Recent content by peterinscotland

For those of us who are aware that we are, to an extent, guilty of this, can you suggest how we can learn to correct it? Not everybody's brain is wired the same way. I mean you used the word "can't" - I guess I *can* to an extent, and *do*, to an extent, especially now I've been living in a...

Funny, I (the OP, and feeling as though soon to be OAP but actually only mid 50s) don't remember what I did with that dimmer switch, though I feel I did just disable it rather than replacing with an ordinary switch. I got an email notification of activity on this thread. I know I replaced a...

My washer in the plunger on the side of my valve (99B or similar, like the one the OP pictured) appears to be OK, but water comes in fairly slowly and keeps filling till it overflows the outlet valve. It doesn't do this every time, sometimes it cuts out OK. Like Crocket who replied to the...

Thank you for your comprehensive reply as to why this would be a DIYnot!

What would happen if I mixed equal quantities of white Sandtex Ultra Smooth Masonry Paint (Microseal) with a cream coloured Dulux Smooth Silk? I have a good quantity of both and wondered whether it might save me buying new masonry paint. Would it start peeling off the wall within a year or...

The second electrician's reasoning was that the earthing in the house relied on metal conduits (this is an ex council house, approx 40 years old). He said that in order to make it comply with current standards one would have to run an earth wire through every conduit which would be just about...

An electrician recently recommended that I should ideally have my ancient fuse box replaced by by a box of trip switches - in fact if there had not been a spare fuse in the box he was going to make me have one in order to give me an extra power socket. So far as I can see, although he is listed...

Well, the lights are up now, working, and hopefully safe. In the process: 1) I managed to electrocute myself. Put it this way, a current ran across the tip of my thumb - sheer carelessness, I'd had the thing plugged in to test it before it was completely fixed in place, and forgot to...

Yes, I'm aware that the hourly rate I was charged was not excessive for a qualified tradesman (though I had understood him to quote me a lower price for the job beforehand). Certain car dealerships in Inverness charge between £50 and £60 an hour! I didn't mean to give offence. Merely that...

I have an extension lead up into my loft, powering a tube heater (120 W), 2 mini dehumidifiers (28 W each), and a low energy light (20W). The light is clip on and I have to move it about to see in different parts of the loft. I'd like to have 3 lights wired to a single plug - don't want to...

I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but there is a switch on the other side of the wall, which is a double, one half of which is a two way controlling the top of the stairs; the switch at the top of the stairs is a single which only controls the light at the top. The house is approximately...

Front Back Wall connections The only lights on this dimmer - there are no other switches on these lights either

I have a plastic dimmer switch arranged with a vertical on/off switch on the left and a vertical rolling dimmer on the right. There are no other switches connected to the light fitting it controls (a three-way spotlight using R63 screw-fitting bulbs). I want to remove the dimmer facility...