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there is no landlord we own the property. There is no other fusebox we are aware of, and we've owned them for approx 10 yrs so know the properties well.

thanks. This hallway leads to our two flats. I have one cu in my flat, upstairs neighbour has one in his flat. Neither appear to feed this light from what we can see by switching everything off. so I need to somehow check the earth wire is actually earthing? Inside my flat, all seems normal...

hi. In my communal hallway there are time delay two way switches. One of them burnt out from being stuck on so I decided to swap for new. However, although the light works when connected up as before I observed the back box was 'live' when touched with cheap electric screwdriver so I...

sorry to be clear I own the middle flat and the chap upstairs owns that flat. The basement flat has its own separate front door etc ie is not part of this communal hallway, only us two are. It is a large victorian type house built circa 1900. I will get an electrician in. The reason I found it...

hi in my hallway there are two switches so the light can be operated from either end. I will add pics shortly. But with all the wires separated, there is 120v between live and neutral, and 50v between live and earth. I have not looked inside the ceiling rose yet. what could cause this...

Hi xenon I'm trying to contact you please read your pm if you've received it? I've sent a friend request to try and contact you re: a roof quote. Chris

Hi all hopefully someone can give some advice... The front door to our house is at the top of some concrete steps. At some time in the past, the top step has been screeded(?) over for an unknown reason - this may be adding to the problem. Basically the rain is blowing under the weathboard...

damn I wondered about the scaffolding :? I was hoping there was some way it could be done on the fly!! (don't ask me how). I suppose at least the guttering, chimney pots, and bricks just under the gutter could all be made good at the same time. (By the way, is / would this be cheaper for me to...

Hi WE've got a leak! I assume this area was once 'fillets' that have in the past been concreted over (probably due to leaks) and I would imagine this is where our leak is now coming from? - When it rains, rainwater almost immediately starts to run down the chimney breast in that attic room...

thnaks I hadn't thought about that. I might do that this winter as it's quick to implement, and look into changing the actual windows next spring / summer!

ok any recommendations who to use? I want to replace the sash windows in my flat (originaly single pain units at the moment) with double glazed units, but retain the original boxframe googled sash window double-glazed providers: http://www.sash-restoration.co.uk/index.html...

yeah the new one I bought is crabtree. I couldn't see a make on the old one, cheers.

:P I seem to recall that was put on after, to indicate flow. It was not actually caught up in the compression aspect of the joints.

here's a pic of the cable back in 2004 (you can see the larger cable). I didn't fit the cables!! (click on the pic twice to make it full size)

ISTR the cable was 10mmsquared

I think it says 40A 30mA (I am not there right now).

It's not rubber. From memory it was 10mm squared. Is there any way I can check now it's 'in situ'? Hi have done so it's now back to completly good copper. It was supplying a shower before I bought the flat. It has just been blackened (and the earth bar) it is not melted (or the earth bar)

you can click on these two pics to make bigger here's the RCD and the fusebox

This switch is outside the bathroom on the wall and switches on / off the electric shower (9.5kw from memory). Thing is it's been in service for about 9 or 10 years! So why now would it suddenly melt? It has never got wet or anything. The shower was replaced about a year ago and is working...

there's plenty looped on the outside, just haven't dragged it into the shed :)