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    plastering over polypipe

    Would appreciate any advice anyone can give me b4 I get the plasterer in to fill in a chase that had to be made for polypipe central heating pipes coming down into the living room. If they are just plastered over is there a risk of a crack developing? I was thinking that maybe encasing them...
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    osmo polyx oil on pine floors

    I seem to remember reading somewhere that Hardwax oils are particularly prone to the 'fake tan' effect on pine floors. I was therefore thinking of using osmo pine wood wax transparent colour on my pine floors to eliminate this effect- anyone able to advise me? would this give a better result or...
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    Hardwax oil for doors

    Cheers for that woodyoulike, your website has proven very useful too. I might go for the osmo hardwaxoil rapid for the floors and the osmo door oil for the doors. Out of interest what put you off the granwax hardwaxoil?
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    Hardwax oil for doors

    I'm about to buy a hardwax oil ( Osmo or granwax- anyone know if they are of the same quality?) for recently sanded parquet flooring and wondered how good this would be for untreated oak veneered doors. I was going to use a granwax granglaze satin polyurethane but wondered how a hardwax oil...
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    Hardwax oil maintenance products

    The guy at my local timber merchants reckoned that the cleaners for hardwax oils are just glorified fairy liquid. I was looking at getting either the osmo wash & care or dr schutz cleaner but was a bit put off on hearing this. Anyone got an opinion on these products, are there any better...
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    2 gang switch- com of one switch connected to L1 of other???

    cheers that all makes sense now- thanks for your time.
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    2 gang switch- com of one switch connected to L1 of other???

    Cheers for reply, but I'm still slightly confused- what is the function of the live feed? and should I just replicate this with my new switch?(this will mean a longer piece of wire howver because the relevant terminals aren't next to each other in the new switch as thay are in the one I'm...
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    2 gang switch- com of one switch connected to L1 of other???

    I'm replacing an old 2 gang 2 way switch (used as 1 way however) and am slightly confused to the way in which it is wired. All the connecting wires are sheathed in red and there is a short connection between the 'com' for switch A and the 'L1' of switch B. Dont understand what the function of...
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