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Boilers broken. There's water coming out of a join on a pipe going from the heat exchanger to the flue pump thing.
The join is rusty.
It's the base of the pipe in the middle of the pic.

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Cat5 cabling... (probably Cat7 these days)

floors are up and skirting being redone anyway, so I guess it's just a case of some plastic conduit under the floor, then run the cable and terminate... any particular considerations?

Go for solid-core cat6. It's more than enough for gigabit ethernet and much cheaper and easier to work with than cat6a/cat7 - last I heard (although I left the industry 18 months ago), cat7 wasn't formulated as a standard and most manufacturers were having problems even passing cat6a testing.
Try not to exceed 90m in one run (unlikely in a house anyway) and get a cheap tester so you're not tearing your hair out trying to figure out why it's not working!

Cheers, didn't even know there was solid and stranded (last time I cabled an small office was well over a decade ago - around the time 11mpbs wireless was shiny and new - and hopelessly slow).
Length should be fine, will be patching everything under the stairs in the middle of the house, so I expect it'll be ~20m at most. Though maybe I should run some cables into the loft in prep for next year's planned extension. Still, nowhere near 90m.

Just catx cable? Why not other comms cables too?

Cable all the things.

Future proof it whilst it's empty and you've got the floors up.

It was a fucking nightmare, but my Brother's got Cat 5 throughout the whole house - even up on the roof terrace.

@TW @b&d (does that tag you?! ampersand in the name is confusing)
Do I need HDMI? Thinking if there's enough Cat6 then I could use something like this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00YC3BWL2/
to piggy back HDMI over ethernet.

USB, meh. Will run phono and coax within rooms I think, but I think I'm more Sonos than a proper audiophile so likely I'll not need to run too much apart from data around the house...

Anything else I'm missing while the laminate is being replaced. Underfloor heating already on the list.

I much prefer installing a high grade wireless network with APs under floors and in the loft. Ok, it costs a lot more to do but you can't beat having fast enterprise grade wifi.

@duncs - no it doesn't tag me...

Squeeze as much sound proofing in as you can - obviously being careful not to disturb any recessed lighting for the room below.

@Stonehedge I'd still take wired over wireless I think, especially as one thing I'll be using is a Steam Link to stream the pic from gaming PC upstairs to TV downstairs. Latency on wireless still seems to suffer from spikes. Router is decent if not enterprise - Netgear R7000 Nighthawk (AC1900).
I'm also getting pissed off with patchy Windows 10 drivers so hanker for the simplicity that plugging in a cable gets.

Just make sure there's space in the trunking and put in draw cords in case you want to pull something else through in the future.

Yeah but then you have to wear a foil hat to bed.

If you ingest enough lead it permeates your bones thus creating an ideal metal hat built into your skull.

HDMI doesn't really have standards for distance, as far as I know, but you're looking up to 15 meters for high speed HDMI cables.

You may get noise and attenuation if you are using long unshielded twisted pair cables, I guess.

So the new boiler went in and everything is working fine. Until....
Downstairs neighbour just told me there is a leak going into her kitchen. Phoned the plumber and he's coming over.
Is it his liability to sort out the damage caused by the leak? I've not been in this situation before.

lolz so much this.

I've got a 22.8m HDMI cable which seems to work fine, but it has a thingy in the middle.

HDMI doesn't really have standards for distance, as far as I know

HDMI is specified by performance rather than a specific distance IIRC, so if you could get a 5 mile HDMI cable that met the specs it would be compliant. 15 metres seems about the max in real life though.

Then again, I have no HDMI devices so I'm speaking from a position of mostly ignorance and no experience.

you can't beat having fast enterprise grade wifi.

Amen to this. I just installed a Ubiquiti UAC-AC-Pro at home and it's the shiz. I'm the only 802.11ac in the village.

15 metres seems about the max in real life though.

I just said I have a 22.8m fully functional one in the post above yours :)

This one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005LJQMOS/ref=pe_385721_37986871_TE_item

That's one is out of stock now and they only have the 30m version but the reviews suggest that works too.

Yesterday we rediscovered our garden, nothing better to ingratiate yourself to the new neighbours than a huge bonfire.

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Fucking hell. A small house in Bermondsey that were were looking at finally sold for £70k over the asking price. >>>>

@inchpincher You has shed! That's a decent size garden. And the house looks plenty big too. Tring has upsides...

and a museum full of freaky bird skins, skeletons and taxidermy... (750,000 of the things, covering ~95% of the world's bird species)

Really weirded me out as a kid, a fascinating but ultimately kind of terrifying place