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Any timber yard will have stuff in stock, or be able to source it. Further down the line, if you want real 'raw wood' - ie, unseasoned, ring a few log merchants. They'll usually have access to timber.

Back to serious: Don't just pour cement through until it stops - could breach the dpc and bring damp into the house. How about a rubber strip - glued both sides and pushed just far enough? Or wood. Or if cement is really wanted, some variation on the plasterboard hole trick? Some thin...

Also rope. I have a length of 5mm polyprop I keep in the garage just for this. Snip a bit off - instant paintbrush.

Might also be something in the X10 range. (An open standard for home automation)

Bum. The contents of the .reg are below, normally these would be imported into regedit, either manually or by double-clicking on a .reg file. If you can't get regedit up and running, then I don't know how you're going to sort this other than reinstalling windows. If you can get regedit...

It can happen. I had a nice virus the other day the hooked into the exe loader and started itself. Fun, fun. Anyway, you want something to re-associate file extensions. Grab the exe one from here, unpack and run the .reg, and when you're up an running, get thee virus tested and tighten up...

That does sound like quite a snooty reply there, both of you, born from ignorance of free software I'm sure. Paying for software does not guarantee quality, accountability or that it's useful or usable. All it proves is that you have spent money, not that it will give better results, be more...

I understand your dilemma and can sympathise with the lack of confidence, but... Why not try it? If you get stuck connecting it to the existing tap (the only non-trivial bit) then call a guy out to sort it. By then you'll have done all the hard work by burying it in the ground and you never...

Yes, but as I said, only if there is something solid around the collar for it to push against. Otherwise it'll just expand away from the pipe and not seal the void.

Quoting getting complicated. Modect should be recording a ring buffer with "pre event" frames already in memory. So when something triggers it you get what happened before too. If a dvr isn't doing this then I can understand why you think its usefulness is less so. I do know a little about...

It's not required to test a new item. Although I have known badly fitted plugs - loose screws and unclamped outer sheath, so it's not a complete waste of time. However - if you have an item unlabelled in an office and H&S do a tour, they'll pick it out, and you also have no record on the item...

Sorry, I jumped to an assumption - but that really does look like silicon that's been overpainted and not a paintable caulk. I'm thinking faulty caulk - 3 days should be plenty, especially in the warm weather we have now, and it shouldn't need an oil undercoat - although certainly worth a try...

It'll be silicone that's been used instead of acrylic or normal caulk. Paint won't stick to it, needs to come out and be replaced with a paintable caulk.

A visual inspection is not a pat test. Nobody seems to have mentioned the NEED to document your tests as well as label. If somebody does get hurt and it's your arse on the line, you will want to be able to reach into a filing cabinet and provide proof it was checked, by whom, on what date...

Why can't you do both record and modect from the same camera, or is that a limitation of the all-in-one boxes? I do that using zoneminder, but OP has said he doesn't want a computer running 24/7 and that's a fair point. These all-in-one boxes, aren't many of them just computers anyway? How...

I would guess the plastic pipe melting, and the fire chimneying up through inside it - is going to raise the temperature around the pipe pretty quickly and activate a collar fairly rapidly wherever it is along the pipe.

Shh! Don't cut corners, use the mdpe. It'll radius to about 20 inches (fill it full of hot water to get really tight bends). And, of course, there are right angle joints. Don't use hose. Even the "Heavy duty" stuff won't last long and you'll regret it. The biggest job here is digging the...

Because towel rails are specced by women for the fashionable look. Efficiency and build quality are rarely considered in the one room where being warm really matters. It's not a british thing by the way, same all over the western world.

Also consider IP cameras and using a computer to record/view. Removes the need for a dedicated recorder, but of course you'll need to have a computer running all the time. Motion detection is very useful, makes reviewing weeks of activity a lot quicker task, but if you're using pan/tilt...

Indeed. The heavier duty, the longer lasting it will be. Also, on a personal note as I'm now carrying three more stone than I should be, I find narrow treaded ladders absolute murder on my feet for more than a few minutes. The better built ones tend to have wider treads and intended for more...