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Say you've a garage with power but no outside lighting. Fit a Quinetic light on the garage, powered from the garage. Fit the switch in the house by the back door looking down the garden...or next to the French doors or outside on the wall. Lying in the bath wishing you could dim the lights...fit an IP rated switch...also put one IN the shower cubicle. Got an existing switch and you wish you had another the other side of the room... Made a mistake in positioning the existing switch... List is endless.

Just to confuse things Quinetic do a version of switch that will fit an MK grid plate: They do similar for Varilight Power Grid:

"wining"?

You said you don't want "smart" but they do do WiFi compatible receivers too: QURW01_Data_Sheet.pdf

+1 for Quinetic. I too am using the dimmer switches with the non dimming receivers. For my bathroom, 1 gang of a two gang dimmer switch signals a dimming receiver for the main downlights. The other gang signals a non dimming receiver that does the feature LED lighting.

Is it a typo maybe when they meant 160mm?

Seems you multiply the sodium content by 2.5 to get the salt figure. I'd say not though it tastes, at least to me, "different", "smoother" maybe? We've just come back from a week away where everything was softened and that's prompted me to relook at fitting this one I got from Peter. Having a "with hindsight moment here! Adjacent to the new bathroom is a long corridor, hived off from an original large bedroom by the previous owner. The new bathroom is to the right in the picture below. The cupboard in the new bathroom is just the other side of the (solid brick, circa 300mm) wall where the extension lead is. This pic is taken in the L shaped hall. You go through the door at the bottom right, forefront of the picture into the stairs room and turn left into the new bathroom. I've not got access to a better drawing at the moment but this is when I was messing around with reinstating the original bedroom door off of the hall and making the hall a short straight by removing the L. Was thinking to maybe have half the corridor as a wardrobe and the other half as a small shower/WC. The door to the new bathroom is off the stairs room. Ignore the doorway in the other wall. That's the doorway I blocked up and where the wall hung WC sits now. So as you walk into the new bathroom the cupboard for the softener is on your immediate left. The hatched areas are timber floors. The stairs and bathroom concrete. Thinking run the waste for the softener maybe through the wall into the hall and along to the outside wall. Could recess into the hall wall then go under the hall floor?

I thought the NHS guideline was 6,000mg/day?

Interesting about the BP issue. Suffered from high BP in the past and have to watch my diet on occasion if it goes up. Does running softened water through say a Britta filter reduce the sodium?

Thanks. This is the current set up that I threw in when I replaced the old iron water main. This whole original WC set up will eventually go in favour of a wall mount one. (New bathroom is the other side of the right hand wall). I should, if I do this, take the opportunity to continue the main in 22mm. Also need to sort why the pressure reducing valve isn't working/reading. No idea yet where I'll run the drain to. How much water comes out? Could I ditch it under the suspended floor? Ditto the over flow, where does that go to? Cheers

I'm lost...can you or can you not drink softened water? Sure on here there was a discussion that you could with no ill effects? What's thrown me is the diagram below where it says "Hard water tee for drinking water and / or an outside tap".

Have a read of these two foundation beginnings: @PeterStarck @JSHarris http://www.mayfly.eu/2013/08/part-ten-out-of-the-ground/

A while back I bought @PeterStarck's Wrekin 367/606 softener. (He has a new one in the new place that I believe doesn't require an electrical connection). I've been put off fitting it as busy with the bathroom for one but mainly because of where to put it. The house layout is a bit odd. On the NE face I've the mains coming into the small, original, cloak WC. That "end" of the house I've the: NORTH WEST - G.floor - Cloak - WC & basin - G.floor - Main bathroom - WC, bath, basin & shower - 1st Fl - Ensuite - WC, basin, shower The cold water mains goes up into the loft, up the side of the dormer, then across the top the dormer to the other end of the house where it drops down on the SW face. On the direct opposite, SW side of the house about 18m from the mains point of entry, I've the kitchen and oil boiler. So: SOUTH WEST G.floor - Boiler, Sink, Washing Machine, Dishwasher 1st Fl - Hot water cylinder, shower pump Above dormer ceiling - CWS tank and header. Do I look to site the softener local to the incoming mains, somewhere accessible for salt dosing etc then just take a "softened" mains feed over to the other side of the house? Only place I can think of is the cupboard in the new bathroom? A bit of space in there though I know SWMBO was hoping to store a linen bin in there! The lagged pipe you see is teed off the incoming mains to feed the Geberit WC in the picture.

Very organic, those sweeping lines. Not good anyway to have straight lines, all the chi flows away from the house. Feng Shui.

Playing Devil's advocate. There's an outside chance an incoming metallic service could be made live by an external influence so I'd bond the short copper bit that comes in.

Either, then you could be confident in having made a shrewd move...

OK. It looked as though it should be ocean side to me. Guessing that wasn't in keeping with the local architecture? Passed on its own architectural merit was it?

Are you by the beach?

So you used the rapid set? Assuming 'could" because you can work fast?

Sad lad you are! Don't forget the shuttle craft shed: http://fasinfun.blogspot.com/2009/09/full-size-star-trek-shuttlecraft.html?m=1

Look no further...than China: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/china/articles/Theres-a-building-in-China-shaped-like-Star-Treks-USS-Enterprise/

Would cream of tartar help delay the set?

A complete, 5.7m MiniMax tower used to fit on / in my Renault Laguna estate with the outriggers on the roof.

Very happy with my 152Z bought bare. Most upset though that my BHP451 drill has just gone intermittent. Hoping it's just brushes. EDIT: Hooray! BHP451 drill was just brushes. Needed a 3rd drill today so dug out my trusty old Makita 12V 6223D with its clone NiMH batteries. Surprisingly torquey if slow compared to the two 18V LXTs.

A Gurkha friend's wife makes masala chai from scratch on special occasions (like when I go over ? ). It's unreal, talk about a natural high! You can feel it coursing through your veins.