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Hello, We've recently moved into a victorian house. All the fireplaces have been blocked up with breeze blocks and plastered over (with a vent). I'd like to open up some of them - I'm assuming I just chip off the plaster, then drill out some of the mortar and remove the blocks. I know...

Can I just ask - is it normal practice to plaster straight over twin and earth? Do you have to put some kind of trunking over it?

It looks like it's just normal insluating tape (white) to me.

Yes - the circuit is RCD protected.

Yes, I just peeled back the insulation tape and he's used (i think) a butt joiner and crimped the connections. Surely I can't just plaster over all this wiring though!?

We've had an electrician in to move a wall light 12" lower. It was done while I was at work and I came home to find: He had drilled a channnel in the masonry and then moved the fitting. Then put a new bit of twin and earth cable in and joined the wires to the old cable with insulating tape. He...

Hello, Can anyone help me figure out how to adjust pictures/mirrors etc once I've hung them. Obviously if they are hung with string/wire you can easily straighten them to make them level, but I need to hang some paintings which have security fixings on them. So, I use a spirit level to get...