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Hi, On one of my outside wall in the garden, I have a rusty outdoor round junction box that connects a cable from the house to the underground cable that leads to the garage. What's the best way to replace it as I don't seem to find those boxes anymore? Would an outside enclosure do the job...

Hi, I'm rendering my whole chimney breast, the alcoves and part of a wall with Natural Hydraulic lime (like a weaker form of cement but more fire resistant). I've applied the scratch coat but have found that it would harden within minutes despite having sprayed the very porous brickwork over...

The conduits are metal. The house was built in the late 40's and was rewired possibly in the 60's according to a neighbour but this isn't sure. I may have to leave surface mounted boxes, after having thought about it because to replace a 2 gang metal box from a 1 gang I would have to break some...

Yes it does. Mains cables from the RH conduit to the socket: 2 x 2.5mm L (red), 2 x 2.5mm N (black), 2 Earth Probably not the best connection. The socket is then wired with an additional cable to feed the FCUs, in total 3 Red, 3 Black, 3 Neutral. The FCU in the middle was for a wall...

The only thing that looked a bit like nuts is a plastic bit at the end of each conduit, as soon as they enter the box (probably a gomet). The box is also secured by mortar surrounding it. Somehow I could not see any proper nuts; but there are threads in each corner of the box to fit a screw. It...

I have removed a thick quarry tile from my window seal because it was coming out loose. I want to stick it back on but the mortar that was used as adhesive on the window seal is very hard to remove and I don't want to try and break it and cause too many vibrations that will affect the rest of...

I only use the light in the garage. Not that I would, but just out of interest, what could happen if I were plug a 500W power drill in the socket in the garage under the current situation, or could a problem occur at higher Watts?

I've just removed all loose plaster around the old flush box and it would be very difficult indeed to remove it since it is retained by three metal conduits (two unused). These are embedded not just in plaster but also into part of the brickwork. I've also noticed two big drilled holes just...

It is both... I've removed the 2 gang surface box. There is a sort of metal box in the wall the size of 1 gang and the cables come out of a metal conduit. I was surprised not to find the old white outer seath. I've wrapped the cables temporarily with a grey outer seath cut from a 6mm cable and...

I've been removing plaster on that wall with a cold chisel and club hammer and the plaster is a bit loose and brittle all around the socket and most probably even at the back. A few very small bits of plaster managed to find their way into the double socket. The socket is still secure on that...

How do I plaster behind a double socket? Do I unscrew the back box a little or do I remove the back box completely and put all cables into a choc box? If using a choc box, do I put all twisted cables of the same kind in one end of a terminal? The double socket has 2 twisted red cables, 2...

Just another question while on the subject, I'm going to put my light switch (1 way) on the other side of the door. I want to use a 10Amp terminal block in the existing light switch before putting a blank plate on it and connect the 1.5mm cables for the other light switch. Shall I leave the two...

I would want to switch off the mains at the CU before trying to mend the insulation on the live cable. However how could this be done with a hot air gun when the electricity is off?

The split is in the middle of the cable slack. It must have been like that for a few years, probably was done in error with a stanley knife.

Sorry, I meant the red insulation coming out of the patress box. I have cut a piece of grey seath and it seems to fit around the red insulation. As I don't have a hot gun, if I were to use heat shrink tubing, could I slide it and leave it as it is, since the split on the insulation is minor?

There is a slight split on the live seath (red) belonging to the 2.5mm cable coming out of a double socket. I have tried to mend it by trying to pass over a seath from a 6mm cable but it's just too tight. Is there an alternative? Could I slide part of the grey outer seath over it? Thank you.

Once I've done the cables, I'll get an electrician to fit an additional RCD on my CU (I won't be doing that). So that I know, could he/(she) add a second RCD or will I need to have a whole new CU? Out of interest the RCD on the CU for the plugs tripped a couple of times a few years ago...

I have read the documents a few times. All my walls are in bricks and over 100mm thick though. I also have concrete floors and ceilings. I am trying to avoid having pvc trunking showing on my walls, therefore have removed some plaster to be able to accomodate suitable conduits before realising...

Thanks again, you've a great help!