Recent content by Harry Bloomfield

The carrots were still hard, at 5pm, on med, so I put it onto high for the final hour. It was OK, nowt special, but what was left in the pot, went into the freezer for the future quick meals. I followed that - finished a few minutes ago, with five of my speciality - crêpes, with golden syrup...

Without being obsessive about it, I too keep an eye on my instantaneous consumption. I already have an idea what is the normal maximum, and minimum range, and just check it's within those bounds. Energy, is too expensive too waste unnecessarily.

You can buy some TV's where you can turn the screen off.

..and did it fully heat the radiators, to a hot temperature? You need to put your heating system through some stress, to ensure it is working as it should first, before worrying about the controls.

That, was before the days of fridges, freezers, microwaves, TV's, entertainment systems, various chargers, and perhaps a heater etc., all plugged into the ring main circuit. Nobody, post WWII, would be able to afford to max out the ring main, using heaters, so that in itself, limited the loading.

Does it, or does it not - fully heat the radiators hot, when you wack the thermostat up to maximum?

Having a go at that, for todays dinner, with the separate creamy mash. It went on at lunchtime, in the slow cooker.

I picked up a full set of 6, Marples M60A wood carving set, boxed, and in new-ish condition, unused - if anyone into carving, might like to make me an offer for them. I am not, but I just couldn't resist. These....

It's light, and will blow away the first time the wind blows.

Yes, now corrected, thanks!

A variable speed is no use if you need low speed AND torque, as the speed reduces, so does the torque. You need a drill, which is either low speed, or includes a gearbox to reduce the speed to what you need. SDS are quite slow, could you run one without the hammer?

Mine is an LCD only one and lasts much longer than the ones which use an LED. It's only to be expected - the idea is, to run on battery, only when you wish to carry it around while assessing what is using what power.

I have no idea, you would need to read the manual for your system. On my system, you pre-set it, and it self-adjusts the value, based on the experience it gains.

The choice, is of course your own, but the general advice is that fixed appliances generally, and certainly nothing larger than around a 2Kw fixed appliance load, should be not be run on a ring main circuit. A ring main circuit is basically designed to allow portable appliances to be plugged in...

I seem to remember the factory making them, somewhere in Derbyshire???