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While fitting our new kitchen i replaced a single unswitched socket for a double unswitched socket so that i could run a tumble dryer and washing machine from the same 13a fused spur. That fuse in the spur has just gone. I've replaced the fuse and its working again but is a dryer and washing...

We have a 2-gang wall light switch in our kitchen controlling the ceiling light and some under cabinet fluorescent tube lights. In total there's three fluorescent lights (two on one wall, either side of cook/extractor and a third on a different wall). The lights appear to be driverless and wired...

The boss has chose some wood effect tiles for the new kitchen. The sample in the showroom and the online photos suggest they've butt joined the tiles without using spaces/grout lines. I like the look of this but i was told a long time ago this is a 'no no' as the adhesive wont set. Any tiling...

I'm fitting our new kitchen next week and looking for some advice on how to fit a new cabinet around the under sink pipework (see pic below). As you can see the water mains comes in through the base of the current cabinet. There's also cutouts at the back of the cabinet for hot/cold feeds, a...

We had a new combi boiler installed a few years ago to replace an old conventional boiler. The plumber wired up the new combi using the fused spur/mains which feed the old boiler. The cable goes from a fused spur (mounted next to the boiler) to a switch in the kitchen, before going back to the...

I'm about to take out a stud wall between my kitchen and a utility room as we're extending kitchen and fitting a new suite. There's a small rad on one side of the wall so this will be coming out too. The sub floor is solid concrete so all the pipe work runs through the walls. The missus has...

Shortly after moving into our house a couple of years back we converted one half of a double garage into a usable room. The dividing wall down the middle of the garage was already in place. The builder went with cavity filling on the dividing wall and the new base wall were the garage door use...

I have slowly been replacing the old rads in our house with new flat panel types. I'm about to start a revamp of the dinning room and struggling to find the same style (horizontal with flat vertical panels) in the size i need. They all seem to have a standard height of 600mm, however, i need...

So the missus is on a redecorating mission. She went out last weekend to buy paint and skirting/attractive and came back with new designer flat panel rads and chrome angled trv's. The existing rad pipe work is all 10mm microbore and buried in the wall. The pipe work comes out of the wall on...

I've just removed a small stud wall/door way between the entrance hall and main hall. Before the re-plastering and decorating starts i'd like to reduce the number of light switches if possible. Photo/diagram below to give you a better idea of what i am talking about. As you can see there's a...

I have two small radiators at either end of my hall way. I would like to remove one completely and replace the other with a larger radiator. For the rad i intend to remove, should i just cut and cap the pipes behind the wall or is it better to join/bridge the two ends?

So i spent the bank holiday fitting an Axxys Clearview stair kit (oak newel posts, handrail, baserail and glass rackes). I also intend to cover the tread/risers with an Oak StairKlad kit to complete the look. I have a couple of questions for the pros if you dont mind: - I was planing on...

Now the bathrooms have been re-modernised the missus is eyeing up a new staircase and tidying up the landing/hall. She has her heart set on an Axxys Clearview oak & glass kit which contains the handrail, baserail, two newel posts and the glass panels. At the top of our staircase there's...

Last year i did our en suite which involved replacing a standard radiator with a towel radiator. All the rads in the house are on 10mm pipes which are burred in the wall. When i replaced the rad in the en suite i lifted the floorboards, chopped the pipes, used 10 to 15 mm pushfit converters and...

We had our garage converted into a usable room last year. The builder used Kingspan TF70 100mm to insulate and raise the garage floor to the same height as the reset of the house. He's then over-boarded this with tongue and grove chipboard panels. I was under the impression a floating floor...

I am about to pull out our old bathroom suite including a shower cubical and tray. The existing tray is acrylic and was installed on a riser kit. The replacement we've purchased is a low profile stone resin tray. The bathroom subfloor is chipboard tongue and grove panelling. I've not installed a...

We're planning on renovating our bathroom and looking for new shower to replace an old 8.5kw shower. I haven't checked the cable size as yet but part of a protected group (80amp RCD) and is on its own B32 MCB. Can we go for a 9 or 10kw shower, assuming the cable size it adequate, or are we...

We have a Henderson up & over door in our garage. We live near the coast in the north east and needless to say the garage gets very cold at this time of year. There's a 20-30mm gap at each side of the garage door which isn't helping. I'm looking to fit draught excluders and probably insult the...

Is there a legal height requirement for a fire door? We're converting half of a double garage into a habitable room. There is a dividing wall down the middle of the garage with an existing door way (no door or door casing/frame). Because we have installed a floating floor we now need to take 5"...

So the missus is on a mission to renovate the entire house and wants to start by replacing all the standard glossed white internal doors, skirting and architrave. She's wants to go with oak and has found some veneered doors at Howden's. I've been looking at real oak door linings, architrave and...