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Hi all I've taken up old, worn out chipboard and 20mm polystyrene sheets to expose a very rough, shallow and uneven screed over pre-cast concrete planks in an upper floor ex-council flat. The screed must have been an unsupervised Friday afternoon operation and I'm undecided whether to use...

Hi all Slight problem of fitting lining sets in a DIY council flat refurb, as finished stud walls will be only 80mm thick (from 37.5mm originally!!!). Options include trimming sets down to fit / building from scratch etc, I suppose, but this decision will wait until plastering is finished...

Hi I have extended the bathroom in my sixth floor flat by incorporating a cupboard from the adjoing room. The former cupboard area will house toilet and washbasin. The floor throughout is a concrete plank with a 1 1/2" sand cement screed. The screed in the former cupboard is uneven and...

I want to install a stud wall with window and door across a balcony in my flat. The enclosed space would be used as a kind of 'pantry' with a freezer, secondary fridge etc installed under a worktop. There would be about 1m depth of the original balcony space preserved. To make it a practical...

I'm renovating the kitchen and installing new wiring with a separate ring main for kitchen. The double oven and hob have yet to be chosen, so I'm trying to provide for every possibility and future proof at the same time. I plan to run 2 separate cables to 45A DP switches (or CCUs) from CU...

Hi all Can anyone recommend a water softener system for a small 2 bed flat, preferably zero or low maintenance electric, please? Our water is very hard in Cambridge. There's just the wife and I in the flat. Water consumption is minimal, eg just an electric shower - no bath; 10 litre water...

I've moved the cut-out and CU to a corner wall cupboard in my (being) renovated kitchen. There will be 15 cables out of the top of the CU, running to the brick wall closing the open end of the corner cupboard. They then need to go up to the ceiling for distribution. I would like to embed the...

Hi all I'm installing new appliances under worktop in my (being) renovated kitchen - fridge; freezer; Hyco instant hot water heater; garbage disposal and dishwasher. Kitchen is having its own ring. Spark told me to connect each appliance via a switched FSC to an outlet plate (to save space)...

Hi I'm in a small 5th floor flat. The main services, incl soilstack, are conected via a service shaft on my side of a party wall between kitchen and bathroom, which are back to back with partitioning between. The taps end of the bath was only 450-500mm from the bath waste in the stack...

Hi Guys My 5th floor flat (in a late 60's Council block) has kitchen and bathroom back to back, separated by x3 plasterboard laminate (not good!). On the bathroom side is the WC and wash basin. On the kitchen side is a largish cupboard, which is more or less redundant. I am planning to...

Guys - what kind of isolator switch will I need to fit between the meter and CU so I can work on the CU in safety without having to pull the main fuse? Presumably, an electrician is authorised to pull the main supply fuse for this purpose, wire in new meter tails and then reseal it? Or could...