Onoff

As "in" Richard Hammond? 😬

Can't you redo the whole lot in solvent weld?

I've just bought a plasma cutter. Just saying.

Press the play button and you'll see it's not! Tbh the video was taken with a temporary supply. I'm only just getting the permanent supply sorted. Even that's "temporary"..."for now"..."my for now"...

DIY here:

I'd go with a switch like this for a start: https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/CGM125CS.html?

Flange

Found some black rubber sheathed in one of the original walls here (<1930s). Not connected to anything but like new. There must have been some sort of preservative used in the bricks and mortar back then! I remember bundles of lead wiring in my first house (built in 1865). Still had the gas mantles on the wall. Was obviously electrified sometime after 1965. Then pulling the stuff out of the walls from the lime plaster and loads of it falling off!

Polythene inslated cable with a pvc sheath to BS1557. So 3-cores, red, white & blue, no earth, Imperial 3/0.29 I think, 3 tinned strands per core equates to about 1.5mm2. It was like new. Found in a time warp, unfinished outbuilding of an elderly neighbour. BS1557 was withdrawn in 1954!

Nah, we should get all patriotic & go back to red, white and blue:

I just tidied the 3-core swa feeding my garage. In reality it's "3-phase" cable. For single phase use, brown stayed brown, sleeved the grey with blue and the black with green and yellow. Tbh it's pretty easy to get cable with "proper" colours. Search "single phase armoured cable". CableColoursLeaflet.pdf

Another Quinetic switch failure here. One half of a two gang switch thus meaning the whole switch has to be replaced. I'm thinking that tbh they're like LED lights, a con.

Please! Midwich Cuckoos!

Well not all of it was visible...

Some lopped off telegraph poles with reflectors screwed on?

I can think of one...

Wrap some 110mm pipe in tin foil and it'll look like stainless steel!

A Maxwell House presumably?

I'd infill / tidy up the blockwork joints so they're flush with the blocks. Be easier to tank on a smooth 'ish surface.

Did that one 3 years ago this month. Took me days!

Got to repeat this the opposite of the garage now! That killed two SDS drills, a couple of 1m bits and nigh on me!

Like toilet paper!

Gate related! Finally gotten around to running the gate wiring around the garage in some 50x50, galvanised, rat proof trunking. Even that's been a mission. Clearing stacked shelves to get access then the plugs wouldn't take in the lightweight blocks as so close to a joint. Resin anchors to the rescue! There's an SWA in there plus 2 20mm flexible conduits for comms, cameras etc to the gate. Got to shift a big, fully stacked shelf shortly to drill the floor slab again for a new incoming, underground supply. That and fit a new cu in there.

Is the pond close to the house? Maybe use the lake for a heat pump? Lots of pipe, special, "safe", glycol maybe I think too.

A pike.