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And of gas it is well known to have some folks go completely OTT on "Health and Safety" an completely misunderstand - who says so? The HSE children cant play conkers etc !

Why do you talk to the squirrels John? :ROFLMAO:

I think that most run of the mill back draft shutters are capable of clacking noisy in winds, the cheap ones are not good but they are often the first type to be fitted.

I have not heard that name for a while. Spanish firm if I remember correctly, they did have a distribution place around here a few years back for a few years (maybe 5 or 10). Also they had a fan that would not open the vents until sufficient pressure had built up in the housing - folk thought...

I once, as a young un, got a belt of the unsleeved pins on a plug, never got a shock again, it taught me a great lesson. (Omitting deliberate acts of "Catch This Capacitor" the well tried games we used toplay on each other!)

Full of Conspiracy Theorists. They are their own worst enemy, they tend to follow a little snippet of fact that gets built into absurd theories. Not only does it hide the truth in support of garbage but has the very unfotunate side effect of colluding to suggest to others that every single...

S I can remember when we allhad a club knife/penknife? "Stanley Knife" or even our old boy scouts Sheath Knife (Wearable in public with no qualms back then!) and with practice we became expert at using said implements for cable stripping, Not forgetting the old "Side Cutter" trick either...

Sounds we have some (but not all ) similar methods. I did my estimates with a decent yet small amout of detail but not too much as this would take too much time up. Example :- Lounge - two twin sockets, two way switched lighting etc etc One fellow even asked me to provide a price list for...

I have not done the actual calculations themselves but I would imagine that both Eric & Harry are pretty much on the right path. Unless there are other considerations to be aware of I would imagine the aim might be to size a boiler somewhere within the region of capable of running "all of the...

LOL :ROFLMAO:

Speaking about grants , yes they seem to attract the low end bodge it and scarper ltd types quite often too. I was part way thru a house rewire first fix and a "Warm Front" team came and I had to lay off for a couple of days, they "butchered the joists" - put notches over the areas where I...

A long time ago two well established business's suggested that I was charging "very expensive prices" on a couple of my jobs. Case 1 - a plumbing heating firm combined with gen building services therefore could do a whole host of jobs either inhouse or supplying additional trades as well on a...

I was simply pointing out that for example the taking or not taking of blood for purely racial reasons - white folk do not accept blacks blood because they believe the black man to be inferior - I see that as wrong ethically. However, if it coincidentally turns out to be the case that there...

Indeed yes. Is doing the "right" things for the "wrong" reasons considered a Good or bad thing?

Yup, as you said. "Cockcroft`s Folly" might be one example we should strive to achieve. PS we`ve been around that neck of the woods quite often now. I wonder why they no longer calls it Windscale???

All agreed John. I think that if we tested someone again who had survived the first event then the first event in itself might have weakened (or strengthend??) them enough to skew the results of the second test. We would need to have a cat called Schrodinger to view each test simultaneously...

Ha. just goes to show that I learn some amazing things on the diynot electrics forum

Yes I can believe that. A lady was speaking about dogs, breeds, Crufts and all that, (My dog was a mongrel, a Labrador cross, great dog, loved him to bits). The lady (an accountant) that if a "pure" breed of dog was allowed pups by a mongrel then the pure breed would be spoiled in the eyes of...

Indeed yes, but it reveals itself only as "an earth" so you bond. Now them I know some do not even test at all and then some test with the bonds still connected. Wait for that bolted fault to occour and now you are reliant on a house or two 5 doors down having a 1.5mm cpc for the...

Just one thought here too. You disconnect all bonds yest you might measure the apparent earth connection of someting of your own (which should be disconnected anyway) so any pipework you measure can only be comming from extraneous, however the question is yes it could be next doors bonding but...