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Additionally, the current fitting has four cables going in - nominally two lives one neutral one earth. I guess because it has a light and a fan. Do I join the two (actually three) lives?

Point taken. The earth is still redundant. I just connect them together and lose them? The plate is coming down when the old fitting comes out. Later today, once I am certain what I am doing. Fish

Hi I'm replacing an overhead Light / Fan combination with a straightforward pendant lamp. There is only one switch. The wiring for the old fitting has three incoming reds, one black and two earths. New pendant just needs one red and one black Just to check All reds together...

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Thats a good point. I ordered a bit of granite this morning. Collecting it tomorrow. £150!! ackk!

I'm mid way through a refit of my front room. Where the fireplace has been removed there is an arch. At the base of the arch the previous occupants placed a piece of marble approximately 1mx30cmx3cm. This forms a sort of fake hearth and looks pretty good, at least in principle. This...

New update. The John Wayne lookalike that did the job has been sacked. I then removed his plaster and took off more to a hight of 1 m. There I found that he had used a "mortar bed injection product" into the brick and had used about 2mm of cement render under the plaster. Yee-Haw! I...

Micilin I have PMed you with reference to the above.

Update. We have a reply to the earlier question but I don’t think it gives us the answers we need. More of that in a moment. It has now been over a week and the plaster still hasn’t dried very much at all, this was how it looked this morning. The salt lines and tide marks around the...

Soon as I get it, you will. Thanks guys

Not remotely easily, no. The floorboards are the original victorian ones. They are T&Ged with metal strips. Taking up floorboards without much destruction then becomes a nightmare. I know I just did some. What I can tell you is that eight inches below the floorboards, (two inches below...

Hi JohnD No and yes. I suspect that the previous owners had "something" done with the cellar - it is a dry room. I do know that neigbours all regularly have trouble with flooding in their cellars, something we have never had. I am really unwilling to start smashing down walls down there...

Hi TheVictorian I entirely agree and take your point. I am not sure where to go with it though. The path is level, there is a dry cellar underneath, (lifting the floorboards reveals the dry cellar ceiling). It maybe that the cellar is somehow waterproofed and the damp is coming from...

Hi TheVictorian The 3 foot wide path outside is dead level and dry, ('cept when it's raining). The other side of the path is my next door neigbours wall so sloping it away from my house and into his might not make me terribly popular. There is an injected DPC running the length of the...

Hi Micilin I have emailed him asking for the spec, more on that when I get it. The bead, I think, is a thin coat one. As I said plastering is really not my thing. The bead can be seen here To be fair, this does sound like a reasonable description of what I saw him do. (assuming I...

Hi John D This disused chimney IS vented top and bottom (bottom venting can be seen in the photograph in the original post). I have opened it up an looked inside ... I did so when I took out the gas fire. No, there was never a back boiler, it was a little damp at the time so I capped the...

Hi The Victorian The subfloor is the cellar, which is dry. There is a path on the outside of the wall, there is no standing water there but I take your point. It would seem very strange to me if damp was penetrating the wall ONLY at the chimney (which is, of course the thickest part of...

Hi Micilin I've given them a bell and am waiting for a call back to get them back in for their opinion. In answer to your questions, AFAIK: The outside of the chimney breast was, prior to this, beaded around with a plastic bead and plastered to that. He cut the bead to the level of the...

Hi Sometime ago I discovered damp on my front room chimney breast. I assumed it came from an uncapped chimney, (I had previously removed a gas fire from the fireplace). Last summer I capped the chimney and checked the stack, roof and flashings for damage – there was none. I then left the...