Recent content by Harry Bloomfield

Getting my head around this fancy new burglar alarm system I've bought, testing it, and planning how I intend setting it all up. I was a little concerned that the outdoor box, solar powered, might not be 'up to' the UK weather, but it manages to charge with even slightest glimmer of light, and...

Sorry, my typo - should be SES!

Testing, if you are unable to confirm just what causes it to trip, might involve disconnecting sections of the wiring, at the ceiling roses, to locate the section. Doing that, might identify a fault, or at least a fault localised to one area/one section of cable, if it has been nicked by a...

The lighting circuit, appears to be on an RCBO. OK, but none of that work will be necessary, to at least localise the actual fault and may not even find the fault. Does the trip happen, when you happen to have been up and about upstairs by chance? Leave a low power light on, so you can at...

You need to determine which it is. RCD, or RCBO will have a button, maybe yellow or blue, marked 'test' or 'T'. An MCB will not.

Sir Nigel..

Trunking will not prevent the moisture, and the switch shouldn't be anywhere near moisture anyway. That switch, is a ceiling switch, and they work best, when mounted on the ceiling.

Is the better way to do it.

Yep, they can be quite pushy, with air maybe a sense of entitlement. I remember one, where I was out on the drive, working on the car, he at the gate, him absolutely demanding I get up, and go speak to him at the gate. He wanted to 'fix my roof', which certainly didn't need any fixing. He wasn't...

I only see that it has posted 'something', as it is blocked here. Blocked, because I don't wish to waste my time reading the incessant drivel from this poster, who has a desperate need to post and so desperately craves attention. If everyone simply blocked, the poster would have none of the...

100% guilty, means there can be absolutely no doubt at all, such as the Rigby murder. Only if there can be no doubt at all, 100%, then death should be the outcome. Whilst we might get some level of satisfaction from keeping them alive and in misery, how many are kept in misery? Rather they live...

That lens, looks identical to our two, but a Stoves, and one at either side. If the same, the lens springs into place. If it seems immovable, tap it with a bit of wood, to free it, then use a flat screwdriver under the lip. Lamp is probably an SBC. Make sure the replacement states it is 240v -...

I bought a Lidl LED, with built-in PIR a few years ago, as a means to illuminate the way out to the garage. It's not quite so necessary, now I have a series of solar PIR's, but it still works just fine.

It could be something as simple as a bit of pipe, open at the end, with the wind blowing across the end. How long the pipe, or where it is obstructed, sets the frequency of the whistle, like pan pipes. We have one capped vented chimney, for the bedroom, one vented with a flue for the living room...

I think the poles, suggested, were Poles, as in Polish.