Recent content by david451

Your a gentleman, and I wont refer to you as a bastid again, ever!! heheh. Take care.

[/url] Thanks for your help mucker, if I wernt retired and an old duffer I would go back to college and do a little bit on electrics but at the minute I'll just potter away on these bits and replace like for like, most of it is done but for some reason the spark left it unfinished with the...

I'm not totally daft, its just the awkardness of it, if the guy who built the dormers had taken time when he put the floors down to mark them or cut access holes then it would have been fine, the ducting is a pure fokir to try and pull cable through aswel. I think we need to learn new skills...

No disrespect meant mucker, it's more of light hearted way of expression. Unfortunatly I was never clever enough to be a spark, theres a kind of big shutter that comes down when I try to work my way through these things without a drawing. Probably worse at bomb disposal aswel

I guess to test the circuits I would need special equipment, in terms of the earthing and bonding, I bonded all the pipes and ran a 6mm earth completly around the house to each junction box in a ring terminating at the fuse box, and the both this and the 2.5 and 1.5 earths also back to the fuse...

Bought my house and in process of a revamp, unfortunatly the bastid who built the dormers upstairs never rewired. The house has mostly new style wiring which I have connected to a new split fuse box with an rcd completly renewing all the 2.5 sockets 6mm etc but I cant get to a bit of the light...