dpmiller

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.

I acquired a pukka (but chinesium) tester to do Ra on my recently-installed spike as my MFT doesn't have that capability. It's a 50V test. I was well pleased with the sub-70ohm value achieved and glad not to find rock as the spike went in, more to the point... It was interesting just how little effect the position of the test electrodes made. I tried them in a number of different substrates and positions accross the rear of the house, between it and the pole/transformer our supply will come from. Hardcore, soil, puddle, every test came back between 65 and 68 ohms. Pretty repeatable I thought.

^that's for a larder fridge or fridgefreezer Dave, the cut-in temp is +3.5C. I think it's the VS/VL5 you need for a standalone freezer, cut-in is -12C...

Pop the cap off the terminal cover, you might find a diode in there already...

Consumer-range Karcher can be hit-or-miss, especially the ones wth the plastic pump heads if they're left full of water in the frost. YMMV.

27kg/m2 by the looks of it. Our Snowdons are about 37.

Same with our LBS Snowdon. Looks like a big rustic slate, and manages a very small headlap as there's a gutter built into the top edge of each tile.