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I've never liked snobbery and food snobs are among the most irritating.

Those Rosie & Jim dolls would have to go!

Hi all I'm happy to offer advice to those wishing to develop painting skills, bearing in mind that those painters in dockyard days possessed techniques that allowed them to work swiftly and confidently. I've watched the late Ron Hough produce a landscape in little more than half an hour, my own take little longer in working time, though I prefer to paint in 3 separate stages: Sky, water, mountains and clouds first Castle, bridge, foreground and path next in block colours Followed by details, trees, fence, boat etc finishing with foliage....tree, bushes etc. Peter looks to be doing a fine job, though I suspect he's making needless work for himself, I've already offered to advise. Though I no longer run courses as such, I'm happy to offer one to one tuition here at home for those who are wanting to acquire appropriate skills. Dave

I don't really understand this, given all 12 cells are in series (24v bank). So when charging and equalising all cells are carrying the same current, so I don't get how one cell failing to charge can prevent the others charging, given they have a charge current of 30a flowing through them.

If a picture paints a thousand words, Then why can't I paint you? I've bought some Crown Plus Two, I want to paint you blue.

A few tips for the challenge.

If someone dumped their "compost" on my front lawn, I would lose my s**t.

Actually, I make lovely scrambled eggs in our microwave. Creamy and soft just how they should be. Saves mucking up a pan too.

Yeah, but you drink Lager don't you!

Whose 'Chum' are you ?

Can we consider the possibility/likelihood that there is nothing wrong? It strikes me that the idea of equalising is to remove sulphation from the plates, thus increasing the battery capacity, and one would expect the amps drawn to increase at the moment the capacity increase. My understanding of what ideally happens whilst equalising a sulphated battery is as follows, (based upon Sterlings description in my Pro Combi Charger Inverter manual: Page 3 "What to expect on this cycle. https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0658/7343/files/Combi_Q_S_fitting_instructions_USA_EURO.pdf?484 Once the bank is fully charged, i.e. drawing only its tail current, increase the voltage to the equalisation level, (on my charger this is 15.5V), and the amps drawn should increase, but not by much. Ideally, after a few hours, if/when a chunk of the sulphation is "blown off the plates and back into the electrolyte solution, the capacity of the bank will increase, the voltage will fall and the amps drawn will increase. Sterling says that it's possible that the voltage could fall to around 12.5V and, if something like this happens, you should revert to normal charging setting until the batteries are fully charged to their recovered capacity. So... in Tom and Bex case, it seems to me that their equalising may be working perfectly. I dont think they mention the voltage when the amps drawn increases to the 35A or so. It would be interesting to see whether the voltage remains at 15.5V when the amps increase to 35A, or does it fall, even if not as low as 12.5V.

The drain fitting should be accessible from the adjacent room/space by reaching under the wet-room floor. The fitting should be in 2 parts - the top is fixed with a long screw into the under-floor drain, and a rubber gasket is used to prevent leaks. Ideally the top bit is located in a shallow depression formed in the floor and the vinyl liner so it doesn't project above floor level. There is no reason why the drain should leak, but if it does it must be accessible from underneath for removing and replacing.

Actually every one you squash will mean approx 10,000 less of the nasty little blighters in the summer.

Over wintering Queens. Every one you squash, is one less nest next summer. Bod

Most folk who've always been employed can never understand the reasons, methods of working ''overheads, income tax, possible VAT ect of self employed people or small businesses. They often think they are rip off merchants. I've often argued this with employed folk, especially electricians, asking them why they don't go self employed, they fob you off saying it'd be easy peasy but, mmmm! but they really know its not. To be successfully self employed you need bombs of self discipline, put in far more hours, no holiday money and other perks that companies offer, no one to carry the can ect.ect. Everything is down to you. Nobody gives you anything, you have to earn it all, It aint easy.