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Built 1901 There is, it is tanked and it does not run under this section of the house. Probably Don't know about this. The ones I have seen, (and looking up this one) have looked pretty clean. I am not sure that ripping the kitchen out on the off chance that a chimney hasn't...

I have a strange damp situation in a first floor bedroom. The damp is over a fireplace and in a sort of S shape. The S loops into the chimney from the floor below. Above the room is a pitched roof. The room was replastered about six years ago, (just before I bought the place), I have...

I am really looking for a plasterer. I guess if I find a reasonably experienced one he may just know slightly more than than whether plaster is wet or dry. But you may be right. Thanks for the input.

Can anyone recommend a really competent and experienced plasterer in the Birmingham, (preferably north Birmingham), area. I had a “damp expert” in last year who completely messed up my front room, (discussed here at length), and following my fixing his work I had a plasterer come in and...

I thought the same thing myself. :? In the end I added it to a bunch of other small bits including some pointing (which is a job I hate), and farmed it out to a local builder. He said that he would just hop out of the bedroom window and walk on the roof directly. I'll post agin if he...

... and very grateful I am for it too ... particularly for the help that you offered John ... and if I came across as anything other than grateful to anyone who offered help then I am sorry. Let me say it clearly. Thanks guys, and thanks site owners for the facility. Job is done. On to...

Thanks for your help ban-all-sheds 20 odd posts in which none of the "experts" here quite figured out the problem ... and then I get to it by trial and error ... and then someone actually points me at the right answer .... and then you add you contribution which is to patronise me. How...

At the back of the house I have a single story, sloped roof, lean to room that we laughingly call our utility room. At some point we are going to demolish it and replace the thing with a more 21st centrury extension. The pointing aound the flashing where the roof of this room meets the wall...

Which is exactly what I was trying to do when I first posted. Are you suggesting that I should go find out the answer to my question and then come here and post it? Doesn't that rather defeat the object? Isn't this place about getting basic understandings? Isn't that is why...

.... so I did that an the light stayed permanently on regardless of the switch. and then I re-connected to the single red and everything seemed to work. Go figure :)

Three reds One black If it was that straightforward I probably wouldn't need the advice. Thanks anyway.

Yes it is, and I am aware of that. What I am trying to ascertain is what I do with each of the wires running into the four core.

Yes two reds and no black in cable A (in the picture) going to 1 and 2 Red and black in cable B going to 1 (red) and 3 (black). in other words connector 1 has two reds - one from each cable connector 2 has a red from cable A connector 3 has the only black from cable B Exactly so...

Sorry. You are quite correct, my mistake. Please reverse A and B in the above description. Yes. This flex goes directly into the fitting and it is 4 core. (1 -brown 2 -red 3 -black 4 -earth in the above photo)

Here is what is happening: A has: Earth to 4 Red to 1 Black to 3 B has Earth to 4 Red to 2 Red to 1 (that’s right B has 2 reds) Leading off from the blocks to the current fitting 1 – To fitting brown 2 – to fitting red 3 – To fitting black 4 - GreenYellow to fitting +...

Yes So for clarity. Earth - Joined and disused Everything currently going to red (2 reds) - join and go to new red Everything currently going to Black (1 black) - to new neutral Everything currently going to brown (1 black sleeved red) - To a terminal block and ignore Is that correct?

You understood correctly and I got that principle. This is where I am coming unglued. There are FOUR wires going in seperately to the present fitting. Aside from the earth there are three. a neutral and TWO lives. Each of the live (red) wires goes to a SEPERATE in into the fitting...