Recent content by Rodders53

Those switches can only be padlocked in the OFF position; but not the ON... from this https://www.cef.co.uk/catalogue/products/5148220-32a-4-pole-ip65-isolator-switch-ip66-ip69 Change switch for an alternative that can be locked ON or move higher out of reach or into the guard/cage?

Fluorescent tubes have been banned. (Despite being energy-efficient). Fittings without "starters" have electronic ballasts that need removal/by-passing to work with some rewiring of the fitting. Fittings with "starters" use magnetic inductor ballasts that can remain in situ with the supplied...

Use a HSS bit to drill off the front and the back will then push in/drop into cavity leaving a relatively small hole and four puncture points to fill. It's the way I've done a few in this house.

Our bedroom split pack, 3.5 kW rated indoor unit was on full bore for just over an hour last night to get the temperature from 25.9 C to 21.6 C (and humidity from 56% to 46%). Fan too noisy to sleep with, but at lowest fan speed, temp only reached the target 19 C after 7 more hours of running...

Swap the regulator over. Blue works fine unless the temperature is down around 5-10 C or so ... summer caravanners exist happily with Butane except in an unexpected cold snap. Almost all BBQs are happy to run on either Butane or Propane gas. I refuse to pay the extortionate amount for 'BBQ'...

Show us more of the luminaire (light fitting) and lamp holder inc cable entry etc.,.... Link to maker and model number of it could help (or the retailer if maker unknown). E27 edison screw (ES) lamp is 27mm diameter. Small ES (SES) E14 is 14mm diameter so a measure might help. Or even...

Have you tried powering off both Dect base and $ky Router... connecting up ... powering Dect base first then the Router? ... and waiting for a bit (minutes) for everything to get up and running? Apparently there's a Voice light that should be solid green, is it/was it? Dodgy BT phone...

June 27th is R4 LW (low frequency) audio end date https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/work-warning/news/radio4lw Reports elsewhere of retuning/closure announcements being made from LBH on the network of tranmitters: 3x 198 kHz LF transmitters Droitwich, Burghead and Westerglen that also transmit...

Different type of indoor unit... Ceiling mounted.... like you see in shops and offices. Floor /low wall- mounted types exist, too. Or get in loft exchange unit(s) and lots of room outlets connected by pipes... There may even be 'on ceiling' units that draw in from the back and blow out from...

https://forum.completefrance.com/topic/9843-copper-pipe-sizes/ suggests in France copper pipe is specified as external diameter / internal diameter with 16/14 mm being one common size... Ask Dick Strawbridge or another ex-Pat (via such forums) who will have come across the same issue? I have...

It's not. WF100 is copper core, copper braid and copper foil screen. LCC100 https://goldwingcable.com/cables/lccf100-cai-approved-coaxial/ is copper core, tinned copper braid and aluminium-ised plastic foil screen. Thankfully not too bad (CAI approved***) especially as you have installed it...

Unless you are in the game, with direct negotiations with these types (and I retired so got out of that 20 years ago) you are just speculating. If in the game you'd not be able to say and keep your job!

Not confirmed anywhere e.g. by BBC or the Government, just speculation based on known Contract dates ($ky/SES) and estimated Lifetime of the birds (which has always been conservative). No I wouldn't.

Dirt. UPVC cleaner, or soap and water.

Small child sat to hold that flap closed would be one solution? A screw or two to hold it in place would be a pita for emptying but... Perhaps a bungy around the black handle and a screw or two in the orange lid would work to close it more?