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thanks for all the comments, I'll get myself down to the hire shop for a crimper :o

I was hoping that wouldn't be the answer :cry: It'll mean pulling up floorboards and holes in ceilings, is it really, really necessary or can i get away with re-joining the cut ends by scrimping ???

Need help please. I 'accidently' cut my earth wire (10mm) from consumer box to water & gas pipes. Is it ok to crimp them together again or do I have to run a continuous earth wire? Thanks in advance.

Actually it's both, I've saved on the 4-bed property and have started on another property :D Went a bit wobbly in the beginning but picked up loads of tips on the way as the course offers after-care help if your stuck. Goodbye woodchip, hello lovely flat walls :lol:

You don't say where your located but I attended this one and have since done a whole house ! - http://www.plastering-artexing-training-school.co.uk/index.htm Good luck

l.Spark & breezer, thanks for all the help. Finally got it working. Lifted up the floorboards upstairs to look down on the cables and discovered a hidden ceiling rose and the neutral was not connected to the rose ....... duh :oops: Now have to refit the antique floorboards, think I need...

dj, thanks for the help. yep i was going o do two edges at once but I'll take your advice :wink:

L.Spark, thanks for your replies, I won't even ask why your still awake :wink: The switch has three wires, two live and one earth. So I presume the wires in the ceiling are both live despite the colouring. If this is the case how do you wire that to a light fitting with the standard...

Hi new to posting but a long time reader and admirer of the advice offered on the board. Two quick questions: 1) Anyone know where you can buy really small-mini plasterer's trowels, the normal sized marshall town ones are too large for the gaps I have to plaster (long story, old house ...

L.Spark, thanks for your help as well. I still can't get any sleep trying to work this problem out :shock: In answer to your question it's a single on-way switch. The light is in the ceiling in the main living room (is that what you meant?) , it may well be that the wires are both live...

thanks breezer for the reply. I haven't got an old light fitting :( . I did try the new fitting in another ceiling and it worked so the light isn't the problem and I can't dig around in the ceiling as its elegant cornicing. i'll have another look at it 2morrow. On another note any idea...

Hi new to posting but avid reader of the board. i've bought a new light fitting (brown-blue-earth wires) which I attempted to attach to the ceiling. The only wires in the ceiling are brown-blue-earth so logic would assume that you'd connect blue-blue, brown-brown & earth-earth. Did this and...