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When the climate alarmists warn of flooding and it happens in spite of there having been no warming for several years, I put two and two together. Likely cause, failure to maintain waterways.

Thing is, you don't actually need an engine to cause an expensive or life-threatening prang, as was demonstrated a while back. Touch wood I've never been hit on a crossing by a motorcyclist but I've been hit on the pavement by a lunatic pushbiker, and boy it hurt. Though you reminded me, I...

Friend needs a fairly dated open-fronted gas fire removed so that a surround can be installed, followed by a new gas fire. The gas company came the other day and capped the supply at the meter (there is only the one gas appliance, the fire) but did not disconnect or cap the pipe at the fire...

True, and this is one of those situations where it probably IS compliant with the literal word of the regs, but is not very safe since it's just the sort of place where an unsuspecting room occupant would screw in a hook for her handbag collection or whatever. Which just goes to show that you...

No, installation is neat enough, just that the high likelihood of someone putting a hook on that wall obviously hadn't occurred to the supply electrician, and the clearance is far too small. In fact he might not have realised it was a single skin, I didn't until I drilled a hole in it and saw...

Meter on one side of 15mm plywood sheet, other side of this sheet forms the lower half of a fitted wardrobe back wall. Service head is elsewhere, supply comes in via conduit.

Upgrading a CU in a cupboard built of single skin 15mm ply, which also forms the rear wall of a fitted wardrobe in the adjacent bedroom. The CU itself will be on a mounting board spaced about 5mm from the wall and will be metal, so reasonably safe against penetration, but the meter and tails...

Not sure about latest regs but it used to be OK to have a short length cable of smaller gauge than the breaker rating before the FCU, provided it was very unlikely to ever get shorted. The peace-of-mind solution is to use 2.5mm to the FCU, which would be very unlikely to fail before a 32A...

If buying a PIR outside light I would confirm that it will take a LED bulb (or compact fluorescent as a second best) as some are not designed to. Any that switch the lamp with a relay are OK. Otherwise you are saddled with regular bulb changes.

If you already have the wiring in, that's 9/10 of the work of installing a wired system. A wired system is vastly superior to wireless units which need regular battery changes. Just get a modern control unit and sounder box, the wiring hasn't changed significantly apart from some units being...

Thx, that sounds like a usable arrangement. If a little costly though at over £100 for an unpopulated box.

If there were an accident, your best defence is to be able to show that you were duly diligent in your work. That would mean being able to state that you for example: Double checked wires on right terminals before closing up (or better still, had someone else confirm) Ensured no loose...

God is alive and well, and engaged on a less ambitious DIY project.

The simple fact is that attempting a loop as low as that in any aircraft is asking to buy the farm. I don't think you can blame the aircraft for being vintage.

I can see the point of conserving resources and protecting nature, but the climate change bandwagon reads as being pure scam. Strange thing is that the hippies all seem to support it, despite it having been started by a few uber-rich politicos like Al Gore and Maggie Thatcher, not to forget sc...

Wire nuts were used on early UK installations, they were called 'Screwits' and were made of ceramic material. They were prone to falling off, no matter how well fitted. Maybe that's why they have a bad reputation here.

To power a camera via Cat5, you need to retain the orange and/or green pairs as a signal feed, but separate the brown and blue pairs at both ends. Join the cores of these pairs to make two double-gauge conductors and use then as your 12vdc feed. This way, the LEDs will work OK at least up to...

Swann kit is basically the same Chinese stuff you can get on Ebay, but at twice or three times the price. It works but it ain't good. Axis and Dennard are the brand leaders but you will pay a lot for those. It all depends what you need it to do. Pesumably night coverage is vital, and the point...

Looking for a consumer unit, 10 or 12 way, that will accept 6x 3/4" and 2x 1" conduit outlets on the bottom edge, left to right in that order. Doesn't matter if there are a few extra knockouts as long as there are eight in that order. Metric equivalents are ok. Basically, to update an...

The main issue with solar is that in Dec/Jan the energy collected is only about a tenth of the summer rating. This doesn't worry people who are just fitting panels for the sake of the subsidy, since it averages out over the year, but to you the low output at the time of year a powercut is most...