FuerteStu

The reason they use a rig rather than a normal drill is the potential for it to lock up and kick. I've seen people seriously hurt themselves with core drilling. You need to keep your drill straight and a firm grip. Use water to minimise dust and cool the cutting.. Use a low speed. I great trick I was showed once was a bottle of water with a slit from a knife carved into it next to the hole. It trickle feeds next to your drill

Or, as @ProDave mentioned.. The permanent live for a smart fitting. Or like my fittings in the hallway and above my consumer unit, an emergency fitting that charges the battery up and when the permanent live drops out, allows an exit route, or lighting over the fuse board to flick the breaker back on

It allows for 2 different switched lives and a neutral (plus earth) in the same cable this can then be bounced to the start of each string of switched fittings, or along all of them and just picking your fittings depending on choice. My living room has two central fittings on a dimmer and perimeter spots along the back and window walls. This gives 3 different moods from the same cable

Second reason is for multiple switching of banks of lights. You can have two rows of spots switched separately from one cable. Helps reduce the number of wires if youre looping in the switch! Just gives you options for an almost identical amount of work and cost

Worked on a job where the plasterer wasn't paid. He turned up a month later after several failed attempts to get his money... And wrote "CNUT" on all the walls with diesel and a paint brush. No matter what they tried to paint over it with, it still showed through. They ended up having to gun it off and reskim.

My experience with this type of trady is to cut your losses and get someone better to finish the job. You'll only end up with more bad work if he's the one left to put his own work right.

Looking at your other posts I strongly suggest you do not attempt something without giving us more information. It sounds like you're trying to do something potentially very dangerous.

What's the circuit? Load?

Depends on the amount of room you have. Could use a Henley Block? https://www.screwfix.com/p/greenbrook-100a-2-x-5-ways-25mm-connector-block/48024?kpid=48024&cm_mmc=Google-_-Datafeed-_-Electrical and Lighting?kpid=KINASEKPID&cm_mmc=Google-_-TOKEN1-_-TOKEN2&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwte-vBhBFEiwAQSv_xUAVhV7n_WOmweBhWOWkHzvYnz7pANrZp9MtNGUKJyCp2dLF-kSUTxoCUHcQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

If they are just earth cables could you not use an MET block? (main earth terminal) https://www.screwfix.com/p/ced-4-way-earth-block/12386

As a commercial/industrial spark who spends most of his days working on armoured.. Sleeving (identifying) the cores is just part of the job. Many multi core (more than 5) armoured cables are white core only and numbered. It's always grey (blue sleeved) used for neutral. The phrase 'deneutralise the black'. Was just a way of making people remember. Modern apprentices just say "black is cpc, just like the armour". Heat shrink the damage, live and learn. If you need to bend the cores in future, use the handles if the pliers, not the metal ends.

Have you factored in the protruding nut and plate either side?

Just out of curiosity. You mentioned having speakers fitted, would it be possible to rig up a noise cancelling system? 🤔😂

Delay adds bigger burden. If there was a blanket policy that you couldn't argue or protest against,, things would be very speedy. Making up for a large portion of the cost.

This is exactly what I'm saying though. People are choosing to buy something that is better for the environment (yes I know there are arguments that they aren't better at the moment, but they will be. These are the first steps in the industry and infrastructure) Educated people are changing industry and commerce. Not waiting for it to change. That's how we will change the world, buy buying ethical, but considering the implications of our purchases.

There are bloody good reasons for not wanting to live somewhere which is a very good position for a turbine. It's usually ugly land that is windy! Lol Pylons are a necessary evil. At the minute.. Its why we need more localised generation, rather than national distributions

There is too much 'not in my back yard' accepted in things like turbines. I'd rather see a 50 in one area, and compulsory purchase any houses where people object. If that means a few people upset rather than facing another energy crisis, so be it. As for trump, fingers crossed he'll be in prison before he's elected.

So you'd rather let industry and commerce change your consumption habits, that admittedly will take far too long and do even more damage the planet... Than change your consumption habits that will force industry and commerce to change faster. That's a very selfish and dangerous game of chicken.. What if industry profits its way to destroying the whole human race? What if economics forces everyone into labour camps to feed the rich (more so than it is already)?

Once again you're humblebragging about the fact you've studied the systems that have caused all the problems on this planet. Yet offering no reasonable suggestions about the way forward. Is almost as if those studies have conditioned you to accept them as the only way.. History will tell you that no system stays the same, they will always change. So let's agree that people need educating about the costs of their current consumption and the benefits of a local economies.

I've got the dewalt first fix, which Ive found to be superior to the paslode. Quieter and less time changing the battery and gas cylinders. But I am wondering if you're only fixing 25mm to 25mm a second fix gun with heads that almost disappear might be better?

Are you fixing into battens on the container? How big are they? How are you fixing those? Reason I ask is that I know someone who used 75mm nails to fix 25mm panels to 50mm battens on the side of container, but he didn't allow for the fact that the nail tip protruded out through the batten 5mm.. So by the time he put a dozen nails in, it had pulled the batten off the container.

Exactly this. A good tradesman doesn't leave his tools out in the rain to get trashed, a good farmer doesn't trash the land he makes his living from. Him showing a dozen animals in poor conditions just highlights the unsustainable situation we're in. Things need to go backwards to how they were before the global economy and mass production caused all the problems mentioned in this thread.

Seems like the outgoing live on that switch is letting a small amount of current flow. Which is being used for the smart feature, which is in turn lighting the Downlight. Is a bit like those switches with a neon, that send a bit of current through. I remember someone on here using a resister behind the switch to negate the issue. Can't remember who though

So pretty much never seeing sunrise or sunset.. And likely shady (slippery mould after a couple of years?) Looking at the staircase and landing there's a lot of lost space there considering.

No it isn't. But just letting the current unsustainable situation carry on because there more sustainable ones aren't perfect it's a bizarre stand point. No matter how you phrase it, thinking you know better than everyone else and belittling any other suggestions is not helpful to your cause.