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Great advice, Thanks chaps!!!

excuse my nievity but the chaps who are "installing" the insulation will have to cut the insulation so that the tops of these are visible and can get air movement through the unit etc etc

Contractors are coming to install (throw across) loft insulation in my Fathers bungalow next week, and he has three downlighters in the bathroom, Im aware firehoods are available but have no experience of them whatsoever. can i use them to cover the top side of the downlighters so that the...

Few pics from me..... A leaking roof over an 11kv Circuit breaker casued the mech casing to start to desolve. A female 11kv circuit breaker contact after opening/tripping on a fault.....Actually not that badly damaged and have seen worse put back into service :wink: a 1937...

Great info thanks......I have ordered a new one anyway.

took the blade off my mower tonight to either sharpen it or renew it and Im slighty confused,. I hope you learned chaps can answer my question.....This is my current mower blade, excuse my nievity but should it be shaped like this....Im afraid I cannot recollect what it looked like when...

Training to do live work when I was an apprentice involved a special set up that rang a big alarm bell rather than getting a belt if you got it wrong. The favourite trick of the day was to rattle the bell with socket or similar just as the more nervous apprentices were working!!!!!

Years ago when I was at the then Electricity Board training school as an apprentice the older lads use to create "tazers" using a 1000v meggar and a peice of T&E separated at the end and . and to continue the trend of course when I was an older lad, I did it too. I shudder to think what would be...

A little more info on the scenario, I havnt seen this but apparentley there is an unauthorised looking connection onto the BT wire that runs into the wifes aunties house. This "dodgy" looking connection runs into next doors house via a window!!! :shock: and apparentley this neighbour who doesnt...

Is it possible that a neighbour could tap into my phone line on the BT side of my master socket (ie where the cable runs along the outside of the house) and use it for thier own internet landline connection. would this be spotted somehow by BT or my broadband supplier. or could this neighbour be...

say no more......can you still get medusa's?

Looking at buying a basic kit for the parents bungalow, the kit comes with QUEST PIR's.......in my limited experience I have only ever fitted Texacom Medusa's and have never had any trouble from them. What do you learned chaps think of the quest ones.

As per title really, parents live in a bungalow and want an alarm.....obviousley there is easy access for undesirables to the bell as its low down etc etc....

Most CHP schemes are both IMPORT and EXPORT so that extra capacity can be fed into the grid. But as Plugwash says, sometimes the bigger companies have a separate incoming supply for use in shutdown periods or faults etc etc. We Installed a backup 33kv supply many years ago for What was the huge...

Westie.....your in the same "Board" as me arnt you mate...owned by the Spaniards and run by the Scots :roll:

GuitarGuyIm sure being a Jointer you will no doubt know but for those who dont I would estimate that 75% of your local HV and LV electricity network is as dated as this setup.....If not older :lol:

Being a complete novice to Household Painting I was wondering what you learned chaps think of these sponge type painting pad tools.....especially for "cutting in" and corners etc etc

The fact that this item was submitted to a PAT test raises a few concerns..... :shock:

Purely from a DNO point of view, when installing Primary and Secondary substations I find that in good ground, stacking the earth rods can achieve good results, but in poor ground we usually place earth rods some distance away from the sub (50 metres plus on primarys)and knock in rods every 10...

NOva 4 looks the business for my simpleton knowledge, I presume i would need the reciever and a transmitter, Is that all id need to connect it to a zone on my humble accnenta 6 zone panel....ONCE again guys I most appreciated your sharing your skills with a mere mortal :wink: