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I think I might be contributing to this thread more when my kitchen comes out.
I’ve just bought some LED strips in readiness for the new kitchen going in, so tonight I had a quick look under the cabinets to check cables etc, and mmmmmmmm
2 cables into one Fluor light.
2 cables into the wall, I think I have a cheeky spur.
Hate to think where that cable goes, but bet it powers the other under cabinet light on the other side of the cooker.
Please excuse the state of that underside, it’s one of the reason for replacing the kitchen. The over riding reason is the live socket under the kitchen sink and next to the plumbing! Just discovered a howling gale coming from behind the extractor hoot as it’s 10mm off the wall?
I’ve just bought some LED strips in readiness for the new kitchen going in, so tonight I had a quick look under the cabinets to check cables etc, and mmmmmmmm
2 cables into one Fluor light.
2 cables into the wall, I think I have a cheeky spur.
Hate to think where that cable goes, but bet it powers the other under cabinet light on the other side of the cooker.
Please excuse the state of that underside, it’s one of the reason for replacing the kitchen. The over riding reason is the live socket under the kitchen sink and next to the plumbing! Just discovered a howling gale coming from behind the extractor hoot as it’s 10mm off the wall?
You buy a house that's basically a timer-framed barn. Your neighbours are all showing off by retrofitting their houses with new-fangled things called an "upstairs". You want an upstairs. You deserve an upstairs. So you build an upstairs. Yay!
But you want to be able to walk around your upstairs. You need doorways. But there are some massive f
king beams about four foot above your new floor, and they run the full width of the house. And they stop your house from collapsing like a deck of cards.
What to do?
Hack a bloody great chunk out of the beam to make the door a good 4'6" high. Sure, the door is still far too fking low and you've massively weakened the bream. Who cares? You've got an upstairs!
Oh, yeah. When you live with this stuff for a while, you stop seeing it. Look through the door at the taps at the far end of the bath. See how they've been recessed into the airing cupboard? Even with those extra two inches and the risk of scraping your knuckles when turning the taps, the bath is still far too short for a human.
But you want to be able to walk around your upstairs. You need doorways. But there are some massive f
king beams about four foot above your new floor, and they run the full width of the house. And they stop your house from collapsing like a deck of cards.What to do?
Hack a bloody great chunk out of the beam to make the door a good 4'6" high. Sure, the door is still far too f
king low and you've massively weakened the bream. Who cares? You've got an upstairs!Oh, yeah. When you live with this stuff for a while, you stop seeing it. Look through the door at the taps at the far end of the bath. See how they've been recessed into the airing cupboard? Even with those extra two inches and the risk of scraping your knuckles when turning the taps, the bath is still far too short for a human.
Edited by ATG on Thursday 27th January 01:43
In fairness, the one above has worked OKish for about 400 years, but on the other side of the room we have this:
It's exactly the same brilliant idea as in the other picture except this time it was done much closer to the end of the beam right under a bloody great mortice. And the beam split top to bottom from one corner of the door up through the mortice. This means there's nothing to stop the thrust of the roof from pushing the wall of the house sideways out into the garden. So it pushed the wall sideways creating a bloody great deflection. This was addressed by pointing the 4 inch gap between the bricks.
Because we are sissies who don't want our house to collapse, we've had that beam heaved back together as much as possible and plated with iron on the other side to hold it together.
It's exactly the same brilliant idea as in the other picture except this time it was done much closer to the end of the beam right under a bloody great mortice. And the beam split top to bottom from one corner of the door up through the mortice. This means there's nothing to stop the thrust of the roof from pushing the wall of the house sideways out into the garden. So it pushed the wall sideways creating a bloody great deflection. This was addressed by pointing the 4 inch gap between the bricks.
Because we are sissies who don't want our house to collapse, we've had that beam heaved back together as much as possible and plated with iron on the other side to hold it together.
Edited by ATG on Thursday 27th January 01:45
ATG said:
You buy a house that's basically a timer-framed barn. Your neighbours are all showing off by retrofitting their houses with new-fangled things called an "upstairs". You want an upstairs. You deserve an upstairs. So you build an upstairs. Yay!
But you want to be able to walk around your upstairs. You need doorways. But there are some massive fking beams about four foot above your new floor, and they run the full width of the house. And they stop your house from collapsing like a deck of cards.
What to do?
Hack a bloody great chunk out of the beam to make the door a good 4'6" high. Sure, the door is still far too fking low and you've massively weakened the bream. Who cares? You've got an upstairs!
Oh, yeah. When you live with this stuff for a while, you stop seeing it. Look through the door at the taps at the far end of the bath. See how they've been recessed into the airing cupboard? Even with those extra two inches and the risk of scraping your knuckles when turning the taps, the bath is still far too short for a human.
Where is this? Maybe it was done by some rural inbred little pygme people, and was perfect for them!But you want to be able to walk around your upstairs. You need doorways. But there are some massive f
king beams about four foot above your new floor, and they run the full width of the house. And they stop your house from collapsing like a deck of cards.What to do?
Hack a bloody great chunk out of the beam to make the door a good 4'6" high. Sure, the door is still far too f
king low and you've massively weakened the bream. Who cares? You've got an upstairs!Oh, yeah. When you live with this stuff for a while, you stop seeing it. Look through the door at the taps at the far end of the bath. See how they've been recessed into the airing cupboard? Even with those extra two inches and the risk of scraping your knuckles when turning the taps, the bath is still far too short for a human.
Edited by ATG on Thursday 27th January 01:43
Teddy Lop said:
Where is this? Maybe it was done by some rural inbred little pygme people, and was perfect for them!
I have no wish to encourage casual racial stereotyping. OK? Is that understood? On that basis ... it's in mid Wales.A selfie of me standing next to the door. I had to bend down a little to stick my arms through the door, so it's actually a bit worse than it looks.
Edited by ATG on Thursday 27th January 08:56
ATG said:
Teddy Lop said:
Where is this? Maybe it was done by some rural inbred little pygme people, and was perfect for them!
I have no wish to encourage casual racial stereotyping. OK? Is that understood? On that basis ... it's in mid Wales.A selfie of me standing next to the door. I had to bend down a little to stick my arms through the door, so it's actually a bit worse than it looks.
Edited by ATG on Thursday 27th January 08:56
gfreeman said:
Bought a house back in the seventies with an intermittent fault on the ring circuit. Unplugged everything and still had a fault with wired fuse blowing. Stripped the ring circuit wires from the fuse and trace inspected the visible parts of the cable finding a crushed/twisted section which looked very suspect - so opened up the sheathing to find a nice burned live.
Almighty flash and the fuse next to the offending circuit fuse had blown. Nice chunk out of my cutters...
Seems someone had wired each end of the ring circuit to two adjacent fuses, then added a further spur to one fuse to make it appear to the unwary to be a conventional ring!
How else are you supposed to create a 64 amp ring? Almighty flash and the fuse next to the offending circuit fuse had blown. Nice chunk out of my cutters...
Seems someone had wired each end of the ring circuit to two adjacent fuses, then added a further spur to one fuse to make it appear to the unwary to be a conventional ring!
ATG said:
Teddy Lop said:
Where is this? Maybe it was done by some rural inbred little pygme people, and was perfect for them!
I have no wish to encourage casual racial stereotyping. OK? Is that understood? On that basis ... it's in mid Wales.A selfie of me standing next to the door. I had to bend down a little to stick my arms through the door, so it's actually a bit worse than it looks.
Edited by ATG on Thursday 27th January 08:56
ATG said:
You buy a house that's basically a timer-framed barn. Your neighbours are all showing off by retrofitting their houses with new-fangled things called an "upstairs". You want an upstairs. You deserve an upstairs. So you build an upstairs. Yay!
When we were house hunting in Devon we saw something similarEdited by ATG on Thursday 27th January 01:43
They had put a floor in but no ceiling downstairs so zero sound or heat insulation between the two
The worst bodge was the stairs
One stair about half way up, was about 2 inches taller than the rest
If you have experienced this you will know what i mean. The brain just cannot cope with it, I guarantee that every time you you climb or descend the stairs you will stumble on that stair.
They had also roped off part of the garden where the vendors were going to build their new bungalow. I also wondered how far that rope moved down the garden after any viewings
bristolracer said:
One stair about half way up, was about 2 inches taller than the rest
If you have experienced this you will know what i mean. The brain just cannot cope with it, I guarantee that every time you you climb or descend the stairs you will stumble on that stair.
Trip steps were supposedly deliberately built into medieval castles. An attacker, running up the stairs, would trip on the unexpectedly taller step and hinder his progress or make him vulnerable.If you have experienced this you will know what i mean. The brain just cannot cope with it, I guarantee that every time you you climb or descend the stairs you will stumble on that stair.
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