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It was attached the wall socket. It was the RCD that tripped. The electrician said that both RCD'S had tripped when he tested the sander in different sockets

If the large sander was working fine for two days, why would it start to trip the electrics? Sorry for the ignorant question. BTW the electrician said that the sander was dangerous, and that is what was causing the trip ie a loose wire internally probably. Is this just bull as well?

Thankyou for both replies. To be honest I don't know if he did an RCD check or not. Is there anyway I can reduce the chances of it tripping. Unplug other devices? Sorry if this sounds terribly ignorant! Sanding due to resume on Monday and don't want same thing to happen again!

Been employing a floorer to sand and oil the floors and for the last two days the large floor sander has been working fine. Yesterday however the RCD kept tripping. Electrician was called and he said the fault was with the floor sander which was potentially dangerous hence RCD trip. To...

Hi. Many thanks for your helpful question. Much appreciated. The problem actually started in the summer when it was warm so i don't think it can be related to the frost stat.(I've just read through the manual and it's set at 7%) and up until recently it hasn't been that cold. Do you have any...

The DT10RF receiver on my 25Si Greenstar boiler is playing silly buggers. I was finding the heating coming on in the middle of the night when it wasn't timed to come on. I tried to reduce this happening by switching the receiver to OFF before bed. However, the heating still comes on even though...

Thankyou for all your replies - all REALLY helpful. I should have mentioned that the thinking behind getting secondary glazing is that I want to turn part of my office into a sound booth. I don't have the resources to build a fully soundproofed booth (or the floor to take the weight) and I know...

Will the installation of secondary glazing on an already double glazed window, significantly make a difference sound proof wise? I've looked all over the internet for soundproofing and if you've got single glazed windows and are adding secondary then there's lot of info and technical data...

PS can't seem to find anywhere if you can paint over stormdry once it's been applied. Is this possible?

The rear elevation of my house is brickwork with one coat of coloured render that's been painted. I'm getting damp patches appearing on the inside wall. Would something like Stormdry be of any use or is that only for exposed brick rather than completely covered brick?

Hi –Thanks so much for your advice. I opened up the master socket and I had a BT engineer in recently and he changed the internal wiring to the master socket (which he also changed) and so I now only have two wires going into the master socket – blue and orange going into A&B. There are two...

Hi, I want to plug my new ADSL2 router (t-link) into an old telephone extension socket upstairs but the socket looked cracked and broken so I've bought Secondardy Surface Extension Socket 2/6A There are four wires coming from the old extension - orange, orange and white, blue and blue and...

Hi, I've got a Ecotec Plus 831 boiler and thanks to this site was able to download the operating instructions for the timeswitch 140 that came with the boiler. The problem I have is that I've programmed the timeswitch, everything is in order, but the heating is not coming on at the times...

No idea but they weren't. Only the boiler manual itself. Many thanks though! Brilliant!

I have just had an 831 boiler with a digital time switch fitted but for the life of me I can't find any information on how to set the bleedin' thing. I've looked everywhere online but to no avail, even in the manuals which in all the diagrams have the boiler have the timer greyed out and marked...