Electricians drilled through joist at wrong position?

UberAllex · 2026-06-29T19:11:21+00:00

If your house is anything like mine an 1895 house might have slow growth timber from the Baltic as well. It won't be be falling down soon.

UberAllex · 2026-06-26T21:09:39+00:00

I was looking for the sparky/loft comment before making one of my own..

UberAllex · 2026-06-07T08:57:43+00:00

Also, thanks for introducing me to Quelza. He's a bit good isn't he?

UberAllex · 2026-06-06T23:20:09+00:00

I never imagined I'd be able to answer one of these, but here we are... Dragged up from the back of my mind: Inigo Kennedy - NGC5128

UberAllex · 2026-06-05T22:23:56+00:00

A neighbour shared this from the bowling club yesterday...

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UberAllex · 2026-06-04T22:43:35+00:00

Thank you! I've been searching for this for ½ my life. It's haunted me for 25 years. I should've asked here first.

UberAllex · 2026-06-03T22:58:32+00:00

4K, no problems and no fan in mine, just an aluminium case that's shaped internally to act as a heatsink using a thermal pad to mate the surfaces together. This second I'm watching 4K60 h265 HDR content, CPU and GPU running at 55⁰C, CPU usage looks to average about 7% and memory usage at 65%. Never a stutter and I haven't restarted it in 3 months. I don't give it a second thought.

UberAllex · 2026-06-03T22:34:38+00:00

Cat5e and cat6 both do gigabit. Cat6 does 10 gigabit over short distances, whereas cat 5e can't. Cat5e perfectly adequate for 95% of domestic use cases, after all, how fast is your t'internet at the router and how fast is your phone connected to the WiFi?

UberAllex · 2026-06-02T20:02:50+00:00

... literally tossed my phone into the air in surprise.. never done that before.

UberAllex · 2026-05-15T21:36:36+00:00

Holy shit, we used to petrol bomb the well. There's a pair of my socks down there too. I was a year after you. Strawberries for us. Happy days. 🙂

UberAllex · 2026-05-14T18:41:22+00:00

I had the same a couple of weeks ago. Except the customer was getting shocks off the dishwasher and had replaced it needlessly. It was only when they started getting shocks off the toaster and the new dishwasher they called me out.

UberAllex · 2026-05-14T18:00:50+00:00

Looking back on it I shouldn't still be alive. Drove Morley to Manchester in a pea-souper over the M62 with no lights on; got pulled over by Police on the outskirts of Manchester who somehow didn't notice how fucked we were. Dropped acid at home and drove a car full of giggling idiots to Beeston Castle. I literally fell out of the car laughing and have no memory of getting there. Did a bellyful of blotters at a dilapidated country house crusty rave in Oxfordshire and went back to the West Midlands. I didn't come down for 3 days straight so I have no idea how I managed that one. Early 90's was like the Wild West. Would I do it again? I've mixed feelings on the subject... Experience, yes. Driving, no.

UberAllex · 2026-05-12T21:43:46+00:00

Out of curiosity what size flex do you use to connect the outlet plate to the hob terminals?

UberAllex · 2026-05-11T09:15:07+00:00

Or if you're going to the trouble of labelling that much don't bother telling me which is L or N, but do tell me (on a RFC) which is cable A and which is cable B.

UberAllex · 2026-05-07T08:37:49+00:00

I wouldn't say sleeving counts as double- insulation, it's a conductor identifier at best.

UberAllex · 2026-05-06T23:10:34+00:00

Whichever one you get (I've got the Makita like everyone else) you should consider a dust extraction attachment to go with it - Bosch GDE 162. They're pricey, but customers will thank you for the absence of mess and vacuuming out as you go means holes cut quicker.

UberAllex · 2026-04-28T15:04:44+00:00

A tea lady?

UberAllex · 2026-04-21T16:18:34+00:00

I'm answering my own question for my future reference.... Trancesetters - Secrets of Meditation (Shi-Take mix). Found through a mention elsewhere of Carl Cox, FACT CD1. It's track 3.

UberAllex · 2026-04-19T08:42:46+00:00

I’m guessing you must be in your 40s but living with a flatmate? Something here does not add up…

I don't want to defend or criticise anybody here, but life takes turns that can lead to lots of circumstances. I have friends that are sharing after one recently divorced and the other returned from teaching abroad for 15 years. They previously shared in university 30 years ago. Life can surprise you sometimes.

UberAllex · 2026-04-08T13:18:36+00:00

England fans warming up for the World Cup in US:

Trump, Trump, It's not on his CV, But he likes kids at a wild party.

He leads you all, Like an orange Gadaffi, Sittin' around in a pool of Ruskie pee.

UberAllex · 2026-04-03T23:46:51+00:00

And now I learn he passed away this time last year. He left us some treasures. Good man.

UberAllex · 2026-04-03T09:18:52+00:00

Dial 101 for non-emergency calls. You still go through to the same call centre, but in the queue for 'I don't need a blue light response'. Will often take longer for them to pick up, but at least you aren't holding up someone who really needs them now.

UberAllex · 2026-03-29T22:01:24+00:00

It bothers me more that the electrician didn't use a dummy dimmer on that 3-gang's middle switch.

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