Electrician has left holes in interior brickwork

Although I must admit, it does annoy me when pictures are uploaded and I have to search someones profile for them, or click to an external site to see them.

You should go to the effort of placing them inline with your text. It's not hard, and saves everybody time.
 
I just uploaded them to an album - are you able to look through the album?
Absolutely not.

If you want people to look at your photos then it's down to you to do the job properly and put them in your posts.

If you can't be rsed to do that then why should anybody be rsed to help you?

Sorry. I will try and see how you do it. I am not great with technology and am looking after a baby full time whilst trying to do all this. Hence late night postings. Will try harder! :oops:
 
Hi all, looks like i have annoyed a few people. It took me ages to upload the album coz the site wouldn't accept them at first, then I have had to upload them a couple at a time. If I can't figure out how to get photos in posts then I will not ask a question on a forum that need pics, then no-one gets hacked off. Thanks for all your input. :!:
 
Ban, stop being frumpy.
Frumpy?

No - I just get annoyed when people go through Step 1, Step 2 etc, and having got to Step 8 and have an album, just don't bother to do Steps 9, 10 & 11 to put the photos in their posts.

Oh okay. I appreciate people are using their time to answer questions from people who haven't a clue like me so I will try and work it out. In the meantime we've just found out the joiner did the floorboards perfectly over the wires and pipework only to then use a nail gun which has now split all his good work. Husband's been away working to come back to that. So, I will get my trusty camera out...........
 
I appreciate people are using their time to answer questions from people who haven't a clue like me so I will try and work it out.
Yes, it is annoying, but some people forget that there are others who aren't adept at technology and struggle to do what, to some of us, "is easy".

Interestingly, when I look at your profile, it says "GeorgeP uploaded new photos to their album: Loft conversion plastering 11 hours ago"
But when I click the link it says "This person does not have any albums."
Very odd :?

There's a guide to uploading photos here

In the meantime we've just found out the joiner did the floorboards perfectly over the wires and pipework only to then use a nail gun which has now split all his good work. Husband's been away working to come back to that.
Easily done. Just as easy to stick nails through the pipes and cables :roll:
If it's any consolation, even experienced people can struggle getting a tradesman who can a) understand basic instructions, and b) do a decent job. My brother had to sack a plumber, get the builder to fix some of his bodges (like cavernous holes though the walls), and then get a decent plumber to pull most of the work out and do it again properly. Apart from not understanding the different between thermal store and open vent cylinder, his work was "a complete bodge" and he even put valves/pipework where it would prevent cupboard doors being closed :roll:
 
Insulation board on external walls.
Are you OK with the fact that it's very difficult to have cables or pipes behind and then coming through the insulation board, very difficult to have accessory boxes sunk into them etc?

The walls will be cold - even colder than they get now, and the interior of the rooms will be warm. When warm air gets onto the cold walls through holes in the insulation made for back boxes, cables etc it will cause condensation, which will lead to damp, possibly mould with spores which are bad for your health etc.

It's very difficult to get internal wall insulation right, but very easy to get it wrong and to start building up a load of problems.

BAS. Is there a solution for this? Reason I ask is because I'll be doing this in the bathroom shortly (pipes & backboxes) - building control are insisting on insulation so have to use it.
 
BAS. Is there a solution for this? Reason I ask is because I'll be doing this in the bathroom shortly (pipes & backboxes) - building control are insisting on insulation so have to use it.
Insisting on insulation where and why, and in connection with what work?
 
I realise that, but it doesn't really explain why someone would do the first 8 steps and not bother to do the last 3.
Perhaps they haven't figured out how to do the last 3 steps yet. It's not at all unreasonable for them to have not found the link on how to do it (I had to use search to find it). Like I say, it's easy to just assume that everyone would know how to do it - but as the old saying goes, assume makes an "ass" out of "u" and "me".
 
Stick with us GeorgeP. Not being an easy way to access your pictures will pee off the quick thread scanners, it is a lot easier though! But in a weird way, the folks who have been there and done that will try to get to your pictures and help you out.
 
Did it! : Wanted to say that all those wires coming down to meet the bathroom light socket are from the loft conversion. Having been to check the house, there really doesn't look any other way that they can run other than through this channel to get to the garage which houses the meter. Down from this socket - they run to meet a 2 gang light switch for the hallway lights and then through the wall to the meter as the garage is built in. How else they could get there is impossible to tell. This would explain why the wires are outside the safe zone??? They are all clipped in nicely apart from the outer one on the left. Hope being able to post a pic in my post now helps BAS. :P
 
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its a bit deceiving but projecting a line from the right hand edge of the switchbox upwards what would you say is the distance to the outer edge of the furthest right cable higher up say 150mm from ceiling
 

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