Recent content by glock339

That's the exact same situation I have, I think I'll be able to talk him into at least getting an EICR done & then maybe he'd be a bit more open to getting some work done... but we shall see.

I've had a good look around in (all the accessible areas anyway) & as I say it looks like the earthing goes from the supply sheath, to under the floor, to the water bonding, then to the gas bonding, then to the boards earth bar. No idea why they wouldn't just go from the supply sheath to the...

I couldn't tell you if there's an earth rod under the floors. As I say I did find continuity between the earth bar & the sheath bonding do I'd guess the earth goes from the sheath, under the floors to the water bonding, then to the gas bonding before going to the boards earth bar but that's...

I was round my dads house yesterday to do a couple of jobs & noticed a card on top of his gas meter (he had smart meters fitted aprox 4 years ago) warning there was no earth bonding. This rang some alarm bells, unfortunately my old dad couldn't remember anything about this so I decided to try &...

These things don't happen overnight & unfortunately it is a bubble that has been expanding since way back then & will most likely burst eventually (although I hope not). Check out how much our (& every other western country) debt is growing & the interest we pay on it vs our economic growth...

Unfortunately I think your Proff friend is "on the money", Fiat currencies have been tried many times over history & they always fail for various reasons including the temptation for whoever is in charge to just print more money whenever it suits. There's a very good series on Youtube called...

Would a Sun Tunnel/Solar tube not do?

Yeh I think Gapotape is insanely expensive, I'm not saying I know the company could do it cheaper etc I'm just saying this stuff is for the rich. Even though I knew this for the craic I thought I'd see how much it'd cost for my current little loft conversion & it came to well over a grand just...

I have an outbuilding with aprox 6M x 5M footprint that I've been planning on turning into a home Gym for donkeys & the time has finally come. The existing concrete floor was a complete wreck so I've dug it all out to lay a new one. I would like to insulate the floor as I've already done walls...

It was easy enough to fit to be fair but as I said before I neglected to fit wedges which I will be fitting possibly today. This will obviously improve the vertical angle of the gutters just not their wavy front edge (although I may possibly be able to pull in/push out areas with more/less...

Cheers for the info (y)

Think I've said a few times now after I fitted the 3 & a bit lengths direct to the board I noticed. The bottom edge of the gutters were fitted to a struck chalk line with the appropriate fall so are perfectly in line & I made sure the top back edge of the gutters under the eves guards were in...

Nah I'd just finished the roof with about an hour of daylight left so quickly got the gutters still in the bubble wrap up on the scaffold & didn't notice the shapes until I looked along the run, thats when I tried loosening off the fixings to make sure they weren't being distorted etc but they &...

That was my first thought as well so loosened off all fixings enough so you can actually wiggle the whole run a little bit but it didn't seem to make any difference to be honest.

The entire job is only 3 full lengths & 1 short so only bought 4 lengths as they were getting on for something like £50/£60 each I certainly didn't buy extras & I thought I wouldn't have to at that price. Thats what I thought, theres loads of old iron gutters around where I live & they all...