The Home Improvements Thread (2)

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Steamy Tom said:
It takes a positive an negative and it is magnetic, not much needed imo in terms of instructions
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There's a whole lot of wiring and capacitor looking things for the fluorescent fitting. Do I take all that out and connect the wires directly from the ceiling?

How do I know which one is positive and negative? And which one from the ceiling is positive and negative as they are different colours?
 
derp90 said:
There's a whole lot of wiring and capacitor looking things for the fluorescent fitting. Do I take all that out and connect the wires directly from the ceiling?

How do I know which one is positive and negative? And which one from the ceiling is positive and negative as they are different colours?
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Don't take this as an insult, but it sounds like you need an electrician to install it for you.
 
TedLasso said:
In your case, you may end up dead. Can you change a plug? Literally the same schema theory wise , just different colours.
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The LED converter has a brown and blue wire, but look at the fluorescent thing:

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There are like 3 separate wires coming out the roof going to different places. So complicated! And the sales person told me this was an easy swap! "Just take out the old fitting!". :D

I get the feeling that one of those roof wires goes straight onto the led fitting, with blue going to black (neutral) and brown going to red (live). Then I should tape up the other ones coming from the roof, and leave the earth one as it is.
 
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You need an electrician, or at very least a friend who has knowledge to teach you. Where are you based?

What you most likely have going on here is daisy chaining, I assume you turn on the switch and more than one fitting turns on?

It's either that or the switch leg and incoming power are both terminating in the light fitting
 
Steamy Tom said:
You need an electrician, or at very least a friend who has knowledge to teach you. Where are you based?

What you most likely have going on here is daisy chaining, I assume you turn on the switch and more than one fitting turns on?

It's either that or the switch leg and incoming power are both terminating in the light fitting
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Yeah I'm not gonna mess with electricity if I'm not confident enough.

There isn't another light that comes on, but the wall has a double switch, one for the extractor fan and one for the light, so maybe that's connected in some way.
 
I need to install gutters around my home and both companies have advised that the downpipes drain into the available gulleys which goes to sewage. Is this allowed from a local council side? Is it standard practise?
 
Getit said:
I need to install gutters around my home and both companies have advised that the downpipes drain into the available gulleys which goes to sewage. Is this allowed from a local council side? Is it standard practise?
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Not answering your question but just some advice. When they do the job make certain the new gutters aren't halfway under the roof tiles so water flows down the roof and skips over them.

Progress Gutters did ours years ago and that's what we got.
 
Getit said:
I need to install gutters around my home and both companies have advised that the downpipes drain into the available gulleys which goes to sewage. Is this allowed from a local council side? Is it standard practise?
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you aren't really allowed to and shouldn't really as it can cause sewerage overflows in the event of a blockage. Though i think many people do...
 
derp90 said:
Yeah I'm not gonna mess with electricity if I'm not confident enough.

There isn't another light that comes on, but the wall has a double switch, one for the extractor fan and one for the light, so maybe that's connected in some way.
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where are you geographically?
 
Getit said:
I need to install gutters around my home and both companies have advised that the downpipes drain into the available gulleys which goes to sewage. Is this allowed from a local council side? Is it standard practise?
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It is not allowed, when you sell a property the plumbing coc checks that no stormwater (i.e rain water from your roof) drains into the sewer system. Can you imagine the influx of water at the waste water treatment works if it rains and everyone just drains their water to the sewer network.
 
I have three palm trees on my property that I want to get rid of. Can I just get a company to cut it off or are there any form of restrictions on cutting down palm trees? I'm based in CT. Also can I cut the palm and then just cover up the stump without issues? The palms are very close to boundary walls and I don't want to disturb the soil buy having the stump removed.
 
Sheppard_za said:
I have three palm trees on my property that I want to get rid of. Can I just get a company to cut it off or are there any form of restrictions on cutting down palm trees? I'm based in CT. Also can I cut the palm and then just cover up the stump without issues? The palms are very close to boundary walls and I don't want to disturb the soil buy having the stump removed.
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Ensure whoever is cutting the palm trees down has tree felling insurance because your policy will not respond if it falls on your house etc.
 
derp90 said:
The LED converter has a brown and blue wire, but look at the fluorescent thing:

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There are like 3 separate wires coming out the roof going to different places. So complicated! And the sales person told me this was an easy swap! "Just take out the old fitting!". :D

I get the feeling that one of those roof wires goes straight onto the led fitting, with blue going to black (neutral) and brown going to red (live). Then I should tape up the other ones coming from the roof, and leave the earth one as it is.
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It is quite easy to convert this to LED, and yes pretty much all of that comes out and you connect using neutral and live coming from the switch to the LED, earth connects to the light fitting (which looks like it is already).

If you are getting someone to do this for you, let him clean that entire mess up, I hope nobody got paid for that wiring as it is (is that masking tape I see there or is it at least insulation tape?).
 
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