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Hi all I'm renovating a room in our house and came across a badly installed socket with a blackened wire running next to a CH pipe in a notch between floorboards. This socket was spurred off the ring final using bare terminal blocks. We have two 32 A RF circuits - one for kitchen and one for...

I'm have bought an illuminated mirror to replace a shaver socket with. The mirror is heated and has a shaver socket. Its rated power is Max 300W. There's sufficient spare capacity on the circuit. The manufacturer's instructions says to use 1.5 or 1.75 mm^2 T&E. The existing cable is all...

Hi all, I'm currently fitting a new bath (standard size) and would like an overflow filler. The bathroom has a 22mm HW feed pipe and a 15mm CW feed. The bath is on the first floor with a gravity-fed system so HW pressure will be about 0.2Bar. CW comes direct from the rising main. Getting...

I want to build a conservatory and I'd like to have a bifolding door across the whole wall at one end. One of the side walls - the kitchen wall - already exists. I'm building a new one parallel to it. The door is to go between these two walls flush with the end of the kitchen. The doors will be...

Hi We have a porch which has an internal light but the light switch is inside the lounge the other side of a door that we lock when going out. This makes the light pretty much useless unless we leave it on when we're out. I want to fit a PIR sensor such that the light comes on automatically...

Hi all, I'm renovating the downstairs cloakroom and am replacing a corner sink for a normal (non-corner) handwash basin. The old baisin had a 32mm s-trap which went down into drainage pipes buried in the screed ('70s house) directly below the basin. I need to join to this existing...