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  1. Nickfromwales
    How about this? 8 ports prob won't suffice. Seller refirbished with returns ?
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    For the upstairs bedrooms, aka mission control, I'll run a cable for each device. The less clutter at these points the better. I hear the advice on terminating theses cables as God intended, and I of all people should know better as I've made so many off I've lost count. It's the cost mainly at the moment tbh, so I'll likely make the second switch off, as discussed, in the summer and just make the plugs off as well as practicable for now. Fwiw, @TerryE, the cables all run to behind the devices, eg. trunked or chased into walls and emerging from single back boxes via bristle fronted cable exit plates ( whatever they're actually called escapes me right now ) and I've allowed a turn of slack at a metre before the plug goes into said gadget. Tripping hazard has been mitigated afaic, but kids will be kids so I'll make my oldest boys off into proper outlets ASAP as he's the PC man and every 0 or 1 that he gets starved of will be a day off my existence. Gutted : Plastered the wall yesterday that has the two 1g 'signal' outlets for the attic bedroom. I've got a lower one and an upper one, linked by a buried PVC waste pipe ( set into the eps ). Upper one is for the wall mounted smart, and out of that 1g box comes a cable for RGB led 'halo' lights to wrap around rear of the TV, a single cat5 for the TV, a speaker wire for the centre so it can be snug under the TV and fixed with a Vogel, and an HDMI lead. Too late to separate them and get a dedicated 1g box cut in for the proper outlet ( unless I have the proper outlet and just have the other cables come out of the other half of a modular face plate )? Lower one has 5 speaker cables coming out for surround amp to connect to, a single cat5 ( soon to be two, thanks to the heads-up from @Stones about the blue ray ) and the other end of the HDMI lead. Xbox and dvd both connect to surround amp which just happens to have hdmi switching on it, ( thank you Ebay bargain Onkyo surround for £62.50p in mint condition ), so only one HDMI lead needed. I reluctantly resigned myself from "system design" yesterday so we could start plastering ? but I fear a change today and some Easy-fill being required. Bugger10. Thanks again, all. ?
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    Simple and functional. ? Bugger, that was my plan. Currently have 2 points run this way ( 1 for each sons rooms ) and getting 90mb down and 9 up.
  4. Nickfromwales
    You calling me a tight-arse or advising me of a good purchase ?
  5. Nickfromwales
    Any reason not to buy this cheaper one ? I'll pay more if it's justified ? Sorry for being a tight arse. ?☠
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    Virgin so no need for close proximity to the 'master' as it's a coax to the outside box and an F plug directly into virgins 'hub' do-dah. Im running cat5 ( as it was 'acquired' for next to nowt ). Agree that cat6 would have been better but my bank is stretched. ????
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    I hope they meant irrigation sprinklers Now......... "A tiny fire"? Let's have a quick reality check about domestic fire suppression sprinklers, me thinks. . 1) Sprinklers are for saving lives, NOT for saving property. A house can be repaired after a fire, the same cannot be said about you or your loved ones. 2) For a sprinkler head to activate, the fire needs to be fully involved and flash heat / flames need to be at the level of the sprinkler head in order to activate it. For eg opening the door of your roaring real wood burner to stoke it would not set the sprinklers off. Therefore : there can be no "tiny fire" setting off the dirty water sprinklers and spoiling your "irreplaceable Persian rug", as by the time the sprinklers go off your room would be near total loss already. Ring your insurers instead of the rug doctor . 3) There's no flames without smoke. Your smoke alarms should be screaming by the time flames get to ceiling height, and with such an early warning system you may even have opportunity to extinguish / tackle the fire before it gets out of hand / fully involved. NOTE : THE ADVICE OF THE FIRE BRIGADE IS "GET OUT AND STAY OUT, THEN GET THE FIRE BRIGADE OUT". Lives first, property second. 4) Modern sprinklers use the cold mains supply as it can't fail under fire condition. I'd be very interested to hear if / how the grey water is stored, SUFFICIENTLY, pressurised, and delivered with no external influence or dependency ( electric supply for one ). These systems need to be dumb and passive, so a giant accumulator must be the very least that they've had to house, integrate, filter and make suitable for water delivery during a power cut. ( If their using as discussed ) : They've gained ZERO by the embuggeration of using grey water, as it's not water saving until the place burns down! The extra cost of a self charging and self sustaining water storage and delivery system won't ever be justifiable. Bet they didn't mention that ?!?
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    Dare I ask if it works now?
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    Thanks. I can't recall if common switches have more than one 'in'. Would running two cat 5's between virgin do-dah and new switch have any merit? I guess your saying the first cable to the second switch is one 5-lane motorway of which I will only ever use 3 lanes? If so, the direction is as follows..... 1) Temporarily ( run an 'extension lead' ) to new 1st floor virgin router location and test for signal coverage. 2) If above is good, extend virgin feed and relocate the virgin router to the Harry Potter cupboard under the foot of the stairs to new attic bedroom. 3) Run electric to said location for a double socket and run all cat 5's to here. 4) Install a third party switch ( as linked in prior posts ) and connect to virgin router via a single factory made cat5 patch lead of decent manufacture. 5) Make all cat5's off per location and enjoy. Cool?
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    That's what I wanted to hear tbh. Phones and tablets on wifi ( soon to be located on 1st floor according to feedback here ) and just wire the virgin jobby to a switch via one cat 5 cable. Ill prob take the main tv straight off the 2nd port of the virgin one, but does that really matter? Do you get any degradation over the second leg and switch vs going into the virgin one? Thanks all ?
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    I've got my virgin wifi / router / hub thing in my 1st reception ( dining ) room downstairs. Now I need to get cat5's throughout the house and not enough outlets on the virgin do-dah. 1) Will the wifi be better with do-dah moved to mid house first floor, at floor level? 2) Can I take 1 cat5 out of do-dah and go to a larger ( more ports ) mains powered router at aforementioned location? 3) Should every cat5 device have its own run from point to point? Do I run one cable to the Xbox and another separate run to the smart tv above it, or can I split the cable behind the Xbox? Multiple rooms to do with same scenario. Mucho gratsi-arse. ?
  12. Nickfromwales
    Compression and don't overtighten.
  13. Nickfromwales
    You 'should' test at the operating pressure of the PRV ( for later when you convert ) which is 3.5bar. . Thats the most it would see if for e.g. you knocked the fill loop tap and it crept up to mains pressure. Worst case is best practice.
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    They tend to 'work' themselves off over time with fluctuations in temp / pressure. Should be ok for a temp run if you can emery cloth the ends a little ?
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    Basically, yes. Glue the first 100mm then stitch it as you go, gluing and spraying accordingly until you get to the end. Don't try and do the whole thing in one go . Remeber to use either a mix of curved / quadrant trim at the horizontal and then square edge for the drops from corners where two quads make a corner and you need to drop a trim down ( each front corner of the batt for eg ). That combination removes the '3-way dagger' issue you'll get when forming these corners if you used all quad trims. 2 quads cut to form a 90 leave a perfectly square, sharp corner. Bringing a quad up to meet that is a marriage made of hell ( like say if Donald and Hilary had a baby ).
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    Da iawn.
  17. Nickfromwales
    You'll thank her when you come to the bath surround with all its complex angles. ?
  18. Nickfromwales
    I'm going to try and buy this one. Comes with a monitor too so bargain afaic ? What is required to up it to 2133 mega shnortels ? £50 to get to 16gb sounds good, but my boy says the graphics card is shat and will 'need' upgrading come birthday time. ??
  19. Nickfromwales
    Tell him I said hi
  20. Nickfromwales
    x2 What about this bad boy? Complete with GCU too
  21. Nickfromwales
    Cheers. First machine is #1 choice at the mo. But...... This is is on Gumtree at the moment. Sounds a lot for the money but how does it compare to the i7 chip? Ill buy you beer ? I promise.
  22. Nickfromwales
    Beams straight onto the blocks / pads, and same for the blocks. You can get mesh tacked on if you want, for longer beams but not necessary in most cases.
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    @Bitpipe Hugh, did Smiffy fit the same USB sockets for you ( not plug socket integrated but stand alone ones ) as he did for Greg? These had an integrated switch which only energised the transformer when an USB plug was fully inserted. Whats the general consensus with the vampire load on these cheap ones ( socket USB duos ) as I can't recall seeing one specifically mention if the transformer is constantly energised OR NOT? A house full of these may add up but I won't shit the bed over it that's for sure. Exactamundo squire. . The dustbin lids constantly disappear with ours, and it drives me nuts. I've promoted / fitted these on the last couple of kitchen fits and folk are raving over them. Less clutter and more convenience. Try to keep up old boy
  24. Nickfromwales
    "During the war, Rodney"...........
  25. Nickfromwales
    The screws aren't 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock
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