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[quote user="pachapapa"]
Stick this in google: Câble coaxial sat double, 75 Ω
Thought why dont you get 4 core instead?
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Many thanks, I'll see what comes up, but I think that Danny may have found what I was looking for in the meantime.
As to four core cable, the disadvantage would be that much of it would have to be split into seperate runs of twin. The advantage of twin core is that the overall diameter should be a good deal less than 10mm, so is easier to thread and hide.
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Probably didn't make myself clear, but what I was looking for was twin coax, not coax and power.
In the present confguration, we have a quad LND feeding two recordable boxes and two lengths of the twin stuff is much easier to use than four single coaxes. We have also used a single run of it through the length of the house for signal in from French aerial via a splitter to the second TV in the study and RF2 out from attached Sky+ box back in the other direction to main TV in the lounge (which is also independently cabled for its Humax box).
What we are seeking to do in the new house is replecate that basic configuration, but expand it so that four bedrooms, the lounge and kitchen can also access the Sky box. Obviously any number of TVs can only watch the same Sky channel, but we will also cable for separate Freesat boxes........essentially, I will be able to watch Sky Sports anywhere in the house, albeit in mono, not stereo!!
We have a blank canvas to play with, so we might as well build in maximlum flexibility at the outset.
I'm also looking into whether multiswitches which have been mentioned on the forum previouusly could be incorporated, but my head has started to hurt........[8-)]
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Is it possible to find this in France? I brought over a 100m reel 18 months ago for our present house, but the local satellite installer who did the work for us then had never used it before. We now want to cable Sky+ and Humax systems into several rooms at our new house and we could do with some more. I think we paid just over £1 per metre for the original reel.
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Okay....so we are broadly agreed on REAcher and REBus. Approaching this connundrum obliquely, perhaps we need to identfiy a hero whose name starts REC****.............[6]
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[quote user="woolybanana"]Yes, I have read them all except for the last one which my daughter stole before I could get to it![/quote]
Die Trying ?
What dissapointed me slightly was the lack of depth of the explanation as to how he escaped from where he was left in the book before [8-)]
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Just finishing 61 Hours and think follow on is Worth Dying For? Is that the one you mean? Die Trying, if I recall, involves the claustrophobic crawl through the tunnel.........hated it!!
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[quote user="virginia.c"]You can't beat Rebus. And unlike many authors who go off the boil, Rankin's last two were the best of the bunch. [/quote]
I started reading the Rebus novels when we moved to Scotland and agree that the series got better and better. Not so sure, thoiugh, that the post-Rebus work holds up as well.......
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Many thanks for the suggestions, I don't think either of us have read these. Incidentally, I was half expecting a response from you, as I had searched the forum before posting and found a previous reference to Reacher by you back in 2009.........[:D]
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With the exception of a couple of books we haven't been able to get hold of yet, Mrs F & I have just about worked our way through the Jack Reacher series of novels by Lee Child. Question is....what to read next........any thoughts?
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My wife didn't think that supermarkets would stock it, so she hadn't looked........will do so tout de suite.........Thanks
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Thank you. Plenty of choice there..........[:)]
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Is is possible to buy sweet almond carrier oil in France? My wife uses it in conjunction with essential oils and is running low. Usual web based sources in the UK are charging a fortune for carriage to France......
Many thanks
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Hi.......I've sent you a pm as well[:)]
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Hi......I have sent you a PM.
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This house is for sale at the moment and we have recently had the various diagnostique tests completed, including the termite report, which should highlight any other infestation. When we bought in 2001, our own survey threw up some capricorn damage in external timbers, so we have been aware of their potential dangers and kept a wary eye on things.
However, I think many people are oblivious to the risks of storing firewood close to or within a house for any period of time. Whatever comes into our house goes on the poêle pdq! -
Nine days before someone made a comment about the 2€...........I didn't think it was ever going to happen!
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Thanks for the info.
Images of the larvae look very similar to the grubs I have found. Capricorn Beetle, which makes sense, as, apparently, they are not uncommon around here, although I have yet to see an adult myself.
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[quote user="sweet 17"]
But I understand that Portuguese is not that easy to learn if you are a Brit? [/quote]
A knowledge of French certainly helps, as the vocabulary and sentence contruction is similar. We were also surprised to find that French is quite widely spoken, but not as much so as English. What did disappoint us was the attitiude of a proportion of the ex-pat community that we came across on our travels, who believed that there was no need to learn Portuguese at all because English was so widely spoken.............
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[quote user="frexpt"]
Anybody interested in a plot of land in Portugal? [:D]
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17°C today![6]
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We decided on our part of Deux Sevres (close to St Maixent L'Ecole) after a lengthy search for a residence secondaire back in 2001. Great for chill-out holidays and close enough to the western ports to allow welcome five-day breaks when we were working flat out in our own business. We never intended retiring to France, but the past few years, we tended to spend longer spells here, as the trip was not quite so straightforward from the north-east of Scotland, as it had been from West Glos!
In preparation for that retirement, we had even bought a nice rural plot of land an hour north of Lisbon and were looking forward to spending balmy summers and mild winters in what is a lovely area of Portugal.
However, having spent a little time in Deux Sevres last year with the aim of selling up to move on to Portugal, we realised what an excellent quality of life this area offers and generally how convenient everything is. In a very short time, we had identified and bought a fine property for our retirement, not 10 kilometres from our original house.
Anybody interested in a plot of land in Portugal? [:D]
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[quote user="WJT"]
What are the dimensions of your floor?
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The room is roughly 4 x 3, but after installation of shower cubicle, bath, WHB and WC, there will really only be a central "corridor" that will take the traffic and that is obviously a concern.
The builder we have used on and off for the past 8 years has had a look and he doesn't see a problem with tiling onto the plasterboard, provided flexible grout is used. However, we are unlikely to do much more with this before the New Year, so maybe in that time we'll decide to go belt & braces and lay an additonal layer of plywood.
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Just come back to look at this job again after feeling grotty with a virus for a few weeks. I've cut through the Placoboard with a hole saw in a corner of the room and discovered that it is actrually two layers, so is 26mm thick and laid onto the joists. I'm satisfied with the rigidity of the floor, but will add a moisture barrier of some sort. I did find the post by the Belgian lady and the link to the system she was championing, which looks to be just the job.........
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[quote user="Théière"][quote user="frexpt"]
Finally, I'll mention that the thread has been very handy and has prompted me to look into ordering contact lenses online. As with the specs, well worth doing.........
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May I reccomend Sight Station for your contact lenses
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Of course. Thanks, as always...........
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[quote user="Quillan"]That's because you went to an optician and they can only perform the most basic tests. In France you need to go to see a Opthamologist [/quote]
Thank heavens for that! I thought something had got lost in translation.........wouldn't be the first time.........
Thinking back to my youth when I started wearing glasses, there were always Opthamic Opticians and Dispensing Optiocians in the UK, whereas everything is done in-house by the high street firms these days. I guess the French are just 20 years behind in this area as well!
I'm due to go back to the UK at the beginning of January, so I'll get a full test sorted out there.
Finally, I'll mention that the thread has been very handy and has prompted me to look into ordering contact lenses online. As with the specs, well worth doing.........
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Can I tag onto this thread and ask a semi-relevant question please?
Yesterday, I arranged to have an eye test at the local optician, mainly because the last one I had was a couple of years ago in the UK and I also need to explore the feasibility of an ongoing order for disposable contact lenses. Anyway, I pitched up at the appointed time this morning, had my existing bifocals "analysed", as I couldn't put my hands on the prescription and a note was taken of the specification of my contact lenses. In a very few minutes I was in the chair, being asked to read the a simple four-line chart.......both eyes, then left, then right. Slight adjustment to the apparatus, then chart repeated. Next, I was handed a clipboard with paragraphs of reducing size and asked which was the smallest I could read. No probs, I could clearly see them all. Finally, "That's all, your existing specs prescription is fine, you don't owe us anything, au revoir"..........and there I was, back on the street within 10 minutes!
Not having had a test in France before, but appreciating that some things are a little different here, I wandered off for a coffee, pondering the fact that I had not been asked for any personal or medical information, there had been no red/green or contrast test, nor for field of vision and no test for glaucoma......is this normal, or is my eyesight so bad, that perhaps I was in the barber's.........?[:D]
Holding Out For A Hero.......
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What dissapointed me slightly was the lack of depth of the explanation as to how he escaped from where he was left in the book before [8-)]
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Having just finished "Worth Dying For", I can agree completely with what you say about the two paragraph explanation for the ending of "61 Hours". That said, Reacher's single handed obliteration of the population of part of Nebraska was impressive, even by his own standards.[8-|]