Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

Lipsmackingthisrstquenchingacetastingmotivatinggoodbuzzing cooltalkinghighwalkingfastlivingevergivingcoolfizzing.Pepsi". :eek:

I've always remembered that one

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

...or even fuse boxes.

I think we've those here, having cleared out a cupboard and found a bunch of wire ... and the scarey electrics cupboard looks like it's fuse wires ... only I daren't touch it to find out. If I were posh like you lot I'd take a photo on my poshphone and upload it like posh people with posh phones know how to do .... but I don't

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think we've those here, having cleared out a cupboard and found a bunch of wire ... and the scarey electrics cupboard looks like it's fuse wires ... only I daren't touch it to find out. If I were posh like you lot I'd take a photo on my poshphone and upload it like posh people with posh phones know how to do .... but I don't

As long as nobody's been monkeying around with it putting the wrong kind of wire in it, you'll be fine. Just don't use an electric lawnmower and then run over the flex cutting it, or not without an RCD thingy between the plug and the socket, anyway. Probably best not to take risks overloading the system either - don't plug loads of things all into the same socket with an adaptor or 4-way extension or whatever.

When you sell the house, whoever buys it will probably be told by their surveyor to get the whole house rewired, and the fuse box will be replaced with an RCD-protected consumer unit then.

misskool

yay, written 2 proposal. one more to go and I can knock that up quite easily after the last 2.

then off for a week. back to work for a week and then off for two weeks.

Hope everyone is keeping well?

silvercar

Annoying DS2 redeems himself by passing his driving test!

Now those scary moments when they leave the house and you daren't phone them to check they've arrived safely in case they are still driving.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

Annoying DS2 redeems himself by passing his driving test!

Now those scary moments when they leave the house and you daren't phone them to check they've arrived safely in case they are still driving.

did the fairies bring him a car to drive?

Seriously HUGE congratulations. I'll be honest, I don't know how parents let their kids out in cars. I taught dh to drive and struggled. Since the crash at the beginning of the year I have found myself wanting to drive a lot when we are together....he's fine, not bothered at all or phased by it, but I'm worried about him too much.

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

Still haven't got my head round whether the American system's more dangerous than ours.

You need a certain minimum voltage to push current through skin. but it only takes a fraction of an amp to kill you.

Do they have less deaths than us? Not counting the electric chairs of course.

V = IR (Ohms Law). Your resistance will be basically constant in any given situation whether you are in the US or UK.

V is either 110 or 240 volts depending where you are so current (I) should be higher in the UK.

However, there is a limiting factor: the fuse limits the current you can draw from the circuit. My guess is it will depend whether the US or UK use bigger fuses.

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

V = IR (Ohms Law). Your resistance will be basically constant in any given situation whether you are in the US or UK.

V is either 110 or 240 volts depending where you are so current (I) should be higher in the UK.

However, there is a limiting factor: the fuse limits the current you can draw from the circuit. My guess is it will depend whether the US or UK use bigger fuses.

So I suppose our system is more dangerous. I wonder if that's the reason the UK opted to have a three-pin system (probably everyone else knows this already).

I did spot somewhere that we dropped voltage to 230V some time ago without much fanfare.

Most equipment apparently unaffected except, annoyingly, microwave ovens which then ran 15% less output and needed more time for cooking. Like everyone was expected to guess about it.

neverdespairgirl

silvercar wrote: »

Annoying DS2 redeems himself by passing his driving test!

Now those scary moments when they leave the house and you daren't phone them to check they've arrived safely in case they are still driving.

The first few times I drove after passing my test, I drove my mother's car with my mother.

The first time without a licenced driver, Mama made me take my (16 year old) sister with me. Eleanor nearly gave Mama a heart attack when we got back, as she said, "Those lights at the front aren't expensive, are they?"

neverdespairgirl

Our kitchen cabinets are now installed, as is the floor (which was done first). The sink's in, too. Now the oven and hob need connecting up, and the worktop laid, the tiles done, and bob's my uncle! It's really gorgeous, plain, and made from oak.