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Weed and feed. I think the main problem is the trees, which starve the lawn of water, but at least only had to use the lawn mover once this year. How weeds still manage to push their way through the tarmac I don't know, it seems to be a regular thing going out with the weed killer spray gun...

I used cable cleats, mainly as in stock, but the plastic cleats seem to work fine.

I don't work on anyone else's installation any more. So I do not really care what the rules say, it's what I think is safe which matters. So when the solar was fitted, they used a FCU to feed the boiler, the sockets were RCD sockets for the freezers, but the boiler was taken off the RCBO, and...

Most of my PCs are laptops, so loss of power not really a problem. In around 1995 I fitted two RCDs to the house, well before the consumer unit was invented, and I would find, could get 6 trips in 2 weeks, then 2 years to the next one. I since the RCBO arrived wanted to change, but never got...

It is a pain finding an earth fault, my whole house is just under the limit for one RCD, 9 mA is the limit, as background leakage, and the RCD should not trip below 15 mA most will trip a lot higher mine trips at 21 mA as seen here. But I had a fault, on both front and rear of house RCBOs but...

I have noted, items like boilers, and showers now say RCD is required, but 25 years ago they didn't, however also read (I was bored) the instructions for my drill, it is battery powered, and as with a lot of drills now, it comes without a battery or charger. But it has instructions for fitting a...

So what we now call live conductors, back then, was called circuit conductors. I seem to remember there were a few odd things, the regulations were more like the guides we get now. Seem to remember a distance socket to a sink, I know last house it was around 3 inches between socket and the...

I use a smart bulb, so can switch it on before leaving car, and off once in the house, or I would use the filament type. Not enough room for a smart socket adaptor were plugged in, so no real option unless I fit a relay inside the lamp.

Unfortunately when I moved, I left the brewing fridge behind. Morison's were selling 4 cans for 98p, OK only 2%, but it was not worth brewing when I could buy it that cheap. Then the Welsh government slapped on extra tax, so £1.76, so I started home brew again. That's between 5% and 6% any...

It is unfortunately where the inverter is located, so once the sun comes out hard to keep under 20ºC, but it does not need to be under 20ºC 24/7 as long as the average remains under 20ºC as it takes some time to heat or cool 5 gallons of beer being brewed. Today 9:30 am, two sets of doors wide...

Saved me when it turned out the socket was connected to next doors supply, I had turned off whole fuse box, and did not expect the socket could possibly be live. Young then, now always test. Also without a clamp-on ammeter they are excellent warning when there is a borrowed neutral, even with...

Fuse holder for large fuses, were reinforced the first fuse in some Wylex fuse boxes was an example, but today many of the former better makes, are made in China, not to say that in its self is bad, but it often means the better known makes of yesteryear, no longer have control of the quality...

I volunteer at the local heritage railway. We have a load of benches, and the painting of these has become a big problem. So we have tried using plastic, but that's costly, so at moment doing an experiment with water based paint. Getting the old paint off is not easy, one year someone used...

Two apple trees, and a large hedge, have taken all the water there was, and I had treated for moss, just before the drought so left with nearly no grass, not quite bare earth, but not far from it. Clearly can't do anything yet, but once rain returns, what should I do?

I have, when the power used drops to 2 watt, it starts a timer for 1 hour, then switches it off and sends me a message. But how does that have anything to do with what @sparkymarka shows?

Immersion heater first, mine will turn on at the thermostat around once every 3 to 4 hours, it does not stay on for long, the spike is about the same as the electric kettle, once it had warmed up first time in the day, the Octopus app is useless as it only shows in ½ hour blocks, even the solar...

I did look at battery packs, the advantage is you can take them out with you, I have an old one, used it to pump up tyres until the pump failed, and the odd jump start, but never really used the 300 watt 230 volt outlet. Has a 20 Ah lead acid battery, and any bigger would make it too heavy...

I have one bulb with wings, so you can one get a higher output, BA22d connection and 80 watt, 9000 lumen output. Had these been around when we moved in, likely would not have bought an expensive chandelier that uses 8 bulbs. But outside my carriage lights with bulbs, shine the light up, I have...

Main point is it auto kicks in, so if I am not at home, the freezers still work. But the question is how much to back up? The more backed up, the less time the battery will run for, where with the generator you can refill the cans of petrol. The other is noise, to have an inverter generator...

When did live include neutral? I know neutral and line are classed as live now, but was that the case back them?