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Morning all im running SWA cable to my shed from the CU in my house im also going to run alarm cable to the shed, Im told i cant run the SWA with the alarm cable together as the alarm may pick up interference from the mains cable how far away from each do the cables need to be kept...

depends on the type of weeds i have recently just bought my first house (bought it october last year - so everythign was dead) as soon as the weather warmed i have been greated with this yep there are "Marestails" secondly only to knotweed its a horrible weed that doesnt seem to die...

i dont know where abouts you are in the uk but i got screen top soil (grade 2) for £160 for 18 tonnes from Here im nothing to do with the company but i can tell you they bent over backwards to have it delivered when i needed it even adding horse muck for free :)

When we bought our house the back garden was left to totally grow over, plus had loads fo concrete all over it here is the work just beginning after all the concrete had been removed the garden was as unlevel as a see-saw! i have just laid 22 tonne of soil in there so its now...

Cheers John im just thanking my lucky stars that i was able to retrieve the crap "silverline" rods an that United Utilities sorted the drain speaking to a neighbour (who had the manhole cover) he reckons within the last 10 years of having his house, the drain has been cleaned 4 - 6 times...

Fixed it!! well, after the rod snapped, i thought "what the hell" im goign to have to dig it out so i dug down the shaft of the inspection cover, where i found the pipe was oozing water an god knows what else i uncovered the whole pipe an found the inspection cover pipe was just sitting...

the drain is a clay looking pipe im guessing that is the slat glazed stuff i have a feeling there is a break somewhere in the pipe though as where i was digging out was absolutely drenched/ soggy down there so it might be a blessing that i had to dig it up (trying to find a positive in all...

it was definitely an Oh "&*(??!! moment i was rodding away when the rods felt odd, so i tried to retrieve them, i got some back plus the brass collar of the one that snapped i have a feeling it has snapped passed the bend in the drain too, i will try an put another rod down with a slip...

Thanks for the help guys please excuse my dodgy ms paint skills i tried to rod the "inspection covered hole" last night an ended up snapping the drain rods, leaving 3 or 4 rods still down there. god knows how they snapped - possibly just cheap an nasty SilverLine from toolstation...

right im off to try an find a man hole cover the inspection cover in the garden is covering a pipe that i have already rodded, but i didnt feel like the rod hit anything etc an the full length of the rod went down i have already had my hand down each of the gullies an emptied a bucket...

Cheers burnerman! sorry to sound stupid but how would i rod downstream? would that be through the inspection cover in the front garden - its only about 5" wide something i shoudl have mentioned before, we also have a down pipe off the gutter on the rear of the house, i took this pipe...

hello all we live in a semi detached house on the side of the building (not attached) we have three drain covers, 1 soil pipe if that makes sense when we use the shower/ washing machine etc two of these grids over flow with water - nothing else has come up yet. when no water is running...

yes we have 4 free zones we only have 4 zones/ detectors currently in use

thanks 9651 ahh i didn't realise alarm/ phone cable was different phone being solid an alarm being stranded cheers i will get some today is the process of connect it to the alarm box simple?

Hello all right straight away sorry if this is a stupid question but.... i would like to add an additional zone to our alarm, i think its an R8 is it just standard phone wire i need to run to the PIR? also what type of PIR do i need I'm pretty sure the alarm was reset not that...

you dont "really" need a full understanding of linux to run * just use Ubuntu (type of Linux) which has a GUI. there are hundreds of install guides for Asterisk too. just have a go, its all free

we have been successfully using Asterisk (* as its known) for about 3 years now. it started as a "its free, lets see what it can do" it will run on basically any home pc, there is no license fee especially if you run it on Linux (we use Ubuntu) try it if you have an old computer lying around...

Hi thanks for the reply all sorted. i reset the alarm using the button thingy 3 times i can now change the code using Program 60 thanks