Recent content by Wunwinglo

Hi, The accessible loft in my house doesn't go to the sides of the house - part of the upstairs bedroom ceilings slope, one for around 6' from the outside wall, and there is a foot or less between the plasterboard and felt. What's the best insulation to fit in there? I'm reluctant to stuff the...

Thanks for the advice. It turned out to be a transformer primary I was reading the DC resistance across. I dug out my trusty old AVO8 and the cct was only drawing 20ma although I was reading quite a low resistance with the DVM... You learn something new every day.

Had the spare bedroom redecorated during which the light fitting was removed. When it went back up it worked OK for a minute or so, then went dim for a few seconds, and then the MCB tripped. The switched live may have been wrongly connected to neutral in the fitting (which had another N wire in...