Recent content by MarshP

My wife and I have a garage gym and we've managed to relegate all our general storage to a 1.5m x 1.5m section (2.2m high). Now I want to partition that off so it doesn't interfere with training - in effect making a big, solid open-toppped cupboard with a big hinged door on the front. Floor...

Thanks - another contractor looked today, and they agree it's a complete strip. So they're giving me a price to take the tiles off and change the plaster for something (new? else?), then put in two single panels, meeting at a proper profile in the corner. ~~Advice Request~~ I know nothing...

Even where it's exposed to the air, where the couple of tiles are off, it's still thoroughly damp after a week and a half. It obviously built up there for a long time before it seeped down to the floor. I noticed some damage to the plaster along the wall a long time before, but hadn't...

Posts here on UKnot make me think that any tiling, on almost any backing is going to have problems being blasted with a power shower for 20 minutes at a time. We're not bothered how it looks - just that it's 100% waterproof. I'm concerned that if the backing is waterproof, it's still outside...

Thanks for the advice. Is Aquapanel needed even if the shower won't be tiled? If it has upvc cladding instead?

Hi. I hope someone can advise. A local fitter installed and tiled our shower cubicle two years ago, since then we've had two leaks through the grout and into our kitchen below. This time he pinged off a couple of the tiles to show me the soggy plaster behind. An important thing to know...

Can't get a piccy. Glow only shows in a darkened room, then the flash hides it. It'd take holding camera/phone over the heater on quite a long exposure.

Piccy tricky, due to small size of glowing bit and position down inside the heater. Will try tonight though, then post tomorrow if successful.

I just installed two 2kw convection heaters bought from a well known wholesaler. At switch on, I noticed a red heat glow on the element - same spot on both heaters. I wouldn't have noticed except I was sure the old ones I've replaced never showed any sign of heat at the element, except, well...

By an electrician. I'm careful to respect my competence and its limits!

Our friendly local electrician has now answered the queries. The plates are blanking plates for old sockets or connection points, left in place precisely to indicate the hidden conduits. The heaters were clearly added later. The electrician is taking out the cabling beyond the damage...

Wow. Years lurking and then two posts on the same day! An electrical issue today made me realise just how messed up my household electrics may be, thanks to previous owners. Now, an electrical fire is a particular nightmare of mine, and we only have electric heating here. So one of the things...

I've removed two storage heaters. Both seem to be in their original place from when our 1980s house was built. Both have mains conduit directly down the wall behind them, with a junction box/inspection cover actually behind the heater. (I'm not sure what it is and don't want to poke about, but...