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Holy Moley! That's terrifying. My kids are going to have nightmares.

Do you mean like this, crank? The "discount" I received is in the green circle. The "base" cost was £3535.28. Three and a half thousand quid for a 1500mm wide sliding patio door in plain white uPVC. Perhaps it was white gold covered in transparent uPVC. I think that might be fair price...

I've actually found the opposite. The reason your sites hosted on a large provider get found easier, is that there are more inward links to those providers. This is what drives the Google engine. That and a combination of uniqueness. That's the other thing that Google excels at. I have a...

I've just had them round for a quote on a patio door. Their's was one of three quotations I had, listed below:- (ascending order): £900.00 £1093.37 £2312.80 Guess which is the Anglian quote. It's actually more than the other two combined! How can they fleece people like this? More...

No, it's not. A drone will be used in a successful UK terrorist attack that will be attributed to ISIS. There will be a huge over reaction, and don't forget that we now have the most successful Home Secretary of all time as Prime Minister. Ms May will jump so far down your throats she'll...

Do you have any substantive evidence for this, or are you just dissing Loftleg because you're a competitor installing the more expensive product? [I read your recent posts] I'm not connected to the trade and agnostic in terms of systems, but I am attuned to marketing hype ;)

Alarm panel and mini trunking! I thought that I'd just buy a box of fixings for all occasions, and as there are a 100, I'd never need to buy any more. Now I have to throw 91 of them away. I think that's called outsmarting one's self :(

I'm thinking of boarding my loft, and have seen loft feet /spacers in the DIY stores. They raise the joist level 170mm. With an existing 100mm joist, that would be 270mm in total. This is coincidentally the current recommended insulation thickness. If you go with the recommendation...

I've just bought some Screwfix 32mm, self drill metal plasterboard fixings branded EASYFIX, like below:- I have now used 9 of these in a plasterboard (Paramount) wall. 5 have proved impossible to install and have made a mess of the wall. This is a near 50% failure rate! The screws that...

Thought: how does the app know the ip address of the ComWifi if it changes dynamically?

A quick & dirty bodge is to set lease expiry times to a very large number (effectively infinite). If your HomeHub features this functionality, try it, but it's only a medium term solution as you will eventually run out of ips. Forcing dynamic ip to become static only works for a bit...

= 210 combinations. For a key safe that allows keys to be pressed in any order, you should always use half of the number of keys. So for a 10 digit key safe, you should set 5. 5 out of 10 = 252 combinations. Still not that much. You can get key safes that have 12 keys.

Get a static ip address. Servers don't really work without them. You might have to change ISP as a lot of consumer ones don't offer them. Also check the small print of any new ISP as to whether they allow home servers. This isn't for the "rules" but that they might block certain ports that...

No. It's not.

Not sure what a PLC is. You don't mean an industrial Programmable Logic Controller do you? The Allen Bradley stuff like http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/plc-cpus/7508624 Deep stuff. Your best approach is a combination of the standard way and some tech. The standard elderly person monitoring...

Like so? I find it odd that the choc block isn't part of the panel. There's plenty of room for a larger PCB and a few square inches of fibre glass doesn't cost much, especially in the context of time is money.

Is the PR-11B reliable if kept clean and used internally only? The reason I was researching them was to find a thingie that could be pressed into service as a pet tolerant volumetric detector. I have an intolerant cat that some might be aware of...

Iggifer, worked a treat and you could feel it cutting it's own thread. Holds very well. Kisses, but in a manly way of course.

I don't have any of those lying around today, but I do have some Screwfix Goldscrews. They're hardened and needle sharp, so I might try one this afternoon. Ta.

If it's not too late, I came across this one sided detector as you wanted:- http://www.cts-direct.net/external-detection/external-security-takex/takex-pr-11b-external-reflector-beam-11m-coverage-pr-11b-takex It's rated to 11m detection distance. Others here will have to attest to it's...