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I am working in a yard where we are having trouble with vandalism.
There is absolutely no way of getting a cable (easily) down the to front gate, as the perimeter is hedging and the car park is concreted entirely.
The ONLY duct to the gate from the...
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Just first fixing fixing a new build and master BT point needs to be in the basement plant room/ next to rack.
BT incomer is overhead line, coming into property on far first floor corner.
Opposite corner to property from basement - basically a long way away!
Other ones we've done with...
Hello all, was supposed to be running a bit of 6 mm swa along outside of building for a shed. My plan was just to clip it along wall above ground floor extension. Customer now wants me to just lay swa on top of fibre glass roof. They are saying they don’t want to see cable clipped to wall...
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Does any one know what kind of insulation resistance to expect for pink fibre wall/ceiling insulation? I'm trying to figure out if the cheap insulation meter I have is actually giving me a reasonable answer.
here's a bit of background:
I have a GFCI mounted in an electrical panel...
HI All,
I am upgrading from Bt Infinity to the new Fibre with halo with BT. Fibre 250 with Halo 1, so 196-286mb potential.
Some help with engineer visit
What gets changed?
1. Is the bt box in the wall changed to a new one?
2. Is it new wiring, so old current setup is totally revamped?
3. Do...
Hello Everyone,
We installed fibre optic lighting for external requirement.
With warm white generator, supposed to be warm light at end point however lights had green color shift (maybe due to fibre distance).
To solve this installed magenta color filter film but now color is warm white but...
I currently have a large project coming up in which my company has asked me to install fibre into several buildings from external man holes, which will be dug out and installed by contractors. My intention on most is to come up the external wall using a security grade channelling from ground...
Anyone familiar with fibre optics, while considering a trailer for my van I thought why do we use relays, bypass devices , etc is fibre optics viable bear in mind I know bugger all about the subject
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I am soon to be boarding out the loft on my new home as there's nothing of the sort up there currently. It is just to be for storage so I think I'm going to use 11mm OSB sheets for the actual boarding. When I went up there to measure up, I noticed the FG insulation has seen...
Hey guys. After spending the most part of the afternoon in a loft with absolutely loads of insulation. New upon old and being driven insane with itchy and dust was wondering what's your tips for dealing with this
Also bought a respirator on my way home. Had to deal with a crappy paper mask...
So the boss asked me this morning if I wanted to accompany him to a fibre job, fault finding and splicing etc to see if I fancied learning that and I actually found there wasn't that much too it... Just wondered if anyone else does this and thinks it'd be worthwhile me trying to train in as well...
Hello all. I have got virgin media vibe optic but thinking to change all my utility to sky because my phone and tv are with them. I was wondering how would sky fibre optic work. Like where will cables be run from and what cables and if it's hd what they would use. At the moment I have virgin...
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Been out to quote a job today, nice roof, could get 25kW but it would be our first on a fibre cement roof. It will be certified asbestos free next week so no worries there but a bit concerned about how our installers will be able to work safely as it is between 4-7m off the ground. Any tips...
Doing up my sons bedroom and bought a star light kit. It has 200 glass tubes that need to be poked through plasterboard ceiling,I will need to plaster the ceiling.
Can anyone suggest a way of protecting all the glass tubes.
Hi Guys , I was just keen on your proffered thoughts for fixing Solar PV Panels to a fibre cement roof.
We have metal Z purlins to fix to at 1350mm centres
I was going to cross rail the complete roof, but was wondering if any one had any different thoughts
system size is 6 rows of 18 panels...
Hi folks,
It's been a while since I posted on the forum!
Can anyone advise on a good roof mounting system for a fibre cement roof please. I've looked at the K2, Schuco, Schletter... but nothing in my opinion seems to be that good for this roof type. The roof is a bit old so clamping to this...
Greetings everyone. I have a customer who is hell bent on having fibre optic lights in the ceiling in his bathroom but there will be no access from above. I haven't fitted them before but have looked into it and it seems you need to get above to poke the lights through. Also the light source...
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