Electricians Tips from a professional electrician

[littlespark]

Electricians Tips from a professional electrician in the UK Electrical Forum

Sometimes you need to work in an old house, and there’s a number of threads on here about how to, say, fit downlights in a lathe ceiling.....

Here’s a start... on lathe and plaster walls without making a huge mess....

Mark where you want the socket to go. Height wise, measure an existing one from either the floor or the top of the skirting.


Next, use a pad saw to find a gap between the lathes. Hit and miss jabbing with the saw until it breaks through.

I will be using a regular dry lining box, so you don’t want to be too close to a vertical joist. Use the pad saw to feel to the left and right. If you can feel a joist, just adjust your planned position.

Once you have the final position, you can draw around a regular metal back box to give your cutout size.

Using a multi tool on a fairly slow speed, you can chip away at the plaster, but not the lathe quite yet.
yet.

Now, with the multi tool on a high speed and a fine toothed wood blade, you can cut neatly through the lathe without much problem. A small wood screw screwed into the middle of the lathe and held tight in pliers will help as the lathe will want to push into the hollow wall.

Now for the biggest tip I can give. Very very important whenever you are doing anything like this;



Always remember to charge your phone fully, or it will die when you’re in the middle of trying to make a hints and tips thread???

 

[Intoelectrics]

I'm surprised the discrimination police haven't jumped all over this with pink Hetty's and red Henry's. I sat on a training course the other day for diversity, discrimination and inclusion. Apparently I'm no longer allowed to compliment a person on their appearance.
So next time my missus puts on a new outfit and gets her hair done etc.. and she asks "how do I look" my answer will be - "no comment".
Oh, and I shouldn't have used the term "my missus" as this implies I am implying she is a possession and not equal.

 

[Lister1987]

Apparently I'm no longer allowed to compliment a person on their appearance.
So next time my missus puts on a new outfit and gets her hair done etc.. and she asks "how do I look" my answer will be - "no comment".

ALWAYS plead the 5th ?

 

[telectrix]

I'm surprised the discrimination police haven't jumped all over this with pink Hetty's and red Henry's. I sat on a training course the other day for diversity, discrimination and inclusion. Apparently I'm no longer allowed to compliment a person on their appearance.
So next time my missus puts on a new outfit and gets her hair done etc.. and she asks "how do I look" my answer will be - "no comment".
Oh, and I shouldn't have used the term "my missus" as this implies I am implying she is a possession and not equal.

stock ansewr .

"does these leggings make my arse look fat?

nope ," it s all the chips and cake do that."

 

[Dave OCD]

I might have mentioned this before and the post might not stay for long but a young lady was rushed to the local a&e with a vacuum cleaner nozzle firmly wedged in her ##### . However the following morning a hospital spokesman said she was picking up nicely. ?

 

[nicebutdim]

I might have mentioned this before and the post might not stay for long but a young lady was rushed to the local a&e with a vacuum cleaner nozzle firmly wedged in her ##### . However the following morning a hospital spokesman said she was picking up nicely. ?

Can't imagine how it got wedged in her armpit!

 

[ipf]

I'm surprised the discrimination police haven't jumped all over this with pink Hetty's and red Henry's. I sat on a training course the other day for diversity, discrimination and inclusion. Apparently I'm no longer allowed to compliment a person on their appearance.
So next time my missus puts on a new outfit and gets her hair done etc.. and she asks "how do I look" my answer will be - "no comment".
Oh, and I shouldn't have used the term "my missus" as this implies I am implying she is a possession and not equal.

'The wife' or 't'other half' gets frowned upon even more, though.

 

[littlespark]

“‘Er indoors” is bad enough.... suggesting the good lady wife doesn’t leave the house because her job is as housewife and mother and nothing else!!!

 

[ipf]

“‘Er indoors” is bad enough.... suggesting the good lady wife doesn’t leave the house because her job is as housewife and mother and nothing else!!!

'Now, now Terrance', as Arfur Daley would say.

 

[nicebutdim]

'The wife' or 't'other half' gets frowned upon even more, though.

I usually go with "the" missus (despite not being married) or "the" other half. "My" implies ownership and would likely result in my backside getting a kick.

 

[ipf]

I usually go with "the" missus (despite not being married) or "the" other half. "My" implies ownership and would likely result in my backside getting a kick.

Betrothal....'as my wedded husband/wife'.
I think it's a bit sad for it to be taken literally, it's more a turn of phrase. If she don't like it, don't use it....but plenty prefer it, especially when they're still all gooey eyed.
'My' friend or 'the' enemy. Take your choice.?

 

[nicebutdim]

Betrothal....'as my wedded husband/wife'.
I think it's a bit sad for it to be taken literally, it's more a turn of phrase. If she don't like it, don't use it....but plenty prefer it, especially when they're still all gooey eyed.
'My' friend or 'the' enemy. Take your choice.?

In my defence, I did mention an absense of legal documentation.

Truth be told I made a selection partly on the basis of her legs being too short for her foot to reach my backside.

(Please don't let her see this...)

 

[ipf]

In my defence, I did mention an absense of legal documentation.

Truth be told I made a selection partly on the basis of her legs being too short for her foot to reach my backside.

(Please don't let her see this...)

I wont.
She don't need her foot to do you damage, you know....
.....there he goes again 'MY' backside....?

 

[telectrix]

mine don't need longlegs for kicking. her gob is her favorite weapon. the most excercised part of her body.

 

[Mike Johnson]

I go with my little Rubens.

Only asked once if her bum looked big in this, reply "Your bum looks big in everything" never been asked again.

 

[littlespark]

That you treading a very very thin line, Mike.

 

[telectrix]

mine asked if she could go somewhere new for holiday this year. i said, what about the kitchen

 

[Intoelectrics]

The world has gone mad with all this diversion, inclusion and discrimination b*****ks. Its just another good excuse for the lawyers to get even richer.

Anyhow back to the thread, another simple good tip that serves well - measure twice cut once! I'm overseeing a large project and we have had some architectural drawings done by a professional structural engineer. I was just about to send the drawings into the steel fabricators so they could order the pre cut materials. luckily I checked the drawings and found a measurement discrepancy which would have cost a fair whack and delayed the project. It turned out to be a "software" glitch on cad!

 

[Lister1987]

The battleaxe, the ball and chain, trouble and strife, She who must be obeyed....the list goes on

 

[Mike Johnson]

 

[littlespark]

My rock, my soulmate, the love of my life.... ?

 

[DPG]

My rock, my soulmate, the love of my life.... ?

Winston Churchill?

 

[telectrix]

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ever a true word. so many years later we have all the vegans, snowflakes, and gender neutrals coming out of the woodwork.

 

[nicebutdim]

An update to this vacuum pedantry...

While Hoover is indeed a brand name that should not be used as a generic term, it is possible to Hoover with any brand of vacuum cleaner as many dictionaries (including Oxford) define Hoover (verb) thus: 'To clean something with a vacuum cleaner'.

I lived this day and learned.

 

[littlespark]

I’m going to market one of those all-in-one remote controls and name it a “doofer”

 

[telectrix]

xcuse me a minute whilrst i HENRY the floor.