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White goods are white, and paint isn't a bad insulator. Drums are not. :wink: It isn't a dryer, so it isn't just static. Drum should be earthed via the bearings to the chassis, and even if not, any fault in the appliance would be more likely to make the chassis live rather than the drum...

And here's one for the books... Number of walls - three Number of tiles per wall - approx 180 Number of tiles ordered - 400 (360 with 10% spare) As always, there are three types of people - those who can count, and those getting an earful from the lady of the house right now! :lol...

Q - Garage floor, substantial amount of concrete with something over the top that was laid and then had plastic sheeting stretched over when the house was built. Looks like cement, pretty smooth, DPM between concrete and the top layer. Used for 5 years or so, including oily work, then...

Aye - so few are harmed by electrical installations that given the limited taxpayer's budget, it ain't worth doing anything about it as versus circular saws or 71 on the motorway... :wink: As an added bouns, electrocutions are inexpensive - dead, or not dead - unlike say a circular saw...

Cheers BAL TAS 2 - much the same as the instructions on the bucket though. :-( Must admit that I have not tried a bal hard rubber grout float, but presume that it is must be something like the hard rubber grout tool, P38 Easy-Sand car body filler applicators, spatulas, cake-slices, scrapers...

I'm an engineer ricicle - designing an electrical system that'll work is easy, but sourcing bit of household grade stuff/knowing the various standards isn't something I'd do every day. Dicking about (or not...) with HVDC systems and bits at the generation end on the other hand... :D I'll go...

Good question! Overspray makes a mess of everything. You can wipe it from tiles with a dab of thinners then warm water/sponge. Do that with emulsion (or exterior paint) and you wipe the wall off. Cleaning oil/grease off is similar - piece of cake on tile, near impossible with paint. Paint...

None of which are normal in a (well, this at least) house though! Only offices have that many (cheap and nasty) PCs, fridges that are that old are uneconomic to run ayway and should be chopped in for a new one to save cash, and virtually nothing (power tools excepted, and they usually die of...

Room is used as a (domestic) garage - woodwork, repairing cars (grinding, welding, spraying), tinkering room for model cars, smoking room for the old man, hanging onions and garden flower bulbs up to dry, taking photos of stuff mum's knitted - pretty much anything. Tiles were so that it can...

Then the regs are as backward as other UK building regs - only an absolute minimum to avoid being certifiably inadequate - and even you recommend going beyond them for the shower for example, where the regs are clearly lacking but not enough people have been killed by it yet/it's not caused...

Why wouldn't you want to RCD everything? *Faulty appliances - dodgy appliances that cause trips and would cost too much to fix? *Faulty wiring - dodgy wiring that causes trips and would cost too much to fix? *Cost - splitting lights from everything else is nice, so it doesn't all go...

A main switch RCBOs for everything would be nice, but lots of $$... Do the following circuits make sense: RCD 1 Max Power (W) Max Current (A) MCB Size (A) 1b) Cooker ? ? 40 2b) Radial Sockets - Utility Room & Shed ? ? 30 or 32 3b) Ring Main Sockets - Kitchen, Dining Room & Computer...

I have a big (50 square metres...) tiling job to do, in a garage. Satin white tiles that bounce the light (1.8kW of HF daylight flourescents...) around nicely and are easy to wash down. Walls are breeze block with grey render but no plaster and pretty flat. Got lots to tile and virtually...

Presumably the TD was fitted because the sparky who wired the house was a bit of a numpty/this was the first RCD he'd ever fitted resedentially back in 89. Condensing boiler and pressuired spheres for the hot water/heating the plumber had to go on a course to learn about, the air filtration/heat...

Presumably it's warmer where the cable is yes. They're everywhere round here though - getting to the front door at night is usually crunchy LOL! Will dig out some ply. Everything was intalled Nov 1989 thru Jan 1990 and it's always been earthed by the cable/gas pipe. LH RCD is for the...

Things weren't quite as on paper as far as the circuits went - the lights are 5A MCBs rather than 10s and the 30A radial is the utility room (washer, dryer etc) rather than the welder. Paper almost matches the as-built, but no cigar LOL! There appears to be a spare space in the consumer...

No kidding... What is a fair price for say 100mm high, 50mm deep, plain and boring mild steel? Almost fell off my chair with what those I've phoned were asking! :o Yes, just power really. I'd like to replace the two six-way extensions hanging off /every/ socket in the garage with some of...

Hi, I'm about to revamp a garage (tiles, shelves, new lights, new sockets) and would like to run a "bus bar" (or whatever they are called) around it. Like you see in commercial/industrial buildings, a giant surface mounted conduit box with the sockets and light switches fitted into it...