Recent content by 1974stephen

Just about to embark on a ground floor house remodelling where the upstairs is staying largely untouched. All new wiring will be installed for the ground floor, but the aerial dis amp is in the loft. Question is, do I route all new coax cabling from the ground floor TV's to the loft or to the...

Anyone had an experience of GMailify importing from AOL? I've successfully done this within my GMail account, but can't then get GMail to forward those imported emails on to another address. My wife and I share an AOL email address, but as we receive some to that address emails which are only...

Leads were nulled, and even if they weren't they only add 0.08ohms. Glad it's sorted though!

Update! Put it all back together as I was resigned to not getting anywhere then checked a near-full drum of 1.5mm T&E to gauge that the meter was right in relation to the ratio between 1.5mm and 1.00mm readings (and it was) so just for a laugh checked again at the CU once everything was...

One drum was from CEF and the other from Toolstation. Both BASEC approved. I only have about 4m left, so too short to get a reading from.

I split the ring at the two places it starts serving the actual rooms, so effectively removing the two legs that feed back to the CU, and then did a continuity test between those two points; and the higher CPC reading remains. I've then used a wander lead measuring from one end of the ring and...

It's a Di-Log DL9110, calibration due in three months.

All new.

EFLImpudence - Would that involve linking all three conductors on each side of the ring at the CU, split ring in the middle, and then noting the relationship between r1 and rn and r1 and r2, on each leg, and proportionally it should be slightly higher on the 'faulty' side? I've been trying to...

Yes, 2.5mm T&E with 1.5mm CPC. I'm thinking a bad screw-down connection or maybe just caught a little bit of sleeve, but is that discrepancy going to result in the tester who's putting his name to the certificate to want to investigate further? I guess the answer to that might depend on how...

I'm just testing a new ring final circuit prior to third party inspection and have 0.56 and 0.57 on r1 and rn but 1.18 on r2, when calculated it should be around 094. Am I looking too hard for a fault that's probably not there?

Is it that really nasty £6/100m cheap coax from the wholesalers with about three strands of copper screen and no foil, the type electricians tend to use who don't know better? If so, that could be acting as the aerial itself if you're in a high gain area with near a powerful transmitter. I'm...

I'm about to fit a couple of new radiators which include H valves, but I've never fitted these before. The valves haven't come with instructions but consist of parts which consist of a long rubber washer, a brass washer, a split 15mm tapered olive and a compression nut as the attached photo...

Thank you for your replies. I've not made myself clear, but you have answered my question! The joists are going on top of the wall, with the insulation in between, not underneath. The wall is only two blocks (on edge) high, with a 200mm gap from the underside of the joist and the top of the...

Thermalite are useless for fixing into.