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I don't think that a pair of pistols or swords is a good idea to carry cables on. ( or did you mean dual rather than duel? ;) )

I'm freaking out that we're not getting this house done fast enough.. ( hence why I'm up at 01:37 with "what am I doing on it tomorrow?" running through my head ) Roughly how long should it take to rewire an occupied house with 2 sparkies working 8 hours a day? It's occupied and needs...

While trying to unload several rolls of T+E in various sizes and carrying them into the job, I found it much easier to put a hammer through the middle of the roll and carry theb by the hammer handle rather than try and get my hands / fingers into the hole.. and carrying one roll in each arm was...

alternatively to the plasterboard, use 18mm plywood and filler the gaps and paper it.....

impressed and not at the same time... used it first thing to try and cut some plasterboard chases ( dot N dab walls, void behind mostly, or a bit of boards adhesive ).. tried both the grit edged blade that it says is for that sort of thing, and one of the two blades with teeth in case that...

borrowed neutral is different to mixing them up at the board.. you have the upstairs landing lights connected to the L of one circuit and the N of another ( usually L from downstairs light and N from upstairs.. ).. load leaves on one RCBO but is never heard from again as far as that breaker...

but that's the point, I don't know my UTR number and the only thing that I had on me at the time of posting earlier was my old CIS card... and in answer to my own question, yes it is... I've since been round to mums where all my old accounts and such are stored in box files for each year...

I need a UTR number for my new job.. I was registered as self employed over 6 years ago and it's all changed now.. I have my old CIS card and read somewhere that the number on the front of that is my UTR number ( minus the last 3 digits.. ).. I went to the direct.gov website and found a...

end to end continuity.. or "loop back" to one end by connecting 2 wires at the other.. if it's a T+E, do a "loop back" with red and earth, then black and earth and you should get the same reading, if one is higher then that's the one with the break.. ( of course if one is OC then that's...

you don't.. you buy more bags of a smaller size and only open what you need.. the rest you take back unopened.. make the paint in one size only and apply a "bulk buy / multi buy" discount at the till.. ( IE it's "cheaper" at the moment to buy a 5L can than it is to buy 2 x 2.5L, but you end...

the clue is the "no VISIBLE loose connections".. moving the wires to replace the clock may have broken them internally ( I'm assuming that the wiring wasn't changed? ) the small gap makes it crackle as the electricity sparks across the gap.. disconnect and tug on the copper ends of the...

I'm willing to if He wants.. won't be a free consult though, it's a free quote if it's close but I'm not going to give him all the info he wants to do the job himself.. I am however willing to provide drawings with locations and sizes of cabling if he wants to do the gruntwork on the...

3 T+E's at the timeclock? so that's one L+N feed, and 2 L+SWL outs to whatever?? never really delved into heating systems, I just put the fused spurs in where I'm told to :)

sure it's a neutral? might be a switched live from the timeclock and the installer was just too lazy to sleeve it with the proper colour.. also, sure it's an earth? again, lazy / stupid / dangerous installer may have used the "earth" as a switched live.. instead of getting a cable with...

sink it 10mm and overboard the wall.. gives you about 25-35mm.. one of the guys I used to work with once put a 45mm deep box into a regular block wall and managed to push the tiles off the back of the wall with the screws.. those walls are unlikely to be load bearing so my advice would be...

got the Bosch PMF 10.8V Li green version.... £95 from B&Q, only 1 battery but a good assortment of blades.. I spent about 20 mins earlier "chopping" a chase into a dot 'n' dabbed wall with a mixture of my trusty old pad saw and a small cheap wood chisel to remove the adhesive..... got...

we can't use 240v stuff, so either needs to be a 110V one, or battery.. the Li ion ones would be a good bet since they hold charge very well I'm told.. most are 10.8V Li ion... B&Q have several types on offer at the moment, save £50 and so on, the Bosch one only comes with 1 battery (...

where in the WM are you? I'm available this weekend to give you a quote if you're close :)

I had to cut a board at both ends today in a cupboard to get the cables in, and it was a real pain with the immersion heater in there and various pipes in the way.. I used my floorboard hand saw and it must have taken me 35 mins.. not great.. I'm after alternatives used by "the pro's" who...

I saw most of the first season, parts of the second and a few of the third... i think.. I lost interest when "the others" turned out to be....... I won't spoil it for you, but I kind of lost interest when it started with that stuff..