Recent content by diry

Try here :) http://www.smartukhome.co.uk/index.php/2016/02/02/automated-lighting-in-the-uk/ I mean, it's still not pretty... but it answers your question. Although, I do wonder how he went ahead and attached that to the wall with the screw hole locations being above and below the socket...

I really had better stop sprinkling asbestos over my salads

Contrary to my other halves belief I actually enjoy DIY, she would argue that I take too long to do things and we should have had people in to do it but she certainly doesn't mind the cost savings... It takes time because a) I'm not in the trade, I need time to research, think, try, think...

Don't you even think about going down the pub or staying out late with your friends until it's done. *nag nag nag*

It's all swings and roundabouts isn't it! Cheers for the help :)

Damn I'm going to have to take extra care next time I rewire a plug now - that being said, I once acquired an old 'vintage' lamp where someone had wired the (black) neutral to the earth pin - I suppose coal is black and comes from the earth.

I've always remembered it since secondary school since I found it odd that blue is neutral (when I think of brown as a neutral shade) and that brown is live (when I think of blue as the 'colour' of electricity)... I guess they did this red to brown since in low light or with colour blindness...

I've lived in a world full of Acetaldehyde, Acetamide, Acetonitrile, Acetophenone, Acrolein, Acrylamide, Acrylic acid, Acrylonitrile, 4-Aminobiphenyl, Aniline, M-Anisidine, P-Anisidine, O-Anisidine, Asbestos, Benzene, 1,3-Butadiene, Carbon disulfide, Carbon monoxide, Carbon tetrachloride...

Fair enough. The instructions on the packaging indeed suggested to apply to a damp wall, suggesting the damper, the better for the same reason you mentioned; they said to wet for 24 hours and then once more just before application. After closer inspection I wonder if it is not just condensation...

Cor blimey, it's been real miserable drizzle and rain most of the day at our house in Guildford. It is worse today than it has been previously. The particular areas that are wet are the areas where the bricks were saturated before the tanking treatment, so I guess that area of the wall could...

About a month before Christmas I put 2 coats of KA tanking slurry on the interior of a single skin walled outbuilding (coal shed attached to house) - halfway up walls and over whole floor - as these walls have always been damp as the DPC is bridged but a concrete shed base in a neighbours garden...

I had considered leaks from a roof window, leaks would definitely be worse than less wall space and natural light. I was hoping that perhaps if the supports for the window protruded from the roof of the shed I could put flashing around that and then the window frame would sit on top of that...

Right, gotcha with the 2.5m height. The akward thing is I have no idea what our natural ground level is because our garden slopes, is lower than the neighbours garden already and the previous occupants seemed to have piled a lot of soil up that end of the garden :o) (I've excavated the soil to...

Hi All, I am planning on getting a shed, either buying one or building one. I have designed a shed using SketchUp and am looking for feedback on the design. Things that I have done wrong, things that could be improved, things that are just right (maybe :))! I'm not a carpenter so I've cobbled...

There is asbestos floating about in the air anyway, according to some where on the interweb it's about 1 fibre per 10-100 litres. - http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/asbestos/more_about_asbestos/what_is_asbestos/ So if it was 1 fibre found, what are the odds it was just an ambient asbestos fibre anyway.