Recent content by Prestonian

Hello, I'm trying to fit some Wickes Lightweight Duropolymer Coving in our bedrooms. I'm using solvent-free adhesive as directed, but am having problems getting the coving to stick properly... in some areas, the adhesive cracks as it dries (mainly along wall surface) and the coving becomes...

Thanks all, BT want £200 just to put the NTE boxes in, so I might have a re-think.

Thanks, Lectrician. Yes, my wife wants to be able to connect her (one) laptop at a couple of points in the house (so one at a time), along with 2 business phones. So I can just run a single length of the 3 pair wire that you mentioned from the new NTE5 master box to some extension points...

Hello, We are altering our phone extensions as part of a house renovation and I have 2 questions: 1. Our main phone line is wired by the 'star' method (due to there once being an old exchange type box there). I changed this for a junction box when we moved in so that the phones worked. We...

You're dead right, that would be much easier, but the master box looks a bit of an ar5e stuck there over the door (the previous owner had some kind of 'exchange' up there), so we'd like to move the box - and a single socket that powered the exchange - whilst the house is in turmoil (a renovation).

Thanks. Yes, two lines - one home phone and one for business phone/broadband.

Ok, thanks. i'll get a man in.

Hello, We need our BT box moving, from where it enters the house above our front door... ...to our front room downstairs. The second pic shows where the cable runs into the house now, and where we'd like it to go (continuing straight down). I know I shouldn't really move it myself, but...

Don't think our lighting circuit is even RCD protected. There's an RCD on the left hand side of the CU next to the green labelled switches (sockets & shower). The lighting rings, smoke dets, cooker are on the right hand side with red labels under (apologies for the technical wording). Is that...

Thanks for all your help, sounds like a little bank holiday job for me.

Thanks for your replies. Is re-routing this cable (to run vertically from new switch) a notifiable job (am I allowed to re-route it myself with no Part P as a DIY-er?) Might be the easiest way if I am...

That was quick, thanks! Yes, old and new cables joined in the old metal box with those plastic terminal blocks, and a bit of polythene covering this 'ready' for plaster! I admit we didn't say to him "We want a new cable vertically upwards from the new switch", etc - we expected him to...

Hello, hope someone can help... We've had some work done by an (experienced) electrician. Part of this was to move a light switch to a new position to the right. It was previously in the middle of a wall with the cable chased into the wall going vertically upwards from the switch. He moved the...