What "man jobs" have you done today?

Armageus said:
Depends whether the cat 6 has a central X spine in it or not - older versions always did, newer ones it seems a lot rarer
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I've ran cat 6 and fibre om3 cables in my house.

First few I tried to do the ends took ages and was frustrating but now I have nailed down the technique.

I need to focus and have quiet to do it.
 
dlockers said:
It's easy just requires lots of stamina. You'll likely break the boards coming up so fast forward and have the chipboard ready lol.

I'm dying, again - partial rewire, cat6 and coax...

I've actually ran out of PIR too annoyingly. I think I'll do one more shift tomorrow and call it for a bit.

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Did you have to remove all your floorboards to do it? Did you install batons to support the insulation boards?

Now did you get around joists that have wires or pipes going through them?
 
jonneymendoza said:
Did you have to remove all your floorboards to do it? Did you install batons to support the insulation boards?

Now did you get around joists that have wires or pipes going through them?
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You don't have to remove them all, see my kitchen insulation, I just slid it under. You don't quite get such a good job that way but probably within shooting distance on how effective it is.

I do horizontal batons about 1m apart because I'm lazy and my PIR is 100mm. Gosforth did long batons either side but he only had 75mm.

You cut around any weird bits and then foam them back up.
 
gingergundog said:
Sounds awkward! Also sounds like a bit of a design flaw.
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It's not that bad. The point of the central spine is to act as a physical separator between each pair to improve signal integrity and enable higher (e.g. 10gb speeds). The wires are also slightly thicker for the same reason.

CAT6A is each pair is individually shielded which needs stripping before termination and there is an additional ground wire running through which needs to be terminated to the metal outside of the plug to ground all the shielding in the cable. I believe the wires themselves are thicker again and with all the shielding makes them very stiff compared to standard CAT6 and that again to 5e.
 
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Certainly looks better in the flesh
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I would use benzalkonium chloride on that.

Although its much slower than sodium hypochlorite it's less harmful and more effective on the organic staining and lasts well as you don't rinse it off. I inherited a badly stained (white and black spots) block paved drive and patio and over the course of a year turned them back to pristine condition and now only do it annually as part of the pressure wash and reseal routine. Many patio/drive cleaners are based on benzalkonium chloride (often overly weak) but stupidly expensive in comparison.

Professional cleaners do favour sodium hypochlorite because it shows a difference very quickly as its a type of bleach, whereas benzalkonium chloride is more in the several months timeframe for full effect.
 
Old garage light died so decided to replace it with a Eufy floodlight.

Removed the old floodlight, drilled the holes for the new floodlight, took a bit off the existing power cable and I was presented with 4 cables (red, blue, yellow and a bare cable) and now I'm stuck.



It appears my Dad previously left the yellow cable unattached, covered the bare cable with a green/yellow sheath and used that as the earth.



Which one do I use? Guessing it's the unsheathed one but don't want to die :o
 
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Pigeon_Killer said:
Old garage light died so decided to replace it with a Eufy floodlight.

Removed the old floodlight, drilled the holes for the new floodlight, took a bit off the existing power cable and I was presented with 4 cables (red, blue, yellow and a bare cable) and now I'm stuck.



It appears my Dad previously left the yellow cable unattached, covered the bare cable with a green/yellow sheath and used that as the earth.



Which one do I use? Guessing it's the unsheathed one but don't want to die :o
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Confused as to what the issue is - if yellow was previously snipped and not used then isn't it obvious? (Not having a dig).

Presuming you need a live, neutral and protective earth, I'd hazard these:

GY-sleeved bare: earth
Brown: I am blind - red: live
Blue: neutral

No?
 
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Like a mix of old and new regs :D

Blue should be your neutral, red the live, and uninsulated/unsheathed is always the earth and correct is has the green/yellow sheath, needs to have it both ends of the exposed when attaching to new terminals.
 
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Final fix on the kitchen subfloor, more annoying being in smaller space than the bigger job!

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And minor progress on the living room. I've ran out of PIR so couldn't make massive progress. Also my hands are now battered. Hats off to proper tradies, altho I suspect they have made my 4 days job into 8 and 2 people lol.

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I did some cutting back in the garden, I generally wait until later in the year but one particular corner of the garden was out of control.

After moving the garden bin I noticed it was damp behind and found that the pressure relief valve from the central heating has been discharging water outside :(
 
Finally finished redecorating my sons bedroom. 2 coats of paint everywhere as the white underneath was shining through and 1 nail shoved through the cold water pipe hiding under the floorboard when I tried stopping them squeaking. Sod it, he can live with squeaky floorboards as I'm not risking another leak, £80 emergency plumber and more mess.

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