Recent content by ray.birch

Interestingly, I may end up in a similar situation soon. Battery on one side of the house, far away from consumer unit and where a gateway would end up. Because my CU is by my front door, I’m also wanting to avoid a couple of ugly cables being routed across the front of the house, and running...

I would also go with backer rod as the quickest/easiest option

I used a track saw to cut through both the slats and the backing. Definitely a multi cutter on the socket cutouts.

I used a combination of Black CT1, and some black stainless screws when I installed ours. This was primarily as we knew we wanted to put shelves up, and just wanted the added piece of mind.

Philips Hue (proprietary I think) Low Voltage cabling. I have the 5m lengths mostly, and would look to join any connectors above ground again if required...

Hi all, I’ve got a number of Hue lights dotted around the garden. At the moment, the cables are running across the flowerbeds and the grass in one place, and so I’d like to bury these if at all possible. I’ve been toying with the idea of running the cable through 25mm either galvanised or PVC...

Amazing - thank you @opps for the super quick reply!! Having checked my stocks, the only CT1 I currently have is in white - whilst not expecting this to be visible, I may swap for some exterior silicone I also need to open and use for some other jobs if that seems ok? (It does say ok to use on...

Good evening all. Per some other threads, I am currently knee deep in trying to restore a 1950s parquet floor that has been hidden and unloved. Mostly sanded now, but there are a few blocks that are loose (to the point they could be teased out gently with the hoover). My question is whether...

Thank you @Tigercubrider ! Do you know if this was a varnish (vs their oil/lacquer products please)? Many thanks!!

Thank you all for the replies. To confirm current state, I have sanded down the existing floor and it is looking lovely. However, I'm expecting that I should use some sort of varnish or oil to protect it now that it's looking decent - but am concerned about any interaction with whichever...

What's the other side of the plasterboard? Presumably some sort of stud wall?

Hi @OldKettle, did you ever have any success here please? It would appear I'm in exactly the same situation - 1950s house - lovely parquet floor hidden under some carpet tiles and just the one small block loose that showed the bitumen base!

Appreciate that this is a very old thread, but seems to be most appropriate for the situation we are currently in! Having just discovered a lovely parquet floor (hiding under some carpet tiles) where the parquet blocks also appear to have been laid with a bitumen (or bitumenous type substance)...

If the rest of the paint around it is solid, I would be tempted to touch up with a bit of white paint and forget about the rest. As Wayners has said, I strongly expect sanding etc could make it worse. Particularly as painting a larger area should probably done with a sprayer to get the same...

Happy New Year all (think it's just about acceptable to still say this almost a week in?) I'm looking at replacing a number of our white plastic sockets with some stainless steel Schneider Lisse models. Most of these will be on a 32A ring mains. From the research I've done, I believe (but...