running electric cables to sockets in PIR boards

[Tigercubrider]

kind of off topic but I watched a tv prog on kit building a house and they filled the walls with polystyrene boards, then heated a large ball bearing with a gas torch.
dropped the ball onto the poly and it tunnelled it's way through like the ship in "the core" and fell out the bottom
They ran all their cables that way

 

[JP_]

I think I'll stick to using a knife before putting the boards up!

 

[ban-all-sheds]

dropped the ball onto the poly and it tunnelled it's way through like the ship in "the core" and fell out the bottom
They ran all their cables that way

Did they come back after a few years to replace the cables FOC, and make good all the walls, FOC, because the cables had been ruined by the polystyrene?

 

[JP_]

and wouldn't that act as a the perfect insulated conduit? If a conduit surrounded by air is bad, how can a tunnel through insulation be ok?

 

[flameport]

. Then the break for some reason.

The links are not broken, ban-all-sheds has installed software to deliberately block links containing certain things.

 

[JohnW2]

Looks like the forum turns any Screwfix link into an affiliate link. Then the break for some reason.

The one which you posted was not, and still isn't, broken as far as I am concerned - so, as has been said, it looks as if something at BAS's end is blocking it. However, the version of the www.awin1.com.... link which BAS subsequently posted only gets a blank (black) page for me.

Kind Regards, John

 

[ban-all-sheds]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin

 

[roganty]

BAS, is there a way to add an exception to Ublock Origin for links from certain sites?

The actual site you will be visiting is included in the url, so a quick edit of the address in the address bar gets you past the affiliate site that Ublock Origin is blocking

ww.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=1228&awinaffid=58258&clickref=xf&p=https://www.screwfix.com/p/tower-pvc-channel-25mm-x-2m-40m-pack-of-20/46474?

What you are after is in bold

(Unfortunately the forum keeps on formatting it as a link unless i completely screw up the url)

 

[JohnW2]

BAS, is there a way to add an exception to Ublock Origin for links from certain sites?

Going off on a bit of a tangent, this is something I've often wondered about.

On-line adverts etc. annoy me as much as anyone else, although I have developed a pretty effective subconscious ability to ignore them. I very rarely even 'notice' them consciously.

However, we all take for granted the countless online facilities/resources which we use every day which are free-of-charge because they are essentially funded by adverts. If effective ad-blocking ever came to be very widely implemented, things would change, and I presume that we would end up having to pay to use resources like DIYnot (if they continued to exist at all) - unless, of course, they found a way of embedding advertising material in a manner which made it essentially unblockable (a bit like 'product placement' on TV, which, amongst other things, seeks to overcome the problem of people who 'fast forward' through the ads!).

Kind Regards, John

 

[JP_]

I have an ad blocker on my PC Chrome browser at home that is off all the time, then you turn it on for specific websites - so you only block ads if there are so many that you cannot use the website.
Forums such as this provide an excellent service for no fee, it's the ads that keep up here, help us all help each other. Don't block them!
Forget the name of the ad blocker I use ... might take a look when home.

 

[John D v2.0]

However, we all take for granted the countless online facilities/resources which we use every day which are free-of-charge because they are essentially funded by adverts. If effective ad-blocking ever came to be very widely implemented, things would change, and I presume that we would end up having to pay to use resources like DIYnot (if they continued to exist at all) - unless, of course, they found a way of embedding advertising material in a manner which made it essentially unblockable (a bit like 'product placement' on TV, which, amongst other things, seeks to overcome the problem of people who 'fast forward' through the ads!).

Adverts are not really a great way to make money since Google and Facebook hoovered up all the revenue. I still can't understand why the forum doesn't allow contributions, I'm sure they'd make loads of money from happy users. Especially those who've just been saved hundreds of pounds by the free advice.

 

[JP_]

A website I run used to have about half the traffic that DIYnot gets (according to SEMRush data), and the adverts on it paid me about twice average UK income. Forums are harder to monetize than blog-style sites, but still, advertising does earn revenue online. I've no idea how many people manage this forum, but the ads will be bringing in a half decent income.

 

[JohnW2]

Adverts are not really a great way to make money since Google and Facebook hoovered up all the revenue. I still can't understand why the forum doesn't allow contributions, I'm sure they'd make loads of money from happy users. Especially those who've just been saved hundreds of pounds by the free advice.

Despite the likes of Google and Facebook, I'm sure that (as jonbey has implied) those who run this site (and millions of others like it) don't generally do so through 'love' or for purely altruistic reasons, so there must be some residual advertising revenue available after the biggies have had their fill.

A good while ago I was somewhat involved with a website which did invite contributions, but whilst that was purely voluntary, they received only peanuts in donations, despite (like here) providing advice which would have been saving some people a lot of money. When they tried to introduce 'subscription by subterfuge', by offering 'privileges' (like the ability to use the site in the convenient way that people had been used to!) to those who donated more than a certain amount, the site died!

A problem with subscription services is that end up being very restrictive to users. As with most people, there are countless sites which I sometimes use, many only very occasionally. If I had to pay subscriptions to use them, even if they were very modest, they would add up to an unacceptable total, so I would have to very much reduce the repertoire of sites I used.

Kind Regards, John

 

[John D v2.0]

website which did invite contributions, but whilst that was purely voluntary, they received only peanuts in donations, despite

Well, yes advertising is probably going to remain part of the mix, but if you look at the big websites like Wikipedia and the news web sites that churn out loads of articles every day, some of them have huge banners explaining why people should support and it can't all be for the want of a minority of funding. Especially in the case of Wikipedia the are no adverts at all, i know places like the guardian go for a combination of adverts and donations.
So a whole business model can't be ruled out on the basis of a couple of failures when there are successes out there too.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

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