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Nope, it's got a 1GB stick in it. Just can't fathom the no screen action at all when the DVD is "working".

Here's another reason to insulate. For me outside "work" at home stops when the weather is like this. If I had a decent, insulated workshop and garage I could get in with other stuff, mad little projects etc. Btw, anyone want plans for a snowmobile? A vintage design with ply body but easily brought up to date with a GRP shell. (Quite serious). Things like that I could be doing in a WARM workshop!

Many times! I wouldn't know where to start with the finance etc. I've already got 3 mortgages!

Woke up to our first (settled) snow this morning! It's a balmy 11.6 at the foot of the tree and the oil boiler's working overtime! This whole lounge floor is higher than the adjoining dining room, we have a slope at the threshold; dining to the left, lounge to the right. I hasten to add this isn't my handiwork! I've yet to get to the bottom of the construction other than the dining room is a suspended timber floor over dirt. The lounge is later; a concrete base laid with a dwarf brick wall supporting timber joists and non flooring chipboard. I and the legs of the sofa have literally gone thru it a few times. So it is actually too high for a start. No option when it happens than to gut both rooms as in ceilings down, floors dug down walls back to bare! Build back up with UFH, £££! Where the sofa went through in the lounge: My Tom Hanks moment: A quick repair with the multitool:

You know I have one in the garage, came with the house. Never ever thought to use it in the house.

Nope, everything seems tight...

Seems I can clear the CMOS via onboard jumper...

Just as a little test in the lounge... Got some little digital thermometers from eBay. 21.7degC at the top of the Christmas tree. Put it on the floor at the base of the tree and it dropped like a trance choon! 14.9 at the mo!

Ah well. Swanley tip here I come!

I wonder if I physically disconnected the hdd it would default to the DVD as next down the BIOS list? Found this: http://www.plctalk.net/qanda/showthread.php?t=48859 I wonder what "dies"?

3 bloody great Perkins engined diesel gennies is all I know. Tbh both "died" and got replaced. 40GB SATA hdd in this one. Might be something on it to indicate it's history but I'm not overly bothered. It should boot from a LIVE disc I'd have thought unless something fundamentally wrong with the mobo. I've not even checked if I've got 24VDC coming out of the psu with the meter yet. I must have for the DVD to be working I'm thinking?

Gone when I bought the place. But there was an area of sooty concrete / quarry tiles in the kitchen and an 8" badly filled hole in the wall for the flue.

(DON'T mention the BATHROOM! ) I've been offered a couple of old Allen Bradley Integrated Display PCs that'll otherwise be scrapped to have a play with. The place is big on "up cycling" and if it can be made use of rather than binned they're happy for it to go to a good home. Both out of the gennie room. Seemingly both died because they were "running off an inverter" (and "24V"?) is the possible story. The "why" is lost in the midst of time. Heavy beasts for panel mounting but might make a basic desktop pc for the garage etc with a couple of simple legs or frame! First, the older and bulkier of the two is a VersaView 1700P a 6181P-17TPXPH. Touch screen, RS232, Centronics, VGA, USB, DVD etc. Powering it up and psu fires up and psu fan runs though noisy. A green light on inside. No screen action. Connecting a VGA monitor and nothing on that. Second ones a bit newer, again a 1700P, a 6191P 17TPXP so assuming an evolution of the first. Running XP Pro For Embedded Systems, again RS232, Centronics, DVD, USB ports on it (as well as a DVI port), HDD is SATA and accessible externally. Touchscreen as well. Wow! The mobo alone seems worth a few quid! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MAIN-BOARD-ARMPPCMB-07267-1M-48-6B201-01M-SERIES-COMPEQ-ID33479-/322845273632?_trksid=p2385738.m4383.l4275.c10 Got the newer of the two home. (More "crap" as the missus put it so eloquently! ) Applying power and a get a series of beeps 1/3/4/3. I'm assuming a psu problem. but there's again a green light showing thru the vents. Screen is dead. New CMOS battery in. Whacked in a Linux LIVE disc and it whirrs up, ejects via the button etc. Still no screen action. The Skynet psu is alien to me, 24V? Is this an industrial thing? +24, RTN, EARTH, L & N are the only connections to it: The triangular key "switch?" on the front, what's it for anyone? I'll kick myself if it's an ON switch! Anyone got a link to fault codes etc for these? Thinking maybe a Linux install of some sort just for a play maybe using the touchscreen. Cheers EDIT: That triangular key seeming protects the front USB port!

The house USED to have one.

Ta. A name I'm not familiar with but had seen through searching. Digging into the brand: http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/about-the-appliance-industry/manufacturer-information/2893-white-knight-domestic-appliances According to the link above the White Knight refrigeration side might be made by Hisense Kelon and not much is known about them : http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/about-the-appliance-industry/manufacturer-information/3550-hisense The cold reality is that any freezer will probably only need to last 5 -10 years max!

Alas, the self depreciation is still there, sitting here in my lounge, Thinsulate hat on, thermostat on 30 and still not that warm. Wife is drying washing on the rads in the dining room doesn't help, putting the RH through the roof. Had a tentative conversation with her earlier about MVHR and how the people with 3G windows on here are saying they can stand next to them and not really feel a cold spot! It's sort of getting through. She has of late admitted she doesn't like the layout of the house as a whole. Thinking that with EWI I might have to bring the eaves out all round but then the roof needs doing anyway!

I need to source an upright freezer for my elderly parents. Got to the point where they don't venture out much so the plan is to stock up on home made bulk dinners they can defrost, ready meals and other frozen stuff. Spent a couple of hours reversing the door on the Hotpoint fridge / freezer today and putting into an alcove. The new freezer will go alongside. To gain space I had to lose the skirting either side. Left with <560mm to get a freezer in. As an aside what a biatch to reverse the door. Mr Average wouldn't have done it: 3 hinges for two doors. The top two hinges the same but had different fixing screws. I needed to drill the metal case of the fridge to fit the middle hinge though the dimples were at least there. Two plastic fittings middle and bottom at first glance reversible. I had to multitool both. The bottom hinge, the holes in the plastic on were massively oversize for the screws when I swapped the door over. Longer screws out of the Screwfix case went into "something". Pita job! Needs to be: White Frost free Reversible door <560mm wide NOT Hotpoint or Beko! I must tbh check the model number of the existing fridge freezer after what I've just read ref Grenfell etc.

http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/tool-drawers.67249/

I just bought the Monument one from Screwfix. Been fine. They do a Rothenberger for another fiver.

If your slab in a new build is still drying out and you carpet over it prematurely or worse still laminate of some sort doesn't that trap moisture? Or is it breathable enough?

Sitting here in the lounge with my feet off the floor and tucked up under me on the sofa just feeling the draughts swirling around. When I look at the outside of the house; air bricks into the void under the suspended timber floor, chipboard flooring and a bit of thin underlay carpet it really reinforces there are better insulated SHEDS! And don't start me on the dormer! 4" stud walls with hit and miss fluffy insulation - 100mm max in floors and ceiling. The wifes going to soon start wearing her fake fur onesie to bed! Furries?

I reckon if I finish the bathroom I'll get quite far in an hour...

The second link is to the thermostatic mixer bit that goes behind the "lever" (first link).....I think...

I really like this single lever shower mixer for it's simplicity and clean lines. It also sort of matches the bath & basin taps: https://www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/grohe-eurosmart-single-lever-shower-mixer-trim-19451002?campaign=googlebase&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIu9_30vz51wIVirftCh2LaA2WEAQYASABEgJ1DPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds Wanting thermostatic I think it can be combined with this: https://www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/grohe-rapido-t-universal-concealed-thermostatic-mixer-35500000 But someone recently I think argued against single control types? AIso I'm assuming Grohe is a different make to Hansgrohe? (I'm still hankering after a diverter type so I can switch from the spray handset to overhead rainfall type).

I miss the days when you could get somewhere 70 miles away in an hour (or less ). Took me 7 hours from Norwich to Dartford once!