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Without wanting to get in to a slagging match why would you want to punish high energy users? Surely the attitude should be I want us as a country to produce as much energy, reliably and as cheaply as possible (plus cleanly if that bothers you). It just seems such a backwards way of thinking to me and feels like it's why we're in the position we are.

We have slam lock doors from RK Doors. If the door shuts behind you, you need a key to get back in. There is no lever handle on the outside.

Just making work for myself ain't I. Seen online that people double up the board but I guess that's more for sound reduction from the flush and waste. Deffo need plywood in some capacity to hold the wall hung unit, which I currently don't have so can't position it up.

I don't have a fence only a hedge, and at one point I have to pass a gate and another a drive way. In the field I could see effectively building a fence to carry the cable - i'll probably do that. at least the buried sections will then not be in a field. the biggest bugger is there are a ton of other services around, gas, mains, water and sewage plus some telephone. Potentially I could go overhead the whole way, it's just passing over the drive way and gate are a bit untidy.

I'm prepared to take that risk re bare joinery looking bad or at least cross that bridge when/if I come to it. But I can't see how to remove the handle for the sash part of the window anyway so not sure if I can get that far.. I've removed screws on the corners but nothing is moving, nothing obvious on the handle to unscrew or hint that it comes away.

Your tiling the wall and putting a vanity unit in front of it. I think you've got it covered 😀 Seriously, I think you'll be OK with plywood and tiles. Prime and/or seal the plywood before tiling. You could always put a couple of coats of tanking before tiling to be sure, to be sure.

Basin will be on top of the wall hung vanity, sat on top of a worktop though.

Apart from someone missing the pan, what is the chance of that getting splashed? Plywood should he fine IMHO

Any thoughts on this. I was going to just plywood over this before tiling so I've got strength for fixing wall mounted units. But I could also recess the plywood between each stud and then MR board over the top of that. Any benefits or just making work for myself?

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is this a limitation of any lock that you cannot unlock it if a key is inserted on the other side or a limitation of some older locks? I lean towards the key only solution but may reconsider. I reckon this locked out situation only applies when a person exited through e.g. the front door but want to e.g. sneak back into the house through back doors so wife won't notice. or you lost the key to the front door and want to get in from the back. I reckon to mitigate that you can have the locks keyed alike.

thanks for pointing this out. As I lean toward the key only solution I forgot about this limitation.

I get the impression from watching builders on youtube that the variation between states is quite significant, with those states with higher and denser populations having much tighter rules and those states that have very cold winters having much tighter rules. Still overall, Americans are well known for using vastly more energy per capita than other parts of the world. It's the typical result of very polarised politics. Democrat gets in and tries to get tighter rules. After big fight, watered down rules get put in then Republication gets in and undoes them (and even makes them worse than before). Thankfully a lot of rules are by the states, the federal ones are minimums that the states often exceed and the states have more stable politics (for good and bad).

You can strip with paint stripper's but it tends to leave a raised grain. You could simply sand it down. Or paint the other windows to match.

True, but I read this as being near the end as he just wanted to fit a Cat 5/6 plug and plug it in? @saveasteading More information needed

Think it depends which model you have. If you are only repairing a break you only need to match the colours on both sides. The only real condition is to keep the each twisted pair near each other to maintain signal integrity.

So not a standard cable. So you need to work out what colour goes where. Do you have access to the good end of the cable, you could work it out from there with a bit of testing, or keep searching and see if someone has already worked it out and published it.

Cool, thanks for the replies, well i ordered one so i will soon know what i think, i have never used one before, but i can see it being handy for awkward cuts etc. Thanks again, Carl

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The ironmongery can all be removed and the sash taken out of the frame. My concern is because the window was not intended to be left bare wood, the joinery may not be as good, e,g joints in the wood are fine if painted, but perhaps not if just left bare or varnished? There was a long period (not sure if ongoing?) where Rationel stopped offering natural wood as a finish. IIRC they are painted all round even the bit hidden against the wall when fitted, so perhaps strip one of those edges to see the underlying timber and see if the paint comes off cleanly enough and the joinery revealed is good enough.

Can you strip that cable back a bit so we can see the cores properly? From the little I can see that does not look to be the standard colours for a cat 5/6 cable. If it is a non standard termination I hope you still have the plug that was cut off to see how it was terminated.

Easiest/cheapest would be a nerdy teenager who has terminated CAT5 cable before 😀.

Couple of notes: 1. If this is outside then you'll need to find a waterproof enclousure for the coupler (might be able to find purpose built cable joint - but it needs to maintain the signal integrity) 2. If just making one or two cables you can get away without the crimp tool by using a flat bladed screwdriver on each of the pins and the cable restraint clip. But if you want easy get the tool (they aren't expensive) 3. Starlink will provide a new cable if you prefer (likely at a cost but you might be lucky)

Thanks I'll check these references. I need easy. The cable is built into the wall and it's lucky that one person thought to make it accessible at all. Btw I think the cameras perhaps won us 20 mins production per day. "Of course we trust you but it is security."

If it is CAT5/6, you need something like these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B088R5F3D2 (Get the 'pass through' ones rather than the standard ones, much easier to use.) Note that you need slightly different ones for CAT6 as the conductors are slightly thicker. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CH3TDJ4B https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08CZW1CQ8 These are also cool for joining CAT5 cables and supposed to be water / weather proof. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09YHQQ91S