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Wall is visibly moist, cold too the touch and damp. In upstairs room there has been black mould but has been regularly cleaned

Thanks for the reply. The white pipe is the boiler vent. The main roof gutter just ends at the valley, is that ok? Does the bottom gutter look OK? I'm just trying to find the cause of damp on that back wall.

The rear wall of the main house suffers from damp and externally can see where the wall is wet all the time. Water isn't running over the gutter but it has me suffering if the way the main roof gutter runs into the valley is causing water to stop into that wall somehow. Does this seem...

The wheel is supposed to slip, it is a method (albeit crude) of ensuring consistent pressure without being too much and potentially causing a crushing force on the item being measured. If it was a toothed wheel for example the measurement would heavily depend on how much force the user put on...

You have two options... Add the spur to the ring so you can then spur from it or Convert the spur to a FCU and then run your double socket and a second SFCU from it to fuse down the supply for the appliance.

PLEASE stop, what you have done so far is incredibly dangerous! You absolutely cannot just connect what is likely to be 0.5mm² CSA flex directly to a ring final circuit which is likely protected by a 32a MCB. Your spur from the socket below needs to terminate into a SFCU (Switched Fused...

Hi, I'm adding to my system at home, and I've just got a couple of queries... Firstly I've added a PowerRio in the Garage and the tampers (and Power faults) from this all show in Group A1 - is there a way to change this or are all 'system' tampers/faults fixed to A1? Secondly I have a smoke...

I had this exact fault a good while back with my G520. To be quite honest I don't know what solved it. I remade all the connections and gave the board a good hoover and shake! Mine used to be quite random but in the log it was always without fail three successive tampers of less than a second...

I have managed 120M on Cat5 with PoE with no problems. Yes it is beyond the standard but it seems to work and that was on a PoE Switch that was maxed out so very little spare overhead.

You could have a simple cupboard with a door contact on it that when open disables all the prox tags. Simple but effective, a thief would not likely work out that in a limited amount of time and could certainly be set up quite easy on a galaxy...

I was thinking of doing this with my Galaxy for both our cars as I have a couple of spare wireless mags lying around and both cars have an 'alarm activated' output that I can wire through a relay to the reed switch. Obviously I would disable supervision on these so it shouldn't matter if they...

I have to disagree actually. I use a cheap chinese one (£9) to convert my laptops HDMI out to VGA for the classroom projector. Yes it gets warm but it works fine.

Hi, I am looking to do something with my driveway to improve drainage etc. Currently it is a mix of gravel (on top of something like concrete) and tarmac. The drive is between our house and the property boundary which is the west coast mainline cutting. At the moment the water runs off the...

To some extent I must disagree with Bernard. A Galaxy alarm with RF portal will easily cover this range provided the Portal has unrestricted line of sight which should be achievable. Add on a simple door contact or Dualtech and you have a monitored system; it will report a tamper should they...

I've found with anything up to 6mm or so the easiest way (especially for straight cuts) is to simply score with a stanley and then snap - you get a very crisp line.