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  1. dpmiller
    £150 extra? break their arm for it.
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    Cheapo pair of safety trainers form Shoe Zone for when it's too warm to need Riggers. Current riggers came from B&Q a while back to replace a pair from Lidl that lasted about five years.
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    I got a 14.4v Makita recently for pretty cheap with a broken battery contact in the handle, charger and two reasonable batteries. Not a hard fix for now (loadsa solder), but I should really hunt down a replacement socket. Anybody have a Makita tool with a duff motor going spare?
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    I've a small ST system currently- my own copy of a Solartwin- and while it will heat the top of the tank enough for the odd handwash from perhaps April-Oct yes, there's no way it's going to heat the whole tank in other than high summer. My guess is that if you size the system for enough early and late in the year you're going to be dumping boiling water in the summer. It would be nice to do something with that extra, and to have good efficiency under cloud. I'm going PV in our build.
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    so it's not just fridge doors that need an alarm then?
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    I'll put a vote in for a submain up the stairs.
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    It's an interesting document, and for a couple of reasons. AFAIK UOU Jordanstown has their own energy research centre so it makes me think that the report is more Copper Industries than theirs. Yet CI don't seem to have it on their website and their opposition- McDonalds- do?
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    Dunno if anyone local needs 'em, but I snagged a rather nice wallmount thermostatic bath/shower filler in Lidl Newtownards for a ten pound note and there's a few more left at that price. Score!
  9. dpmiller
    electrofusion?
  10. dpmiller
    No, it would attempt to shuttle at 50Hz and make a horrendeous noise. Contactors, solenoid valves and the like "stick" either because the laminations form a complete coil when closed or there's a "shading ring" acting as a second coil of sorts. Two diodes give you that 25Hz pulse and the diaphragms damp it sufficiently that it isn't clattering off endstops.
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    I think it'd still work if damp, but your RCD wouldn't like it. IIRC those pumps have some kind of safety contact that breaks if there's a problem with the diaphragm or springs; best check that out with the DMM too when you're probing the coils.
  12. dpmiller
    what would a TTRO do then?
  13. dpmiller
    Never went ham myself, but did a fair bit of CB in the early eighties. My teenage years had me in the local TV and video repair outfit on Saturdays, and we were also one of the better "legal" outlets for 27MHz stuff. Two of the three Directors of the firm were heavily into the Amateur end tho.
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    what about the more "lightweight" towers from the likes of BPS? http://www.laddersandscaffoldtowers.co.uk/acatalog/DIY-Scaffold-Towers.html
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    No shed in the existing RMs unfortunately, Dave. PC is busy next couple of weeks but we'll get a site visit organised after that and see what direction he goes in.
  16. dpmiller
    Is there a problem with the picture (stitched?), or do the last three posijoists in the bottom pic have a break in them towards the middle of the image?
  17. dpmiller
    Do you really need all that heat and consumtion tho- would binning them for LEDs not be a better call?
  18. dpmiller
    what are your ground conditions like wrt water table?
  19. dpmiller
    can you extend the air inlet to some kind of upstand? The Solido I'm looking at come with just such a thing.
  20. dpmiller
    rinse with distilled water before drying completely.
  21. dpmiller
    They were, but for a different design.
  22. dpmiller
    here's the site with a bit of context
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    @Declan52 yes, Bing and Google (plus historic views on google earth) show the timeline of the lane construction etc. I found the image above as a hidden layer on the Rivers Agency "watercourse management" mapping. Nice. @Dudda Yes the house design is from Irish House Plans and is pretty much bespoke based on my view of the site and it's surroundings- view, overlooks etc. I'm also using many of the cues noted in PPS21 to make it fit with the vernacular as well as considering the normal planning notes on outbuildings re. sitting behind the frontage and away from boundaries ref height. Hence the position of the garage- a green steel clad shed to fit with the farm sheds around it and hinting at an enclosed yard. Best views are NNW and due South and there's a farm shed behind a stand of trees roughly W.
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    We're going for a Consent to Discharge into the field drain, and the boundary is taken to be the middle of said drain. The southern boundary also has a shallow drain on our side of the hedge. Our test holes show the site sitting on a mudstone shale layer about four feet down so other than the topsoil it's pretty free draining and looks like a good base for the footings too. Next door built prior to the new legislation so have a septic tank with the drain field on the other side of the shared lane Covenanted to them. I'll be letting the supplier of the Packaged Plant deal with the Consent, and will be having a site meeting with him as soon as we complete.
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    So this is the site, with a quick sketch of where I'd like the buildings on it. It's an interesting image as it's the only one I've found of when the vendor was doing some level changes... It's a smidge over a half acre. The boundary running SW-NE is a field drain about 5ft deep which runs into a watercourse. Lekky transformer at bottom right of pic.
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