Recent content by Moonhead

Currently ripping the old tiles out of our bathroom and they are attached to this surface. It looks like render or a bonding coat. Can I stick my new tiles straight onto this or does it need prep like tile backing board? It's a very small space so ideally I want to minimise any increase in the...

Here you go, two straight planed edges and one rough edge

I wouldn't have said it was a repair, given how many cutouts there are - just interesting to think the beams in the house are even older than the property itself

Also worth mentioning, it's flat on all sides but one, the side that isn't flat faces the fireplace, which I'd say is unusual as you'd expect that to face downwards, no?

In our old workers cottage, we've got a beam in the living room with cutouts that have been filled with wooden blocks. On the same side of the beam under the floor upstairs, cutouts are present but have not been filled with blocks. Has this beam had a previous life in another building...

I've got an old flat roof on my extension that is well due a change, it's not leaking but it's definitely dry and cracking in places and has a carpet of moss on it. We're planning on replacing the roof when we have the bathroom in the extension done next year. I've started to remove the moss...

Quite. I think I'll probably use 1.25 to be on the safe side

Exactly what I'm after! Thank you!

Agreed, will provide shortly

Currently wired to a switch on either side of the bed that controls a sconce light on each side. I want the sockets to be near to there (think how a hotel has sockets next to the bedside table

When you say no need for a junction box, do you mean I can wire them into the same plug? The idea of the junction box was to split the flex from the single plug out and then have one cable to each side of the bed with a socket for each. The socket I want to use to feed these is in the middle of...

Yes that's correct. The lights run off one plug and I want the sockets to run off another - both from the same double socket with the wires in the same conduit

2.5 t&e in conduit from the box and 2.5 flex to the plug

Primarily neatness and aesthetics. I've got a light switch on the wall on either side of the bed for bedside lamps which are wall-mounted and I wanted to have a socket next to them to charge phones etc. Rather than having extension cable spaghetti on the floor under the bed, I'd like to run...

I've got a plan to wire a 3 pin plug to a wago box that will then feed 2 single sockets, one on either side of the bed (effectively an extension cable with fixed outlets as far as I'm concerned). I'd like to do this instead of a spur. Any reason not to do this as long as the plug is fused...