Recent content by b33k34

I didn't anticipate this being so expensive. In the kitchen we are renovating we need to take the air - up about 1.5 m vertically - back from the wall to get around a steel beam sitting between the first two joists wehre the fireplace was removed - then up into the attic and across about...

I'd struggle to recommend Humidstat fans based on my experience. Cheap one (bent metal strip approach) is OK but the much more expensive Expelair one has been a nightmare - it will switch on with ambient humidity on it's lowest setting (ie with the window open!). Expelair's response was just...

Fitting contains 24 x 1W high powered white LEDs with light output comparable to 2 x 26W PL ---- Doesn't fill me with confidence - those are really old, poor, LEDs - the "stick a lot of individual LEDs in" is the way things are going. A small number of good ones and some reflector is what...

All good advice from BAS though I suspect practicality could limit you to accepting some of those rather than all. A "less than flood wire" install of Cat6 or Cat6a cable is well worth thinking about if full is too expensive/difficult. Think about linking the key places you would want IP...

I'm thinking about this now. We've got 14x LV 35w (some might be 50's) halogen spots on 2 circuits in our kitchen ceiling and they're the lights in the house that spend the most time switched on. 6 hours a day? 10p a KW/h? - I reckon they probably cost about £100 a year to run. Add to that...

Now this, on the other hand.... http://www.nest.com/why-we-made-it/index.html What the man who invented the iPod is doing now.

No, and wouldn't want to, but have a certain admiration for any piece of equipment that looks better as it ages and is damaged in use. A battered Defender looks good in the way an old pair of jeans does while a threadbare suit or battered Ford Mondeo will always just look crap. No problems...

Hmm. I reckon mine must be the Digistat 3RF (with the 7 day timer). Decided against the + model which is the one that's supposed to have the 'intelligent start' as at the time our heating system was struggling to keep the house at the temperature we wanted it at. As an aside ultimately may...

Effectively it's inside the flat (upstairs flat and it's running along the edge of the living room wall). Hard to see how anything done in the house could ever damage it.

Which, indeed, I did. Wylex as well.

thanks - i was just wondering if there were any changes 'under the hood' that I couldn't see.

Current cable is a big fat white insulated multi-core cable. I've not had anything open to judge the cable size but it's probably from a 20 year old installation where the electrics generally seem to have been done to a fairly high standard. I know that's not a lot of help. I'm fine to...

ricicle - thanks ban-all-sheds - no thanks. I'm fully aware I could buy the regs and try to decipher them but the reason i've asked on an internet forum is because I'm hoping to get an answer. Of course I could just be a sucker looking for personal abuse in which case I've probably come...

Fair enough. I'd still like a view on it. If the answer was along the lines of "that's very unusual and over the top" for a job that's probably going to add a few £100 to the bill then I'll think about finding another sparks.