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I’m running a water feed to the front of the house for watering and jet washing. There’s a water feed in the cellar as the washing machine used to be there. The simplest thing to do is run a bit of hose through the existing hole where the washing machine drain pipe used to be. Because of...

Hi all. Our house is lit entirely with downlighters, mostly Halogen MR16s but I've replaced the ones in key areas like the hall with LEDs - along with their transformers. Over the years a number have failed because the electrician didn't use fire rated enclosures (renovation was around 2003 so...

Turns out our underfloor heating was attached to the kitchen lighting circuit - which explains why the breaker was tripping!! Is there any reason why I can't re-connect it via a spur off a socket, if I run a spur from a socket to a fused isolator switch and then onto the heating controller...

Hi all. My mother in laws ecotech 831 has died and I'm just seeing if its anything obvious (it's under gtee but Valiant aren't coming to Monday and she's 80 something!) At the moment it appears to not even power up. There's a white box inbetween the mains feed and the boiler which as a...

Hi all. The previous owner has used dimmer lights throughout the house. Each room has halogen mr16 bulbs each feed from individual electronic dimmers. Today a lamp flickered on and off today then came back on but following it there was nasty plastic burning smell. I opened the join...

Hi all, I hope you can help.. Attached is a photo of the outside drains of our house (which I think was rebuilt by cowboys). Currently there are five pipes lead into the drain. One is lead and appears to be not used. The other are: Kitchen/Dishwasher Downstairs loo sink Main...

Hey all. We've just moved house and I want to put in a new circuit in just to service a computer server and network attached storage (NAS), luckily there's a spare circuit on the distro board (new RCD type). A couple of questions. 1) If it's only going to have one socket, does it need...

Hi all, Hope it's OK to drop in here... We moved in to our new house a few weeks ago and have discovered a leak in the roof - which drips during heavyish rain. Basically there's a big roof over the front of the house and a smaller roofer over the rear. In between there is a gully...