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Handle on shower valve broke! You can see it broken off between the On & Off at the 12 o'clock position: Handset might not be original: Any ideas of the make? Cheers.

5:1 here with integral waterproofer added around 100mm steel posts.

RAF Flyingdales may disagree... OK, that's more a clash of frequencies I think.

Costs more to send the letters out! 😂

Once rendered it'll look fine...unless he does the rendering! Seriously though, I've seen better and a lot worse. The joints appear to be filled OK, not sure on some of those weep vents... A good going over with Disclean or similar will improve the look no end and get rid of some of those snots he should have sacked off before they dried. What do I know? I'm an amateur but DIY or die so can blame nobody but myself!

Mine went down 4' and hit the flint bed, so did the second and third rods. I just linked them all up. Saying that, the 2nd rod I changed to a bfo coppper earth plate just for fun and to see if I could better my readings.

I now identify as a donkey. My pronouns are he and haw.

What about bubble wrap for the ribbed experience?

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 BS1557 was withdrawn in 1954!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!