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Agreed. If OSB2 were the same thing, why the need for two names?

As someone said on another forum then, plumbers have to make the best of the worst materials :roll: Well, thank you, at least I know I'm not just being ignorant in not having a specific tool.

So no-one's made a special square spanner then?

Hi there, I realise a decent adjustable spanner will usually work, but I wondered whether anyone knows if there is a tool specifically designed for the square section radiator valve tails that are now so popular. Today I removed some old internal-hex-type valve tails using a radiator valve...

Another advantage of secondary glazing is that it prevents condensation from forming on the original windows, thus helping to preserve them.

Hi Dishman, Just wondered what you painted your windows with in the end. Did you go for linseed oil paint? Riccardo

Roguehanger: I had never considered the use of heat produced by a compost toilet! I suppose a dung heap could well get the water to over 55°C, especially in the warmer French climate. It makes use of a wasted heatt, as you wouldn't want to use your toilet in a hotbed for growing food crops...

Re. wind turbines. Although in some ways of looking at it, any wind is better than none as we have a fantastic climate in the UK for it, I'm not personally a fan of offshore wind. Because it so expensive compared with both the conventional fuels, and onshore wind. Onshore wind doesn't...

Wow, you lot have been active! Henry1: You state: This would depend on what you use to insulate with. Try something like Warmcel (a blown, recycled newspaper insulation) and the energy required to manufacture it is next to nil. It is treated with borax, but it remains a comparatively...

Garotte them with the LSOH cable. Obviously!

Thanks for that, but I had looked online (not yet tried WF though), and couldn't find it! Was that a genuine non-PVC LSOH or an LSF, I wonder. If you know a stockist, please let me know for future reference. You never know. In any case, the problem is now solved. The electrician came back...

Now I remember it, the argument was 'this could be used as a bedroom'. There speaks someone who has never tried. In any case, that argument could be applied to a garden shed, but would constitute a change of use, planning permission etc etc.

... so I thought, yes, cover it with something, why not? Although, to be fair, if no one gets injured, no one will force me to anything one way or the other. But if someone does get injured, it would be good for me to have followed qualified advice.

Lots of issues to consider. Why do you think that, on balance, I previously decided to leave it as it was, clipped direct? Garr! Oh well, will see what my electrician comes back to me with. Although it may well NOT be him who does the next EICR, so then it's someone else's opinion of what...

Not an issue in this situation. Hey... who was it offered me his PVC offcuts that he was going to bin anyway? The regs are rarely pure and never simple, as Oscar Wilde would have said if he had been an electrician writing "The Importance of Being Earthed" :(

Sparkwright You are a GENIUS! The blanking plate creates the safe zones. Got it!

I have done this, am waiting for his comment. Mind you, since, when the tenants eventually leave, I will be blocking off the stairs to that poxy room and fit a hatch instead, next time it is inspected, it will not be an issue...

Surprisingly, it looks exactly like the PVC version (even has a clip-in lid), except it is wooden. I like the glass windows idea. Very quirky!

Interesting. I knew about safe zones, but thought they extended all the way through the wall's thickness. Had hoped the batten and board would not be considered concealed. Covering with perforated hardboard might also get around it? You can see the cable, as someone previously commented...

To clarify, I meant a batten each side of cable, and a board as a form of capping. NOT the whole wall. Warning stickers on the board too. Leaving plenty of space inside the boxing to avoid heating the cables.