Recent content by sparkiedave

the tanks would have to be raised a lot, and there's no loft, the tanks at the rear also act as a reservoir and the pipeline from the large tank in the hillside is not of a large enough bore to supply everything at once, part of the property is used as a holiday let so dictating usage is not...

Cheers folks, there is currently a 1" pump operated by a pressure switch, one big tank on the hillside feeding two plastic tanks at the back of the property by gravity, the pump is between those and the house, but the power supply can be a little "unreliable", hence the possible back up system

I've got a customer wants a price for installing a generator back up for their water pump, this gives them water pressure within the house, (when the power goes off, so does the water), has anyone done this using deep cycle batteries, an inverter and a trickle charger?, either on a change over...

I like to tell them that I can either give them a fixed price or charge by the hour, but if they want a fixed price I will go on the side of caution and do just what is necessary, on a price/hour, I will usually end up charging less than the fixed price and doing a bit more work, but they take...

I've used rated people in the past, useful when moving to a new area, but find too many of the enquiries are a waste of time, had a row with them recently as they e-mailed an invoice for the quarterly subscription (which is paid in advance), phoned them to see about cancelling as I feel it's not...

I need to do a small amount of welding on my van, I always used to disconnect the battery to stop the alternator getting trashed, is there anything else I need to do to protect the ECU and other electronic stuff?? And is it still ok to stitch weld cills as opposed to fully welding?

trading standards!!, and don't mess with anything until it's been looked at by another spark (registered this time)

Might be worth a mention to your "mutual friend" too

I use it but I've moved to a different area, I'm proud of what I do, I try to make sure the customer is happy with my work, and it has helped me in the past, there are things about it which could be improved, but that's true of most things. I do get good ratings and I have seen some bad...

does anyone know if the Lithium batteries will fit on the older drill? mine isn't that old but I also have an angle drill, if I change system I'll have to replace the angle drill too

surely you'd need a few staff to handle this so you could have a shift system, and YES you would definitely have to charge, look at AA or RAC membership? British Gas do a breakdown scheme, none of em are free, you could take a payment per month and guarantee to turn up within a specified time...

I found it helped, but the van/cards and yellow pages ad' all had the same design on, didn't put my home number on cos I never got round to it, but a lot of folks would ring and it seemed to reassure them that I was local just because they'd seen the van around so much

the next one up from the Berlingo will take 6'sheets I think, the Peugeot version is supposed to be good too, I run relays, on my second and lovin it!

just as a foot note, the only criticism I have of the Marcrist is that the side handle isn't as long as I would like, so I use the one from my old Milwaukee, (the only bit of the Milwaukee worth keeping in my opinion), oh and the plastic case is a bit naff

I use Marcrist after several years of messing around with other makes that turned out to be not up to the job, the first job I did was to put two extractor fans in a stone building, 1 metre thick walls, no problem!!