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  1. Onoff
    You know it makes sense! Put the saving towards a Raspberry Pi and a small (or large) flat screen set in a fire place and indpendent of the telly displaying the log fire of your choice! ...you'll also be able to play Space Invaders on it!
  2. Onoff
    I knew I was right!
  3. Onoff
    Make a carpet bag then they'll just think you're a bohemian hipster! Frost Auto do some carpet and vinyl dyes.
  4. Onoff
    On some level I agree with your sentiments but... For a start wait until you're I dunno, in your 70s (tin hat on ) or your partner / child(ren) needs the sort of care that means time to go and chop wood just isn't there... I absolutely DREAD the day, with my crap pension forecast, when I'm old and in this house still with leaks and high fuel bills. I LOVE the idea of sitting somewhere dry, warm and safe looking out of big 3G glazing and knowing a big bill for (in my case) oil won't be landing on the mat. You pay for insulation ONCE, you'll be paying for "fuel" even if "free" in other ways even if it's just the labour to chop it or the back boiler burning out periodically. Anyway, you're ALL wrong. You should be going UNDERGROUND and letting the mass of earth and stable year round temperatures work for you! Tin hat on too!
  5. Onoff
    The older I get the more I realise life's but a walking shadow...I certainly strut and fret. Old houses eh, the way to a dusty death!
  6. Onoff
    Get the soldering iron out! http://chemelec.com/Projects/Loop-Detector-1/Loop-Detector.htm
  7. Onoff
    If you're stuck I've an earth loop impedance tester you can borrow. An LCB2500/2: www.industrialcalibration.co.uk/downloads/LCB2000%20User%20Guide.pdf Does RCDs too along with ramp testing. An oldie but a goodie! IR tester too, dedicated capacitance meter and so on.
  8. Onoff
    http://www.gil-lec.co.uk
  9. Onoff
    Laying Pex-Al-Pex with a home made decoiler:
  10. Onoff
    You could always make one: https://martin-jones.com/2013/07/31/avometer-8-blr121-15v-battery-replacement/amp/&ved=0ahUKEwjt1pb854vXAhUEBBoKHXqzBuAQFghKMAE&usg=AOvVaw34FE_3xShduiPBJRRpcOcx&ampcf=1
  11. Onoff
    Might be a bit tricky to get a calibration cert for the ad hoc "meter"...
  12. Onoff
    Someone will be along shortly to tell you I'm leading you astray
  13. Onoff
    It is the sort of thing I'd do just to see if I could! So...thinking out loud: - Maybe some vertical, batten supports coming up off the rear face of the wall - Wall plate needs to be neatly drilled with vertical holes i.e. not on the pi$$. - Slightly over size the holes - If you want the fixing nuts recessed then drill first with a spade bit just bigger than the socket you will use to tighten them. Then drill thru with your say 14mm bit for M12 stud. - Fill with concrete - Expanding metal tacked to rear of wall plate - drill thru each location again to clear the mesh - Screw wall plate to temporary uprights (level). A few inches up in the air. - Poke studs thru into concrete...would you want a "bend" on the end? Could add a couple of nuts and big square washer. - When concrete is dry, drop wall plate down onto a sticky mortar bed having first cut the studs to length. - Nut it up! Or ignore me an drill / resin fix after the concrete!
  14. Onoff
    To be honest the idea is "grounded" () in sound, basic science. Nothing more visual than to see more current flowing to earth as the resistance to that current lessens as more surface area of the rod comes into contact with "earth'.
  15. Onoff
    I wonder if there's any merit casting in projecting studs ready for the wallplate or indeed have over length studs bolted to the wall plate. When the concrete is dry nut ' em down! You would of course have to pre know where your trusses are going!
  16. Onoff
    DON'T DO THIS AT HOME, IT'S REALLY DANGEROUS... Take a small wattage 240V lamp and stick it in a batten holder. Connect one side to your earth rod banged in just a little and the other side to live. The lamp should glow brighter the better the earth as in the deeper you bang the rod in... Best to switch the power off before banging deeper...
  17. Onoff
    If you have an existing TT supply and don't want to pay out for UKPN to upgrade the supply cabling coming in then they're OK with you sticking with TT. They can't force you to. https://www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/internet/en/our-services/earthing/ I've apparently been "upgraded" to PME. This happned without my knowledge, undertaken by UKPN. We were on holiday and had a friend periodically popping round to check things. One day A tree branch had come down and part cut through the overhead. UKPN came in and replaced PART OF the cable from pole to the house leaving an unsightly joint, if you can call it that under the soffit. As a leaving gesture that whacked a PME sticker on.
  18. Onoff
    If you have an existing TT supply and don't want to pay out for UKPN to upgrade the supply cabling coming in then they're OK with you sticking with TT. They can't force you to. https://www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/internet/en/our-services/earthing/ I've apparently been "upgraded" to PME. This happened without my knowledge, undertaken by UKPN. We were on holiday and had a friend periodically popping round to check things. One day he heard a "cracking" like an air pistol. A tree branch had come down and part cut through the overhead. UKPN came in and replaced PART OF the cable from pole, where there was PME, to the house (always TT) leaving an unsightly, taped up "joint", if you can call it that under the soffit. Originally the cable was one length. As a leaving gesture they whacked a PME sticker on. The one constant is my two 5/8" earth rods and they're staying! I have wondered about this thing in the 18th. Locally we had a spate of thieving scroates cutting the intermediate earth straps off the poles along the road just as high as they could reach. A rod on your property at least leaves you with some reference to earth!
  19. Onoff
    But if the SSR packs up so does whatever the switched live is going to?
  20. Onoff
    He doesn't want it in series surely? The switched live to A1 of the relay coil and A2 to neutral. Does something like this tick the box? https://www.discountfiresupplies.co.uk/product/280/558/Easy-Relay-240V-Mains-Relay-(230V-AC-50_60Hz-Coil)
  21. Onoff
    Anything here any good: https://www.esr.co.uk/products/frame_interface.htm
  22. Onoff
    You could probably re-assemble what you have with CT1 and it'd go nowhere. Just clean all the parts first with Multisolve or meths. Leave to set overnight. It'd just be fun if you ever wanted to get it apart again!
  23. Onoff
    The DW625 is the same, 'kin lethal!
  24. Onoff
    I think it's a Triton thing I've just been given. Orange metal frame that you can fit a router, circular saw to etc. Looks far too complicated!
  25. Onoff
    I thought it was salts leeching out?
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