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Hi, could anyone offer their advice on the following please - I'm in the process of a full house renovation, and have just completed the first fix plumbing (or rather the plumber has) for c. 12 rads in new locations. Not all of the pipe work is new, but i'd say 70% is. It's all in copper and...

Hi all, You've all helped so far with my dodgy two-flats being turned into one house set-up and wondered if you could also offer advice on testing please. I have a lot of new pipe work now in, heating and hot and cold, and have decided that a secondary return is not needed (the unvented...

Could any heating engineers offer me advice on the following please? So far I have had two advise and they totally contradicted one another! Situation: I have a property currently laid out as two separate flats, each has a combi boiler. The property is gradually being turned back into one 5...

Hi, if anyone could help me with this i'd be very grateful. I'm currently house-sitting for a friend and something has gone haywire. I don't know if i'm being an idiot or if I need to ring an electrician... Ok so, we'd only been here about an hour when we realised the kitchen lights weren't...

Apologies for asking this because i should be asking my electrician, but i can't get hold of him for love nor money. Would really appreciate any thoughts or advice.... I've had a new kitchen fitted which includes a fitted combi microwave next to a gas oven (they are in side by side units). I...

Hi all, Any advice on this would be much appreciated! I'm currently having a new kitchen fitted (nearly finished now) and have had a complete re-wire done. I have isolation switches for dishwasher/washing machine/lights/ oven etc etc on a board that looks like nasa as you walk into the...

I'm trying to order online some box guttering - box guttering specifically because i'm having an extension on a boundry wall, so i can't have standard gutter overhanging my neighbour's garden. It seems to be more of a specialist thing than i'd realised because i'm struggling to find any that...

I had bought a fan isolator switch to use for underfloor heating but my spark said it wasn't suitable and that i needed to get a different one. Now i'm ordering it but can't remember what he said - could it have been a dual core isolator (as opposed to 3 core for the extractor isolator?)? Can...

I'm having a wetroom installed as an en-suite to an upstairs bathroom, are there any Part P's out there to advise as to how the earth bonding for lights/pipes etc should be carried out ? My builder is saying that it should be 4.5mm earth wire, linked to everything and taken back to the "main...

My builder is passing invoices on to me from travis perkins and they seem hugely expensive. He's kicking up a fuss about me purchasing stuff through screwfix though. The one thing a have been able to compare was a roll of twin and earth which was less than half the price at screwfix. Can...

Hi all, Can anyone tell me the best way to tile the gradient sides of a wetroom hidden shower tray? I would like to avoid drawing attention to a hidden tray, so i would like to reduce cuts as much as posible. Is it possible to use mosaics and lay them all the way accross with no cuts...

Hi all, I've just had a concealed cistern lav fitted downstairs, and to my dismay it makes a loud clunk-clunk-clunk-clunk noise at the point at which the valve is just closing off (i think, as it happens after the cistern has been filling normally for a while). Builder says it because of...

Hi all, wondered if anyone could advise me on the following please: I have had a downstairs cloakroom installed, including an extractor fan with an overrun timer (with isolator switch). My problem is that the fan does not come on with the light, only when the light is switched off, and then...