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Hi RF Lighting, I didn't know that sort of stuff existed! Seems to be just what I want. I'll have whichever one you think best for my application. If you think the tape is better, I'll happily have half a roll if you can accommodate me. If the paint is best I'll order a pot. Thanks...

Hello All, Sorry about not coming back to you sooner. My computer has been playing up. I like the idea of flourescent paint if it absorbs light. I didn't know it did that. Yes, the pullcords do get light in the day so it would work. I'll look into that and the gas filled acrylic...

Hello, I've several lighting switches with pull cords in parts of the house with no light at all at night and we have to grope around trying to find the toggles. Anyone know of something that would help in seeing them in the dark? Luminous paint, I believe, only works by reflecting what...

Good, I'm glad someone has had the same idea as me. And I'm even gladder that you found it works. Have you both stuck your backing plates to the bare plaster or to whatever is on top of it?

Hi Both, I thought that I'd be told it wouldn't work. Ah well.... I'm trying to avoid drilling holes in the walls of this ramshackle, single skin, flat roof porch. When I do, pieces of plaster tend to come away. And when I tried drilling in the top row of bricks for a curtain rail, the...

Hi, I'm stripping and decorating a porch. I wish to place coat hooks on the walls without using screws. Is there an adhesive that would take the strain of coats, which in themselves aren't that heavy? I would put the hooks on wooden baseplates to give a sizeable adhesive surface...

Hi, Having thought it over, I'm going to simply go for a two-way manual switch setup. One switch indoors for when we leave the house and the other on the outside wall of the garage for when we come back, Our friends will just have to remember where to turn on the outside lights when they...

Well, Saxondale, I may have to think again. A couple of hundred smackers may be more than we are prepared to pay. I'll talk it over with the wife tomorrow. Thanks for your reply.

Hi, I need to change my outside PIR which operates two 60w lamps. It is very erratic and seems to be on far more than it should be, with no cause. It was a cheapo so I'm not complaining. But it has also proved impossible to adjust properly. If set to respond to ourselves going out the...

I don't fully follow where your levels are out. But if it's only a quarter inch, I imagine that the wall plate would easily take that up with a little chocking.

Now, if I use the NTE5a faceplate splitter, it looks as if I'd have to run a cable from the new master socket to the two extension sockets I want. This is what I was trying to avoid by just connecting off my outside junction box. The idea was to avoid interior disruption. I will put in a...

Hi again, I'll order the stuff tomorrow. Many thanks for your advice. Have a Happy and Prosperous New Year.

Hi, By gum, you reply quickly, don't you? Thanks for that. I'm a bit confused here. I take it that the DP is the junction box to which I referred? In the junction box, there are 7 wires from the drop line: 5 of them are unconnected -1 green, 1 black, and 3 yellow. 2 of them are...

Hi, My overhead incoming phone cable ends in a junction box, which is really just an enclosure, on my outside wall. From there, the normal indoor cable runs to an old master socket inside the bungalow.. I will replace this socket with a new NTE5 - no problem. However, I would also like...

I don't see why it shouldn't work. Fences take a great deal of pressure from the wind and the ground fixings do the job there. I'd be inclined to nail a roofing lath, or similar, across the tops of the posts just to equalise the pressure a bit. You would then need to place the washing line...

Hi, In the good old days, the bricks and mortar were equally matched for strength by a local craftsman who knew his local materials. The idea was that any ground movement would affect the wall equally. If the mortar was too strong, any subsidence would cause a crack to travel through the...

Hi, I need to replace my shower unit. It's gravity fed from a high-mounted loft tank via hot water storage cylinder and the pressure's quite okay. I went round a wholesalers showroom recently and was amazed at the prices and the seeming complexity of the units. Looked like you could...

Hello, First are you sure it's honey fungus? There are other brown fungi that can look like it. All honey fungus has a collar under the cap - no collar, it ain't h.f. This isn't to say that it is a harmless fungus, mind you. There's no proven way to eliminate h.f. Perhaps the best I've...

Hi, The best way to level small patches is to lift the grass and then put earth or compost, or a mixture, directly on the bare ground beneath. I cut three sides of a square and then fold the divot back. It's easy then to flop it back into position once you've got the level right - this may...

Hi, Moss and lichens are funny stuff. I get a lot in the lawn yet my ground is stony and very well drained. The theory that moss grows in the shade is dubious as I have it growing on rocks in flower beds in full sun. The best way to keep moss at bay is probably to keep a thick, healthy...