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Post by Clinton Cool on Nov 26, 2020 18:09:42 GMT
Update on this: I gave up on this and called on a local electrician. He gave the overall installation the all clear, he put the problem I had down to a poor connection. Also the light fitting wasn't suitable for a bathroom. He put a new suitable fitting in and sleeved the previously unsleeved earth wire. Very impressed with his price, 65 quid cash including the new light fitting and 2 lung busting walks up the hill.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2020 18:12:14 GMT
I wondered if you had electrocuted yourself and died a horribly nasty death.
Good news that this didn't happen.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Nov 26, 2020 18:35:18 GMT
I wondered if you had electrocuted yourself and died a horribly nasty death. Good news that this didn't happen. Still very much alive and kicking thanks. I've overcome a number of challenges, mostly caused by buying a 200 year old house on a steep hill that has been scantly maintained. I expected this, worse actually. A good thing about this house is that the back of it is built into the rock. It's like living in a cave, I like this. Not just because it appeals to my neanderthal nature but perhaps more importantly, it moderates the temperature. Frost last night, no heating on in the morning, 15 degrees in the house. If there's a similar moderating effect during the summer I.e. keeping it cool I'll be one delighted neanderthal. Tomorrow's challenge is how to get 220kg of coal up the hill. I've arranged it to be dropped outside the kebab shop which is the closest spot a truck can get to. I'll take my bike down, some ratchet straps we will see. Great price on the coal by the way, 6.40 For 20kg of Burnwell, buy 10 bags get one free.
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Post by Isambard Kingdom Brunel on Nov 26, 2020 18:35:25 GMT
Its not very long since we were wiring a house in Macclesfield for the first time. 1910s totally untouched, beautiful woodwork. It was complete with all the gas lights, in working order, and just a bath added in a bedroom, lavvy outside, no hot water system. The London pattern salt glazed earthenware kitchen sink paid for the gas boiler, the lead scrap paid for most of the radiators.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Nov 26, 2020 18:52:19 GMT
All well and good, but my 15 degrees was achieved without releasing any nasties into the atmosphere.
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Post by JohnV on Nov 26, 2020 19:04:00 GMT
I wondered if you had electrocuted yourself and died a horribly nasty death. Good news that this didn't happen. Still very much alive and kicking thanks. I've overcome a number of challenges, mostly caused by buying a 200 year old house on a steep hill that has been scantly maintained. I expected this, worse actually. A good thing about this house is that the back of it is built into the rock. It's like living in a cave, I like this. Not just because it appeals to my neanderthal nature but perhaps more importantly, it moderates the temperature. Frost last night, no heating on in the morning, 15 degrees in the house. If there's a similar moderating effect during the summer I.e. keeping it cool I'll be one delighted neanderthal. Tomorrow's challenge is how to get 220kg of coal up the hill. I've arranged it to be dropped outside the kebab shop which is the closest spot a truck can get to. I'll take my bike down, some ratchet straps we will see. Great price on the coal by the way, 6.40 For 20kg of Burnwell, buy 10 bags get one free. years ago was staying in a cottage in Cornwall. it was built snuggled up to a massive boulder that formed the end of the building. the fireplace had it as it's back. The owner reckoned that after a fire had been going for a few days the whole side of the rock against the house worked like a kingsized heat store and would hold the temperature constant overnight
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Post by Clinton Cool on Nov 26, 2020 19:09:21 GMT
Still very much alive and kicking thanks. I've overcome a number of challenges, mostly caused by buying a 200 year old house on a steep hill that has been scantly maintained. I expected this, worse actually. A good thing about this house is that the back of it is built into the rock. It's like living in a cave, I like this. Not just because it appeals to my neanderthal nature but perhaps more importantly, it moderates the temperature. Frost last night, no heating on in the morning, 15 degrees in the house. If there's a similar moderating effect during the summer I.e. keeping it cool I'll be one delighted neanderthal. Tomorrow's challenge is how to get 220kg of coal up the hill. I've arranged it to be dropped outside the kebab shop which is the closest spot a truck can get to. I'll take my bike down, some ratchet straps we will see. Great price on the coal by the way, 6.40 For 20kg of Burnwell, buy 10 bags get one free. years ago was staying in a cottage in Cornwall. it was built snuggled up to a massive boulder that formed the end of the building. the fireplace had it as it's back. The owner reckoned that after a fire had been going for a few days the whole side of the rock against the house worked like a kingsized heat store and would hold the temperature constant overnight I think that's happening to an extent. The radiator in the living room is right next to the cave wall. I reckon a bigger factor is that rock has a more steady temperature throughout the year, in comparison to the air around it.
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Post by brummieboy on Nov 26, 2020 19:20:55 GMT
This is the basic principle of ground source heat pumps.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2020 19:22:18 GMT
Clinton CoolDomestic wiring is a piece of cake. Red to Red Black to Black Blew to bits 😵🙈👍
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Post by JohnV on Nov 26, 2020 19:30:15 GMT
Clinton Cool Domestic wiring is a piece of cake. Red to Red Black to Black Blew to bits 😵🙈👍 erm ....... I wonder what this one does
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2020 19:31:24 GMT
That one goes to the stern thruster solenoid.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Nov 26, 2020 19:36:10 GMT
This is the basic principle of ground source heat pumps. Is that so. Unfortunately I can't take advantage of this other than the rock face itself as the land below me belongs to the Queen.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2020 19:53:53 GMT
On ac wiring if only two wires it makes no difference. At least that is what I have found in a limited number of circumstances and I am still here.
But then I am the one who was found aged 10 by my mother sitting in a hay barn full of hay with a rusty can of paraffin and damp matches which wouldn't light.
So maybe it's just luck.
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Post by JohnV on Nov 26, 2020 19:59:20 GMT
On ac wiring if only two wires it makes no difference. At least that is what I have found in a limited number of circumstances and I am still here. But then I am the one who was found aged 10 by my mother sitting in a hay barn full of hay with a rusty can of paraffin and damp matches which wouldn't light. So maybe it's just luck. The number of times over the years I have had the call "I took the ceiling rose off and replaced it, I know I did it right, I put all the red wires together and all the black together but when I switched it on the fuse box jumped off the wall"
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2020 20:21:54 GMT
On ac wiring if only two wires it makes no difference. At least that is what I have found in a limited number of circumstances and I am still here. But then I am the one who was found aged 10 by my mother sitting in a hay barn full of hay with a rusty can of paraffin and damp matches which wouldn't light. So maybe it's just luck. Thank heaven you have nothing to do with the panels at my work!
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