Home DIY

Does it make more sense to not disturb them until the last minute? Or remove them now, leave them in back yard? The latter option bothers me. More risk of damage?

I have no idea.

Local refuse site should accept them, they have a special bin.

what kind of refurb?

£100 a door I've been quoted. Is that reasonable?

Anyone got a nail gun i can borrow tomorrow?

wow, which area if I may ask?

Floor sanding: oil vs lacquer finish? Which will wear better in high-traffic areas such as hallways? Do not want wet look shiny finish...

So might as well sort out the party wallnow.

Osmo oil. Very cool stuff

Another vote for osmo. It really made our pine boards look good

I woke up to no power this morning. RCD had tripped.

Turning everything off and back on one at a time has the kitchen plug sockets trip the system every time. I've unplugged everything in the room but it still trips.

Any thoughts?

main RCD, or split board RCD, or circuit RCD?

Turn all circuit breakers (CB) off, reset RCD(s), systematically restore CBs until relevant RCD operates.

Can often be a failed lamp that trips an RCD.

If all that to no avail and not a plugged in item (99.9% of the time it's plugged in eqpt), then you're down to a fixed wiring issue, which is faceplates/roses off and isolating legs of each circuit until you find the rogue area.

fun...

Here's the unit:

RCD trips each time I lift the one to the right of it.

It looks like it's just sockets in the kitchen as the lights / sockets work everywhere else in the house. Like I said though, everything has been turned off and removed from the sockets and it's still tripping.

Given the weather, I'm worried some water has gotten in somewhere but I can't see anything.

ok, ring fixed wiring suspect.

With the power off an electrician would take faceplates off and disconnect the first socket, then reapply power, and see if the fault manifested in the now radial circuit. If it doesn't then you know it's the cabling from CB to first socket, if it does, keep going along, moving the open point of the ring/radial until the fault is located.

So all I need to do is pop the faceplate and disconnect everything, push the CB and try the next one if it doesn't work?

How do I know which one is the first socket?

Is this a reasonable price for wrapping doors of asbestos:
£65 plus a bit more (looking at about 80ish I think).
This is materials and someone coming out and wrapping. Leaving them in the garden until City of London come along. I can't lift the doors on my own, and I'd have to pay for the materials to wrap. So I kind of figure it's reasonable...

If you don't already have the paper suit, mask etc and someone else to help then it sounds reasonable. Be thankful your local authority will collect for free, I was quoted hundreds for a similar amount.

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New problem! I'm at home today, insulating and boarding the inside of my shed with a nail gun...

The MCB on the far right of the CU is only 16A and trips after two or three nails. From the manufacturer page, it seems like they require a 30A MCB.

How easy are they to change over and can I do it?

What do you mean by "two or three nails"?

You need to inspect the mains cabling and find out what current it is rated for.

Sorry... I'm boarding with a nail gun. It draws a considerable amount when driving the nails and trips after two or three.

Understood. I guess the nail gun has a massive inrush current when you use it. Again, you can't uprate the fuse if that ring's wiring is not suitably rated.

You could take a suitably rated extension cable plugged into a higher-rated ring though.

I'll have to do that then. The upstairs sockets should be fine.

Think I'll need a new extension lead though as I'm pretty sure the one I have isn't high enough.

Another question; sorry...

I can only seem to find extension cables rated to 13A with their own rcd yet the nail gun manufacturer page states that I may need 30A CB and my 16A MCB is tripping so I'm guessing that's not going to work?

Like I said though, everything has been turned off and removed from the sockets and it's still tripping.

Including hidden sockets for integrated appliances (washing machine, dishwasher, etc) or ambient lighting (under/in cupboard style) wired into the sockets circuit?

The one time I had something similar it was an under-cupboard light (fluro tube) that had had steam blasted at it from the kettle too many times and would trip the main breaker whenever someone put the kettle on with it pointing in the wrong direction. Baffled the electrician for a while as the kettle tested fine on its own.

All the lights are separate and working. Fridge / cooker run off of a different circuit and working.

Only other thing could be the dishwasher which I'll be dragging out later today. Guess we'll see.