ProDave

I just stumbled upon the PortaPura treatment plant https://portapura.com/ It is aimed at the leisure market and the largest one they make is rated for 5 persons. But it is a very compact treatment plant working on the air blower principle but in a totally different form factor. At only 800mm deep for the 5 person unit it might be of interest to someone with difficult ground / bedrock? I am not in any way related to this product, just mentioning it in case someone finds it useful

That is correct.

As a self employed electrician I object to people saying I am part of this "GIG Economy" It seems to imply we are dishonest, don't declair our income and don't pay tax.

I have been using a Ryobi cordless drill for about 15 years. Now on it's third set of batteries. First time they died I replaced the cells, second time I bought a replacement pair from county Battery. The major cost is going to be batteries, you will be replacing them throughout the life of the tools. The Ryobi drill has been reliable but it is not startling performance, and it is a poor hammer drill (not SDS) though the new ones may be better.

250mm. The same gap between the top peg and the top of the standard, so when 2 standards are plugged together the same nominal 500mm spacing is maintained.

A similar thing happened to those that stayed in UKAEA until it got privatised into AEA Technology. The pension scandal there has not lost them all their pension, only about half of it. I baled out and kept my UKAEA pension intact.

I considered water source as we have the burn running through the gardens but it also looked like SEPA would have made us jump through lots of hoops to get permission. If you want to use pure lake water, coud you pass it through a second heat exchanger near the heat pump with then just a very short brine loop? Isn't there a danger of freezing in the heat exchanger, if the water coming out of the ake is just 1 or 2 degrees and then gets cooed by the heat pump?

Yes but it does not solve the problem. I have posted on the Mopidy forum to see if anyone can help there.

Okay, nothing goes smoothly. I have copied some of our music files over but can't get any to play. Some are .WMA files. It seems to see those and list the tracks, but when you press play, it immediately goes back to stop without playing anything at all. Others are .m4a files. It sees the title of the album but lists no tracks, so I assume that is a format that the music box does not support. I can see me having to join another forum to get help on this one.

Setting up more radio stations now. I could not get the BBC streams that Jeremy linked to earlier to play on the Music box, but I found an alternative list here that works http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2015/04/updated-list-of-bbc-network-radio-urls/ In fact I have found finding the stream URL's for radio stations particularly difficult. I get the impression the stations don't want you to know them. There are lots of sites listing the internet radio stations but almost all of them just want to open them in a browser window and play them from there without showing the stream URL. Some I only found the URL by downloading a .PLS file. I don't know what that is and neither does my computer, but opening it with a text editor found the URL inside the file.

The worst thing I found about Kwikstage is standing on a working platform with no handrails plugging in the next stanchion. If in doubt wear a harness and fall arrester while doing that.

Those were the terms when I bought my Rationel windows. Who are you buying through? Mine came via ADW in Cumbernauld. It was slightly more complicated as I actually got them through my builder on a supply and fit basis (so no VAT charged to me) so I paid the builder 50% on the window price on placing the order and the final payment, including installation after they were fitted.

If this is a rewire, not just a CU change, I would be guided by where is the easiest place to run all the cables. The cupboard wall seems probably the easiest. Run new meter tails with a bit of slack and a pair of Henly blocks to join to the old tails very close to the old meter, and encourage the meter monkey to connect your new tails into the meter when that is changed.

A smart meter is hardly any bigger than that old spinning meter. Changing the back board that the meter and supply head is on is NOT a DIY job, it requires several DNO seals to be broken and I would not be opening that old supply head to do it.

The router is a standard BT Home Hub 4 Looking at the (far from intuitive) Home Hub 4 menu's, I see my Pi network adaptor listed. Below it, there is a tick box to "Always use this address" Is turning that on all I need to do to make that a static IP address?

The point is, if you do a platform every 4 pegs / 2M you can put all the metalwork up for the next stage and then put the planks in place, just by standing on the stage below. If you insist on doing it every 2.5 metres, you are going to have to stand on something to put the metalwork in for the next lift, and then stand on something to slot the boards in there.

Unless you are both very tall, you are not going to reach to 2.5 metres without standing on something,

Today my USB-Network adaptor arrived, over a week to get here by second class post. The Music Box is now working, but at the moment the only audio out is via the hdmi to the tv. It will be another couple of weeks probably before the DAC arrives from China to enable playback via the hifi The only observation or "trouble" is you are supposed to be able to access it's web interface with http://musicbox.local That works initially but then trying to navigate around it's user interface just results in the browser timing out. Going directly to it at http://192.168.1.220 works without problem, so that is now bookmarked. It remains to be seen if that IP address changes upon re booting the Pi. Going to load some of SWMBO's music onto the memory card later and see if it can find that and play it.

Don't forget you can run cables horizontally as well, so for sockets I go horizontally from socket to socket rather than up and down to each socket. The consumer unit creates a safe zone so straight up or down or sideways from that is okay.,

The caravan should already be on it's own TT earth. Use the same earth for the shed. The site power socket should also be TT

But not SWMBO's friend.

I think that would be disallowed here, on the basis there would be too many bugs, particularly spiders.

If you just want lawn, and have poor soil, then buy in some decent top soil and spread it evenly and flat over what is there. No point making it harder than it needs to be.

I can see you are going to have some fun with that.

Yes I found them helpful. Because of our location they were not able to offer us a build, but would have done a design package for a local joiner (or us) to build ourselves. I guess our dealings with them is why I am still on the mailing list.