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Can you expand on that, I'm not understanding!

Why insulate? What man wouldn't want to come home to his missus in her dressing gown.... Just NOT over her normal clothes! A sweltering 11.3 in the lounge. I'm now safely ensconced in my furry blanket. Thinsulate hat and fleece on with a Lemsip and cup of tea watching Money For Nothing. Probably won't move until March...

Touch screen wise all I can do is draw a square box on screen by pinching my thumb and forefinger. Said box disappears as soon as I take my fingers off the screen. Any ideas on how I might calibrate the touch screen under Ubuntu? (Actually Zorin OS 12.2 but Ubuntu underneath). Cheers

You have to be careful with some of the pipe seal products as some are not meant for use on potable supplies!

I tried the No Nonsense stuff. A biatch to get out of the bottle after the first few uses. Sets too hard for my liking as well as in a git to undo joints afterwards though I was quite liberal with it. The fact that Jet Blue Plus sorted my 25mm MDPE to brass stopcock weep at 9 / 10 bar convinced me on it. Makes doing up a compression fitting a pleasure. It lubes, quietens and allows it all to nip up tighter.

This is the stuff I have: https://www.plumbcenter.co.uk/product/center-center-jet-blue-plus-500-g/

An all metal AMD3 consumer unit under the stairs would have done Jack Schitt in this case! Phew! Not a bad shout to have a smoke detector in there for future peace of mind.

There's some on the way home I pass every day that look the mutt's nuts. They come up automatically out of the ground as a barrier. Like this: http://www.ardengateautomation.co.uk/barriers-bollards-c12/bollards-c13/beninca-24v-vigilant-500mm-automatic-rising-bollard-p383/s384?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=beninca-24v-vigilant-500mm-automatic-rising-bollard-vigilant500&utm_campaign=product%2Blisting%2Bads&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7YyS__mC2AIVpbDtCh2POg0wEAYYBSABEgLWHfD_BwE

I always previously had the most issues with compression joints, having to really give them loads of grunt to do them up and them ending up squeaking!. I used to use PTFE tape. Not any more, now it's Jet Blue Plus paste. No more weeping joints. Lubes and seals. Superb stuff IMHO. For copper I have the Benzomatic torch and MAPP gas.

I couldn't agree with you more!

Thanks, useful link, I shall order one. In the photo above of the old patio doors I'm pretty sure I can feel a strong draft up where the frame meets the wood trim / meets the (lilac?) painted woodchip over hardboard wall. It might be that the doors were just fitted in a ragged hole. A liberal application of gun foam around the edges might help...If I could get in there. The door & frame is white painted / powder coated aluminium so I guess an emissivity of 0.9?

Are these cheap as chips, eBay laser pointer / IR thermometers any good for pinpointing cold spots around doors and windows? You can buy similar in Screwfix (Titan brand) for £35): https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Digital-Infrared-Handheld-Temperature-Gun-Thermometer-Non-Contact-IR-Laser-Point/332426284743?epid=1756017825&hash=item4d66268ec7:g:tZEAAOSwyGZZ8ZGh

So far, so good. Now to get this touch screen going!

Is that your back garden?

The Yanks seem keen on building South facing doors as solar warm air heaters in their own right. Clear plastic front face. Thin slit at the base, air gets drawn up over a black painted fly screen mesh backed by foil faced PIR. Exit duct at the top rear. Small pc fan optional driven by a small PV panel.

That's handy! Found a a 250GB 2.5" SATA drive from an SSD upgrade on my brother's pc a while back. So out with the 40GB original which of course will mean all the drivers etc stay intact.

I tried that. Think it might have worked but my leak was under a concrete path rather than under "dirt" along the run. Stick it in a hollow tube concentrates the sound. I used a scaffold type metal tube the same dia as the stethoscope. Make a good directional mike if nothing else!

I might have another go but tbh bored now. Will probably just Linux it up and give it to my mate who's after a basic desktop. I need to make a presentable desk stand for it really to allow it to sit at comfortable angle. (I saved the same mate from buying a Mac a while back by putting Zorin on his old Vista laptop! )

It's in Sys32..Drivers/DrvStore etc. I didn't just plug into the ethernet port and try IE...I really didn't!

So its an Intel Core Duo CPU U2500 1.2GHz with 1GB RAM. Where do all the drivers live in XP in case I want to go back to it as a pure XP machine for just AutoCAD? Seems Zorin OS has good touchscreen support. Just downloading 12.2.

Belay that, its DIMM slot 1 that appears goosed. The 1GB original stick works in slot 2:

GET IN THERE! I had a spare PC2 memory stick in yet another "piece of crap" I was considering dumping! Seems it was the memory stick at fault. Just got to decide on what flavour to put on it but looking good!

Anyone got one of these? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Water-Pipe-Leak-Detector-Electronic-Stethoscope-Earphone-Detection-Equipment-Kit/322555337835?hash=item4b19cbdc6b:g:aq4AAOSwjvJZQkPG

Having another play. Just tried clearing the CMOS - page 59...to no avail! http://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/um/6181p-um002_-en-p.pdf EDIT: Just put the memory in the other slot and it started "better"....no 1/3/4/3 beeping. Just ONE single beep. Going to put the touch screen back on now...

To get video out from VGA or DVI.....in the BIOS or like in a laptop Fn+F4?