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I am tiling a bathroom for the first time. Walls prepared and primed.. and I have a dilema about the tiles. They are 300*400 (10mm thick). I understand I need to use a cement based adhesive. As this is the first time I am tiling - would it have been wiser to start with a smaller lighter...

Hi, I have just removed tiles from a bathroom. This left the wall in a bit of a mess with old adhesive (scrapped of as much as i could) and a few small holes which I filled with plaster. Am I okay to "Tank" this surface? in the past I have only tanked on new materials. Will I still get...

Hi I'm going to be laying a plywood base onto chipboard before I tile the bathroom floor. When I did a previous bathroom 1 whole sheet was sufficient (not cuts). But in this bathroom I'm going to need to put 3 sheets down to cover the floor. Is there an issue doing this? i.e. i'm assuming...

All, Not sure if I'm posting this in the right place. I'm in the midst of obtaining permission to install a kitchen in a leased shop. The question I have is around extraction. The room I plan to convert has no additional ventilation (ie. Windows / Outside Extraction). It does however have...

Hi, I'm just about to sign a lease on a shop and want to know how much I would expect to repaint the shop front. The shop is in a conservation area so I need to adhere to heritage colours (which i am waiting for). Therefore how much should I expect to pay to repainti a shop front in...

Hi, I need to get a door bricked up. I will remove the door. However for a space of 79" x 34" how much should I expect a builder to charge me for the work (time and materials). I basically need the gap bricked up with bricks/breeze block, insulated, plasterboarded, plastered and skimmed ...

I've slightly damaged the live core of some SWA. All terminated successfully, but ended up slightly nicking the brown core. Not deep enough to penetrate through to the copper. For now I've just covered it with insulating tape. Any recommendations ?

Hi, I have a Ravenheat RSF 820/20 combi boiler. The boiler has an integrated timer/programmer and is situated in my attic. As you can imagine I have to go upto the loft everytime I need to manually switch on / or configure the programmer for my boiler. Does anyone know of which remote...

Hi, I have 3 old wall heaters which I haven't used for years now. They were here before we moved to the house so they are well over 20 years old. I simply want them disconnecting and removing. They still have a gas supply so I have asked a few guys to simply plug the gas pipe under the...

Thanks to everyones help on this forum i'm in the middle of upgrading my garage supply and overhaul of electrics in the garage. All the work in the garage and shed etc is complete, and I'm left with the final task of actually upgrading my supply cable from 2.5 to 6mm (already purchased) from...

When can you not insulate a strip connector box with insulating tape ? The reason I ask is I had a sparky over replacing a light fitting (ceiling rose). The T&E from the light circuit wasn't long enough, so he used a connector strip and some additional flex to extend the length at the ceiling...

Is it a regulation requirement to lay "CAUTION ELECTRICAL CABLE BELOW" warning tape 15cm's above buried SWA ? Or is it just a nice to have ?

Hi, I have referenced the IEE Electrical "Electrical Installation Outdoors: A supply to a detached outbuilding" but am unsure about a few aspects of exporting earth. In my example (recently upgraded earth bonding in the house), I will have 6mm SWA running from the house CU to the garage CU...

Is there anything on the market (at a reasonble price) which you can use to simulate a fault with your RCD/MCB's ? For example I just had a periodic test done, and the electrician had an expensive piece of kit, which once plugged into a socket, will simulate an earth fault and trip the RCD on...

I have a 3 core 2.5mm SWA running from my house consumer unit to an external consumer unit in the garage. I've just upgraded this from a standard garage breaker to a RCD protected unit with 7 mcb's. I've just been running through some figures in the TLC Volt Drop calculator to work out if I...

Can a junction box be used to junction two seperate circuits and use the same conduit to run the wire ? For example using 2 seperate terminal blocks as the junction points, but housed in the same box ?

Hi, Due to some recent bad weather, we lost the upstairs lights for 3 days (it took me that long to get my electrician to take a look). Anyway, the fault was due to an outside light at the top of the house having water in it. There was a ground fault. The previous occupiers had the...

Hi, I have a Crabtree Starbreaker Garage Kit installed in my garage. The supply comes via 2.5mm SWA from a 32a breaker on my main house consumer unit (RCD protected). The garage consumer unit only has 2 MCB slots (both protected via an RCD) and currently powers 6a breaker on lights and 16a...