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    changing wiring that runs behind plaster.

    Hi, I need to change the cable that runs from the switch to the porch light fitting. I have the floorboards up and the switch disconnected but cannot budge the cable, other than remove the plaster on the wall i am stuck. Is there a trick of the trade to doing addressing this problem.
  2. F

    Lat and plaster

    Had a nightmare lol trying to get fixing for light switch boxes today any tips
  3. G

    Plaster Depth Boxes with Screw Protection

    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.
  4. J

    box installation

    Hi 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...
    • J_T
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    • around box boxes installation plaster plasterer
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  5. J

    trunking

    Hi All, 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...
    • justanoob
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    • ceiling plaster stuff trunking where
    • Replies: 26
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  6. the pict

    Plaster board cutting

    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 Pict
  7. D

    pre victorian wooden building

    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...
  8. I

    Job to small to get a plaster out, what to use!

    Hi, 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 |...
    • Inteificio
    • Thread
    • electrical work finish get job out plaster ready small
    • Replies: 32
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  9. D

    Reference Method For Cables enclosed in plaster

    Can somebody advise what refence method is given to Cables In plaster ?
  10. M

    Had to walk away from a job today.......

    Replace 12 downlighters in a larve and plaster ceiling. Wooden larves then 20mm of this really dry crumbly plaster worst I've ever come across. Took one down lots of the plaster fell down with it. All the wooden larves looked burnt to a crisp. And it was right bang centre of a joist. Measured...
    • MNR
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    • ceiling electrical work job plaster plasterboard today
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: Electrician Talk
  11. T

    Best filler\ plaster for a small chase

    Hello all, 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...
  12. D

    Zoning and other trades ......!!!!!

    :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...
    • Darkwood
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    • buried heard other plaster plumbers repair trade trades
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Electrician Talk
  13. D

    Downlights in plaster and lats

    Hi all.. 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...
  14. H

    Customer, plasterer!!!

    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...
    • highspark
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    • customer plaster plasterer roman times
    • Replies: 29
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  15. R

    Surround for double socket-outlet?

    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.
  16. sythai

    Lathe + plaster + cream carpet.... oh dear !!

    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...
  17. T

    lathe and plaster --- Pulling cable drops---

    Hi all 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...
    • tuckermot
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    • cable drops plaster pulling
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  18. O

    Pattress sticks out from plaster work

    Hi Forum 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...
    • orangegoblin
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    • electrical work out pat pat testing pattress plaster work
    • Replies: 41
    • Forum: Australia
  19. P

    lat and plaster walls

    any advise on how chase the lat and plaster walls and get a fixing for a plasterboard box or metal box
    • powerelec
    • Thread
    • plaster walls
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Australia
  20. B

    help and advice for IR on a Ring circuit

    HI all 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...

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