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ooh now that's a good idea. hadn't thought of that. thanks!

hi folks, I'm after some recommendations / advice. basically I'm looking to find out if what i 'm looking for actually exists! the front door to our house is on the side of the house so to reach our front door you effectively have to walk up a lane between ours & next door I'd like to fit...

cheers fella! (i'm now kicking myself for not thinking of wire brush)

any idea how to get cement off quarry tiles? we've recently lifted a really badly laid laminate floor at ours & found a beautiful (if slightly neglected) quarry tile floor beneath it. only problem is there also used to be a gas fire in the room, looks like the hearth for this was kept in place...

yep...exactly that :) and run whatever recording/camera management program you're using as a Windows Service so you can set it to set to auto-start with Windows so this'll start on reboot also. exactly the set-up i have I'm using Blue Iris for recording management - $59 for multi camera...

yeah, very true about going off spec, altho i'd have liked the option tbh! funny enough i've also gone for my own steel splashbacks. the pre-made ones which looked little more than some tin-foil stretched over a wooden frame just didn't seem like they were much good, so a custom sized sheets...

yeah having spoken to the dude at length, turns out that's exactly what it is, the manufacturer they use can do a max of 2150. took a bit of probing to get this out of him tho!!

On paper, yes, but in reality most hard drives will run 24/7 for a few years. If you really want to be safe you can use 2 (or more) drives in a RAID and use lower speed drives. You can get hard drives specifically intended for NAS or security systems but the main difference between these &...

Genuine question since I have no experience with them, but can you access an NVR system remotely or via a phone app? Tbh main reason I took the route I took is because it’s what i know!

I’m a big fan of the Foscam IP cameras which come with inbuilt dns server & web app so you can view them via internet straight out of the box Only thing with these is, to get the full benefit of recordings going back a few days/weeks etc you either have to subscribe to their cloud storage...

Hi all, just afer a quick bit of advice. Am looking to get some French doors installed in place of an existing window. Got someone in to measure up & quote for this. All ok so far, until the final measurements are taken Dude says we *must* have a fan light because the doors would be too...