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@ProDave Ive got the Robin tester now. You will see the instructions that came with it. I read this as saying that if the display reads "1" this indicates at least 200 Megaohms? I have tested one cable now and it reads 1 so that must be good. My question is the instructions dont say what the display reads if there is a problem! Will it read 0 or something else? thanks again

Yes we are. Good quality/price. The other thing is that the team at Uniwin are great. Very pleasant to deal with and patient!

We also used the MBC passive frame and used Uniwin windows!

Hi @Ted Hall we have a driveway that is hardcored but which is awaiting final finishing. We are in Scotland and building control have decreed that we need an accessible path via the driveway around to our back door. It looks like your system would fit the bill? Its looks like you recommend 20mm stone for cars but 30 mm if using wheelchairs?

Uniwin - near Edinburgh

I known that Makar - https://www.makar.co.uk/ - build to passive house standard and they are based in Inverness.

Brilliant thanks Dave. I will snap that tester up. One last question...how do I know if a reading is "good". Does the screen show literally "good" or "bad" as the result or does it give a numerical figure (if so am I looking for a figure above or below X to be "good" etc. Thanks

Ah thanks...so does that mean that I only need to connect at the one end of the cable run? It sounds like it from what you say? If so that's a whole lot easier than I'd imagined. Also @ProDave can I ask what I do with these doubled cable ends on the photos.....one for smoke detector and other for lights. Just do the procedure on both cable?

@ProDave thanks very much for the link. Thats cheap enough to buy and its only really 3 ceilings in the house I am concerned about. How do you use this instrument in practise though? So lets say I have a 3 core wire for a light sticking through the ceiling - I connect each core in turn to one of the inputs on the tester ie earth or line? then what? do I need to trace the cable right back to the consumer unit (where currently all our cables is just hanging coiled to be connected ultimately? Find the correct cable and attach the correct core to the other input? If so, how is this done because the rooms are upstairs and the consumer unit downstairs!? Do I need an extension wire and connect that to one core at the consumer unit end and then run that up the stairs and into the bedroom and plug it in to the tester? Thanks again

I was helping our joiner plasterboard some ceilings and I was asking him how you deal with stray screws that might hit a cable for lights/smoke detectors etc. He said it best to get the electrician to test the cabling before the ceilings are skimmed. Problem - our electrician is so busy it may be hard for him to find time to do this before the ceilings are fininished. So, is it possible to test myself without buying expensive testing kit? Is it easy? How is it done. I suspect @ProDave will have the answers!? thanks

This is ours as work in progress. We used a black stain from Treatex on Douglas Fir

@garrymartin @zzPaulzz thanks for your replies. Sorry got waylaid with other stuff in the interim. I need to finish focusing on this now as I won't have much longer to instal the wiring needed. I think for powering an ipad etc I am probably going to go with one of these - https://uk.store.ui.com/uk/en/category/accessories-poe-power/products/uacc-adapter-poe-usbc - pretty much as I am using other Ubiquiti kit in the house. However there are still some issues - this will need to be buried in the wall cavity and once there it wont be accessible so will have to hope the wiring connections stay stable over time. But the other thing is how to bring the USB end out of the wall......I suppose I could use a media face plate on a 1 gang back box with a "curtain" like this https://www.screwfix.com/p/lap-modular-flex-outlet-black/49931 for the cable to poke through! Ideally it would be neater to instal a media module with a USB female socket. Something this externally - https://www.screwfix.com/p/contactum-media-modular-3-1a-15-5w-2-outlet-type-a-c-usb-socket-black/835rp But internally it would need another female USB to allow me to connect it via a short male to male cable to the Ubiquiti widget. I have tried to find a media module configured this way without success - do they exist? The other problem I am trying to solve is how to power an Apple Homepod mini in a bathroom - for remote control of a blind and music! These appear to be 9V and 2.2 amps in terms of power consumption. Is it possible to instal one of these in a bathroom compliant with (Scottish) regs - https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/SF63WMW.html?source=adwords&ad_position=&ad_id=&placement=&kw=&network=x&matchtype=&ad_type=pla&product_id=SF63WMW&product_partition_id=&campaign=shopping&version=finalurl_v3&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw1NK4BhAwEiwAVUHPUJl6FBHFEK8EuFsI7roIi0CVcA-yFJE-RdeGka2YMdMwAW2FCkB5-BoC9KkQAvD_BwE If so would the Homepod mini work with this? THanks

I wonder if someone could help me with my issue - I need to finish these posts. As you can see plain steel ie non galvanised. I want to protect the steel but also produce a visual effect to mirror galvanising as we will have some other galvanised metal parts nearby. I had planned to use this Zinga product - https://www.promain.co.uk/zinga-96-zinc-cathodic-protection.html but spoke to their tech support and it is meant to go on bare steel so that would mean sand blasting the posts and thats not really an option. They suggested maybe using this spray to produce as an alternative sprayed on after I sandpaper the posts first of all - https://www.promain.co.uk/zinga-zingaspray.html Does anyone have any advice? Thanks

We have bought 2 Bette trays. Very good quality thick gauge steel. Not installed them yet but working on one atm.

Im in Scotland too and our "smart meter" stopped connecting earlier in the year. It took Octopus about 3 months to get an engineer out and it seems to be working again. The engineer appeared to be saying that if you make a real fuss they will install an external aerial for you but it seems this is the very last resort.