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today, still not finished though

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, so the answer is, get an electrician?

I didn’t do this. Nobody has died.

Get some connectors, watch a load of YouTube videos, get the tools you need to be absolutely certain you’ve turned off the juice to it and DIY it.

If it’s not earthed just make sure you get class ii fittings.

Bollocks. Thought sanding this door step back and priming it for paint would be a simple job but then discovered it’s rotted to fuck and already been filled once. Merde.

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It looks better than mine. I have put off replacing the sill for years. It’s now 20% filler and 20% strips of new wood let in. Each repair lasts about 6 months before the paint cracks and the rot starts over.

Yeah. It’s been badly done in the past and there’s no rain deflector on it so moisture is just sitting on it between the seal. Which has perished. Garbage.

Mid term it will all come out and get replaced with modern shit. Just have to get through the next five years...

The screws for the faceplate connect the backbox and faceplate (and are deemed an ok method of earthing the backbox as long as one of the screw points is fixed) so it’s just redundant more than anything.

I would point out that it’s very possible to do work that appears to function but isn’t necessarily safe. I would also say that a DIYer almost certainly doesn’t have the equipment to test and verify the suitability or condition of existing wiring.

How are you going to tackle it? Rout and fill or cut out and let in some new wood?

Built a new wood storage corner this morning.

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Remove the old filler. Route out the really fucked stuff. Drown the rest with hardener. Fill and then sand back. Going to fit a rain deflector to the door and a new seal.

Might as well knock the bloody house down

I would point out that it’s very possible to do work that appears to function but isn’t necessarily safe.

I know. This is true whether the circuit is earthed or not, I think? Although it's possibly more likely to install a fitting in a way that's less than acceptable with a circuit that has no earth. But class ii fittings exist - like the plastic ceiling rose - to side step the worst of that.

I would also say that a DIYer almost certainly doesn’t have the equipment to test and verify the suitability or condition of existing wiring.

Yeah, it's unlikely. I was referring to tooling a consumer needs to verify the wiring they are working on is 'dead', having been shut off at the fuse box / consumer unit.

Mitre boxes are a game changer.
Finishing this off this weekend, came out as hoped.
Just going to oil the floor and pretend it’s “utilitarian” as I feel getting what I want is more money/effort than I have atm (floor is level but not super sturdy, prob need someone good to work on the beams.

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It was just a comment about DIYing electrics in general. Reversed polarity, switching on the neutral rather than live conductors, high resistance joints, badly terminated connections, too much bare conductor exposed.
There’s loads of little things that could occur and pose danger while the lights still work.

Switching off the circuit labelled as lighting is no guarantee of safety either without means of proving dead.

I’m definitely being pedantic. And I’ve got skin in the game (I’m obviously going to espouse the advantage of using a spark).

Folk dont listen alot of the time when it comes to leccy, until you've been zapped a few times ;)

Now I come to finally fit it I need more shelves for an IKEA system, which they seem to have discontinued some time in the last year. Gah.

Long shot, but if it's a KOMPLEMENT, I have one, still wrapped, going spare.

And being zapped is minor compared to your house burning down!

Thanks but it's Algot I need

On the subject of electrics... is it ok to run a tumble dryer from a socket that's spurred off another socket rather than direct to the fuse board?

Depends on the rating of the drier. If it is supplied with a plug on, it’ll be rated at 13a, and will be fine to run off a socket - provided the spur has been installed correctly it should be fine.

Tread carefully

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excellent death mask there !😱

Do keep an eye on those boards. I've got some bendy 12mm ply in stock right now because I left it standing on it's edge on site a few weeks ago.

It's hard to see from here but if it's well supported and quite dry in your garage it should be fine.

Look at repaircare if you want a better solution. They have a lot of videos showing the process. I get through quite a bit of it repairing these kinds of problems but I have to really like someone to want to do it these days. Working on your knees in the damp is a painful experience.

I filled my own with some epoxy resin cement I had left over in a tin and it's worked a treat for years.