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Oh dear!

Yes 100% I have been saying this for years now. They will remove petrol and diesel over time, gas perhaps, everything becomes electric, the general population then must step into line and pay for electricity and do as they are told. Self generation - fine, but they can then control the equipment costs too.

When you say dispose do you mean to a new home or just bin them? If the latter I'd simply be employing a Stanley knife to section things down and a saw to cut up the frames - make them small enough they will fit in your car and take the bits to the tip. If you want to give them a new good home then what about drag them outside and cover with a good new tarp and advertise for collection - that way no one in your house? I am always moving things to other places and meeting people on my drive with things so they don't actually get to see in my house or garage!

I'd just use a bit of CAT5/phone/bell anything you have lying about to be honest and not waste any money on anything else. That fancy colour coded flat cable you linked to above is fine for doing sort of link pieces and making things very easy to wire up with colour coding etc. but not needed here. The sparks on site had used 0.75mm figure 8 speaker/bell wire on the job yesterday, just as well as they used miles of the stuff.

Depends on loads obviously but stranded CAT5 is a good shout, stranded phone cable for a slightly heavier, if your loads push several amps then any 4-5 core flex at 0.75mm. As said it all depends on loadings. Just because LED tape is low power doesn't mean the loading can go up - 200W drivers are not uncommon for commercial installations - that is 8.33A!

You might consider this: https://shelly.cloud/wifi-smart-shelly-rgbw-2/ You could then tie that into a Shelly system with other bits in your house. The one you posted above is just taken from Shelly and re-branded. Only €14.92 direct.

Are you going to use an aluminium profile and slip on diffuser to clean it all up and make it pro. The job I went to see yesterday we used a recessed profile that was tapped into a rebate the shopfitters made in all the furniture details. i.e. https://www.wholesaleledlights.co.uk/led-strip-lights/led-profiles-extrusions/1m-recessed-aluminium-profile-extrusion-clear-frosted-diffuser.html Also, realistically, a warm white LED tape will look very nice if done well - RGB might be a little, nightclub/teen bedroom and I don't want to offend, but dare I say, "tacky".

Get the consumer grade stuff with little plugs on the end - sort of Ikea job - or get a spark or school kid from the electronics club to solder it up for you. I always spec soldered stuff and it is either done on site to site measured lengths or pre-made by a reputable manufacturer to confirmed lengths.

Just to be clear, you want LED tape, not LED rope - that stuff is literally like a piece of rope with LED's in it. For a bathroom I'd use the IP67 stuff which is encapsulated in a plastic jacket. It just depends on wattage per meter and then work out your load and check the the power supply and any controls can handle it. I was actually on a site yesterday where they were finalising the installation of LED tape - 200m of it in total across cabinets and shelf details etc. It was 14.6W/m - now that was white only, so what they do is split the tape into RGB or RGBW - so if on a similar tape that would be about 5W per colour per meter - so if you say have 20m of it that is 100W per colour per 20m - which on 24V tape is 4.16A per colour - so you need controls that can handle that.

It will vary, I just need speed for the quick pulses, but there will also be the time when I need maybe a 2-5 second relay closed operation the relay is feeding into a control circuit and there is no way to wire it, so I need a wireless option and if I use Shelly units it allows for some other features.

Probably well onto the seconds scale. As I have it linked and setup just now, if I close the switch contacts on "Device 1" within about 1 second "Device 2" will also come on, if I open the switch contacts on "Device 1", then "Device 2" will follow within about 1 second - so sounds quick enough sure and that would be perfect if I just wanted to for example control several lighting circuits from a single switch or something while retaining individual control etc. but I need to be able to use the relay to go closed circuit for perhaps a single 250ms button pulse say within a 150ms tolerance. At the moment if I close the switch contacts on "Device 1" for say 250-500ms then it doesn't even register on "Device 2" so too slow and they are side by side! According to this page (https://shelly.cloud/support/direct-device-to-device-communication-ddd/) if you use DDD (Direct Device to Device) then the "speech" is extremely fast - just a few milliseconds. Sounds good to me. But I cannot get these actions to work. As I see if if I take the "Button Swiched on URL" and make that the IP address of the device I want to control I would make that: http://192.168.0.13/Red/0?turn=on - now assuming that syntax is correct then my thinking is that my device which is online and was at 192.168.0.13 would have come on - not a chirp. OK - so thinking about it all, first these 2 devices must be on the same network obviously, so they were both on the home wi-fi - both therefore I know could see each other as they were talking to each other. So I can only assume that the code is wrong. Then this got me thinking, that means this setup needs to sit on a WiFi network - routers changes, wifi drops out etc. so I was aiming to run them on their own little network - so I set one up as a wifi access point, I can then connect my iPad to its own wifi network and navigate to its little web-server and take command of it via 192.168.33.1 - I could then connect my iPad to the the wifi network of the second device and I could have then linked it to the wifi network of the first device - see where I am going? However, I had a sudden through before I hit yes - how would I then ever connect to that device again? My thinking was that if I then connected to the network formed of the first device, I would be able to see the second device also connected to it and presumably issued with it's own IP address from device 1 - but I wouldn't know what that IP address was and I am not sure how I would locate it as the discover app might not see it - that would then potentially give me a bricked Shelly! Now, I have looked into MQTT stuff and I understand that I could ping MQTT commands about from home automation software and that is something I am interested in for my own house (can anyone recommend good free software for this - Home Assistant? But otherwise how do I create and broadcast MQTT commands? Also, I want to make this 2 device setup as standalone as possible - so I like the idea of pre-configuring them on their own little wifi network then as soon as they power up they should just work. I need to make 4 of these sets.

Someone on this forum was using Shelly1PM for MVHR control with fire detection for automatic shutdown in the event of a fire. Anyway - I have bought several of these and I suspect I am now at an advanced level as more or less anything I want them to do now I can do, but I am struggling as there really is only very limited information from trawling through the internet for days! Basically I want to look into MQTT linking of two units, or using the actions setting and have them host their own network. This is what I am trying to do: I want to have a Shelly1 behind a retractive switch, this switch will connect to the input of the shelly. This device will simply be powered and control nothing itself locally. I want it to speak to a second Shelly some 4-5m away so that when the Shelly gets a switch pulse from the retractive switch it actually controls the relay on the remote Shelly. I need to be able to deliver from a single blip to a long press-and-hold. I have got that working using Scene rules and it does work, but it is too slow, I have read that linking them directly will have a reaction time of ms - that is ideal. My alternative option is to buy a little remote control unit with a momentary relay and a little fob, press the button, relay actuates... it's just not that clever or neat a solution and means losing keyfobs unless I hack the fob and solder the button pins to a faceplate switch - but then I still have fob batteries to replace.

As I saw it (I was nearly in a similar situation as you at one point) I either diamond ground it, or I put on a heavy enough layer of levelling compound and designed for vehicular use (including things like trolley jacks etc.). This was weeks, maybe months of plotting and planning and what I came up with based on pricing things and all sorts. Luckily the problem disappeared for me as we ended up building a new garage!

F H Brundle

Thanks for that, I find that Toolstation appears to sell a lot of poor stuff and I only ever look for branded stuff if I do use them as sometimes they have stuff SF hasn't and they are 3 doors apart.

That sure is a nice sink! 0.9/1.0mm noted!

As per the title, just looking for a decent stainless 1.5 bowl kitchen sink, been looking at Franke and Blanco and Reginox, issue is many of them are online only, so I can't do the tap-tap test to see how solid they sell. It's for our new kitchen, I am not going to get to hung up on a sink so just want a decent sink, decent size, not one of the playhouse ones and wondered if any of you had recently bought a kitchen sink and did you feel it was well made and good value for money. I am on plumbworld.co.uk just now and liked the look of quite a few but very reluctant just to hit buy unseen. Taps too - kitchen lot wanted £279.00 for a mixer tap... It's a tap! Not where I spend money, good floors and doors and windows and finishes, but a bloody tap?

My thinking and what I believe.

Coronavirus might do this. Climate/housing/energy crisis will all be solved through population reduction or even just population control.

So the first crisis isn't a housing one, that is an affordability, employment crisis essentially. The 20-30 year olds I think mainly got/get their priorities wrong. Many of them left home at 18 to go the Uni and live with friends and drink, and they got a car lease or HP for a new Ka for £120.00 a month, they also have the latest iPhone or Galaxy tablet and can go away to the sun with friends and piss away £100's on festivals and booze - now they need a house and have pissed all their money away from day 1. Now possibly in their late 20's early 30's and they are stuffed as they now have an Audi A3 outside mum and dads, spend all their money every weekend and struggle to put away £100 a month. The crisis I see over and over again is stupidity and a lack of planning - perpetual students. I started saving while at uni, not very successfully right enough but I always had some money, I then paid off any debts and started saving in my first real job after uni, I did a degree that was going to almost certainly result in a real world job and probably several at that, I didn't do "French with Sports studies" then cry because, guess what, there are no follow on jobs from that degree. These young adults need to look at themselves I think. I continued to save hard while living with my parents and driving a 15 year old car I owned, I changed the oil on and repaired and kept in goof fettle and bought my first house when I was in my late 20's. I skipped the starter house right enough but I only bought my house because my wife, then girlfriend, and I decided we would move in together and I was happy to move onto the next chapter in my life. I was lucky though, I understand that, but I work hard, I save hard and I enjoy live but don't throw money away and have always had these values. Instil some of the post war values back into people and I think the country would be a better place, better work ethic, pride in their work and country, respect, care and realistic and sustainable plans for their futures. Not sure how unfair this will be viewed as, but this is something I see a lot of so it's accurate from my perception and also from what I hear, read about, see etc. It's even happening on the street I live in - young lad along the road 17-19, left school last year and I assume is at uni or college now, however, a brand new Golf turns up the summer he left school which appears to be his - young girl a few doors up, same situation, has a new Mini and around September after leaving school she moved out as I can only assume to go to uni - still has the Mini - don't think she needs it from what I can see... I also hear about similar stories through colleagues and clients, neighbours talking about older kids who have moved out, my wife sees it in some of the younger admin girls at her work (all 1-2 year old HP/Lease cars), they call into the radio and moan, Jeremy Vine quickly ascertains where they do spend money and oh boy, do they get their priorities wrong!

I wonder really just what is the "crisis". At a real life level, i.e. in the streets of cities and towns around us, what does it actually mean. They say there is a housing shortage, but I wonder about that - I do not know enough about this topic so everything said here is just me thinking aloud and trying to get my head around it all. There are towns with streets and streets of empty properties, I accept older stock that may need work, but last time I saw these for sale they were about £25,000 - so if people want cheap housing why don't they buy one of those, spend £25K on it and they have to my mind a cheap house - just how cheap do we need? The "shortage" must be mainly a wealth divide drawn in the sand - if your affordable stock is say £40K then you have a problem for sure as I assume there are not too many houses for £40K so is it really a shortage or is it an affordability crisis?? Let's just assume that the crisis was cancelled tomorrow, house builders continue to do their thing, self builders do their thing and LA and housing associations continue to build and renovate housing stock - nothing different to what is going on today, just there is no "crisis" label - now lets say they started an affordability crisis, this could be solved through other means...

Too much! My wife is queen of the odd socks, but not only by colour but complete style and type! I have those socks too with the coloured heels and toes and I have about 6 I can no longer wear as there is no partner! I deserve another piece of bread and Cloudberry jam after seeing that!

I cannot cope with this!

Sort of the route I took - but also neglected to tell anyone, at all...

Thanks for all these replies. I have forwarded them all on.