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    The fun and stress starts again, planning application submited.

    I like to watch "The Big Build" and it's amazing what they find when they start pulling the plaster off. Timber framed houses seem especially bad. I often wonder what the neighbours in identical houses think after seeing that.
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    When did I get this old, there’s been a mistake?

    You probably don't need expensive glasses with designer frames from an optician. I buy mine at 2 times magnification from a Chineses seller at £10 for three pairs. At that price, they are pretty much disposable. I also have a three times pair for close-up work like tightening those tiny screws...
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    What kind of motor is this?

    You got it exactly, although it didn't blow a fuse, it just cut out at the switch and I had to start again with much mockery from the others . It was started as you say with the overhead shafts turning, but all the drive belts were disengaged. We just slipped the belt off the side of the pulley...
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    What kind of motor is this?

    One of my earliest jobs was working in a small brick factory in the Cotswolds. Every morning my first job was to start the motor that ran all the machinery through an overhead pulley system. This was a hefty beast, from memory it was a least a couple of feet diameter and was controlled by a big...
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    Gobsmacked. Need opinions

    I used to work for the NHS. A fluorescent tube in my office started to flicker so I called maintenance. Later that day a guy came round and had a look - that is he switched it on and confirmed that it was flickering. The next morning someone else delivered a new tube - that is he left it propped...
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    Unreal........you have got to watch this

    Someone else posted this a while ago - seems appropriate here.
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    pay your invoice or watch your windows

    The company I worked for in Birmingham paid at the end of the month following the month the job was done. In the worst case, a job done on Jan 2, would not be paid for until early March. This was clearly stated on the order and no job would be paid for without an order. Privately, I tend to pay...
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    electrical installation on a floating dwelling

    Or better still: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Have-Eaten-Grandma-Gyles-Brandreth-ebook/dp/B07G7LDV53 "No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest. Bertrand Russell
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    In case you are bored with all the fuss tonight....

    I have no electrical qualifications whatsoever and managed to get 19 of 40 point(s), (47.5%) in 13 minutes.
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    Two showers off one supply

    With the priority/non-priority switch, you need to think carefully about which way to set them:
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    electrical installation on a floating dwelling

    Beg all you like... 'None', in this case, is not a contraction, it is a pronoun meaning 'not any' and can be singular or plural. However it's used, 'none' never has an apostrophe. Say it out loud. "the screw slots are aligned". "the screw slots is aligned". Which one sounds right?
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    electrical installation on a floating dwelling

    You were right the first time... "ARE". The noun, slots, is plural. When deciding whether to use is or are, look at whether the noun is plural or singular. If the noun is singular, use is. If it is plural or there is more than one noun, use are.
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    What do you make about this drone at gatwick airport

    Looks like a middle-aged couple. Eco-warriors maybe?
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    Doorbell Wiring - Ring Pro and Honeywell

    Have you considered upgrading your wifi? I too live in a house with all brick walls and my BT system (others are available) is fine all over.
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    electrical installation on a floating dwelling

    Better to fit a fridge that runs on propane; water heating too. Save the batteries for stuff that only runs on electric (no gas TVs sadly).
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    The world is doomed.

    My favourite, and this was before most of you were born, was going with my father, who was running a pub at the time, to buy a gross of bread rolls for the turkey sandwiches we were doing at Christmas. The rolls were 1d (one old penny) each and the girl counted out twelve sets of twelve rolls...
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    Queries regarding Inspection Report I've just had completed

    " P.S. my own personal opinion is that electrics should be left to the professionals. Rant over." Herein is my problem as a not quite ignorant member of the public. If the 'professionals' on this forum cannot agree as to what should be included in such a basic test; let alone what is a...
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    What to look for in an apprentice?

    Not electrics, but I remember my grandfather telling me about his time as an apprentice engineer. He was just left school at 14 and reported to the maintenance department of the factory at 6am sharp. The foreman took him down to the power room, where there was a huge steam engine that supplied...
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    Irish socket outlets

    My godmother who lived in what was then a tiny Oxfordshire village spent most of her life without access to electrickery. When it was finally installed in her cottage (One socket and one light bulb in each room) she insisted that the socket switches had to be off when not used to stop the...

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