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Hi, EDIT - Title should say Dry Stack, not Dry Stone. I hope someone can advise. I have purchased 2 tonnes of black limestone walling, and have divided it into its respective course sizes. These will be dry stacked around a breeze block wall and back filled/back mortared. Each slab in pic...

Thanks Frank, have added about a dozen more posts on slabs.

Hi jeds, The concern I raised with the guy I spoke to was that as there is space for a cavity, could the wall easily be 'pushed in', or if someone fell into it, it could just collapse if it is not motared anywhere? It is essentially a four'ish foot high wall, with no support front or back...

Hi, Although it may not look it, none of the 4x2 are touching the soil. I am planning on laying weed control membrane under the entire deck, and topping it with some left over MOT Sub Base. I will however wedge some additional pavers for the extra support.

Hi both, Thanks for the replies. Before your I saw your responses I just spoke to another supplier of these bricks and explained the scenario. He has suggested to dry stack the wall, and back fill the entire cavity with a mortar mix (didn't say what the mix should be). Could this work also...

Hi all, I have built and outdoor oven last/this year, and during which time I decided to rip down an existing shed, and build a new one in it's place. The project got bigger and bigger, and I decided to lay a multi-level deck around the who area. I built the frame for the deck, then decided...

Hi all, I wonder if someone can please advise? I have built a pizza oven which sits on breeze blocks, and am now at a stage where I need to tidy things up a bit and wrap a wall around it which will allow me to place a ledge around the oven too. I am looking to buy some black limestone walling...

Hi all, Wonder if someone can advise? I have built an outdoor pizza oven, and am at the final stage of finishing the dome. The dome has been finished off with an insulation layer of vermicrete (vermiculite/cement 8:1). The approx sq/mt is about 5. I have purchased three bags of K-Rend...

Cool. I'll pick the LAP one up for now this evening, maybe look at the Fluke one another day.

Thanks Taylortwocities. I can't get access to my Fluke DVM until next week, was going to pick up a basic one from Screwfix >>> http://www.screwfix.com/p/lap-mas830b-digital-multimeter-600v/75337 LAP MAS830B Digital Multimeter 600V Would this suffice for my purposes?

Will a DVM suffice to test if it is live?

Pond still without pump. Any advice on how I can test would be appreciated. There is an RCD on the house CU next to the tripping one which is not in use - am I able to make use of this for testing purposes?

I am not a qualified electrician (you may have guessed), but am competent enough to do some basic fault finding, and would never undertake anything deemed unsafe. I need to get my shed demolished today, but obviously need to be satisfied power has been killed to the shed (which I am certain is...

OK. So I have, as far as I can tell, killed all power to the pond pump, and still the RCD is tripping. I'm not sure exactly how the previous owner has wired the switch in the front room to switch the pump on and off, maybe this is wired into the RCD in the shed which houses the house CU? Could...

OK. My mistake, it says out door lights NOT greenhouse (greenhouse is the rcd next to this one). See picture below: The shed CU goes back to the house CU. There is an outdoor box with an unterminated cable cable going to it which looks like it goes back to the shed CU from the direction it...

There is a label on the House CU tripping RCD which says 'Shed, Greenhouse, Pond', so I assume the middle one used to control the greenhouse. There used to be a greenhouse before we moved in, but the owners dismantled it and sold it. The previous owner was an electrician for the council, so I...

Pics attached. As said, haven't touched anything, other than to trip these switches, the RCD on the House CU leading to this box and the CU in the shed.

When I turn the House CU to 'off', the tripping one will remain in the 'on', position (under no load), until I switch the House CU to 'on', and it trips. Basically everything was, and has been, working perfectly until I decided this afternoon to double-check what RCD is connected to what...

Hi. I have done the following: House CU 'on', Shed/Pump Box all 'off'. Tripping RCD will not switch to 'on'. House CU 'off', Shed/Pump Box all 'off'. Tripping RCD will stay in the 'on' position...turn House CU 'on' will trip the RCD.

Hi 333, thanks for the reply. So...I have switched off the consumer unit in the garden shed, and turned off the water pump switch. I then turn off the main house consumer unit (pictured above), and switch the tripping switch to the 'on' position - it stays on. I then turn on the house consumer...