dpmiller
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Screws driving us screwy
dpmiller replied to ToughButterCup's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
If you're breaking Torx bits that easily, thay aint good'uns. -
it isnt?
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Discount Offers of the Week
dpmiller replied to Ferdinand's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
looks like a clone of the Lidl one I bought a year or so back, in which case it was an absolute steal at £30 as it really punches above it's weight in CFMs. -
I'll retract my statement as my memory turns out to be befuddled. Back around ten years ago I was pretty active on Ukwhitegoods- both for personal research and also because I was doing a fair bit with Miele commercial glasswashers at the time. Back then the trade was agog at a tie-in between BSH and Merloni. But I remembered the detail incorrectly, I apologise. Trawling back through postings of the time, Merloni were buying in non-German BSH product and it's quality did no favours for either brand...
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^ against that, remember than Bosch bought in dishwashers from Merloni a few years back (rebranded Hotpoints) and they didn't quite live up to the German name.
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Fire safety- fridges and freezers
dpmiller replied to Crofter's topic in Kitchen & Household Appliances
Beko must've upped their game- as I recall it their earlier auto-defrost systems were "problematic"... -
And if funds are tight for the design portion, you could look in the same direction that we did- there are a number of architects in the South of Ireland (possibly elsewhere too but that's what we found) with long lists of modifiable "book plans" I'll not link them directly but a google search for Irish House Plans/ plan-a-home/Blueprint might give food for thought.
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Rules are different here, and 98% straight into a ditch is a good scenario, I'm told.
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presuming oil... do you want to build an external "boilerhouse" or would you mind a fabricated unit? Or have you somewhere inside where an oily smell wouldn't be a problem? I put a Turkington condensing jobbie in the current place and it's very neat. the Combi version is a touch bigger but it's still quite a small box. Great boiler, well impressed. http://www.turco.co.uk/countryman
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Invisible from the road the lane's on, and you'd need binoculars to see it from the "other" one and then only the ridge.
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ta muchly Neil. I'll circulate a quote request closer to the time then. D.
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OK then @Alphonsox , what's your view on the local BMs, who plays ball best on pricing? Groundworks guy uses Bangor Supply a fair bit, and I've found O'Haras (Ray Grahams) cheaaper for timber than Norman Bell's of recent times. And what about quarry materials and concrete? Carrowdore's closed now so need to go a bit farther afield for stone, but I hear John Hagan's good for readymix?
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Wunda use 16mm I think, so you'd need to change the Eurocones.
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You could also go with a cheap DOL starter which then gives the opportunity to have all and any kill switches at SELV.
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Double runs can be handy if you want to shift a VGA or HDMI signal around without a specific cable being pulled.
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Credit/Debit Reward Cards, Discounts etc
dpmiller replied to Ferdinand's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
OH is a member, and the wee book of discounts is handy occasionally. Mostly for days out kinda things, I'm not sure the NI version has the other"shop" discounts? -
Drayton programmer service interval reset tool?
dpmiller replied to Jeremy Harris's topic in Other Heating Systems
are you even sure the reset device is terribly smart? Might try waving a magnet (or an electromagnet on AC) over the display while it's waiting to be zapped... -
unless ther's a requirement to split protection of course.
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so only the downstairs sockets have 30mA protection? something not quite right there then. I'd have expected at least the shower to also be @30mA. Best wait for @ProDave to have a look...
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A good day today. Still not quite there on the legal stuff, but I've had both the vendor of the treatment plant and the Planning Consultant on site today with good outcomes. We're now happy that there won't be an issue in getting consent to discharge into the drain and so I'll get the application completed and away ASAP, and the PC is happy with what he's seen re. precommencements so he'll be completing documentation and putting that application in shortly too. Now just to complete, and then get the site cleared a bit. Impatient.
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Any requirement for CO detection? I'll certainly be going nowhere else than Aico for ours as with the remote button and a relay box, you've got all the same functionality as a full panel system.
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yup, I hate that one too. But there's reason behind it apparently- when you negotiate a price with RM/PF for say, a few thousand parcels a year at a fixed cost, you can choose whether to include Highlands and Islands or not and then H&I shipments are either blanket not allowed or exorbitant. Which is of course different to the retail division's structure, so it would actually be cheaper for us to arrange a collection. If the vendor allowed it.
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The lane to our site is made and maintained with blinding, I'm seriously considering recommending planings the next time there's mutterings about maintenance.
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yup. Stunning build and great pictures.
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Soft target IMHO. HSE locally don't seem to bother with industry or agriculture until *after* there's an accident, leaving equipment safety checks and training to the liability insurace companies and the NFU. gotta justify their existance somehow...
