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Yes, there should be enough space to place a brick vertically on either side. On the left side, there is a small slab with DPM, where I'm guessing the bricks used to be before the electrician hacked them away to get the cables through. On the right side in the ground, so I guess I should also...

Yep, makes sense. Would the bricks need to be supported in any other way, other than with the mortar above them? The yellow full brick and the half brick to its left are currently unsupported, which makes me think they might eventually collapse. At the same time, supporting them means blocking...

Hi everyone, I have stripped the plaster from the external wall of my bathroom, and I am preparing it for tiling (using multiboard). This is on a 1930s standard brick wall with crumbly lime mortar in some spots. There is a 42cm wide x 32cm high gap at the bottom of the brick wall. I believe...

I see, that makes sense. Thank you for the advice!

Apologies I should have mentioned that I have gone through the NoMorePly instructions already and have also contacted them and they OK'd using expanding foam with 8 mechanical fixings. Story of my life :D, any way I could simplify things? I was worried about that too, that the wall might be...

I have taken my bathroom back to brick and have purchased the NoMorePly 12mm fibre cement boards to install. On some walls, the bricks are laid with the stretcher face showing, allowing a maximum fixing depth of 115 mm, while on another internal wall, the frog face is showing, allowing a maximum...

I measured the resistance between the CU's earth bar and the cable's CPC in the accessory, using a calibrated multimeter. For example, on the sockets, the resistance between the CU earth bar and a socket's earth point was about 0.05 ohms (dead short), but on the lighting circuit, the resistance...

It's a 1930's property, but the wiring itself is a mix. Most of it post-2006, some pre-2006. I have checked CPC continuity for all circuits between the CPC in the CU and the CPC at the accessories. The lights circuit is the only one where there was no continuity in the accessories with a CPC. I...

Hi again, everyone, I am now looking into wiring the lights, a couple of shaver sockets and an extractor fan for my bathroom. My plan is to use the 6A light circuit for this, but there are a couple of complications. 1. The light circuit CPC is not continuous. There is definitely a CPC coming...

I can't figure out what's happening with the image; my suspicion is that the resolution is too high (even though the file size is small), so it's being automatically compressed by the forum when uploaded. I have uploaded a PDF version that appears to be unaffected and is clear. In short, 2.5mm...

Yeah, I noticed that. It's very weird, locally opening the image has a nice high resolution, but the moment I add it to the forum, it is very low. I'll see if I can fix it.

Hi everyone, I am planning to wire a Japanese toilet and a dual-fuel radiator in my bathroom. My plan is to tap into the bedroom radial circuit to supply 2 switched FCUs: one for the Japanese toilet and one for the dual-fuel radiator. Both FCUs are in the bathroom but outside the zones. There...

Thanks, I'll keep it in mind. Maybe I'll do a test to see how well it holds up, since on this wall, only the bottom half will have tiles; the top half will be painted. On another note, looking at Marmox's instructions for plastering (for the top half of the wall I want painted), it looks like...

Thank you for your replies and yes it definitely makes more sense to keep the plug and just fit a 3A fuse in it. I especially like the fact I can hook the boiler to a battery backup this way. I did a bit more research on why the gas engineer would want an FCU, and I found out that it's...

Thank you both, Marmox looks exactly like what I was looking for. For fixing, I was planning to use the same technique as for the rest of the bathroom boards: SBR first, then adhesive expanding foam (most likely Soudal plasterboard adhesive foam), and the mechanical fixings they recommend. I...