Recent content by andrewc

Welding - that makes sense. There's a cable that runs from the light switch to a junction box inside a false ceiling. From there it runs to a million other junction boxes, each supplying a spotlight. I snipped that cable short and prepared one end of it to connect to another one of the...

Yesterday I was rewiring a part of the lighting circuit. At some point I re-enabled the power at the consumer unit to the lighting circuit, then flicked the switch that controls power to the bit of the circuit I changed. At this point the MCB and RCD both tripped. (I accidentally introduced a...

Any suggestions on which material I should use (or if it's even worthwhile to try) to block up some draughts in my kitchen? The draughts are coming from behind the row of built-in cabinets built all along an exterior wall. The pipework is also behind these cabinets, and I suspect that there...