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Evening folks, Got a rendered wall with a few small cracks in it that I'd like to fill in before I paint over it - any suggestions / recommendations on the best stuff to use?? I assume bog standard decorators caulk is no good?? Preferably cheap and something I can get from a shed Ta muchly

:oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: If you don't ask you'll never know I guess..... That's my only defense and I'm sticking to it :wink:

Did exactly what Plugwash said - because it was a straight ring final (4 x single 13A sockets), all there was was 2 x 2.5mm neutrals - which fitted into the RCD with no problems. Admittedly if there had been a lot of neutrals I'd have been stuffed.... Next time I'm gonna keep my gob shut... :(

This is true - however I wired a very small CU a few years back (only had space for and RCD & an MCB) which was metal & didn't have one (but did have an earth bar) - hence the confusion... But I guess that was due to size not safety. You live & learn... :oops:

That's what I thought - but you know when a part of your brain starts questioning something, even if logic says that that it should be fine :? Guess I must have been having one of those "confusion" moments. And at least I didn't make a fool of myself by saying "is that safe??" a few days...

Hey folks. Was having a look at a CU on a mobile board a few days back (owned by a mate who uses it for gigging). The CU on the board was a metalclad one, and as well as having an earth bar it had a separate bar that was being used for all the neutrals. Now I've wired up a few small CU's in...

Hey folks - phase 2 of converting the garden from it's former wilderness stae is about to begin, and the thinking half of the relationship & me have decided to make raised beds out of breeze block, then render them and limewash to finish them off. The beds will be about 2 courses of block...

Okidoki - I'll strongly suggest to my dad that I should do all the pipes... So 4mm for the cross bonding - and 10mm for the MET to gas and water pipes..... And a nice crawl under the floor... Oh joy :roll: Cheers folks...

Cheers Comms - so if I understand it right, you only have to bond in bathrooms etc if a piece of electrical kit is within that room / zone? So it's now to do with electrical kit being connected to a metal pipe I assume then?? Ok - if that's the case I will do nothing 8) Much appreicated

Morning folks, Not sure what to do with this one - re-fitting a bathroom for my Dad, and one of the jobs is putting in a shower pump to boost the pressure. I'm aware of part P and the solution I'm doing avoids any need to get it signed off (in a nutshell the pump is outside of the...

I wasn't plannign on rings - just a stright spur from each of the MCB's out to a fixed 32A blue CEE socket - so there'd be 2 32A blue sockets in total as outputs (users would then plug in other kit from there) I'd thought about going stright from the main switch to RCBO's but since I already...

Hey folks, being a bit of a mug, I'm building a single phase distribution box to split a 63A outlet down to 32's (for someone else, coz they can't wire a plug - it'll end up being used for a mixture of PA & lighting). The plan is to build it, and then get it tested / inspected - only...

Well, early last week I took the plunge (and took the hit to my credit card) and got a load of topsoil and 30 square meters of turf down on a very wet, misty afternoon...... Really keeping fingers crossed now that we won't have any major cold snap for the next week or so (long range forcast...

I'm broke :( In an ideal world I'd love to get nice turf and make a good fist of it but looking for a cheap way to do it so sadly looking to go down the seed route... OK then - off to a shed I shall go for some seed tomorrow... Cheers for the advice folks

Evenin' all, For some random reason me and the thinking half of the relationship have decided to pull out all the stops and try to get a big chunk of our garden finished off before the frosts come (which is cutting it a bit fine since there was frost on the car this morning) Is it too...

Cheers folks - I'll get my spade out the shed tomorrow after work then :wink:

Morning Folks, Just discussing the possibility of moving a fuchsia in the garden with the better half. As far as I was aware they're non-too keen on being cut back at this time of year so was wondering how they'd take to being moved at this time of year (up in Newcastle where it's getting...

It's purely the MCB that's going (the lights aren't on the RCD side of the board). And it's only when a light bulb blows (once in a blue moon). I'm assuming that it's caused when the bulb blows it tries to draw more than 6A of current for a fraction of a millisecond, hence the MCB going...

Morning folks, This morning I have got it in the ear due to the general state of electrical merchandise / design in the 21st centuary (something I have no control over I might add but this does not interfere with female logic). As we all know, when a light bulb blows at switch-on it's...

Morning folks, Myself and Mrs Numpty are thinking about fitting a multifuel stove in our empty fireplace, trouble is it's a bit on the wee side. I was trawling though here last week and saw something on another topic about minimum distances from the stove and the back / sides of the...