Recent content by charlieboy

Thanks for the advice - I will get some dense blocks and render the exposed surface

I am building a stone seat from an old York stone fireplace. I have enough stone for the visible areas, but for the rear of the seat which is close to a wall and will not be seen, I plan to use breeze blocks. Will I need to render the exposed surface of the blocks with cement or can they be left...

Specifically, what size wall plug and drill size do I need for an M10 coach screw? More generally, does anyone know of any table on the internet that gives this information for all screw sizes - both metric sizes (e.g. M6, M8, M10 etc) and gauge nos (e.g. No 4, No 6 etc)?

Thanks for your advice. I made this post just before going on holiday, so I immediately turned the boiler off and arranged for a service engineer to call on my return. He has now been and thoroughly checked the boiler, and confirmed that everything is OK. He said that this can happen sometimes -...

I have a Baxi Bermuda 552 back boiler with LFE3 Super fire front. I've had it for about 17 years. The other day I was standing next to it, the fire front was not on, but the boiler had fired up, and I felt a steady flow of warm air coming out of the grill at the top of the fire front. I had...

BSBS, thanks for explaining the buzz on the meter. Since encountering the 'problem' I had left the downstairs lighting fuse out, just in case there was any earth leakage. Put it back in today, and got no more shocks, so all is well. Clearly it was due to over over-zealous wifey with her damp...

Thanks spark123 - Looks like I am using the wrong method to check for earth leakage. For my education though, do you know why I get a slight buzz (though not a beep) in the multimeter when connecting it in continuity mode between live and earth? I did read somewhere (perhaps on another thread?)...

Hi, After moving a light switch a few inches and reconnecting it I got a slight shock when I next switched it on, though it didn't trip the circuit breaker. I then discovered that whilst I had slipped out to the garage to turn on the supply, my wife had just wiped the (plastic) switch with damp...