Last week\u2019s blog<\/a>, foolishly titled \u2018Wired\u2019 said that I had completed the wiring and had taken a bit longer on it to get it right. This allowed me to start hiding all the wires behind the lambris on the ceiling and OSB boards on the walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThen I wired the switch to turn on the lights (LED tubes) and \u2013\nnothing! My big \u2018Ta-Dah!\u2019 moment was\nmore of a \u2018Ta-D\u2019Oh!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Knowing how careful I had been putting the wires up, I hadn\u2019t tested\nthe circuits before hiding all the wires away. \nKnowing too that all the connections were good I was completely stumped\nas to what could be the problem so I called on a friend who had recently\nre-wired his house and, while no sparky himself, knows a lot more about it than\nI did. And he too was, initially,\nbaffled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All the readings from his voltmeter showed that the circuits were good and there was power getting to the switches and the lights, albeit just below 220 volts, but they didn\u2019t want to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After a few hours, and some trial and error with random bits of wire, a solution was found which was to wire the lights in parallel rather than series. Why this is the case I still don\u2019t completely understand but it worked. What it did mean was that I had to remove about half of the lambris from the ceiling and some of the internal cladding so that I could change the wiring \u2013 an additional day and a half worth of work to remove, amend and replace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now all done so I have been able to progress with the remainder of the cladding which I will show next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the week we also received some new collars for Mouse so that we\ncould attach the magnet which acts as the key to her new cat flap. Mouse had got used to walking through the hole\nin the door before I installed the flap and then through the fitted flap as we\nhad taped the door open. However, despite moving her food and bed into the shed,\nshe was initially very slow to experiment with the flap once we had closed the \u2018door\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thankfully, eventually, her curiosity, or possibly hunger, got the\nbetter of her and she has started to use the flap to get in and out so she has\na nice warm, dry house safe from other cats \u2013 and especially her mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Photos next week \u2013 promise \u2013 and the shed should be finished and ready\nto stock!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Again, this week\u2019s principal focus has been working on the man shed but I have made a lot less progress than I would have liked. My desire to have it totally complete and stocked by mid-Feb (middle of next week) is unlikely to be met. However, I am very close to finishing on the inside…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ben-and-daves-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}