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Hmmm, you're getting too much sleep mate.....?

Thats the one... (that I woulod never have thought of for myslef I suspect) Thats the COVID-related issue. In the meantime I'm trying to bodge a temporary configuration. Thats the ultimate aim. Its still the Self-Build-But though, at the moment....... Red switches for (say) the kitchen and pink sparkly nail varnish for the sitting room it is then Hey... is there such a thing as glow-in-the-dark nail varnish? Too embarrassed to Google it ....

Agreed . My mistake. But I am where I am. And the problem will not disappear. And nor will the Self-Build-But. I have found this red coloured switch made by the same manufacturer . That looks to me to be a sensible idea. Maybe I could consider using an illuminated switch or paint some kind of low-level 'glow' on the switch?

Its not broken functionally, it's broken from a usability perpective. If they all looked like that, with switches in exactly the same position, all would be well. I did take a peek, and nearly died. Clapham railway junction has nothing on the insides of those switch grids.

and so little time..... ?

We took the Scolmore Click Mode Minigrid shilling . Smashing idea - in theory. Small interchangeable light switches and modules. Like this Lovely. Until you come to look at the detail of how to implement them. Cos if your sparky has never used them before - and doesn't care about usability, - with four (or is it five ?) 6 by two switch banks around the house, across the switch banks, the switch for the kitchen lights is never in the same place, neither is the one for the Dining Room, or the hall or the ... you get the picture. So you label them. Hmmmmmmmm. Try reading those labels with only the TV and the 5amp lights on. So, separately and luckily not at the same time, we each lose our tempers with the damn things, and end up stabbing the minigrid randomly and before you know it every bloody light in the house is blazing brightly. Bang goes that romantic interlude then dunnit. I did ask the sparky to put the switch for each circuit in the same place across all the minigrids. But . The Self-Build-But struck again. We've tried coloured tape. Cant differentiate between colours in the low light levels We've tried learning the switch positions on each minigrid: life's too short We've tried swearing and shouting: that went well. For a few seconds. I tried blobs of blutak on the kitchen switch - til they fell off Scolmore Minigrid have a much improved website. Had a look there for some alternative switches There's just not enough colour contrast in the switches. And our eyesight is likely to get worse not better. Maybe the RNIB will have an idea? This is driving us both mad, please help.

You have to ask? Really?

Welcome. Tell ya wot, start with some photographs......

A universal truth. Well said Gus. Effort is appealing. And self building requires it in spades.

Oh by the way, if you leave those car doors open for any length of time, the batteries will run flat. Jus' saying....

Welcome Young-Un. Lend us a fiver will ya? Should get mine finished for that . Thanks in anticipation.

Neither would I. And I have one. Jezza, ( @Jeremy Harris ) of blessed memory on this forum built a little out-house for his. Kind of puts 'smallest-room-in-the-house' into perspective. What's near mean? Noise travels on the wind. Downwind, ours is silent. Upwind we can hear it if we listen hard.

Any mileage - now - in looking for UK-manufactured windows?

Zoot: that's the root of your frustration. Over dependance on just a few people's help. At the moment you appear to rely on the generosity of BH too much. Have a look around, waste some time on YT researching the same topics....

I'd like to say thanks to all of you who continue to contribute to this thread. Now retired, I have many years experience of running online programs in professional contexts. This thread offers challenges which would cause many to disengage. I'm inspired by the extended kindness and generosity shown here. BH is a good place to be .

I'm out of hours now, but itching to get back when I finish this place. Being able to take a joke when it hurts your / bank balance / loyalty / ego / muscles / brain / feelings is a hard-won set of skills. And applicable across all sectors, professions and trades. And I'm glad (now) of all the aggro I've had in years gone by. Almost all of the serious stuff, was far worse than my collapsed wall, or leaking roof, or run-ins with duplicitous plumbers. Humour levels. It also enables you, on occasion and when appropriate, to growl in peoples ears with suprising levels of authority.

It does if you get the landing wrong ... (Private Pilot's License)

It's universally applicable for anything thats hard work: Cant take a joke don't; get married go fellrunning do a PPL buy walk on glazing ....

Well, I've found my invisible damp patch .... erm rephrasing, an invisible damp patch - a weep caused by condensation. So my roofing felt must be ripped some 'ow. Which is a bit annoying: but Can't take a joke ? Don't self build.

Hmmm, I'm thinking of offering Mr Z a loan of my Bosch fermal camera wot I bought wiv my Christmus money.

Part of the joy of plumbing - for me anyway - is getting to grips the way in which the trade talks to non-trade people. Like Zoot, bless him - and me. All plumbers know what an iron is, but I use one to process her blouses after washing. It was just brilliant watching and listening to an arsey female counter assistant in a plumber's merchant the other day : here goes ...... Overheard at a local plumbing depot: a real proper plumbers merchant, smelling of paraffin, sweat, linseed and thinners - Single lightbulb on at the hatch where sits a Ditsy Teeny Blond Bomshell : her nail varnish bottle out on the counter: cotton wool blob and nail file and thinners bottle open - slightly heady scent. One hand waving to and fro to dry the nail she had accidentally painted a few seconds ago. A local plumber beats me to the counter: smiles at the lass who's now on her second nail of the day .... Y' awreet mert? she says sweetly, while looking at nail number three Aye 'Appen ye've sum 3/4 irons in then? Wadja mean 22 mill? Nahh, I need sum three quarters Pause: by now nail number three had a wet edge, and so needed constant attention We've got sum inch in if that'd do ya? Nahh, I need three quarters really. Ditsy promtly turns and shouts to some hidden Golum deep in the bowels of the warehouse. I cant pretend to remember what she said because I didn't understand it. I speak four languages, and Plumber isn't one of them. Golum replied: which langauge does Golum speak? - because I understood not a word. Not a syllable. The plumber left. My turn. Do you sell HEP2o ? The shock of the question actually stopped her nail painting - eyed me suspiciously. 'S all Speedfit 'ere. And got on with nail number 4 I stood there for a moment and wondered if I should ask her what an inch iron was. Because I was going to give her one. Didn't have the guts.

Sir, people are allowed to be wrong.

Every discipline has its own terms and special ways of applying them. Designed almost to keep people like Zoot and me OUT of plumbing, just like doctors give things Latin names - anyway keeps me out of brain surgery. Cos if I'd have been a brain surgeon, I'd have replaced Donald Trumps brain by now. And mine.

Hellfire mate! Something I can help with. Yes there is. Geberit Wandklosett Flexible PE Sheet 90 x 90 MM, 241521001 Made my eyes water in terms of price. Annoyingly, unavailable currently on Amazon. If you need to get it from The Fatherland, I'll dig around a see if I can lay my hands on one. No subtitles needed ?

This is not a paid for professional service where you might properly expect measured responses from all contributors. Nobody can know exactly what's meant by written text. So much gets - as you say - lost intranslation. Thats normal. This board is a teaching and learning resource. It does not offer a Members' Needs Analysis such as those offered by other online teaching formal, paid for teaching institutions . So respondents to your posts cannot know what you dont know. But, out of kindness, they respond anyway. Thats why it is very suprising indeed that you react with visible frustration at the perceived quality of responses. One technique which is very powerful in online teaching and learning is to ask the person posting to summarise what he or she thinks she has learned. As a simple post - just bullet points. That does three things, It reassures readers that you have made an effort to understand them It allows time for you to internalise some of the teaching Its helps set the agenda for further development. Try it. Please.