Things I should have known before now... (3 Viewers)

[St. Fechin]

Not that I should have known this but I just came across it...

If you're gonna go, I suppose this is the way to do it....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Faure

Alluded to in Ulysses:

...Félix Faure, know how he died? Licentious men.

 

[ann post]

She certainly doesn't look like she could kill you with a blow job.

they never do.

 

[Psycho Punk]

She certainly doesn't look like she could kill you with a blow job.

Dunno, looks like the type prone to lockjaw imho.

 

[therealjohnny]

Wait a minute...Independence Day is War of The Worlds..'.virus' and all

I don't think a penny has ever taken so long to drop

 

[therealjohnny]

This is probably as good a place as any..

I'm adding an extension and putting a plug on a lamp with a 2 core flex and wiring it to the mains using a 3 core flex

Can I just snip off the yellow/green wire (ground) at the plug end?

Or will this cause death and fiery calamity?

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

yikes, careful now

 

[magicbastarder]

sure what harm is there in leaving the earth wire in?

 

[therealjohnny]

I don't know...it just seemed to me that if there are only two wires at the lamp end it should be two wires at the plug end?


headline later...housefire in leixlip,, one death by electrocution

social media to blame says local TD

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Are you still considering this or did you do it?

 

[Jill Hives]

Try it now, Johnny.

 

[therealjohnny]

hooray!!

Off to embarrass myself by asking the squeaky voiced teen in B&Q for one those doo-hickeys for splicing two bits of flex together

 

[Unicron]

hooray!!

Off to embarrass myself by asking the squeaky voiced teen in B&Q for one those doo-hickeys for splicing two bits of flex together

If it helps they're called strip connectors.

 

[therealjohnny]

I need to re-think my plan her...I think I'm over-complicating things

B&Q man looked a bit worried when I told him of my plans

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Stevie Nicks is female.

 

[ann post]

i like pineapples very much...

LIES.

 

[Jill Hives]

It's not a ghost turning on my sink.
It's that I have no water, thinking the tap is off (when it's really on) and when the water comes back on it's on full blast.
I feel better about this, however why don't I have cold water but I have hot water?
No problem with water in the bathroom, it's just the kitchen sink.
DIY is for beards not birds.*








*Well, not this bird who is annoyed that her laundry is half done (wet and soapy) and then stopped.

 

[washingcattle]

It's not a ghost turning on my sink.
It's that I have no water, thinking the tap is off (when it's really on) and when the water comes back on it's on full blast.
I feel better about this, however why don't I have cold water but I have hot water?
No problem with water in the bathroom, it's just the kitchen sink.
DIY is for beards not birds.*








*Well, not this bird who is annoyed that her laundry is half done (wet and soapy) and then stopped.

So it's your kitchen sink and washing machine that's fucked ? Are you in a flat or a house ?

 

[Jill Hives]

So it's your kitchen sink and washing machine that's fucked ? Are you in a flat or a house ?

Second floor flat.
Bathroom cold and hot work, shower, toilet and sink a-ok.
Kitchen hot water works but cold doesn't.
Dishwasher and washing machine (on either side of kitchen sink) are getting no water apart from when the 'ghost' turns it on. :/

 

[washingcattle]

Second floor flat.
Bathroom cold and hot work, shower, toilet and sink a-ok.
Kitchen hot water works but cold doesn't.
Dishwasher and washing machine (on either side of kitchen sink) are getting no water apart from when the 'ghost' turns it on. :/

Typically your cold water in your kitchen comes from a separate set of pipes, Like this

So your hot water in the kitchen is fed of a different line. It sounds like a pressure problem, if the water is coming in dribs and drabs. If your neighbours are having problems then you need a plumber.



Of course there's always the "air in the pipes" scenario, So if you have access to your flats water mains. Just means turn off your cold water at the mains turn on your cold tap and let whatever's in there drain out then turn the water main back on again. and slowly run your tap then gradually turn it up.

It's like broadband in a way.


It's the last option here, I've never heard the first one seems overly complicated

http://www.diyfixit.co.uk/plumbing/air-lock-in-pipework.html

I've never heard this method before but it sounds equally plausible

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060918030435AA3YmYp

 

[Jill Hives]

If I could rep you for that post, I would.