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I think what you'll need really is an electrician. However you might be able to sort it out yourself, depending. If you have one of those little blanking plates on a wall in your house; the ones which look like there should be a socket but there's nothing, then you may have a power source right there. Turn the power off in your house and then take the blanking plate off - if you have a live, neutral and earth all terminated behind the plate, then you can buy a replacement for this plate which has a connector and a little slot in the bottom for a cable to come out. You could also just replace a single plug socket with one of these.
If you can sort this out then you'll need to get a decent length of electrical cable to go from the socket out to the shed. Get a fairly heavily insulated cable so it'll be weatherproof and won't be easily broken by wear and tear - I think an electrical supplies store should be able to provide lengths of weatherproof cable. You'll need to drill a hole in your wall to run the cable from indoors to outdoors, and you can get plastic covers to tidy up the hole where you run the cable from. Again, an electrical supplies store should be able to provide this. Then simply run the cable in a tidy route along your garden to your shed, making sure it's not going anywhere that it might be easily cut or broken. You can then attach more or less whatever you want onto the end of it - most likely a multi-way power adapter.
You could do it a little cheaper if you simply buy a long multi-socket power extension, and plug it into a socket and just run it outside in the way I describe above, but the proper way to do it would be with blanking plates and proper connectors and stuff. It's not hard to do, just fiddly, and you'll have to drill and eff-off hole in your wall with a massive masonry drill bit.
WRT insulating the shed, then probably the simplest thing to use would be the dimpled foam stuff you can get for sticking to walls in home studios. As it's soft you'll be able to attach it to the interior of the shed just using tacks or staples, and it'll be easy to replace if you need to. Just make sure your shed is nice and waterproof otehrwise it could easily rot, and it does make a nice haven for any insects who might want to live behind it.
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I'm going to be working in Victoria tomorrow if any of the massive amount of London based TMOers fancy a beer after work?
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: WRT insulating the shed, then probably the simplest thing to use would be the dimpled foam stuff you can get for sticking to walls in home studios. As it's soft you'll be able to attach it to the interior of the shed just using tacks or staples, and it'll be easy to replace if you need to. Just make sure your shed is nice and waterproof otehrwise it could easily rot, and it does make a nice haven for any insects who might want to live behind it.
Yes but do be mindful that the egg crate foam (particularly the inexpensive kind) is quite flammable. Not the sort of thing I'd like to have lining the walls of a small, enclosed space with home-made wiring junctions. But that's just my preference, you know, and bias against being crisped.
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Amusingly, today I'm typing on a "Cherry" keyboard. It's as if I were literally touching you with my fingers, as they tap-dance across your pale white body, and you make a satisfied clicking noise with every stroke that I make. So sensitive are you to my caresses that I'm bottoming out almost every time.
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I had an offer from a "Dr Benway" of a pint, but ended up going for networking drinks with the people from the London office that I hadn't met before. They didn't want to discuss minecraft at all so overall it wasn't as good as if I'd met Benway.
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: You think I wanted a baby? We came to your house and you were having a baby and Richie was having a baby and it was like OH FFS, if everyone is doing it then I've got to as well, and now I don't get any real time to play Xbox
Wait until she starts walking. That's when the fun really ends.
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After speaking to the guy at kwikfit yesterday and telling him I really just wanted to get the essentials done for the MOT, he listed of all the things they'd found and said it would cost £636.10. It's a sting but if it needs it to pass I agreed to it. Paid the money, got the car home and read through the documents and the ONLY THINGS it failed on were two new bulbs and a drive shaft casing which would have come to £60 in parts in total. Add on the cost for labour, service and MOT and it should have cost me about £200 but they decided to do all this other stuff as well even though it would have passed the MOT without it.
So, I now have new brake pads, new brake discs, new suspension coil, something else etc etc.
Fuckers.
I'm sure all these things are useful, but it's a bit deceptive.
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Ah balls. Just had a quick google and there are so many stories exactly the same as this. Wish I'd googled first. Will write a complaint letter but suspect that it will get me nowhere.
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Your best bet is to go to one of those MOT stations that just does the testing, not to a garage or fast fit centre that has an MOT bay on the side. When they have no vested interest in telling you everything's falling apart, it's surprising just how few faults they tend to find.
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God, that would piss me off. The worst thing about it would be standing there completely powerless, having to hand over your £600 - not just because as the goddamned customer you should be treated a bit better than that, but also because these are always the irritating little fuckheads that you were convinced you were better than at school. I recommend you log into the system at work and add all the mechanics to the credit blacklist.
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lol. Just got a courtesy call from Kwikfit customer services saying "We'd like to hear what you thought about the service and talk to you about possible savings". He didn't get to the bit about the savings as I told him what I thought about the service. He's going to get someone senior to give me a call back.
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I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: I recommend you log into the system at work and add all the mechanics to the credit blacklist.
I don't necessarily want to adhere to stereotypes but I can't imagine that Kwik-fit f**kheads are generally Amex-carriers anyway.
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