ProDave

Wait a moment. More pictures needed, but you are not planning to put it in the middle of the hob behind it are you?

Our equipment has just been upgraded by the provider so we now get 100mbps compared to 50mbps before. The higher speed is free for a year but after that an extra £5 per month, or you can revert to 50mbps to keep the same price. for normal browsing of streaming tv etc I really can't see any difference. the only time it might make a difference is if you have a big download to do. i suspect at the end of the year we will revert to 50mbps. Both are far better than the max 3mbps and unreliable connection with frequent drop puts with ADSL.

I recall in the early days it the internet, the dial up days, there were things called DACS boxes that split one telephone line to serve 2 properties. It limited the dial up speed to 33K rather than 56K I wonder after this initial fibre rollout, if they will introduce a similar fibre splitter? it would potentially halve the speed to the 2 properties but I doubt many people would notice if they could only get 500MB rather than 1 GB.

I did my VAT claim with the temporary habitation, I needed the cash. I could have waited until full completion if I wanted to.

Ours in insured via Adrian Flux and has been since we got a Scottish certificate of temporary habitation. Nobody ever asked to see it I just told them it was a "new build"

I really think the company is harvesting grant money to do a s**t install, knowing probably nobody will ever want to connect to it now we have a decent company supplying a wireless service so it is unlikely any of these fibres will be made live and tested.

Drain connector is definitely wrong. you will get drain smells from there. Should be via a trap, probably a waterless trap.

Usually in these situations you do a google search for the email address of the CEO and vent your claim there. the few times I have tried, it gets the result you want. Did you TELL them the plug had been removed? I bet if you had just sent it back without saying, or taken it back in person, nobody would have noticed.

I am about to face that. I have got myself into the position of helping a new boat owner learn to sail their own boat. She came for a sail on our boat yesterday and I was staggered by how much is "obvious" to us she did not understand.

That is what we did with ours to arrive at the 1200mm gap. Not on wheels but take all the drawers out and empty the cupboards, and 4 strong blokes could slide the whole thing as one unit.

I have a very low opinion of the way full fibre is being rolled out. For years, we only had copper ADSL. I kept hoping OR would at least fit a fibre cabinet at the top of our road and give us all FTTC with copper just for the last bit. No not interested. Our saviour is a local wireless company now serving us, but it is a niche product only available in a particular area. Just recently, Highland Broadband have been digging up our roads and verges laying fibre to every property. Having seen their work I think it is abysmal, the fibre cables are imho buried way too shallow in the verges and under the road and not even in any conduit. The first utility that needs to dig anywhere near them will likely sever them. And as above they have only laid fibres to the existing houses. No sign of any spare fibres to allow new builds. And worse still there is a physically completed house but not finished internally so not signed of and no street address issued, and that has not been provided with a fibre to connect to. So if he ever wants fibre broadband he will likely not be able to or face a ridiculous cost that could have been avoided with a little thought from the people building the network.

I believe so, Stairs are minimum 900mm and doors wider than your 30" I am not up to date with the latest version, my house was built to regs 10 years ago.

Gus is referring to Scottish regs that need a minimum space of 1400mm by 1600mm to manoeuvre. Requirements may be different in England.

So those of us with PV fitted over 10 years ago have got the "rwong" RCD's fitted.

At 1200 we can open the dishwasher and one of the drawers on the island to empty stuff into and just squeeze through the gap. The minimum you can tolerate will depend a lot on what is there in your particular situation.