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Stuff the finding part, turns out it's called the hydrotap: http://www.zipheaters.co.uk/proddetail.asp?prod=BCModels Anybody ever fitted/used one? As good/cool as it looks?

Looking for something (and people with experience with) a gadget seen on the TV: Tap, for a kitchen, with red lever and blue lever. Red lever - instant boiling water. Blue lever - instant chilled water. Designed to fit a cutout in a worktop, and fill teacups/glasses. Had a grille/drain fitted...

Would like light grey, grippy, AND chem resistant - recommendations? They're this sort of thing (3 quid each from LIDL :) ) rather than pukka emergency lighting, but same difference...

They provide the service all right - they hire the same bloke to come and sanity check that I would... :lol: (but charge more for the pleasure of keeping an otherwise unemployable middleman in business)

DIY job. :) Back in the day I'd do the work myself and have an experienced spark do a quick sanity check. These days I can do the work myself, but rather than having an experienced spark look at it you have to get the LABC in instead. It'd be great - if the LABC actually had a clue...

My first 'house' job - the old man's retirement present from us kids - and still very much a work in progress: Done: *Replace consumer unit - Split load, 100mA RCD/main switch feeding the lighting circuits and a 30mA RCD feeding everything else, one new lighting circuit, one new ring main...

Good call - the meters are an Iso-Tech IDM66 (RS 216-766) and a Siemens B1022 (RS 653-086). Don't have instructions for either - anybody know if they're reading RMS for AC? Free 100 amp might prove handy though, thanks for the tip. Will wait to see what SWMBO (she who must be obeyed...)...

Finished with the CU replacement (dead RCD/whole new board cost less than replacement...) and whilst checking various voltages (courtesy of a poxy dead-from-new MCB) I checked the incoming supply. Domestic supply - 20 years old, single phase with 60A fuse, 40A rated meter and 16mm^2 meter...

Add Wylex MCBs to the list of rubbish. After much cursing and double/triple checking the re-wiring of the new CU and the existing house wiring, it turns out that 1 of 11 brand spanker MCBs just fitted is open circuit, even with the switch in the 'on' position. :roll: They're both ISO...

Bought a stack (14) of these for the garage: http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Index/Wiring_Accessories_Menu_Index/White_Mk_Accessories/Sockets_13_Amp_White_Switched_4/index.html All were new/still wrapped. One had a really obvious moulding fault (undershot) and another had a broken switch...

Electric everything... ...provided you're not a *****. Why use gas hobs when you can use induction hobs? Awesome bits of kit - responsiveness of gas, safety and cleanliness of electric, minimal stray heat too. Expensive mind. Gas ovens? Useless next to fan assisted electric. Course...

Can anybody reccommend a kickspace heater for a garage? I have a unit - an old Myson, about 1.5kW - that worked just nicely to take the chill off the garage on really f-f-f-freezing days, but it didn't last long. It worked fine if used all the time, but if used rarely (ie - off during...

Centre-punch and hammer?

November 3rd, age 6. Stack of packing crates, big claw hammer. Smacked the packing crate the the blunt end of the hammer, plank came off. Repeated many times, shuffling along the crate each time. Shuffled along far enough to fall off the edge of the garden path (5" drop...) crate...

Balls. :( I'll best get sharpening drills! :lol: Cheers

Buy a cheap extension lead, replace the fuse with a 3A one, cut the reel/sockets off the other end and wire it into the light. I'll wager it'll be the cheapest way to buy flex at a DIY shed... :)

Is self-adhesive mini-trunking much cop? I'm looking at 40x25mm, to take four 2.5mm^2 T&Es (socket ring, 2kW lighting spur/radial, garage door opener spur/radial - overkill for some circuits but didn't see the point of buying two reels) and leaving space for a pass through 10mm^2 T&E for a...

TFR, traffic film remover - for everything, including tar and skin... :lol:

Aye. Asked at a local wholesaler when you guys suggested a new CU was in order and the oik behind the desk hated RCDs because 'they're always tripping' and suggested a CU with a switch only. :roll: At that point I left sharpish and came back to ask you guys where to get 'em ! ( chose to...