Recent content by Jamesn123

Thanks for the advice, it felt like overkill, I'm not sure why the builder felt so strongly about the issue, I'll challenge anyone who thinks this applies and see how they react.

I'm planning to build a single storey annex in the garden. Our prospective builder has raised the issue of needing to work within the recent Building Safety Act and made quite a big deal about it which seems odd because to me they appear to address higher risk (i.e. 18m+ tall) buildings in light...

He didn't have a switch with him last thing today so drilled a drain hole underneath for tonight and will replace it later and waterproof it.

Thanks, yeah that's why I was unsure, and posted but couldn't articulate it. The only mitigating issue is that I couldn't have known it was the switch that he installed that was the problem - someone has to find the cause of the problem in the first place. Also I had tried to contact him to do...

I had an electrician install an external rotary switch for an appliance 18 months ago. I had a different electrician investigate an electrical problem tonight which led to that switch being the culprit. It wasn't properly drained nor made water tight. It seems rainwater had leaked through the...