Recent content by Woodentop

And how many houses built in, say, the last 30 years have unprotected sockets available? In fact would it even be legal under everything since maybe the 16th Regs for an electrician to fit an unprotected outlet?

Going right back to the beginning, the OP says that he overloaded the circuit by having' too many appliances connected' - what exactly does he mean? Is he talking about physical connections or is he talking about too much load? He also says the pillar tripped first but was it the RCD that...

Final but important note from me. If you want Belling-Lee or F-type connectors buy them in packs of 10 from Toolstation or Screwfix. They are considerably cheaper than what you would pay at a DIT shed or a caravan dealer shop. Also (suggest) get a reel of coax cable. You can get 10m reels but...

Silly question, but your aerial amp is switched on, isn't it?

Check the routing of the cable from the outside. You don't say make of van, but Bailey for instance will present it near the TV aerial amp so that it can be used to fed a TV in the awning. To use it 'the other way round' you need to identify the outside cable near the amp and the cable feeding...

The OP might get some deeper guidance if we knew his (general) location. Dealers vary considerably across the country, and of late there have been a number of closures.

Sorry BB but your response is just as confusing. Lighting works from 12V only (unless you have a very old van which may have a couple of mains powered lights) and is sourced from the caravan battery or instead from your car battery if it is connected by the 7pin/13pin plug.. The EHU feeds a...

If you use a Sky+HD box, if it has an expired viewing card still in it then it will work for FTA channels without adjustment. If the box has no card it will show BBC1 London and ITV Central West. You can buy a Freesat-from-Sky card from Sky for a one-off of about £25. Tip: if you go to the likes...

Pipe sizes are something of a puzzle. A tap fitted to 15mm copper pipe (as was ½ inch) have a ¾ in thread on the outlet. Imperial piping was internal diameter (ID) so ½ or ¾ inch, but when we went metric the pipe became measured in outside diameter (OD) so ½in became 15mm, and ¾m became 22mm...

When on a site the water often tastes different due to low usage from the pipe. We go to one CL which probably has about 150-200m run to the nearest source with regular usage. The result is water that can taste (and particularly smell) brackish which gets worst with time. Fully formal CMHC and...

My father's first (company) car was a 1489cc Morris Oxford VRY358 with a maroon lower half and roof, and off-white/greyish on the rest. His second car was a two-tone 1622cc Wolseley 16/60 28HRY in which I learned to drive. That was grey-ish lower and roof, and off-white for the rest. Finally in...

Not for me.

The description also suggests the flame failure device otherwise know as a thermocoupleis not working. It is a small stalk, maybe a couple of inches long, that sits in the burner flame. If the flame extinguishes immediately when you release the ignition button there is a good chance the...

Standard route is A19 to Thirsk then exit onto what becomes the A168 and stay on the A19 towards York. Turn left off the A19 at the SECOND exit which is signposted "Helmsley avoiding Sutton Bank"; it also takes you to Coxwold. At the bottom of the hill in Coxwold village turn left to Byland...

In practice using something like a mi-fi will give better and more reliable comms for the simple reason that the phone has considerably more to do than just change wi-fi data into radio data (i.e. 4G/5G etc) - AND - there is a possibility of loosing data if you have to answer the phone when...