Recent content by trwb99

Hi, I am making some changes to the low voltage lighting in my kitchen ceiling. Replacing 4 high wattage transformers for 14 lights with 14 small ones which fit through the light hole from underneath. I have realised I am about to lay a floor upsatairs and will never be able to gain access...

Hi all. Anyone know if I can use a standard internal light fitting in a covered porch? And if not, why not? Is it a safety thing or is my light just going to corrode? TIA. Tom

Hi, Has anyone heard of a method of filling cracks in sanded wooden floors using some sort of string or rope? I have heard of someone using this to great success but am unable to find out anything about it? Cheers Tom

Hi, Anyone know how decorators get the perfect finish on MDF - I have seen it look as if it is sprayed on (I assume this wasn't how it was done). I have skirting boards, bookcases and cupboards to do, and have already primed them. What do I do now? Do I need thinners? What type of...

Hi, I have added an additional ring main to my kitchen - one serves the left hand side, the other the right. Is there any reasn these cannot be wired into the same fuse on the consumer unit? Cheers Tom[/list]

Thanks guys, So Andrew - do you think I should be able to buy a two gang intermediate switch and use one side as a two way switch? But then again I am unlikely to get this in the chrome range I have chosen. and the grid switched look a bit industrial for the style of house I am...

Hi, I'm trying to find a double switch which has one switch wired as an intermediate switch and one as a 2 way switch - do these exist? I am doing a house renovation and need the intermediate switch to support two way switching on a new landing, using an intermediate switch saves loads...

Hi, I am about to try and drill holes in porcelain tiles and want to be sure I can replace a tile if one breaks. Whats the best way to remove and replace a tile? Cheers Tom

Hi All, I have just had a new toliet and cistern fitted and we have a very slow leak - slow enough to stain the floor over one square metre during 72 hours. The problem is that I can't find the leak. It only happens when the water flow to the cistern is on, not when the cistern is full...

Any idea what to do to correct it then? I could replaster the wall now, or rip it down (not my preferred option), or wait and see, but by then I will have installed a bathroom in front of it! Cheers Tom

Hi, Anyone know what happens if you forget to tape the joints of a plasterboard wall before platsering it? Are the joints likely to crack? Is it worth tearing down the wall, or can I just scrim the cracks and re plaster or something like that? The wall has not cracked yet (plastered...

Thanks very much, I'll do it and let you know if my house blows up! Cheers Tom

Hi, I have just bought some bathroom spotlights, and the instructions say not to fit them in the same lighting circuit as a flourescent light, which I intend to fit above a mirror in the bathroom. Anyone have an opinion on whether this is ok? And what do the mean by 'same circuit'? The...