DIY Forum for DIY Electricians? - Doing It Yourself? Electrical Advice This Way

[pirate]

I am happy to see that most folks don't think it would be a good idea.
I've said it many times before, I am not an electrician, but the advice on here is very valuable for the small jobs I can tackle, and I wouldn't like to be deprived of that. The safety advice is particularly important, and I think we have the right balance between "here's some advice, you appear competent enough for this task", and "get an electrician in". If I were to be banished to a DIY only forum I don't think I'd bother because I want to learn from electricians, not DIYers. I believe I am fairly competent at basic wiring and so on, but I don't touch CUs. I am a fairly competent "plumber" too, having completed numerous kitchen and bathroom projects, but I don't touch gas stuff or unvented cylinders etc.
Just my tuppence worth...

 

[Dan]

No boggy?
ha ha ha

Staffordshire for biggy I think mate

Oooops.

No biggy I meant lol

 

[DPG]

I am happy to see that most folks don't think it would be a good idea.
I've said it many times before, I am not an electrician, but the advice on here is very valuable for the small jobs I can tackle, and I wouldn't like to be deprived of that. The safety advice is particularly important, and I think we have the right balance between "here's some advice, you appear competent enough for this task", and "get an electrician in". If I were to be banished to a DIY only forum I don't think I'd bother because I want to learn from electricians, not DIYers. I believe I am fairly competent at basic wiring and so on, but I don't touch CUs. I am a fairly competent "plumber" too, having completed numerous kitchen and bathroom projects, but I don't touch gas stuff or unvented cylinders etc.
Just my tuppence worth...

He said tuppence

 

[rapparee]

I think you are going in a good direction looking for the international market. It will bring more qualified experts to the forum.

A while ago you seemed to be preoccupied with the need to help every diyer who wanted to cut every corner and who then got in a strop if they didn't get there way.

I personally don't mind DIYers and like helping in the simple threads. But I think everyone also likes to reserve the right to give someone who is about to do something dangerous, a metaphorical boot up the hole.

Because at the end of the day, sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind and you can't pander to dangerous practices.

 

[Dan]

Is this to me?

My stance hasn't changed.

I want the most members on the most forums. Have done since my first forum in 2001.

But they only work if they do what they say they do and don't have some agenda. Like run a training center or are linked to a tool supplier. Like all my competitors.

 

[rapparee]

Is this to me?

My stance hasn't changed.

I want the most members on the most forums. Have done since my first forum in 2001.

But they only work if they do what they say they do and don't have some agenda. Like run a training center or are linked to a tool supplier. Like all my competitors.

Yes it was

I understand that you don't want disruptive members, it makes sense.

But I was merely stating that not every new member is a good thing either.

There is some higher calibre than others.

Would you rather have a electrical engineer from Brazil or Pamela from Stoke who has a can do attitude and is going to rewire her house herself. Most people know it's going to end in tears. Sometimes you need to say that they aren't capable of the work.

 

[pirate]

When I was a little schoolboy ( a real one, long time ago...not a dressed up one, at weekends) my bus fare was a "tupp'ny half".
With inflation, it became a "thrupp'ny half" etc etc
I just mention this in passing, since my use of "tuppence" caused such joy
Not meaning to derail this thread, just saying...

 

[telectrix]

When I was a little schoolboy ( a real one, long time ago...not a dressed up one, at weekends) my bus fare was a "tupp'ny half".
With inflation, it became a "thrupp'ny half" etc etc
I just mention this in passing, since my use of "tuppence" caused such joy
Not meaning to derail this thread, just saying...

tuppence??? thought you used pieces of eight.

 

[pirate]

Yes, Tel...four tuppences to an eight-piece..or eight-pence piece!
TRhe pre-decimal currency was so much better, imho...
remember the thrupp'ny bits???

(Don't...just don't!)

 

[telectrix]

thruppenny bits? i remember farthings, had a wren on the reverse. and half-crowns at birthdays.

 

[Dan]

Yes it was

I understand that you don't want disruptive members, it makes sense.

But I was merely stating that not every new member is a good thing either.

There is some higher calibre than others.

Would you rather have a electrical engineer from Brazil or Pamela from Stoke who has a can do attitude and is going to rewire her house herself. Most people know it's going to end in tears. Sometimes you need to say that they aren't capable of the work.

Both would be allowed.

The system awards people now. Not staff. Trying to step away from humans dealing with things. That's when it goes wrong and ends up biased.

Collective human input it good. So all member types posting ends up sorting its self out as long as everybody sticks to the rules.

To be fair I've forgot the previous posts in this thread I've been so sidetracked.

Hope that explains whatever your aim was there lol

Edit: I reread your post. The DIY person would go in the DIY forum on here and hopefully get told / realise it's too much and use our directory to find a local sparky.

On a DIY forum, we'd direct her to here to find a sparky.

I'm not sure a dedicated DIY forum would have so much electrical advice floating around to be fair. And also no Gas Advice, but lots of plumbing (water) advice.

DIYers tend to be DIYers. They will have a bash of anything.

I think if (don't think we're going ahead with it now) we ever had a DIY forum - The aim would be to find the jobs bigger than them, and send the work to the guys on our forums. Whether they took it up, not sure.

Apologies. I didn't read your reply properly.

 

[pirate]

Oh yes, the farthings with the wee bird...oh, and florins too...made infamous by the expression "two-bob coachline"...
or was that just a Scottish thing?

 

[telectrix]

i well remember, at secondary school, we has a shilling per day for dinner money. friday was fish (as there was 1 catholic boy in a class of 36). me and my mate spent the friday shilling on 5 Park Drive apiece. our parents always wondered why we were ravenous at tea time.

 

[pirate]

I'm guessing you smoked them, not ate them?
Imagine being able to buy a pack of 5 cigs, as a minor, these days? Crikey, the corner shop would sell "singles" to us as kids, no questions asked...
Park Drive though...that's posh!

 

[telectrix]

we have progress now. min. quantity is 20 smokes, so young kevin will need to nick a tenner from his mam's purse instead of a fiver.