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Deryck, thanks for that guide about the radius. That will give me a head start. I get your point about messing with anything their side of the Denmark point. I was hoping to convince them I wasn't a savage and just pop the cable through a couple of holes under their supervision, so I'll keep...

Hi All I've got Community Fibre doing an FTTP (Fibre drop from telegraph pole) install soon and I'm trying to prepare for it. I hoped to be able to utilise the existing overhead cable bracket mounted on the facia board on the corner of the roof (currently in use for BT drop). I'm planning on...

Thanks for confirming about the drilling and notching. You’re right, the building doesn’t present a lot of options, but wow.. OK, purlins, maybe. Currently there’s only 100mm of insu in the joists, so I was going to do perpendicular timbers that might take it up to a couple of more inches, but...

Hi All I have a bungalow loft whose main pitched roof is of Purlin type, with 4 x 2 joists running at 90° to rafters. As the Joists are 4 x 2 it seems that the 1mm and 1.3mm lighting T+E cables have been run over or round joists rather than through. I’m thinking the reason was the installer...

Seems like the high winds have triggered the inevitable. If 6 of them have rotted, it sounds like it’s only matter of time… How long will you be responsible for the upkeep of the fence? No point in wasting the effort by fixing in dribs and drabs sometimes. I nursed, botched and lashed up an old...

Could it be that the magnet has nothing to do with the workings of the stove? I've just had a Google and there are thermometers available that attach to wood stoves using a magnet. Maybe this is the remains of one, i.e. the thermometer bit has broken off from the magnet part. Not a stove expert...

Wow, both sensor and cable look delicate. Would it be possible to chase out the wood to bury the sensor (countersink it) then chase a tiny channel with a Stanley knife to plop the cable into. You could tack the cable (and whatever cabling it’s extended with) into the channel with spots of epoxy...

Crowbar, yeah. It was the pointy end of my 4ft bar that was great for digging around roots to find the meat of the root. Interesting that you should say that about using a drill. To start with I was sometimes using a long 22mm flat wood drill bit to put an 8" hole in the roots to be able to...

Thanks for your input all, none of you told me I was wasting my time, so I persevered and now it’s done. I couldn’t see myself getting hold of a cut off saw although it would have been interesting to use, so I got a Roughneck 17lb Post-Hole Digger – pretty much what scbk suggested. Holy cow...

scbk, thank you, that's talking turkey. I just can't see a way of relocating posts, but as you say it looks like I need to increase my armoury. I've got access to a Hilti TE 14 which is SDS, do you think that would help with a sharpened chisel bit? Thanks for the other sugestions they sound...

I know, not easy to get a good swing at the bar steward. It's probably got acid blood that would burn It's way though several floors of a deep space freighter ship too : - )

Cheers Pcaouolte, I thought a couple of people might say that.

Thanks foxhole. I did a recce to find an easier post spacing, but the whole fence line has roots/stumps from downed trees on it. Plan "A" was to nuke the stump with a grinder, but there's actually a BT phone multicore that the tree has grown round embedded in the stump. It's a heads you...

Hi all I took down a sycamore tree 6 years ago which left a stump (outlined in yellow in picture). The stump is elliptical, about 21" x 16" (so round equivalent, maybe 18 " diameter?). I need to dig a hole for a 4" timber fence post next to it, right where its lateral roots are. I've been...

Wise words.

Wow John, never considered horses etc. Yes with a human’s gate, you may not feel it, esp with rubber soles. It sounds terrifying either way. Here’s a thought, as we still haven’t fully ascertained the AC/DC aspect, meter range etc, what about this… If there was an accidental lack of connection...

Long shot but maybe an electrochemical reaction between the multimeter probes? I know this is a kind of science teacher answer (never earned any money dealing with leckie but can tell you all about it) but given the readings, well?? Longer shot, tiny electric eels? I hear they are good at...

Glad I got you all on the edge of your seats with this one : - ) In the end I swapped in a new relay (thermistor to be more accurate) and it still didn’t run. Reckoned it was a compressor issue given the above, or a control panel gone west. I’m too old to start the discipline of fridge guru...

Buy one where the seat mounting arrangement is well engineered, so that it doesn't slide about when/if the mounts are loose. Also, if you see one in a showroom, make sure all the rubber pads under the seat that meet the porcelain all contact the porcelain together. We had one where the two pads...

Is there anywhere on the hood that's out of site, perhaps the back that has the same gauge stainless to test on? If so I would get a set of cobalt bits from 2mm to 4mm in 1/2mm increments and try test holes with sizes governed by whatever dia self-tapper you use. So, start small and make the...