Recent content by connolla

Hi Guys, I'm a spark so this is not my field. I live in a rented house where the Landlord had Double glazed units fitted a few months ago. Since then, damp has started to appear on the walls in the dormer and parts of the cieling. This is in all the rooms where the units have been...

Your absolutely right. We have to get back to the good old days actually producing decent engineers that can think for themselves not just spoon feeding them. Unfortunately it looks like you had the building inspector without the communal brain cell that day. Did he make you remove the...

Guys this has been really useful. I really appreciate your input. I had a meeting with the External verifier the other day and it's the same one for Bradford college. He said we were delivering the course right and all was well. I voiced a couple of opinions about the quality of the course...

Thanks guys, All really useful info. The point is that I have already done the practical with them. They can do all the calcs themselves and have proven to me they have enough knowledge. I'm sure you will agree that this kind of thing is dumbed down to a certain extent. I'm only 33 but...

Hi, I wanted to ask peoples opinions. Anyone done this course and found it hard. I did my C Cert a number of years ago and that was hard. Now I teach this subject and a handful of students just aren't getting it. I have a meeting with the C&G External Verifiers in a few weeks to...

Not exactly what I am asking for as I can actually already do this manually! I am looking for some software that my students can use for free. They know how to do UDL calcs using CW and ACW Bending moments. I want to give them an assignment to do for different buildings and I want them to...

I could do with some advice on a project I am undertaking. I am about to take over a commercial property and the building is a sandstone building built some 700 years ago. Problem is that Heritage won't let me plaster the walls inside (which is fair enough). Because of the nature of the...

Got a hot water problem. Tested Voltages on the main boards and routed the problem to the hot water pressure switch. When I switched the hot water on I got no demand light illumination. Flow is OK, and everything seems to be working fine apart from hot water. Took the switch out to...

Yeah it's an old house and I think it's been sat a while so the first step will be to get the heaters in there and see if we can dry it out first. But if all else fails it will have to be a DPC injection. but I have never done one. I just need to know if it's worth doing it myself or...

Anyone got any advice on this. Having never done it before I have been researching it. Basically I'm happy to have a go and I know about the whole process of injecting. What I'm wondering is, would it be as cheap just to get somone else to do the job for me orare there any savings to be had...