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I have a 4 gang plate, god help anyone, but me working on it, two lights were from the flat supply, and one main house downstairs, and one main house upstairs, the latter is now extra low voltage as it works a relay. It is about the only switch in the house which has neutrals at the switch, and...

I am looking at this, the problem is if I make a cover and fit fans etc. If this fails the inverter may overheat. So looking at a chimney of some sorts so it does not need a fan.

I wonder what thermostat you are looking at? And also what is heating to start with. My boiler has one internal thermostat, and the house another one, and some systems can have many thermostats. At least give us a clue.

I have standard outside taps, with standard plug in connectors, don't care who makes them, they work. Why do people want to reinvent the wheel?

I have looked at EV v Petrol or diesel, and it is very hard to compare. The major problem is you have no idea when a battery will fail, so it is a massive gamble. Rent an EV then not a problem, someone else pays for a battery replacement, so EV v petrol or diesel is mainly down to mileage...

The yacht varnish is not doing too well, I will need to sand it down, and redo it in cooler weather. The plants have up to now survived, but there is disruption everywhere, steam engines have been withdrawn, one fire risk, and two too hot for the crew. And where there has been a fire, which...

I would not get my wife to go outside and hang up clothes, so that's a non-starter. So there are vented tumble driers, and condenser tumble driers. The vented often you can select speed of drying, my old one either 1 or 2 kW. And at 1 kW it was far cheaper to run. The condenser drier means no...

I remember my fathers-in-law's house, before he died, we did a lot of work, after he died house sold, and new owners did all sorts, ripping out all we had done. So only way is sold as seen.

Today the weather has cooled a bit, so I switched off the fan which was blowing air from outside across our landing through the bathroom and outside again, cooling the house in the evening and early morning. And I felt the cool breeze coming in. The AC does dehumidify the air, I have been...

Basic what I was thinking, well put. If one keeps an eye on the relative humidity then it could be used, but one would still need a heat pump at some times of the year, either self-contained in a machine to tumble the clothes, or as a stand-alone unit to dry the air in the whole room. Much...

At the moment, relative humidity in this room at 37% so drying clothes would not be a problem, but be the line inside or outside, one has the work of arranging the clothes on the line, and outside BBQ smoke or bird lime can mean it needs washing again. So we need to assign a cost to our labour...

Not as bad as I thought, the problem is, any other method needs to heat up pipes between boiler and cylinder, and with many boilers also the boiler needs heating. As my solar panel software shows me what I am using. So I see this as the sun comes out, first my solar panels charge my battery...

When I moved in here 5 years ago, I had to make the decision do I want a cheap two RCD box where the RCDs are likely to trip and cause me to lose half the house, or an all RCBO box where if something trips, there is no urgency to find out why and correct it. And as the new owner I went for the...

I also find the question of bonding hard to answer, even as an electrician. So if I have a bit of class II electrical equipment used outside so not within the equipotential zone, and no problem touching the ground and the equipment at the same time. But with an outside socket I have to connect...

So flat is the warmest area where I have thermometers. There are also thermostats, hall TRV 23°C wall thermostat 26°C living room TRVs 27°C and 25.1°C wall thermostat 27.5°C the dinning room TRV 21°C the rest are not readable online, so don't know the temperature, but flat is in spite of the...

I am sure the inverter its self has overheat-protection etc. But the flat under the house is getting rather warm, we have no opening windows, only ventilation is the bathroom extractor, and normally not a problem, built into the hillside as it is, it neither gets super hot nor cold. The space...

Rhubarb now well established, it is no longer a problem. I have a steep lawn full of moss to sort out, and a planter with young plants to look after, and trees which are going wild. But rhubarb is now sorted. I am still giving it a little water, but I think I now can reduce the watering, but...

Waiting for the beer festival to start, I re-read the posts, and we have seen a change, we all knew that in winter there was a risk of a black-out due to lack of solar, but now warnings of black-out may happen because to the sun. I can't understand why, my electric use has dropped, and even...

I could simply cross my fingers, and they may survive. I tried multi-times to get rhubarb going, old house it was hard not to grow it, it grew to a fantastic size, but this house, kept dieing off, until the gardener planted it, and now massive rhubarb again, I think horse muck had something to...

I find the electric pad saw which is like a large jig saw has worked well, but sometimes a handsaw works better, and also the Scorpion saw, and the chainsaw, the latter is officially called a lopper, and on a long pole is unwieldy to handle, but does cut well. A table saw would likely be best...