Recent content by honty

That's great, thank you. Turns out that I wasn't connecting up the reds before testing for the switch cables (duh), but on following sparkyspike advice, I located the one black wire that flitted between an open circuit reading and low resistance reading when toggling the switch. Just need to...

Thanks for the replies so far. Yes, I'm pretty sure that there's continuity test setting. I've check the (scant) instructions and tried everything under the sun, but there is no such setting. It's a 'mini' multimeter, so it's probably not a very good one! For testing, when you say 'connect...

Hi there, As part of my 'Credit Crunch' kitchen overhaul, I've decided to replace the ceiling lights there. I have 2 sets of 2 spotlight bars currently, which I'm trying to replace with new spotlight bars. The current ones are connected to a loop in wiring system (the second running off...

Hi all, I've recently had some new kitchen worktops fitted and I'm soon to start tiling the surrounding walls. However, behind one of the worktops, there is a gap of about 15mm at its widest between the edge of the worktop and the wall, which runs for a metre or so. I want to fill this so...

I'm currently planning to replace my bathroom radiator with a plumbed in heated towel rail. I'm also thinking about fitting an electrical summer element to it and I have a few questions that I'm hoping people on here will be able to help me with: 1) Before I order everything and hire a...