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I lost power to the cooker plug and a few other plugs not long ago, running oven off a normal plug the now. This house is full of dodgy wiring which I don't understand cos even if you're not qualified whats the point in doing a crap job. I've got an understanding of electrics and do car...

I lost power to the cooker plug and a few other plugs not long ago, running oven off a normal plug the now. This house is full of dodgy wiring which I don't understand cos even if you're not qualified whats the point in doing a crap job. I've got an understanding of electrics and do car...

Yeah it's a frost free one, I've been working or sleeping until now so turned it off a couple of hours ago maybe an hour and just got a double bang but can't tell where the hell it's coming from. This happened once before and the electrician couldn't figure it out until it was happening so...

Ok cheers guy I'll give it a go, happens about once a day.

Yeah I intend on getting an electrician over but would like to have a rough idea where it is so he can sort the problem quicker. I think it's an electrical problem, when the popping sound happens the lights dim aswell a wee bit if they are on. It happened when I was in my kitchen and the...

Ok I've been putting it off like an idiot but theres been a loud popping/banging sound coming from around the kitchen area (I think), now I know that it's an electrical surge but I don't want to get an electrician in until I can find the problem cos sometimes it doesn't do it for days. Is...

Cheers I'll steam the rest off anyway to stop the dust as its a right pain, it was a spur of the moment thing where I wanted to see what was behind it so started ripping it down :lol: Will have lots more questions, got lots to do.

More concerned for my mate as she was round, I'm hoping it's just textured paint actually because the only thing making the dust is the plaster. The textured stuff is only about a mm thick and is very brittle. I don't know what artex is like, is it like plaster and then you just put a pattern...

Hey I ripped down a false ceiling last night which had a artex style pattern on it, walls are covered in it as well and have just found out some artex contains asbestos. Anyway I'm worried now but is it artex or not? Basically looked at a lump that came down which has hair in it, so I'm assuming...