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You should add RCD protection. Via RCBO is an easy way if you don't have room for an RCD in the consumer unit.

Your approach is common sense and shouldn't lose any sleep over it but by the letter of the regs you should have RCD protected the whole circuit. You don't need to RCD protect circuits that you're not altering though which doesn't make much sense as they arguably carry the same level of danger as your alterations.

Bear in mind that Part P was pushed through building law by an MP who lost his daughter because a builder put a wire in an extension wall running diagonally. Someone then fitted a metal plate rack with a screw that punctured the wire. There was no problem until the girl touched the earthed metal sink and the plate rack.

Primarily Part P helps the building trades to maintain safe standards especially in new builds where the electrical system is designed from scratch. It doesn't make quite as much sense in legacy systems. For example no one is going to change the height of all the sockets in a room to above 450mm just to add a new socket, but if you are fitting new sockets to a room then they should be above 450mm but you're not going to fit one socket higher than all the others especially if it would result in a diagonal cable run.

Complying with the regs helps tradesmen to maintain a level of end user safety because the hive mind has had a good look at all the stuff that can go wrong which the individual sweating to make a living might otherwise not recognise.

Easy, but bloody expensive. And notifiable.

I don't think fitting an RCBO to an existing circuit is notifiable. You just remove the existing breaker and replace with an appropriate rating RCBO (preferably from the manufacturer of the consumer unit), they cost £10-£15.

Notifiable stuff is generally the addition of a new circuit which includes a new CU, some outdoor stuff etc. etc.

You do need to test it and fill out a minor works certificate though. Maybe you would skip the certificate for your own job.

Brace yourselves.

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Are you going to change the ones that are wrong?

Amazing, did you do that yourself? Do you run the sander over afterwards?

Lovely job, will be beautiful when it's finished.

I refer you to amish quilts, where mistakes are purposefully left in to underline the makers humility and subservience to god above.

dammit, new page

Are you going to change the ones that are wrong?

The ones at the very edge? No, I quite like them.

Hah!

Those in a triangle where the herringbone pattern breaks against the border.
(Excuse my lack of english terms)
I like it too.

Surely,

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I quite like the way you have just thrown them down - ignoring the grain and colour variation. I'm sure it will turn out just fine.

:)

They'll get sanded fam.

Sand the floor?

How did you know he was getting a small Italian boy in to do it?

When he's done there he's round to ours for painting the fence.

Sanding isn't going to change the colour or the direction of the grain though :P

That said, life is arguably too short.

Whilst it won't change the direction of the grain it will certainly change the colour - have you never sanded something? It takes off a layer of the surface, if that layer is a different colour from the underlying material then the appearance will be changed by the sanding process.

With regards to the grain that's inline with the long axis of the blocks, it's unavoidable that they will therefore be at 90 degrees to one another due to the herringbone pattern.

popcorn

So I've been living with this mess since I got this window installed. Plan to make good on my week off. It's mouldy but it's not getting worse quickly as ventilation and water ingress problems are sorted. Wall does get a bit damp but I think that's just condensation.

Anyway, just wanted to check my process. plan is rip off tiles and plasterboard if that comes with them. Hack off plaster around window. Dry line with water resistant board (just to be sure) and new board on the boxed in section, making it level with the window return. Tile all. New bathroom paint on the ceiling.

Sound legit?

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