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  1. dpmiller
    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...
  2. dpmiller
    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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    Hardcore

    dpmiller replied to RichS's topic in Foundations

    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.
  8. dpmiller
    yup. Stunning build and great pictures.
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    Scaffold

    dpmiller replied to vfrdave's topic in Ireland

    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...
  10. dpmiller
    I'd have wanted it fully supported accross the bottom (esp the ends) before any fixings were added, personally.
  11. dpmiller
    that's on the inlet is it not? I'm pretty sure that anything loose in the post-reg plumbing could make it's way back into the reg under gravity.
  12. dpmiller
    I'd guess there's nore chance of crap falling down into the regulator portion in certain orientations.
  13. dpmiller
    how many HP/kW/A is the pump motor? And is the heater electric or diesel?
  14. dpmiller
    there's not much room for adjustment between door and frame generally- anything more than a tiny adjustment at the hinge end and the door will either bind in the frame or miss the seals (or latch keepers!), in my experience. If door and frame matched previously, leave the hinges alone and just shim and pack the frame til all is well.
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    £150 extra? break their arm for it.
  16. dpmiller
    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?
  20. dpmiller
    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?
  22. dpmiller
    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!
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    electrofusion?
  24. 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.
  25. dpmiller
    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.
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