Recent content by chris1roll

I also bought a cheap Titan chaser when doing our house. We were living in it at the same time. Aftwr the initial plunge it wasn't too dusty when hooked up to Basil. As someone else said, the ergonomics of it weren't the best. I ended up marking the centre line of the chase on the front of it...

Re the G9's. We put a new fitting in our kitchen with 7 G9's in it back in September. I should explain now that I am very intolerant of LED flicker. First up were the ones we bought at the same time the fitting, moderately priced. Unbearable flickering, thought I was going to puke after about 5...

I'm still looking formward to a photo of this "temporary consumer unit". I can't see why the existing one couldn't stay in situ with all the circuits disconnected and a socket or two wired off one MCB/fuse for the builders power. I really can't see why anyone would contemplate putting a 6...

Presumably they will also need more proof of who did it than just broken seals too. Could have been like that since before you owned the place. Wouldn't an electrician usually just pull the main fuse (OK, also frowned upon) and leave the meter seals alone. Seems unusual to mess with them...

The house we've just done up and sold we just put the Toolstation trade pack socket fronts on (replacing the originals which were yellow with nicotine and covered in paint) It depends a lot on the market you are going for. This was a 3 bed ex council, no point spending money on flashy...

We recently bought a house to do up, I thought you might like to see the excellent standard of wiring that had been performed in the kitchen. Not the worst I have seen though! Cable goes diagonally up/left from cooker point to choc-bloc covered in insulation tape, then diagonally up/right to...