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I will admit to using it on occasion as a quick fix... This was mid kitchen refit and this original switch position is long gone anyway. Weird breeze blocks in the walls that have huge "hollows" in them. For the 47mm back box here I just pumped in mortar and cheated with curly wurlys! Needs must...

Euphemism?

A bit ott for one short chase in your case but why not! Small trowel I'd use. Just make sure you wash the gun out scrupulously afterwards.

Mortar gun works a treat for pumping muck into a chase. Leaves a nice ribbed finish for the plaster to key to. Tbh this whole corner block, render & plaster was so live the conduit served to keep it there! Chased with a multitool.

I was kidding about the foam!

Cheers. (I was trying not to detract from your thread btw) Loft is the obvious option but at the mo that is cold space.

Foam fill, cut flush, paint!

Electricians Guide To The Building Regs from the IET is maybe a more practical book for you. I'd 5:1 pva the trench and capping. Sand / cement mortar leaving it 3mm low. Chuck the rest of the pva mix in the mortar. Patching plaster over the top (£2.50 from Wilko / £2.99 from H'base). Paint. Skip the plaster if not staying!

Daft question..... I am since day one, considering a single room MVHR for the bathroom. As in a the wall type Ventaxia. I've not really got the wall space though where it wouldn't stand out like a sore thumb. Should I maybe be thinking about a couple of ducts on the ceiling and a loft mount MVHR. Maybe something I can expand later on as I do the other rooms?

Masonry bit bridging the ring cables in a back box when A N Other said it was dead I recall one time. So much for teamwork!

Is this a play on the top hat capping he drilled through?

The OSG as said above an A5 handy guide to the regs: Strappers - The wires connecting L1s to L1s & L2s to L2s but not the common. Intermediate - Great on a mid landing. You can basically have as many intermediates as you want and switch on/off from any of them. Old offices, (before "open plan") with long corridors would have them outside each office. Someone working late would leave their office and turn on the corridor lights. Then walk past lots of similar switches outside other offices and turn the lights off at the last switch. Security guard doing his rounds comes in the other end of the dark corridor and switches everything on. Useful say to have a switch on entering the lounge and then one either side of French doors. WAGOs - Magical connector blocks that are for all intents and porpoises maintenance free...no screws to come loose! So you can board over them etc with abandon pretty much. I favour the lever type. Check them out on YouTube when you get 5. In this context could be used to replace the "Lego brick / chocolate block" in the intermediate. http://global.wago.com/en/products/product-catalog/terminal-blocks-connectors/overview/index.jsp Are those diagrams I posted legible? If not I'll re post them. What went through that capping, Bosch multi construction bit was it? Do we get to see the repair and praise / take the pi$$ some more?

I actually really like the warmth of vinyl, I really do. Trouble is my musical tastes have moved on. I bought a USB turntable with the intent of converting everything to MP3. It was cute when my 11 year old referred to "those big black CDs". Nostalgic too when waiting for the next track I forgot you have to turn the record over! I think I got as far as converting the 12" mixes of I.O.U by Freeeze, Gwen Guthrie's Outside In The Rain and Sinitta's Cruising before it all went back in the box / loft.

Erm...possibly NOT good news. It's the plaster comes away from the laths. A bit about it here: http://www.peterbarry.co.uk/blog/the-perils-of-lath-and-plaster-ceilings/ @nod will be along shortly I imagine ref plaster related things!

The walls will likely be lime plaster. A biatch to get rawlplugs to stay in sometimes! The ceilings I'm guessing lath & plaster (maybe some walls too).

About that time yes. Brothers In Arms era I think. Blew it off with the compressor in the garden then wiped over with a bleach cloth. Might need some Multisolve for the stubborn, ingrained stuff It was the "lesser" turntable (the SL-J1 not the SL-Q5) than I quoted earlier:

This for reference / might interest you. Especially the intermediate switching. This is from college bumpf. See how here on the 2-way they have grey as common. The OSG now shows common as black and then grey & brown strappers. Doesn't really matter a carrot as long as they're the same both ends i.e L1 to L1, L2 to L2, Com to Com. For the intermediate now you could use a Wago etc. p4.pdf

How easy was the tanking? Tips for when I do mine! I suppose with yours, leaks will show downstairs?

Mines in the wet room bit. Run the sensor duct to the furthest point you might have it. You can always pull the sensor cable back so it sits in another area of the floor.

Here's one I tidied earlier (old colours): See the red sleeving added to the strappers:

Don't forget, if you're going to, to run a length of pipe with a squashed over end for a floor sensor. You don't have to use it but it's there is need be:

That's a 2-gang, 2-way switch. See the diagonal dividing line in the black moulding. Each switch has Common, L1 & L2. You would normally expect the red, blue and yellow on one side of the diagonal. Looks like it's just been used as two 1-way switches unless I'm mistaken. Looks like live comes in on the red and jumps to the other common. The switched lives then go out to two separate lights on the blue and yellow. Belt and braces is to slip little sleeves over the blue and yellow as they are live conductors. The blue and yellow are known as "strappers". Am I right in my thinking it does two lights?

TURN THE POWER OFF FIRST! So a two way light switch wired in "old colours", 3-core and earth. This nicked at random off the web: Hopefully the wires are still connected to the switch? If not copy where the wires connect at the "sister" switch. The reason I say this is not everybody follows the colours above. Best bet is if you can haul that bit up and replace. If not some deft crimping.

Why not a Sunamp or buffer tank?

Not unpacked the car yet. Covered in dust and has that "old people" smell! SLQ5 linear tracking turntable from memory.