Recent content by jonnyraine

Thanks all for your comments (some of which were rather amusing). I've ordered an adapter off ebay, the kind that plugs in the bottom since it's a bulky "power supply"!! I'm using a shaving adapter in the meantime (yes apparently that does work).

Wife has bought a light from France, with a European plug, obviously! But it's some weird massive plug. Question is, can I just chop off the plug and rewire into a UK plug. Photo attached.

Thanks rsgaz. It's quite a new SDS - in fact never used the bits before (only the chisel) so I wouldn't have thought it'd be a problem with them. I'll try non-SDS through the plasterboard

Recently moved home into a place with newly renovated dot and dab walls. The hammer action on my old Bosch corded drill doesn't seem to be working anymore. Took me ages to drill a hole. So I started using my SDS drill, but getting cracks on plaster and holes too big etc, even on slow setting. Is...

We've had our bifold doors broken into. But are struggling to find a suitable lock for inside as extra security. Seems there are a few around for windows and sliding doors but they don't look like they'd work for bifolds. Any suggestions?

Fresh pine skirting that I don't want to paint with gloss, but also don't want dark wood, nor them turning orange, but want them light and the wood grain showing through. Need to be protected, since it's skirting. Was thinking liming wax after a previous post, chippy then recommended instead an...

Thanks! Would whitewash wax or liming wax also protect so that there's no need to varnish?

Got brand new pine skirting and am wondering about whitewashing them with diluted white emulsion to lighten them, but leave the woodgrain showing through, hopefully producing a nice effect. Presumably then they would also need protecting with a matt varnish. Anyone know if that would that work...

no worries richard c! we all get like it from time to time! all is forgiven. mr. electronicsuk, i'm installing the extractor fan (got it right that time!) in an external wall. so i need to run the cable from the light in the centre of the room across the ceiling to the edge where the wall...

hey you, richard c man. i wasn't mickey taking nor was the advice you have given me a waste of time. i still have to run a cable across the ceiling so the advice you've given me is most helpful, that is until you got angry. i've got to run a cable from the light across to the end of the ceiling...

Did I really say ceiling fan...I meant extractor fan! I was in the middle of ready a study book when I wrote that...pah! Thanks for all your help

This is my first proper DIY job with electrics. I'm running a cable from a light to a ceiling fan, which isn't all that far away (about 50cm). I know how the electrics work, as in which cables to connect to which, but it's physically laying the cables that I'm not sure about. The room is a...

The light is working good and proper now, thanks for your helps!

Right, well there were two blacks wired together in the same block, so should I assume that they're the neutral ones and that all the red ones are on the loop and that the black one on it's own is the switched live one? No! One light off one switch. No! Why? What would that mean?

I'm not an electrician! I was thinking that replacing a light fitting with another would be an easy job. That is until I discovered the previous owner hadn't wired the ceiling rose in what I understand to be the standard way. No surprise there, the guy was a right bodger! (Just like me!) So...