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And that's not exactly news - anyone used the Aston Expressway ? Designed to be tidal flow, I was under the impression they soon abandoned that in favour of a fixed 3 lanes in, 3 lanes out, and the central lane permanently closed. Because it was apparently too difficult for people to understand...

Yes, 6381Y is soooooo much easier to work with. Needing ferrules is a minor inconvenience in comparison. The biggest problem is getting hold of it - conversations at the wholesalers tend to be along the lines of : What do you want that for, everyone uses 6181Y We don't stock it, no-one asks for...

FWIW I decided as an interim measure to go the low tech route. One room I'd fitted unused back boxes and conduit so it was easy to pull in some cables and hard wire. For other rooms I paired a wireless program stat (Salus RT510) with two receivers - one controls the rad valve, the other turns on...

It's a while since I've worked with any 4mm t&e

It was in the days of unfused 5A & 15A sockets. That changes with 13A fused plugs. Yes generally. Is 4mm generally 3 strand ? That's going to be stiffer than 7 strand 7/039

Isolator or fused switch ? The 2.5 spur off the ring would terminate with a BS1362 fuse so overload protected. If the circuit described had isolators rather than switch-fuses, then there is a foreseeable overload situation (immersion element short to casing results in higher load current until...

That's a modern abomination. 2.5 T&E used to be stranded as well - and was much easier to work with. I think 4mm had more strands than it does now. Edit: and in context, it would have been a choice between 7/029 and 7/036 - so same construction, thicker strands. Modern unstranded T&E is an...

Matter of preference, but it's larger and (for same construction) stiffer. Edit: it is "interesting" getting it all into the terminals when there's a 2.5 spur off a radial wired in 7/036 - so about 12.5mm of copper to fit in ! What happens to your 15A radial when two electric heaters get...

I can see it happening - but it's going to stay niche and expensive. As mentioned, Ubiquiti tried it, but theirs was proprietary and had very limited options - so not surprised it didn't catch on. With only panels, market would be restricted to offices etc. where either the compkication isn't...

It's possibly worth stepping back and looking at the pre "RFC with BS1363 sockets and wired in 7/029 and protected by 30A rewirable fuse" days. I suspect that for many, the idea that you could have sockets in every room, and more than one per room was a massive leap forwards. Granted, it could...

Have you looked at the power consumption ? I strongly suspect your battery life could be measured in hours rather than days.

I don't why they specify a number of lamps as well as a total wattage. Seems illogical to me. As long as you don't exceed the rated wattage then it should be OK. So if they are (for example) 5W downlights, 11 lamps is 55W which is well within the capacity of the dimmer. I suppose that if you...

All may or may not be valid statements. Howver none of them are relevant to what I posted. Are you a politician ? Factually wrong on two counts. Firstly, market rents are not linked, other than indirectly, to property values. Market rents are linked to the local market for rental properties -...

The electronics in a timer fan would conduct when you apply an IR test voltage - you'd need to use 250V rather than 500V. Between L&N would attempt to power up the timer, between SL and N would create a path through the electronics, as would SL to L. It's worth testing with both polarities in...

Blatant "double dipping". The rent paid covers the agreed price for provision of services<period>. Out of tbe agreed payment, the provider of the service pays his costs and if they got ut right keaves some profit left over. When you go to buy a pair of shoes, do you object to paying for...

Actually, I put a LOT of MY money into my two small properties. The idea that it's cost me nothing is tosh. The opportunity cost of what I have tied up in them is "quite significant". And if it was all "with someone else's money" then how come I still have bills when "someone else" isn't paying...

I can't speak for numbers, but people have done studies in the past - and no, at the moment I c.b.a. to go and find links. Apparently BTL landlords do make a significant impact. When a developer builds a batch of houses, they have the up front costs of buying the land, the materials, the labour...

Exactly. Also, the smaller landlords tend to offer a wide variety of properties so (present market imbalance and ensuing problems aside) means choice for the renters - and yes, that will mean being able to pay less for a "lower spec" property. The institutional investors will provide stacks of...

Which is not the fault of landlords, it's down to many factors that have resulted in fewer homes to live in that people want to live in. If "many" more houses were built, prices would come down. And if demand were lower, marjet forces would make rents lower. Technically the landlord was in the...

Well there's a C1 straight away - there's an open hole you could stick your finger in and touch live parts. Probably there was a fault, and someone just moved the live to another breaker rather than try and find a new breaker. As to what feeds what, take anything written on the CU with a pinch...