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Well it tells us some things Not sure how that will be done? 800 VA maximum export (3.5 amps) and 2000 watt maximum panel size. Non-rewireable moulded plug fitted with a BS 1362 fuse not exceeding 5A; half-insulated pins. No battery permitted. G98 will be required. Likely will not be paid...

Not sure if allowed, although likely the route I would take, I know it needs an isolator, so socket can't be made live unless there is a plug in the socket, but can't see me losing any sleep if it did not fully comply. OK, we have to stand back and ask, are we worried about the regulations...

Yes I have done improvements. There are two main reasons, one is running costs, which will lower the carbon footprint, and the other is comfort. So as an example, solar panels reduce running costs, but together with the battery it also ensures with a grid failure my central heating will...

I looked at mine again. Hot waterFrom main system, no cylinder thermostatPoor Well it also has an immersion heater which does have a thermostat, the central heating does heat the DHW in the winter, but can't see how a cylinder thermostat will really change amount of...

With my old house, I found I had an EPC, but I had not paid anyone to do it, think it must have been an error, and he had put wrong house number on the form. But the points being affected by type of bulb fitted is daft, just too easy to swap them. It is something we are forced to do, but the...

The first second hand bike I bought for my daughter, it was claimed to be a good quality, and I stripped it, bead blasted the frame and rebuilt is, and was proud of the work I had done. Then totalled up the cost, and could have bought a new one for the same money. We have gone through many...

So now done, except for handrails. Not cemented yet, going to allow it to settle first, then where needed to use cement. Still need to consider handrails, I have no idea what is behind the cement rendering, and how strong any handrail will be if using raw plugs I attach to the rendering, seen...

I have used heat pumps in a few jobs, and they do keep the room cool, be it in Algeria or Hong Kong, I would not want to live without them. Even in the UK I have a portable heat pump for the odd hot day, and also refrigeration units had them in the home for years, even a tumble drier with a...

This is the problem:- I used discontinued now, but there are simular, my chandelier does not weigh 5 kg, but it is heavy, far too heavy for plaster board. I had no option due to the decoration, but I have to arrange furnature so a unit is below it as it hangs down below 6 foot, so tall people...

Why? I know with my home rooms are reassigned in their use, so a dinning room becomes a store room, or a bedroom and office, or a craft room etc. So with TRVs we can swap to programmable heads, and each room can be independently controlled, yes a wall thermostat can be handy where the radiator...

I have dumped so many amplifiers, I will guess at some point near miss on lighting strike, and good by amplifier. All lights seem to work, but they don't amplify any more. Also of course rubbish in and we get rubbish out. I used to play with aerials a lot when I was younger, now it seems WiFi...

I would agree that video recorder to TV that coax no longer fits the bill, as TVs today are so big, I know we use some form of wireless, it was all part of the SkyQ package. But unless using something like Sky, then easier to just feed each TV independently from the aerial/router/etc. The...

We should wear orange, but be it orange or yellow they are not that worried, we should have a certain class of safety boot but again as long as safety boots are worn not that worried, there is a point as it is a heritage railway that the orange clothing is not really photogenic, so we do tend to...

My large crimp pliers are of this design and one would need to be Charles Atlas to do 120 mm, and 10 mm, so easy not to be square on, in real terms 16 - 90 mm. The Lidi ones never really used.

Working for GEC large steam turbines, our crimp pliers had to be calibrated, not seen it done with any other firm, but also the crimp had to be from one company, so in the main we do a test with over centre crimp pliers to see what jaw is required. Lidi best look good, but as to selecting...

Fluorescent strips can be sown on to most materials, I remember being issued with a fluorescent tab in the building of Connah's Quay power station, which we all wore under our overalls, we were of course stopped, and questioned, and we said overalls as the name suggests go over all, and are to...

Picture from an efixx video, should any construction worker likely to come into contact with live supplies and the resultant ionisation be wearing any man-made fibre clothes?

efixx have done another video claiming that bidirectional RCDs/RCBOs are not required for plug in solar. Not sure if I agree, but neither can I show their claims are wrong, it talks about tiny signature to tell other inverters that is in an island, which seems great, but it would need some...

An episode of QI they talked about the, from the front wipe v from the side wipe, seemed silly, but from the side puts a lot of weight one side of the seat, where I volunteer we are it seems forever replacing the seats in the woman's toilets, hardly ever in the mens. We have tried all sorts...