ProDave

A cable from a socket to a coil of cable in the loft seems enough for the mass house builders. Is BC going to fail a house for no aerial?

I don't know about selling it, but an electric roller door is much neater.

I have a tv aerial and a satellite dish so I have 2 sources of "ordinary" tv. We do have a firestick and very occasionally watch something in iptv, but it just seems so "wrong" to routinely be using what is supposed to be a data service for such high bandwidth use. And in any event, internet connections are too unreliable and rely on lots of services working. A dish or tv aerial is likely to give you a more dependable robust reception in times of trouble.

It sounds like the IT behind it must have been sponsored by the UK government. Over budget, late, and noes not work.

II added up all the lights in the house, and if every single one is on, it's about 130W

I am paying £600 (hopefully this Friday) to have 4 windows and a 3M sliding patio door set fitted. That's just to fit the windows in the frame, I will be detailing inside (plasterboard) and outside (timber cladding) It's more because it's a 3 / 4 man job to lift them, particularly the patio door set, that I am paying labour to do this rather than DIY. Ground floor, my own scaffold set up outside.

Remind me of the advantage of this Vs paying 16/17p 24/7?

A previous 1930's house I owned had storage heaters and they were just like that, the house leaked heat so fast it needed constant heat input when you wanted it to be warm, something which storage heaters were useless for. But has anyone tried them in a modern well insulated house? e.g our house when you turn the heating off, it is several hours before you notice. So storage heaters warming up over night and releasing their heat slowly it would not matter if they have run out of heat by 6pm. the house would not go cold before bed time. I suspect you would not want the full 7 hour charge, so time them to come on at say 4AM. to adjust the heat input as the season gets colder, adjust the start time. I suspect it would work very well. Even better of course would be put them on an E10 tariff where there are more (but shorter) cheap periods so the storage time needed is less.

Is the pump on the manifold running, if there is no light on it you should be able to hear it humming / whirring.?

Some digging around found my network drive was already mounted //run/user/1000/gfvs with the full path to it being /run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=192.168.1.254,share=usb1/Ubuntu Laptop/Music/ I have now set that in Site Manager as the default folder to open in Local when I open a connection to the Pi Music box, so I don't have to remember that. So all doing what I wanted and in future I should be able to load new music onto it with a lot less trouble.

I am not sure what the rules are where you are, but up here you can only have 5 dwellings from a private track. More than that and you are expected to surface the road to highway standard and it is then adopted.

I did I diy air test using an old broken 240V desk fan, some cardboard and a roll of duct tape. I estimated the leakage by measuring the velocity of air passing the extract fan with an anemometer and knowing the diameter of the hole. I found extract (depressurising) easier to go looking for air leaks as you can feel air coming in easier than you can feel it going out. Re the apartment cabbage issue. Apart from the leaks, it shows there is not enough fresh air entering the apartment as when you turn the cooker fan to full it depressurises the apartment and it finds it easier to draw air in through the holes from the neighbour than from outside.

Most single track roads widen to 2 track at a junction so a car waiting to exit the single track road does not block another car trying to enter the single track road. You would appear to be achieving something similar so it looks like a positive move if you can achieve it.

thanks @joth I am reluctant to try that yet, too much scope for something going wrong. I can work around it by first copy anything I want to transfer to the Pi to my local drive on the pc and then use FileZilla as above, but it seems an unnecessary step.

Aka Snake Oil

I have a Raspbery Pi Music box. It can play music from files on it's SD card (amongst other things) Previously to load music I have removed the SD card, put it into a card reader plugged that into a pc and copied the files. i am trying a better way. I have loaded FileZilla FTP client onto my PC. I can connect to the Pi in the "remote site" window using sftp. I thought that would be the tricky bit. No. the tricky bit is the files I want to copy are on my network drive. I want to browse to that network drive in the "local Site" window on FileZilla. But I can't find how to browse outside the local hard disk in that window. I have tried entering directly "smb://192.168.1.254/usb1/" which is how the File Manager addresses it, and tried also just "//192.168.1.254/usb1/" and various permutations of single or double slashes, forward or backward slashes and nothing is recognised. Oh and the PC I am using is Linux.

Good work, keep us posted when you get a result.

Exactly the same argument used by the likes of Fischer to sell you expensive posh looking electric panel heaters to replace your "old fashioned" storage heaters. And plenty of people buy them. And then complain their electricity bill has gone up.

Erm yes, but an electric resistance heater is 100% efficcient. This is a complicated solution looking for a problem.

Make that a tee and then a pipe can go up to the AAV which should be 1M above the WC

You will need the stack pipe to rise above the level of the toilet and either vent to an outside stack or vent to an Air admittance valve. I can't picture exactly what you are suggesting but I can't see how you can connect it without a branch and a pipe going up.

Interested in your Oak door liners. Did you buy those (if so how much) or did you just buy the oak and make them yourself? It's one thing I found very difficult, I could not find any off the shelf and had to buy the wood and make my own.

Well you can measure the impedance of each of the conductors of the ring and enter that, and you can measure Zs and enter that. There is nowhere to say it is anything other than a standard ring. Your Zs may be a bit higher than R1+R2 would suggest.

A 2 core cable, a bell push a bell and a transformer. Yes I am old school.

Best of luck getting that many double pole switches with large cable into a grid switch box. It is certainly a work of art and patience.