ever done to a car was to change the wheel! Thanks again.

Afternoon all. I've recently bought a '53 Astra SXi. It has 55k on the clock, and doesn't seem to have had the timing belt changed. So as prevention is cheaper than the cure, I'm looking to get it changed. I've looked around the internet and e-mailed a few mobile mechanics/garages (those...

I don't understand all the hatred for self-service checkouts. Popular item? It'll be on the first page you see. Not so popular? Use your brain. Sprouts won't be under 'S' for sprouts, they'll be under 'B' for Brussels sprouts. I'll give you the 'unexpected item in bagging area', though it's...

Nice. Another one - Powers of Ten. :shock:

Thanks for the link, had been looking for ages but hadn't found anything similar. Planning on putting a length of DPM underneath it to try and stop the bottom rotting. Haven't checked with the LL - her words when we moved in were "do whatever you want with the garden", and given that it...

Afternoon all. I've had a quick search but can't find any threads asking the same as this. I'm rearranging my garden, and this involves moving the shed. It's only a small shed - 4' x 6' - however I want to make a proper job of it. I also don't want to spend too much money, as I only rent the...

Thanks for the replies. Didn't realise they were so common. Seems like a poor/lazy way to do it; fair enough they should be 'self-tightening' when they're in the holder, but obviously these had come loose. Fitting has been replaced. Next job: Do something about the choc blocks for this...