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When you have an industry with people with an attitude like "I would never suggest anything other than a combi" (yes, I've seen a plumber express that) then it's hard to get alternatives into the minds of the punters. The majority will simply accept whatever the plumber suggests will be best for...

Why ? Surely you just detach the flex from the FCU and put a plug on it, and replace the FCU with a single socket ? I'm struggling to understand a situation where that isn't possible. If there's something specific to your property, telling us about that might allow for practical suggestions.

And that was a time when there wasn't competition from carriers with no USO (universal service obligation) - meaning they could cherry pick the bits they could make a profit on and leave the PO & RM to handle the non-profitable stuff. And it was a time before email crashed the number of letters...

Until some gas fitter comes along and insists it has to be an FCU as the MIs require it. Yes, I've had that "discussion" when I insisted the fitter put the socket back that he'd just replaced with an FCU.

I've come across the issue twice - when my late mother downsized, and now when we are selling her bungalow. In both cases, the two sides have chosen the same solicitor. The solution has been to assign staff at different offices to the two parties - and to direct that all the files be clearly...

Indeed, I'm also in the dark on that. I can only assume a regular here who takes multiple breaks in one of His Majesty's hotels.

https://xkcd.com/927/

Yes, some good examples there of "not doing any basic sanity checking". Unless it's somewhere I've been before, I zoom out on the sat-nav and look at where it's taking me. Is the destination even in the right direction ? Such a basic check would have stopped the young lady being taken to...

A colleague years ago said it should shout "I said turn left you idiot" A while ago, my wife said "you should be eating more of <list of stuff>". As it happens, I'd only just looked at the page it was a summary of and replied "actually, that's a list of thing NOT to eat". That was in relation...

That RD415 looks like a nice cable, but is it only available in 1.5mm² ? Those Aico bases are hard enough to wire with 1.0, I wouldn't like to do them with 1.5 :eek:

Actually, yes they have "learned" to play. The mumber of possible moves even when looking only a few moves ahead quickly becomes too large to handle - which is why early chess programs got got thrashed by even moderate skill players. At the start of a game, there's 20 possible moves, then 20...

Yes, a decent option. But ... What are they called ? Any examples of where they are sold ? Do they do them in the different sizes/shapes needed - some conduits are round, some are oval. I imagine "bush" will appear in the description - but that's a rather generic term to search for.

But considering the primary function for most RCDs - pritection against direct contact. You'll conduct "considerably more" than 30mA - and trigger all the RCDs. The only one's that won't trip will be thise that are slow enough not to have triggered before another has physically opened its...

Except if you refer back to the first post it specifies White in Ireland

Parallel conductors are allowed for in the regs : 433.4 Overload protection of conductors in parallel Where a single protective device protects two or more conductors in parallel there shall be no branch circuits or devices for isolation or switching in the parallel conductors. This regulation...

Can you clarify: is this existing cable connected to anything or not ? If it's still connected at the house end, what's on the other end ? There is (in practice) no discrimination between a 10mA and 30mA RCD (and 100mA RCD for that matter) - in the event of anything but a fairly high resistance...

Indeed, and it's "really annoying" when many of the "AI" solutions I see making the news are really noting more than basic machine learning - simply reading lots of input-output sets of values and inferring what the relationship between them is.

No, black is a standard colour (along with brown and grey) for line conductors and therefore does not need sleeving brown.

Err, so you've forgotten the number of threads here (and in other forums) where the EICR claims lots of stuff must be done, but in fact it's a made up excuse for fleecing the customer - or at least, somewhere between that and reality. Not saying that's the case here, but there is certainly scope...

And so we get ‘Dangerous’ daffodils and 10 more ‘elf and safety myths, Common health and safety myths in schools, Common work at height myths On that last one, a while ago I was doing some work for a client and needed to put up a couple of WiFi access points (not very high up on a wall) - so...