Hi anybody know if its possible to get metal plaster depth boxes where the 3.5mm accessory screw is encased, as they are in surface boxes and plasterfix boxes so as to prevent tilers screwing back through cables. Never given it much thought before but it makes sense.
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I'm wiring a new house and am at the stage of sealing the boxes for behind the sockets and switches.
The holes have been tracked out to fit 25mm deep boxes and screwed in. I had been planning to finish the installation ready for the plasterer by cementing in the gap around the box but am...
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just wondered if someone could help i am installing a switch on outside of an internal wall upstairs so no more than 1.5m in length only putting it vertical so putting it in trunking but this is where im a lil confused. do i cut hole in plaster board ceiling for wires only or do...
A while back I saw a tool on telly for cutting out back box apertures, it could be set to depth and could cut right up to a line by a pre set guide, but now I cant find it on the web anywhere, any one know its name, or have I been at the home brew to much
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Hey guys, im starting a project where the building structures are as described above but at some point (possibly original) rendered on both sides. This is new to me and I would be really grateful of any info you may have for me. It is a high street and the owners would like brackets fixedto the...
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Am moving a few sockets/switches on a job.
Much smaller than normal works I do so seems a waste to get a plaster out for a few mins work.
So what do you use to tidy up the plaster around sockets/switches.
I was thinking this, anyone used?
No Nonsense All Purpose Ready Mixed Filler 1kg |...
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I've got to chase in a small run of 2.5mm cable in a bay window with a curved wall, its a horizontal chase about 3m in length I usually bond then finish over chases. I've kept my schedule free after this job as I've got a baby due in the next week, so don't want 2 bags of plaster...
:sad3::sad3::sad3::sad3:..... crap morning but saved by been prepared, was pad-sawing out a socket box in dot and dab about 1m from a window with a radiator under it, then psssssssssssssss water squirting out, was hot so isolated boiler to drop pressure and bashed out a large section of wall...
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I've got to install some downlights in a plaster board ceiling which has been fixed to a ceiling of the old style plaster with wooden lats, does anyone know if the downlights have to be fire rated??
Also what are the instances where you would use mains rated downlights as opposed to...
I've had a bad evening. Completed a job a week or so ago. Customer gave me nothing but problems from the beginning but managed to get paid and out the door.
Call this evening "I need you to speak to my plasterer" plasterer comes on." Hi just finished plastering and everything is tripping...
Can you get anything that fits between a double-socket outlet and the pattress that covers up any do
dgy plaster / wallpaper around the socket?
Something like those panels that fit around a lightswitch to stop you gettin fingerprints on the walls.
What a nightmare..... covered carpet up with my dust sheet (should have used my roll of carpet protector!)
Only had to take out 3 x old R60 eyeball lamps.
I've ended up somehow getting a nice little grey smudge right in the middle of the customers cream carpet - great !!
Rang up local carpet...
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I am going to start rewiring a 1930,s house in 2 weeks time ,the upstairs dividing walls in the bedrooms are lathe and plaster .I am going to be pulling the upstairs lighting feed to all the points and dropping the switch drops before chasing as going to leave the house running as its...
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I have rewired my house and then had a plasterer come in and skim the rooms. He hasn't plastered level and in some cases a few millimeters of the pattress sticks out of the plaster. As a consequence, there is a gap around the switches and they are not flush to the wall.
Do you know of...
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I need some advice and guidance on a lower then expected IR on a New ring final circuit
when carrying out testing continuity was correct and so to the IR testing
I tested L-N >299 perfect
L-Cpc >299
N-Cpc > anywhere from 40M/ohms to 299
so as its new rewire I...
Anyone had any experience with Bellrock Plaster Partitions ? Seemed to be popular with John Lawrence (Glasgow) builders in the mid-late 1950s but I can't find may other examples of them.
The entire wall is constructed from a sort of plaster honeycomb (approx 6" wide hexagons made of solid...
opinions please:
Derelict house for 8-9 years, leaky roof, walls prior to plastering felt wet, roof now fixed, replastered - up to 2 inches thick in some places. No heating.
How long should I leave the property before I try and do the 2nd fix/test?
Very concerned about all the moisture in...
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