Recent content by Sandwhale

Moved to a new house just over two years ago and have lived with the dodgy shed that came with it for all that time. Having two children in that time as well as a demanding job meant fixing up the shed was put on the back burner. With the weather getting better and life letting up, its time to...

With the weather improving, I'm planning on repainting the back of my house as it's well overdue for some attention. Before doing that, I wanted to check on the render in some places as it's looking tired/irregular. Only having moved into the house a year or so ago, I wasn't here when it was...

Thanks for the suggestion, yet another option that I'd not heard of before. Plans to do anything with this have been pushed back to the new year so I'll have Christmas to decide in the way forward. Thanks a lot for the suggestion :)

I made the mistake of coming back to check on this thread, only to find you've double downed on the uselessness. Discounting that reply, you'd only made one post rather than multiple comments that you imply. That one post adding nothing of value as I'd explained before. I'll not be checking...

Thanks for the detailed comment. I've mentioned before, but I'm not looking to do the whole job myself. I wouldn't trust myself not to start an electrical fire if I started to play with the wiring. This has given me a good idea of what's involved if I were to prep the walls ready for a skilled...

What a pointlessly condescending comment without offering anything of value. Where is the explanation as to why it's beyond my ability? Which you somehow feel confident to judge without knowing me. Others have already commented on the challenges, so what value does your comment add? Also, I'm...

So it's going to be on the right as you walk through a partitioned divided space that folds back away from that wall, so it should be fine. Thanks for the thought though

For that, you do have my thanks

Ahh, that's a fair point about someone not wanting to sign off on work that I'd completed myself. I suppose I imagined doing the more manual and time consuming element of the work and the professional could do the part of the work that they're most skilled at. It's just two switches I'm looking...

Thanks for all this. There's a lot that I don't know and will only appreciate when someone draws my attention to it. So, I'm away from home so can't photograph, but I'm pretty sure my circuit breaker has rcd protection, though I'll check when I can. The electrics were completely redone when the...

Hmm, honestly this is the first time I've heard of anything like that. It does seem like it might do the job. I guess I imagined that any wireless connection wouldn't be self powered, which those seem to be. I'll look into it in more detail when I don't have an armful of toddler, but is there...

Awesome, you're cherry picking quotes from my long text without context and adding nothing of value. How helpful! To clarify, I'm confident in my ability to understand that two wires can be connected. I'm also pretty sure I said I'd be getting an electrician to approve/sort any electrical...

I'm looking at moving a couple of light switches to a new location and thought I'd see if anyone had any good advice on this at all. So, first off, I've messaged a couple of electricians to see what they'd quote for the job. One has come back to say they'd do it for about £400, which seems...

Thanks for all your responses. I should have also mentioned that I'd tried an impact driver with the correct bits ;) (for both screw heads) and also tried alternating direction to see if that helped loose, but to no avail in both attempts. On the other bracket, one of the screws actually came...

I'm in the process of upgrading a radiator and I'm hitting a bit of a headache when it comes to removing the supports for the old radiator. The screws tying them in are seriously locked, the previous owner having installed so I'm not sure what's going on. Aside from using a drill to unscrew...