My software will no longer allow me to post in the "Home Efficiency"
thread.
Not going to change it, as my elderly parent also use this machine.
Here's what I wrote that would not send:
"Doug Wickstrom" <nimshubur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> On Tue, 6 May 2008 17:40:43 +1000, "Ruth Lawrence"
> <curlygrrrl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>Oh.
>>
>>Our wiring is not embedded in studs.
>>
>>Our (new build) interior panelling is typically a layer of plaster
between
>>two sheets of dense cardboard, except in wet areas. It's called
>>plasterboard or Gyprock.
>>
>>You wouldnt attach much to that, eh?
>
> You'd be surprised. There are devices made just for that
> purpose, and some of them are quite ingenious.
I and mine look at them Askance ;-)
Wouldn't use them except for something like a light, textile wall-hanging
(and have done, of course).
This is a family tradition.
> Anyway, you have to secure the wiring _some_ place. Where it
> doesn't run through a stud, it has to run along one.
:::nods:::
If'n the screw or nail is set into the middle of the stud, it will miss
the
wiring running alongside it, and should the wiring take a little diversion
(as it does, here and there), it will also be missed if it never crosses
the
side of a stud where the panelling is attached.
Seem to me we get used to habitual practices where we live, eh.
and also
"David Weinshenker" <daze39@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> From the NZ immigration website's list of "skills in demand" (and
qualifications
> for having them credited towards being considered a Desirable
Immigrant),
> I get
> the (exaggerated?) impression that just about -everything- in NZ from
> sheep-shearing
> to house-painitng involves having a government-standardized "National
> Certificate"
> from a trade-school education in that particular line of work... Is it
> similar in
> Australia?
It seems very much so, although we trend very much to concurrent
apprentice****p/trade school programmes, which I uspect *may* be different.
The college where I studied community development was also a trade school.
Apprentices would come in one day a week.
(yes, you must do the all but the final year of CD at what would be called
a
Junior College in the US -I think- or a Polytechnic in the UK -again I
think- in my state, for policy reasons re wider accessibility)
Ruth , who won't be posting another mish-mash like this, as far as she
knows.
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