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Thanks for all that info. I'll have a look at the Antiference, seems like a decent bit of kit and good figues too.

I'm having a little trouble with our TV watching, or Humax Fox T2 DVR watching actually. We can see all the freeview programmes we want through the Humax but when we record one prog and watch another the signal drops and often one or the other fails. This is noticable on the COM7 channel 55, I...

Yes, but unfortunately the collector tank is a large half-buried riveted steel cylinder on its side, with only a 6" access hole on the top. A grid over the spring entry point would soon grass/weed over and divert the flow.

Inside the house the 32 mm mdpe is 'converted' to 28 mm copper, there's a 22 mm tee off for the house, then the 28 mm goes through another normally closed ball valve and then discharges outside. I flush the pipework, and any residual frogs, through every few weeks. It's the bigger valve that's...

We're having our water supply (spring to house) relaid in 32mm mdpe. The original supply was 1980's 1" alkathene but is being rerouted due to nearby building works. We occasionally get small frogs in the pipe so can't use liners in the fittings or screw-down stopcocks, as the fatter frogs get...

Yes, as far as I can tell. I'll try disconnecting the busbar from the r/h mcb and see if I can lift it clear - but not today. The peculiar thing is that the quite substantial steel rail would (I would have thought) cost more than the smaller and almost universal din rail, so why did they do...

I did. Thanks for all your help.

No problem, just the eternal quest for knowledge. I find it hard to believe that the mcb's just hang loosely on the rail. In fact they are firmly fixed in some way, as they can't be moved manually in any direction. Perhaps it's the plastic clip holding the busbar, or the neutral bar. There...

I'll try...

About five years ago my garage was extended and rewired. The contractors fitted a metal 8-way Steeple cu to feed power and lights with Steeple rcd and Series E mcb's. Yesterday I opened the cover for a look and found that the rcd/mcb mounting rail was not the usual fairly narrow din rail with...

Hi, I have a similar worry, I hope the O/P doesn't mind me extending his thread. I'm having a largish greenhouse base installed with a dwarf wall. The foundations were filled with concrete which came in a huge lorry that mixed the stuff on delivery. I used half a barrow load left over to...

Yes, it will be metered. I'll pay the £50 standing charge and hopefully for a few cu mtrs a year more to flush the pipework than anything. What's the difference between a verifiable and non-verifiable double check valve? If I buy a DCV is it likely to be verifiable or non-v? (The merchants...

Because.. future house buyers might be put off by drinking from a spring, there are times when the spring runs very low, or occasionally stops, the spring comes from fields not owned by us, and cannot be guaranteed, it is prudent to lay the supply whilst the cost is shared (including the...

Our house has been supplied with 'mains' water from a spring for many years with no problems. The new next-door neighbours are running a trench to install water from the public supply, so we took the opportunity to go with them and share costs. So very shortly we will have a proper mains supply...

The main lighting in my kitchen is 2 x 30w and 2 x 18w fluorescents mounted on the top rear of the wall cabinets, with the light bouncing off the ceiling. I am perfectly happy with this. The fittings are Eterna electronic ballast T8's. I bought these because they were the only make available...

We have had a large landing ceiling replastered (end 2009). Last week I gave it a prime coat of thinned Dulux Vinyl Silk emulsion from a spare tin. I then gave it two coats of B&Q Colours matt emulsion (Antique White). To my disappointment it still looked patchy. I'm starting on a third coat and...

Thanks, I shall stop trying to fry my meter. Strangely enough the display worked for an hour or so then stopped, and did this both times after I disconnected and reconnected the Powertube. However after leaving it for several hours I noticed that the display was now showing a level instead of...

I have an oil tank with a Sensor Systems Watchman level monitor. It transmits the oil level to a display in the kitchen. All was well for the last two years. A couple of day's ago the display went from 2 to r, with a flashing light. This is, according to the instructions, the display going into...