Recent content by tjb3

Thanks for the replies. I don't think the wiring can be exactly as bernard's diagram, since there aren't enough switches. I will draw myself some diagrams and trace the wiring if necessary and hopefully figure out how it works. I just wondered if there was a standard way it was done most of...

Moved house and we're still discovering little mysteries ... The house has two pairs of outside lights (two on the side, two at the back) with a PIR per pair (I think). Currently none of the lights seem to work. There is also a double switch inside the house, near the back door, which I...

Well, as you asked the back of the worktop has a matching upright piece (I guess it is called an 'upstand' rather than a splashback?), about 4 inches tall and 3/4 inch thick. The bottom of the socket is almost directly on top of this (daft), but there's plenty of space above. They only needed...

Just moved house and found that most of the sockets in the kitchen are rather useless. They are the fancy 'flat-plate-no-screws-visible' type and, because they are mounted too low down compared to the 3/4inch thick splashback, half the time we can't actually get plugs into them (the cable fouls...