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Thanks.The advice I have taken is to put both Earth wires (including the black one which should really be blue and yellow) into the same terminal.. The other two wires ,the second Black one and the Red I will put into the N and L terminals respectively (as they are now) Thanks once more!

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I have bought a new socket (with 2 plugs) and I can see it has space for just one earth wire.. Can I go ahead and use it? Just remove the extra earth wire? One of the black wires is in a "earth placement" and goes up into the wall and the blue and yellow wire screws into the metal casing...

You are right .It is worst at the wall's edge. Avery long term thing I think and the moisture levels in some of the battens ,whilst very low are not zero. (at the wall they are destroyed at the end ) Some years ago the water radiators that ran off the boiler were disconnected ( the main...

Thanks.Would it be safe in the short term to just paint over the area with thick paint like artec(think that is what t it is called)? I don't fancy taking up the carpet and floorboards just now. Even some thin polystyrene sheet ? (that woud be a fire hazard but realistically that...

I have a roughly 4.5 foot by 1.5 foot area of lath and plaster that fell off an edge of my ceiling.Can I patch it ? It is not very strong but one length does meet/follow the wall,which should make it that bit more manageble.

I don't follow.Why would I need to do that?

Actually I think the ballcock is holding the water out now .When the outlet from the bowl dries I can probably fix the leak and then release the ballcock. The leak is stopped now but I will have to repair it.

This is an unused ttoilet cistern in the house that is filling very slowly as a result of a small leak in the outlet. I want to stop it filling and so have jammed the balcock lever shut with some string and a piece of wood laid across the top. I am not sure if this will be 100% watertight...

I am coming around to the idea that bituminous mastic is as tacky as any other mastic (when correctly applied) Are there any other mastics that are equally tacky (or moreso ) but have other advantages ? Or is bituminous mastic simply the tackiest? (I know it cracks over time but that is...

Yes ,that occured to me I always thought there was plenty of clearance . I haven't reported it yet as it is quite secure now and much higher off the ground than it was before But if I do report it they may well be unhappy replacing it exactly as it was.

No ,it is on my land (it comes from the main road,of course and uses an old wooden electricity pole in the garden to straddle the distance up the the house.The pole was undamaged but the cable was partially pulled away from the house and fell on the ground. Also undamaged)

The cable was attached to a piece of metal with an eye that was hammered into the wall when they installed the cable. However an oil lorry snagged the cable and pulled the down cable from the wall Thankfully we still have the signal and cable was not damaged.internally However I want to...

maybe that was it and I used silicon mastic . But what about if I want to get as close a match to the colour of the slates? Can that be done?

I use mastic along the vertical spaces between the slates as a quick repair job if there is water getting in under the slates. However I find it very hard to get the right colour to match the slates. Is there any way to match the mastic colour to the slates? (transparent doesn't work either...

Thanks.Kind of suck 'em and see. I imagine it is s no brainer that surface preparation is 90% of the battle.

I have just bought a tube of Arc MS-11.Have yet to try it. Which are the best comparable products? What makes the difference?

Can you get them made to order?

Thanks for your help. It's a big house . There are about 10 radiators upstairs and downstairs. The pipes were very old and rusty and so we replaced the whole length from boiler to the upstairs bot water tank (with narrower gauge flexible piping instead of the old 2 inch diameter stuff -at...

My system has an outdoor oil boiler with 2 pumps. One goes to the downstairs radiators and the other goes to the upstairs hot water tank. In the fairly recent past this pump also fed the upstairs radiators (no more) A couple of years back the pipes under the upstairs floorboards had to be...