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hello forum! i was wondering if any of you could share your experience/knowledge with me? I am in the stages of planning and designing my new shed/workshop. It will be one building split into two. (one side general garden storage, bikes, mower etc) and the other a workshop and store for my...

hello forum, i am in the stages of planning the decking for my home. The location where the decking will be installed is in a boggy part of the lawn, when it rains this fills up with water. the decking will be raise by at least 50cm off the ground, as the lawn also slops in wards towards the...

hello forum i was wondering wether it is necessary to have the sky downlink from the labgear box down to the sky box. this is how i plan to have my set up; DOWNSTAIRS: sky+, coming in from wall(standard sky installation) --> to TV though scart then using the return link from...

i have just screwed though a live wire (of the ground floor lighting circuit) i have repaired a bit of plaster around the light switch earlyer today, and the switch needed changing for a new MK one, so i did it. after this i screwed the switch back on, but leaving a good few mm air flow for...

i have an asus eee box B202, it works fine but recently the sound has been playing up. when the computer is powered on, the windows xp "log on tune" plays, but its VERY distorted, and lags. i then tried playing music, this also lags. and the general windows sounds (pops,blips etc) i have...

hello guys. i am in the middle of installing a self cutting tap on a cold water pipe to supply an outside tap in the garden. This was bought as a kit from B&Q by the way. my problem is.... i have been trying to fit the self cutting tap for nearly an hour and i am still not getting any...

OK so here's my question... this week i am getting a completely new heating system installed( combi boiler) the current system at the moment is a old glow-worm back boiler! single rads in every room except the 3 bedrooms :? and an immersion heater in bed 2. the council ( people putting...

hello i was wondering if it is OK to install two basic lights in my loft space but with out it having to be a "livable space." if i can do this , i would cut into the existing lighting circuit which is in the loft and supply the new lights from here. any tips or advice? :D thank you

i am wanting to put to OS on to one machine( xp and vista) i am posting on here for some more expert advice before i go spending on OS'S and stuff! :lol: the way i was thinking was having to separate harddrives with 1 HDD with xp and the other with vista on..... am i right in thinking...

hello i have the BT home hub 2.0 its a bit of a tedious machine but hey. i've noticed that the signal strength is "poor" about 30%-40% and the router is directly under me (router in living room on a shelf-laptop upstairs on the desk) i am quite disappointed by the strength as BT say "that...

hi guys. i am going to put in a outdoor socket coming off a spur witch is quite near were the socket is going to be placed. i was wondering wether the sockets still needs a rcd even if the socket is a rcd socket? and if it isn't a rcd socket than does it still need one if you use a plug in rcd...

can i use a standard rj45 to just pull up though a hole in my ceiling/floorboards to run one cable to the bedroom directly above? or does it HAVE to be the installation cable??? thanks

i am planing on keeping costs down for extras etc. so can i do all the wiring in the garden my self eg. putting floods in and outdoor sockets(cables will be in conduit! :roll: ) and then get a electrician to come and connect the lot to the main fuse box and test it all. or would he just make me...

can armoured cable be run on its own( no trunking etc..) underthe ground in soil ? this is to run power to a shed at the other end of the garden. is there any spec. cable what needs to be used for this? thanks

i was wondering wether i could move a ceiling rose in to the loft to supply a fixture witch only has l,n,e. instead of using a junction box? will this pass the part p tests? thanks

:? the upstairs and downstairs ringmains are on the same mcb. the mcb IS rcd but is this safe/right to have to ringmains on the same fuse ?? because in my last house the upstairs and downstairs were seperate. but then again this house is quite old and is quite old fittings(i found one of the...

hey i was woundering if any one could help me here. i am wanting to put in some more sockets in a bedroom i no how to wire ring mains etc. but what confused me is that theres three cables going to the back of the only socket in that bedroom. and there shouldn't be any spurs coming off of that...