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We cut openings in some solid brick walls in our ground floor flat and now have problems with efflouresence accumulating on the cut surfaces at all the openings. We have no dampness in the walls anywhere in the flat, and no rising damp. The efflouresence is appearing from ground level up to 1m...

Thanks for the heads up. I'll confirm whether he's a part of any competent persons scheme. I did have a BCO in on this job, but I haven't seen the certificate of completion yet. The BCO may have only looked at another aspect of the job, a structural opening in the wall. Perhaps the builder...

RF - it's not protected by an RCD. The electrician didn't install one and the flat doesn't have one yet. The thermostat is protected by a fused spur only. The flat is in a 50 year old building. The flat was fit out in the 80's, was previously storage at ground floor. The contractor has...

Just did get through to the contractor. He's told me he'll get a second opinion in, and also communicate with the manufacturer. His boys installed the underfloor heating system. They'd never seen one before but there were easy to read instructions to follow. I'm not sure what the installers...

Thank you for the replies. This has me worried as there is a new wood floor laid over the electric floor heating, which has to come up every time these guys look at this. And next week a new kitchen is going down over the bamboo in one part at least...so really no way to take up the floor...

I've just had underfloor electric heating installed in my ground floor flat. Whenever the underfloor heating is turned on, electric current can be felt in any metal objects in contact with the walls including the corner beads, wall sockets, even a frying pan placed on the hob. This is not...