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Thanks guys. The reason I feed the cubs is (a) wife pressure "they are so cute" (b) I have closed the gap in the fence where mother gets in from and mother had not been seen for a few days (she managed to break through again though) (c) there is no point chasing them or torturing them, they have...

Hello A fox has given birth to six cubs in my garden. My cat whose tail has been bitten off by a fox is terrified to go out. The cubs cannot follow their mother because she jumps up a one foot ledge and they can't. I cannot chase the cubs away because they have nowhere to go. But my garden is...

Thanks for the comments and suggestions, much appreciated. I was hoping for a one for one replacement of the existing switches with an RCD switches to make it an easy job... My post about earthing stems out of real curiosity, and now I have read on it and it appears it is a PME installation...

How hard would it be to DIY retrofit RCDs to a quite old consumer unit? I attach a photo, I was thinking is there a matching RCD to replace the main on/off switch? If yes, how would I bypass it if it tripped all the time? The photo shows the left hand side consumer unit, it does the lights and...

My house is PME. Can I make things better/safer by earthing into the ground here and there? Is there a disadvantage in doing this?

Thanks guys. Protective multiple earthing sounds great. In the meantime, if I already have underground water and heating (and gas?) pipes that provide some earthing, or a lot of earthing, would I be making things worse by say installing a few "spikes" into the earth around the house? In that...

Thank you for your reply. Have read your comments over to make sure I understand it. My neutral is connected to my earth. Assuming my earth is not "earthed" elsewhere, then if the neutral fails outside my house, then all my kitchen sinks, baths, taps etc all raise to 240V ? The above situation...

Sorry to reply to my own post. I have just realised there is a box next to the consumer unit where all the earth leads connect to, and then from that box another thicker earth wire goes into the mains fuse box, which is a separate box where the mains coaxial goes in and two separate leads come...

Hello I tried to look in the consumer unit space (inside a large cupboard) and try to trace the Earth line. The mains cable comes in upwards from the ground. Very near it is the telephone cable also from the ground. Finally there is the water mains rising from the ground as well. The water...

I do not have a residual current breaker on the consumer unit. I have hooked up a small electronic device that draws 1mA on the mains between L and E rather than L and N. There is no N where the device is located. Could anyone please tell me how bad/dangerous/suicidal/terrible or good this is...

We had an older dishwasher and it smelled badly no matter what we cleaned it with. One day it blocked and did not drain any more. I pulled it out and removed its drain hose. Inside the drain hose was filled with a very dense, creamy, very white paste, across all its length. It was some sort of...

I have a Whirlpool fridge model ARC4190IX. It has a freezer compartment at the top and a main fridge at the bottom. It has an LCD display and some buttons on the freezer door at the top. You can set the temperatures of the freezer and the fridge separately, and electronically. It has never...

I want to install a water filter on the incoming mains (and a softener etc) but I want to be able to bypass everything as easily as possible. For example to bypass the water softener I currently need to switch three separate valves. I think I would need a valve that has one input and two...

Yes it is a parallel fitting so the seal is mostly made with the O ring. However there is no male connector with an external diameter of 25.7mm. I keep looking.

It is a 20" water filter housing, which has two ports, for input and output, both plastic, and there are two such housings interconnected with a male-male plastic connector, which is shown here...

With my micrometer I measure the external diameter of a male BSPP 3/4" to be 26.5mm. However I have another male and female connector, it purports to be 3/4", it is parallel, and it measures 25.7mm external diameter. As a result it is not compatible with the 3/4" BSPP (it is smaller). The...

Could someone please tell me, do the above two designations refer to the one and same thing? Many thanks

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We have an old apartment that has very large doors and frames and we would like to know what is the right procedure for removing the old paint, maybe as old as 50 years, and exposing the wood underneath? In some places the paint has flaked off, and I can clearly see the wood underneath. The...

These fittings do not fit! Crazy. What did these Germans use it beats me. However looking into "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Standard_Pipe" it says: ******************** These standard pipe threads are formally referred to by the following sequence of blocks: the words, Pipe thread...