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The writing is on the wall for the Radio TeleSwitch service that may still be turning your heating and hot water on and off. If the latest deadline is to be believed, and it has come and gone many a time over the preceding decade, then the radio teleswitch service will be no more after 30th of June. But what does that even mean and why might it leave you or yours in hot water?
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In my test rig video, I describe the construction of... well... a test rig! One, indeed, that any budding electrical inspector/tester can construct for themselves and then go to town on with their multifunction tester and clamp meter - observing safety of course! Here then is the part listing one would need in order to order in all the parts!
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Electrically heating the humble home can be a bit of a minefield, and not all radiators are made equal. Here then, I look at the in’s, out’s pros & cons to help you select the right kind of rad for your room.
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Lawks-a-lawdy, the humble light bulb hasn’t half become more complicated in recent years! Back in the 1980’s, pretty much every ceiling or floor light in your home used a bayonet lamp base, leaving you to select from just a few wattage and shape varieties. Even then, if you weren’t quite sure what to drop into your Homebase, Texas or Great Mills shopping trolley, you could still often plump for a 60W GLS tungsten lamp and be fairly confident of it doing the job. The last blimmin’ thing you had to think about was the light colour.
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With BS7671 18th Edition amendment 2 hurtling forth like chunky projectile vomit from the drunk bloke sat immediately behind us on a bus, and with it being about as warm, welcome and, somewhat oddly, the same shade of mushroom brown, I take a look at one particular bugbear of the wiring regs and what I intend to do about it going forward regardless of what those clowns busy juggling their balls in the IET circus tent send my way when they shiftily lift a hard earned hundred quid and an (out of date) rubber johnny from my wallet for the all-new brown book at the end of March!