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You’ve got me thinking. Outdoor socket in the shed halfway up the garden would be useful for the lawnmower – currently use a huge long extension from the house.
I just did exactly this last summer - plug socket on outside of garage which can be used for both the lawnmower and the BBQ rotisserie.
Reminds me of a job I went to in Blackheath bitd, they were on third 3rd rewire before the refurb was finished trying to keep everything "state of the art" when tech was advancing daily, apparently they were just installing a huge hard drive in the basement so that the owner could listen to what ever music he wanted to in any room 🤣🤣
it might be fairly cheap to run in “dark” pipe under the floor with larger bore tubing (to each existing rad point) – so that when you do change to a heatpump the sturcture is there and its just a case of tying it in?
It's an option although could they be made redundant in future by advancements in heating etc? Might be crossing the line into trying too hard to plan for future without knowing exactly what might happen!
I had these in a previous house and hand no idea what they were for (or why we had a light switch that seemed to do nothing) – didnt twig til I saw them in use at a hotel I was staying at – got home and changed all the plugs on our lamps. Total revelation
Yep, a bit of a lightbulb moment for me.
look at how your various doors hang and whether changing them could give you a better room layouts .
That's a can of worms I've already opened with Mrs a11y. Almost all our internal doors are hung such that you have to walk around the door to see into the room fully. Unsure if that's a period thing or not: doors hung this way provide greater privacy for those already in the room. That's the opposite to what I've seen in modern builds (where doors open towards the nearest perpendicular wall in the room). Apparently doors should swing open into a room in the direction that is most frequently walked and rest against a wall that is perpendicular to the door.
Almost all our internal doors are hung such that you have to walk around the door to see into the room fully. Unsure if that’s a period thing or not: doors hung this way provide greater privacy for those already in the room.
Yes, it was the norm in Victorian and pre-war housing. Our 1930's house was built that way. The bedrooms are still like that but downstairs has been swapped. We did have one light switch behind a re-hung door which was somewhat inconvenient but that switch has been moved now.
Yes, it was the norm in Victorian and pre-war housing. Our 1930’s house was built that way.
I'm all for originality (and avoiding the work involved in rehanging doors...) so I'm happy to hear that!
I’ve got about 60 WiFi devices
60! I'm off to count how many are in our house now, surely it can't be anywhere near that many.
ETA: I count 12 for 2 old adults and 2 young adults. I think I must need some more stuff.
60! I’m off to count how many are in our house now, surely it can’t be anywhere near that many.
Just ask the router....
If you're smartifying things, run neutral to anywhere where there's a light switch. It's relatively uncommon in the UK and many smart light switches require it (or a nasty hack).
* Cat 5e/6 and wireless: I admit I’m still not fully clued up to 5e vs 6
The short answer is use Cat5e. This is a hill I will die on.
Run in cabling for an EV charge point
There are quite a few wireless devices on our LAN which I don't recognise and a MAC Address lookup comes up cold...
I've labelled all the ones I know about in the Router, so I can see who is connected and who isn't, but there are half a dozen where I simply haven't a clue.
I really need to run tcpdump on WAN side of the router and see who is talking to what, as that might give me a clue...