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I did my lawn a few years back and walk back and forth on my heels in very small steps. You look silly but it is the way to do it in my...

My dad was a spark and originally wired his garage using buckle clips with all the socket and lighting circuits neatly run on the roof...

I bought a Lyco up / down light with PIR recently and seems OK and has adjustment for range / sensitivity. It is adjusted such that it...

I'm going to use duck back harvest brown. The top I use clear primer preserver and leave 2 weeks before I lash on the duck back

I will be painting the fence again once we get some dry weather but wondered on which one ... I have use Ronseal One Coat Fencelife...

As the others have said there is quite often a diagram on the relay itslef. Sometimes this is on the top or sometimes underneath by the...

I would go for this too if this is the best / only option My first thing woul be to look at getting new runs of cable to the PIRs, etc...

I would guess at 2.1mm or 2.5mm and plenty on Amazon for not much money - much easier than soldering and messing about...

What connector is on the DC lead? You may be able to get an extension lead?

Gravel board? Timber boards are relatively cheap at a local to me landscape / garden centre at £5.70 for 3m and 25mm thick

I am not an alarm engineer but I would start with getting a new panel - the XL6 is probably >20 years old now and no longer available. I...

Are you tring to avoid more that one cable to the detector for aesthetics? You could star connect at a point where the number of cables...

Yes, the wires are swapped per the sketch and for SELV using AC it makes no difference. The new LEDs are not polarity concious as the...

Looks to be AC There is a rib on the bottom cable on the righhand conductor but this rib is on the top left. So I would suspect AC and...

If the live loop is buried in the wall and terminations not accessible anywhere other than switches the thing I'd suggest is add a...