dpmiller

We have a Howdens just opened in town, are there any tricks or catches to a selfbuilder opening an account?

What calibration gas is used?

no step irons?

certainly electrochemical cells for CO and O2 can be "drifty". Also some systems are subtractive, taking the sum of gasses sensed and taking them away from 20.9% to display % O2.

Frame erected inc supply of all wall and ceiling insulation and PB, plus footings- £230/m2

Any good? https://www.notjusttaps.co.uk/spares-valve-sth-16-teeth.html

Indeed. And everybody sold the same Altai stuff. As a teenager, I worked in an electronics repair shop- TV, video, group gear, CB. The Boss made a proposition to Maplin which they flat out refused. It was another ten years before they appeared in NI. Still, we had access to RS, CPC, HRS, Willowvale as well as as a couple of local distributors of tat...

I've still got the remains of an E12 pack from John Bull's...

I'd be erring towards a new charger...

brown back orange?

cheap as chips, and you can clad'em if you want- http://moyfab.com/project/galvanised-after-manufacture-d4/

have you tried turning the flow down on the manifold? I'm wondering if the actuator can't control finely enough and is massively overshooting, it *is* a pretty small loop...

Anyone had problems with Muticonstruction losing their tip inserts? Dunno whether the set I got are (very good) knockoffs, or if we're doing something wrong... Drilling clay roof tiles. Tip doesn't appear to be losing it's edge but randomly after maybe twenty holes- individual, with cooldown between- the bit goes smoking hot and melts the braze holding the insert in. Thoughts? The first one, we reckoned the impact gun was too high rpms so switched to a combi and it's happened to another two.

Council. Don't think too many go private in NI.

I've never seen the engineering drawings for our TF, they were passed straight from the TF Co to the BCO. No doubt I'll get copies at completion of the TF contract...

Have BCOs ever checked that a specific luminaire installed is actually fire rated? Looks like it would be a paper exercise with the slim jobbies- alloy housing , pressed steel backplate...

Local lore is that anything timber-only is looked on as a prefab and so non-permanent. Hence timber holiday shacks on the coast were never mortgageable.

as long as the footings were inspected OK you should be able to go with a change of design, it's what we did. Was the original permission pre PPS21? If so, might be worth spending on a planning consultant.

I've recently acquired a couple of Dewalt XR-XRP adaptors. One is dumb, but one has inbuilt protection- it turns off the battery at low voltage (which happens very easily with the 1.3Ah battery on the grinder...). The dumb one needs watching...

There's no big power transistors on that PCB so it does suggest it's sending something to the tool.

The cill isn't really connected to the window. Our build has a firestop batten to the sides and top of the opening, with the window fitted flush with the front of this. The UPVC frame is then sitting on the TF opening by 10mm or so. We set the cills in on DPC as per @Declan52 and then filled the gap with Compriband. The blockwork is built over the firestop and in due course the render will extend over the windowframe as a rebate.

^well said @jack

...and then the weather turned pants. Lashing down/ blowing a gale/ bleedin cold. Any two on any day we were free to work, for a couple of weeks. So s-l-o-w progress. But today as it was fine and the wind was down, and we've tiled up as far as possible without causing access issues to the trays, the panels went up. Better.

how do analogue and digital tv aerial cables differ?

it's normally a reusable mastic.