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Well, it's been an eventful 24 hours. Everything going smoothly until Sunday evening when my son quite suddenly became ill. Long story short it turns...

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Hate to break it to you but 8, 9, 10 aren't so much different so far! ...

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How did you chuck the pipe? I ask because I've done something similar smugly thinking I'll just part this off in the lathe and get a nice square end....oh....

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You're not wrong. I'd love to laud it over you how much better we've done things but I suspect that this may have been part of post-war rebuilding...

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Bob Engelhardt

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Bob Engelhardt They're quite unusual here when you're anywhere near a grid. Not unheard of but given the main sewer is on-grid it seems more likely that...

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The builder who did it originally, yes I'd agree with you. The plumbers however are trying to do me a favour. The camera they use does have sonde capability...

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Don't give my wife ideas! .....although, more space for a workshop that isn't a cupboard would be nice......

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Well, we've had a camera down the manhole now. Four pipes coming in and even found what appears to be one joining after the manhole. Guess which pipe...

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No inspection required for that - would have been had it been a new drain I would think. The steel that went in as part of the external wall came out...

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I was hoping that too....but not yet. Tomorrow afternoon they should be attacking the problem from the manhole side - now that we've found that. That...

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I made one pretty similar to Randy's. Cheap import halo and a ring of black acrylic with a channel cut into it. Means the light only goes down rather...

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About 4000 miles from you near London. Perfectly normal for rainwater and sewage to be a combined service but can only be mixed - from my limited knowledge...

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Yes, there's - and I'm extrapolating based on observations - a Y junction between what is now my downstairs toilet drain and their rainwater drain. ...

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genea Ah, genius; I like it! Given that the pump is also 12V and running off the same PSU, I could probably do this without swapping to a double relay...

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It's a good suggestion Bob but there's a branch to the washing machine and sink so it'd just come out elsewhere. Could maybe cap that too but then I've...

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Oh I'm far from "normal" ;D ...but an engineer? A wannabe perhaps. It's some breathing room and some peace of mind at night. That was my...

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DoozerIt's more UNHOLY crap to be honest. The long and the short of it is the builder made assumptions based on "knowing what he was doing"...

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Ok, I can't easily do it in electrics then and haven't got the stuff (of knowledge) for electronics. I did think about microelectronics (you know me...

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Ah, that sounds like it explains why it broke. The surge must have stuck the contacts of the reed that's in the float switch together and I was just...

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danlb As long as you're using a decent power supply in the PC, they don't mind the slightly mangled AC input apparently. I prefer to use a better output...