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    Cat 5. Best tools, hint and tips if you'd be so kind.

    Hi Pirate - really like the look of the Kleine pass thru tool and ends not used efore, I feel it may prompt a purchase soon! I would guess very useful and quick method especially with pass thru faceplates/patch panels. Hope you dont mind this input: technically if an installation is not...
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    Cat 5. Best tools, hint and tips if you'd be so kind.

    ha ha, hasnt everyone got a tardis? ......seemed like yesterday! (Only just noted the date!)
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    Cat 5. Best tools, hint and tips if you'd be so kind.

    The type of tester depends on whether you want to 'certify' the installation as Cat 5 or 6 compliant. For that you will need the more expensive testers that produce a printout across the frequency range the cables need to carry to meet their spec, a wire map tool is just that - baiscally a fancy...
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    Hive conversion on Potterton oil boiler - heating only

    "seeking someone or recommendations in my area to conduct or assist with the task.........." That's not specifically asking for free sir, its asking for help and on- site assistance to which I would expect to pay, but on recommendation - I am NOT boiler experienced or qualified. I am on the...
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    Hive conversion on Potterton oil boiler - heating only

    @' Murdoch' many thanks - I spent a couple of hours yesterday looking through other hive/nest/boiler posts, and was unable to find anything conclusive. Even one initially helpful looking post descended into a txt debate with other parties advising it as being incorrect/correct! But failure...
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    Hive conversion on Potterton oil boiler - heating only

    The white flex is the boiler supply, and additional feed to left of main power is a fused down security light which can be ignored, but the rest needs a proper rationalisation, its just the boiler to Hive connections that have me a bit flummoxed....
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    Hive conversion on Potterton oil boiler - heating only

    Hi Gents, after some advice on what should have been a relatively simple conversion, but I am hesitant due to lack of boiler experience. Have a Potterton floor standing oil boiler - supplying heating only, currently has Smiths controller, frost stat (possibly) house stat, pump feed and wired as...
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    Outside lighting in a garden run in swa

    Hi Stidge, 100% newbie on here. How are you running the cabling - depth / containment / sand /warning tape etc, as I am about to start an urgent project and looking for external cable laying advice source to acheive part P. I have warning tape/cable -will be armoured to an out-building which...

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