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Ho-ho... 8) Secure spark - the network cables are run between the floor & ceiling (clipped to the joists and run directly through holes drilled in them) plus the floor is laminate so can't be a nipped cable.... They run close to the power cables but not that close as I tried to keep some...

And yes, I have a spade - but no hamster :roll:

Right then Broadband drops out for whole duration of the treadmill being on (an hour + if SWMBO is on a real fitness kick) The problem has been ever since we got the treadmill - I've just gritted my teeth and put up with it for a while but since I'm working from home more it's more of a...

Yep it's ADSL - the phoneline comes straight into the cupboard where the router/modem & patch panel are - the treadmill is across the landing ind in a different room. There are 2 x cat 5e cables running into that room, one to a printer and the other to a desktop in there. Have tried powering...

So tempting to reply with "it goes round and round" 8) Nope - just a bog standard 13A plug on it, no ethernet connections or anything.... which is why it's such a mystery... :?

Not sure if this should be in electrics, telephones or computer hardware so bear with me. When we moved into the house we had the whole place rewired - pretty standard rewire, separate upstairs & downstairs rings, radial for the cooker, one for the shed, blah-blah-blah. Because I was...

For reasons of our dog being a bit mental sometimes and chewing the stair carpet (usually while we're out - this time she narrowly avoided getting a blocked intestine due to ingested carpet), myself & Mrs "Numpty" have decided to remove the carpet and go with something different. The rest of...

keep kids / dogs / anything off the grass for 4-6 weeks. full stop. B1tch p1ss kills even established grass so try and discourage her or be prepared to follow her round with a watering can and occasionally re-seed small patches that you miss

Planning on connecting up a toilet tomorrow evening for my parents - so need ot get it right first time.... Soil pipe is in place and I have the connector - do I need to use any compounds / sealants to make sure the seal between soil pipe and bog is watertight? or should the rubber collar do...

In that case I may well plump for an RCD - it can't hurt I guess.....

Absolutely nowt - shower comes with a moulded plug which I plan to snip off and hardwire in... The entire instructions focus on the "how to connect to pipes" stuff :x Bah!

I'm about to plumb in a shower pump for my Dad and need a quick pointer: - Shower pump is outside of bathroom (airing cupboard), and I'm going to use the old immersion heater circuit (no immersion heater anymore & the cabling's still in place (16A MCB on the CU, 2.5mm cable)) One half of...

My efforts over the past 18 months The clip of the place when we got the house (previous owner had passed away - garden gone to pot - spent first 6 months doing up house) No 1 priority - get the shed installed :D clear the garden, shift a few tonnes of concrete, fill...

why not just by a patch panel and connect up the cable to that instead of messing about with trying to ad RJ45 connectors? Much quicker and neater IMHO.....

A what???? :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: Does it irradiate them or something?? :?

bog standard domestic solar panels will only produce something around 12-24 volts. So unless you are prepared to use a 3-4000 watt inverter and a couple of massive deep cycle batteries and wire it up to that then you'll not get enough voltage or current to get a standard imersion element doing...

1) Remove affected lawn 2) remove the bodies underneath and rebury in woods 3) relay fresh turf and fence off till spring to stop kids running across it

Got a small problem on a flat roof at the front of the house. The felt is generally ok, but close to the edge there is a recess in the roof that forms a gutter, the felt has cracked in the U (on the house side of the U) - drawn a diagram to illustrate Now I could get a roofer to redo the...

Open with photoshop and then save as JPEG....

....As I don't want to flood the mother in law's flat :D I'm replacing the bathroom sink taps for her in a few weeks and need to double check something... (She's got a combi boiler and I've only ever done plumbing work on tanked hot water systems - hence the daft question). I assume that I...