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OK, so I'm probably as daft as a brush (hence the username), but... I have a socket tester (TackLife from Amazon) that has 3 lights to give various readings for sockets, i.e. 'correct', 'open ground', etc. Now for 'Open Hot (Live)' the light combination is er - no lights. Doesn't this seem to...

Thanks, Lower... I think you're right!

Thanks for your reply, Lower. That's just what I thought I should do, but everything I've read says that painting over the top of flaky / chipped lead paint won't encapsulate it!

Hi, I have a mid 1940s house so am assuming that the wooden skirtings, door frames etc are likely to contain lead... Should I be worried that many areas have chips exposing bare wood underneath and a few areas are flaky, potentially exposing my family to lead? (I used to think that as long as...

Hi Ken and Harry - Thanks for your replies... yes, I think the draught is to do with the loft, so I'm pretty sure that blocking the interior wall will be fine as the air can circulate around the cavity and loft anyway... on closer inspection it appears to be twig like stuff in the cavity -...

Hi all, Just had our upstairs box room re-plastered - old vent taken off, so now an ugly hole into a void... it's a 1940s property - cavity wall - (filled with hay/straw?) and there is an air brick in there. The air brick appears to be blocked from the outside - can't see through it! - perhaps...