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Hi - I have an ambitious client who wants a 'floating' terrace like she's seen at Chelsea Flower Show. Basically it looks like a group of big white concrete slabs which overhang at the edges of the deck forming floating planes -presumably supported on masonry walls hiden underneath. I cant...

Hi - I am about to engage a builder to repoint the front of my house which is a 1925 semi , built in soft red bricls and lime mortar. Next-door have already had theirs repointed and it doesn't look good really so I want to avoid the same pitfalls. Basically their lime seems overly bright...

good idea but I would still have to join the T&E to a bit of flex and I guess the connector wouldneed to be accessible etc.. ( T&E obviously looks really horrible dangling. ) Maybe a choc block housed into the timber - bit its all getting a bit daft then. Think I'll stich to a normal rose...

You're absolutely right I'm giving this way too much attention but we all get a bee i our bonnet sometimes. Unfortunately a normal box cut with a flush plate in would mean a significant amount of wood to chisel out of the underside of the beam - so I'll have to give in and go for a normal rose...

Hi - I have a timber ridge beam in a new build modern flat and I wanted a pendant light to emerge from the underside of the beam without a rose. The look was intended to be minimal. This meant drilling the beam and, I thought, connecting the pendant flex above the ceilng line somehow with a...

Hi - I have just chased-in some new wiring above the kitchen splashback. I now have to make good around the boxes and the finish has to be fairly good because I don't intend to tile over the lot. The socket fronts have to go down level, nice and flush on all sides etc. but I dont really want to...

Aha. 665. I'll try that then. Thanks a lot! R

Anyone know where I can source some 650 worktops? - not corian or solid wood - just ordinary laminate? Location is Ipswich Thanks

is this a timber suspended floor? Presumably so - if you are seeing builder's debris under the floor deck. I cant really understand the photos. Assuming this is a wooden floor then - The space under the floor should be ventilated via airbricks which you should be able to see on the external...

Hi - I am currently sorting out our tired old kitchen floor and have removed the units, the old laminate floor, plywood under-layer and some floorboards to sort out the plumbing/electrics. The old floorboards are about 150 wide and have bowed up a bit along the centres as they normally do -...

update - I managed to get a friendly local electrician (who was recommended) round to have a look last night. He quickly understood the issues and seemed happy for me to go ahead with the basic installation myself inc the new earth etc. I'll do some reading up before pressing on though. He...

Just out of interest - anyone know if retro-fitting the grommets by cutting them would be acceptable?

Ok - looks like I was about to fall into some well known traps so thanks for the advice. I'm not an electrician by any means but I would enjoy reading up on this and doing my own installation. Possibly I am being over-ambitious given that a new RCB consumer unit is probably required with the...

hi - I'm a new poster here so bear with me....! I'm fitting a new kitchen and (as I see many here discover), there is a lot of wiring to sort out first and this becomes involved... Basically the kitchen used to have one of those cooker supplies high on the wall ,which has been since been...