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Gaz, that's what our plumber told us their new bloke did - he was made redundant but wouldn't give in, so he asked all round the Northwest Lancs. coastal area...... Be proactive, and persistent. Good luck. Ian

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Oh, just found this stuff glow in the dark tape. Temp bodge, but anything to keep Twinkle Toes smiling.

Pure genius. My mate has (built himself) a laser cutter : 4' by 2', massive thing. I'll whip the Scolmore cover plates off and get him to etch the plate above and below two of the switches ( the most often used). Then change one other switch to the red one that Scolmore already sell. Genius Clive, genius. Thanks

I've had time to think about your post Dave. We deliberately designed the switching so that anyone entering the house (legitimately) could switch on lights all over the house. We did that for security reasons. I don't want to go into it in any detail, but it doesn't take too much imagination to figure out why a house owner would want to be able to do that. I'd like to make the switches serve us, not the other way around - so adapting this idea My mate has a 3D printer. There ain't nowt he can't wire up - he's made his own flight simulator in his massive shed We'll '... fab summat oop lad ...' as he says. I'm really gettin' in to this now. Who knows even @Onoff might have a thought or two about this.....

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.