QP totally and utterly flat battery , now the boot won't shut

[CatmanV2]

I don't understand why I need one when I boil four or five kettles a day.

Oh right. You don't need one. No one does. It's a solution looking for a problem

C

 

[bigbob]

Oh right. You don't need one. No one does. It's a solution looking for a problem

C

Good explanation.

We will look back in 20 years time with disbelief that people bought them.

 

[Simon]

Do your lights flicker in the adverts during Coronation when people put their kettles on?

Or does everyone in London have those Quooker taps instead? I don't understand those myself.

There nothing new, restaurants have them (generic type) so they always have boiling water available. In the home, no chance, an accident waiting to happen especially with kids in the house.

 

[Elliott653]

There nothing new, restaurants have them (generic type) so they always have boiling water available. In the home, no chance, an accident waiting to happen especially with kids in the house.

We use the Tefal one cup. As it says on the tin. One cup of boiled water in your cup within 20 seconds at a press of a button.

 

[dem maser]

Coronation Street? You Northerners are sooooo quaint !

Haha Elliott

 

[TridentTested]

I park my QP under an all weather cover in the car park of my apartment block. I live on the top floor and with the help of the complex's window cleaner, I've run a cable from a socket in my kitchen, out of the kitchen window, down two and a half storeys of wall to where the car is parked. The power cable is mated to the trickle charger unit inside a weather proof box. I had to swap parking places with a neighbour so that the run would be reasonably short.

I've had to do something similar. From a socket in the corner of our apartment's garage I've run an extension lead into a continuous linear pavement drain which runs across all the parking spaces this allows it to pop up beside my parking space. There is a short part of the lead exposed between the wall socket and the drain which I've covered in a proprietary cable cover glued to the slab.

I put it in as a temporary measure, I was going to get an electrician friend to run cable trunking up across the ceiling and down to my space using MK gear to match the building's, but the temporary solution is working perfectly now.




PS: we're on the top floor of our block too, but it would have been a nightmare to run a cable.

 

[CatmanV2]

I've had to do something similar. From a socket in the corner of our apartment's garage I've run an extension lead into a continuous linear pavement drain which runs across all the parking spaces this allows it to pop up beside my parking space.

Does that drain fill with water? If so, I'd expect the insulation to start degrading, unless it's exterior cable....

C

 

[TridentTested]

Does that drain fill with water? If so, I'd expect the insulation to start degrading, unless it's exterior cable....

C

It's a Black and Decker exterior extension lead - does that count?

It's been an awful long time since our caretaker hosed down the garage! It probably hasn't seen water in ten years. But yes, it could fill with water. I know it's not ideal and no doubt does not comply at all with the Approved Documents Part P

But it is temporary

 

[CatmanV2]

It's a Black and Decker exterior extension lead - does that count?

Probably not, but if it's an inside drain, I'd not be worried either

C