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  1. PeterW
    Victoria Plum sale started today with 60% off - that should sort your bathrooms...? ikea sale is normally January but kitchens rarely get discounted.
  2. PeterW
    Wren are pretty useless in my view, ikea have always been good and they are solid kitchens with a very long guarantee that they stand by without question.
  3. PeterW
    Just remember that the reason for the old brick lining is to retain the heat and also the exploding bits when you don't get all of the air out of the clay the first time ...!!
  4. PeterW
    I always wondered if these were any good. http://bricky.com/building-tools/boardmate-plasterboard-fixing-tool/
  5. PeterW
    It will have to be over a truss but the SE would need to specify the joint scarf / method if it is structural join. From experience though, they tend to be over spec anyway so you may find they just need to be of equal length if the truss is taking the load.
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    Wonder if they have finally agreed that with Fermacell too then as that was a pain ..!!
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    They are about £130 new on eBay and you can get £50 for one second hand. They are about £75 a week to hire so it doesn't need a mathematician to work that one out ..!! I used to be part of another forum that owned one as a collective - top of the range beast of a thing that cost about £600 and was split 6 ways and you basically "sold" your share to the next person who wanted to borrow it.
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    Bizarrely I can see the logic but can't see how it would work..! Would I need to register my [insert name here] ride on mower with DVLA first so it has a "number"..? And dogems..?? Can you image the whiplash claims ..??!!
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    Yeh its dead easy - Cisco actually write decent manuals for getting started on this sort of stuff and if you make a hash of it you can just reset it and away you go... best thing is to take a backup of the config when you are done and store it somewhere - in the unlikely event the switch goes bang you can restore all the settings in about 10 mins..
  10. PeterW
    Right ... this is a Cisco Catalyst 500 managed PoE switch - 24 port and you can buy these for less than £30 on the 'bay all day. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/371819484580 It has a web based interface and you can create a VLAN for gaming, one for CCTV and one for other traffic etc in the space of minutes. They are designed to run as a stack in an office environment and in a SoHo like a house with a few cameras and the like they will last for decades.
  11. PeterW
    I thought I had seen it all but apparently for less than £60 you can have one of these ....
  12. PeterW
    Most modern NAS units power down when they are not working so you can use pretty much anything in them
  13. PeterW
    Don't forget the calculation needs doing ... it's 50% of the depth below the invert multiplied by a couple of other things and a doodah... then allow for infill only having 20-30% true capacity... you may find crates are simpler ..!
  14. PeterW
    Oh and I found out yesterday the SkyQ to SkyQ mini connection on wired is 100Mps so won't use Gig even for HD video streaming ...
  15. PeterW
    Hmmm ... I sort of agree with @Alphonsox but experience tells me that a PSx or EggsBox will be limited by the speed of the internet, not the speed of the local connections unless he is gaming against a sibling ...?? POE switches can be had for silly money too - a lot have 2/4 Gigabit ports on them so if it was a real need you could use those for the high speed stuff.
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    ... and my setup is based around a managed (cos I can...) 48 port Cisco PoE switch off fleabay that set me back £25... gives me enough PoE ports to run 4 IP cameras, 2 wifi access points and 2 IP phones along with dual cables to every single room in the house (including 2 to the gates too ...!)
  17. PeterW
    @Nickfromwales stop being a tight arse and buggering around with old cable modems and buy this !! 16 Port Switch Won't give you a wifi point but none of the others will either as they have no way of becoming slave access points...
  18. PeterW
    Oil drum, coke and charcoal and some old bricks ..! And a blower for the air through into the bottom to get it "really" hot ...!
  19. PeterW
    I've gone for Dunbrik ones - decent calculator on price on their website too
  20. PeterW
    Crack on and buy it ..!
  21. PeterW
    Errr just be careful with that statement ..!! The Fibre connections from Virgin aren't that clever, and the coax plugs they use for the final metre I've seen very badly finished. Yes a coax has more conductors but they are prone to the centre core being snapped if not properly terminated. I would go as short as possible to the hub and if you want to get the most of the connection to the switch then use a CAT6 patch cable to the switch with 5E to the rest.
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    You won't see any degradation unless you start live streaming 4K video direct from the internet and your limitation will be the broadband speed ..! I will be putting in a PoE switch (just because I have one lying around ...!) which will power a couple of wifi repeaters and my desk phone which is an IP phone but it's not needed in a normal house.
  23. PeterW
    I've got a cheapo TP Link Router acting as an Access Point on one side of the house and it's connected to the Virgin box by a Cat5 I put in when I did the major work a few years ago. With that upstairs on one side and the VM router on the other downstairs I pretty much have 100% wifi coverage across the house.
  24. PeterW
    The slightly larger ones look very like the Mitsubishi units in both layout and components - wouldn't surprise me if they were rebadged.
  25. PeterW
    Don't forget your central heating will be nowhere near 3-4 bar so a 2 bar test will be fine.
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