Home DIY

Everyone needs to stop saying "Tormek" or the upstairs bathroom gets slightly less fancy tiles....

Fair enough. It's an old man sort of thing anyway, schedule it for the end of your middle age.

They are sitting on the little rubber donuts that electricians put in metal back boxes to stop damage to the wires.

Grommets.

But not this sort of Gromit.

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I refurbed a Stanley jointer to flip it on eBay a while back. Very satisfying to lap everything flat and get it taking wafer-thin shavings.

I've got a pair of concrete ceiling lamps.

Can I just cut the rose off and wire them to a plug? And what fuse should I use?

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Yes. 3A.

3A? What 700W bulb are they going to have?

I've been sticking 1A in any lamps recently. Even a hefty low energy bulb is only 20W which will be under 0.1A

This bulb was my plan

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Nice shades where from ?

I've been sticking 1A in any lamps recently

Last time I looked they were a bit unusual. If Screwfix don't list them do they really exist?

By hype, I mean the middle aged nirvana of isolation and dicking about with tools.

Utopian indeed (I'm 36)

Not sure, the marketing dept where I work was selling staging and props off cheap.

Got the pair for £10.

I like to think that they buy high end stuff.

Manufacturer seems to be Trio

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Pretty much.

Although it hasn't been leaking as much as it did before. Nor have I been repressurising it as much as in winter. Which is why it seems odd that it's fucking us over all of a sudden.

Age wise it's >10yrs which as I understand it is about the limit for any modern boiler.

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2nd pic helps a lot too.

Cheers! TBH I didn't do the verticals but did the horizontals and the patio which were both relatively simple, or maybe I just got lucky. I can imagine your plan will be relatively easy as you are starting from/using an already existing solid structure, concreting in post is a pretty easy task I just got mine done by someone else as they were replacing the fence at the same time.

If the PRV has went that will need changed, probs the expansion vessel is knackered too. You'll need to get a gas engineer out to repair this.

Up to yourself if you repair it or change it. Personally id change it instead of spending money on something that is probs at the end of its life. You dont wanna be putting fresh water in all the time as it ends up fuckin other stuff in the system in the long run.

Yeah this is basically what the boiler guy said almost a year ago.

At that time my OH was still on unpaid matt leave so we got it serviced in the hope it would get us through 6-12m, which it's done. The guy is coming over tomorrow to check it out.

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3A? What 700W bulb are they going to have?

I've been sticking 1A in any lamps recently. Even a hefty low energy bulb is only 20W which will be under 0.1A

3A and 13A are the only recognised fuses for 13A plugs. 🤷🏻‍♂️

1A and 5A do exist but aren't, 'technically' compliant.

The fuse is there to protect the cable really, and even 0.5mm flex will carry 3A. Not sure of the benefit of using a 1A fuse.

1A and 5A do exist but aren't, 'technically' compliant.

With what? There are plenty of people[1] selling what they describe as BS1362 1A and 5A fuses. Is that an outdated standard? I don't have a copy of BS1362 to see what it says.

One of the things I miss about access to a university library is availability of standards documents.

[1] although not ScrewFix as far as I can see.

I assume the flex is sized for a typical lighting circuit fuse or breaker of 5 or 6A anyway.

I was too lazy to do it first time around!

Not sure it's wise to make that assumption. There's also a lot of old flex out there on second hand lamps.

Old and damaged is one thing but haven't lighting circuits been 5A for a very long time? BS546 is from 1934 and that had 5A fuses in distribution boards[1]. Not sure what came before?

Perhaps not double insulated though but that's not something any fuse will help with.

[1] I think, I can't find a reference at the moment. I have a recollection of an IET article but can only find ones about plugs at the moment.

It's normally 6amp in the consumer unit which protects the cable to the socket.

The cable from the plug onwards could have much lower capacity than the lighting circuit cable.