Recent content by Westbeef

As you can see it's old so it needs changing anyway, but I can confirm they are floorboards, but quite a lot of dust has gotten through. The problems are arising from the cellar I think as they collect quite a lot of water and that's what happens to all the row of houses along here...

hello I will pull up a few blocks later and take a picture. My next door neighbour has the same damp problem but his floor has survived so far.

I'll have to check that when I'm home, I didn't know what I was looking at when I got it to be honest. I thought it was just a legal requirement for him to give me one.

Hi Andy, I don't think so, the cables are behind the wall so no obvious conduit and I'm not sure if they are in conduit in the wall - I'm not sure if that's common practice is it?

Thanks John, My landlord has allowed me a "free reign" to improve the house, as it is quite old and needs a fair bit of decorating (Obviously I'm not paying for any big jobs). He has had electrical work done and has a cert which I have a copy of. There's new smoke detectors to meet the...

The wires switches were all black, they are quite old. There's no obvious earth wire and no loose wires hanging around either.

Yes no earth wires are present, I had chrome switches to put on which I haven't done for obvious reasons. The light fittings are metal though.

Thanks, it's actually a rented house and I've offered to put down the flooring if he buys it. The blocks have popped out due to the swelling and won't go back in without being flashed, and it's happened to so many now it's less of a job to rip them up. The Parquet is straight on the floorboards...

Some of my light fittngs and switches are not eathed I have noticed, even though my landlord has paid for the house to be re-wired before I moved in. It's got a nice shiny new circuit breaker so some work has been carried out. Is this acceptable or is this not safe?

Hi All, I'm looking at replacing my current flooring which is very old Parquet, there is nothing underneath so it looks like I'm going to have to lay some hard board down before I can laminate. Laminating over the top of the parquet is not an option as the blocks have started to pop out due...