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Hi all, Had an electrician fit me a new shower cable. Since they've fitted it, when the shower is in use it heats up quite dramatically. The cable is 6mm2 T+E, the shower is a 10.8kW (9.9kW at 230v) unit. The cable is currently in free air running as they are returning to run wiring to the...

Hi all! Long time no post. Came home to a toilet full of water and a non-functioning macerator. Lots of baling and dismantling later discover the capacitor has failed - source a replacement and totally cleaned/reassembled the macerator - and reinstalled. The copper pipe and upper jubilee clip...

Hey guys, My house has the BT drop wire attach to the house, and then just inside an upstairs window is an old junction box (just containing 4 screw terminals, red/black wire on one side, and multicoloured on the other), with two cables heading off to the two phone sockets. Neither of these...

Hey guys, We had our garage converted into a bedroom, and so while that was being done our electric consumer unit was moved and a new one was fitted (we had an old style wired fuse one before that). Now we have also covered over the passage up the side of our house, and want to place a couple...

Got a few gaps behind my toilet in the garage conversion which need filling, around where the waste pipe (copper - with a foam cover) heads up to join the main waste stack. These gaps are between the external wall, foam insulation board, and a wooden backboard which the macerator sits against...

Been meaning to do this for a while - after our garage conversion this was one point that we were not too happy about, but after tooing and froing with the carpenter we decided to just leave the matter and do it ourselves. Last winter it froze up, I expect because there is actually little to no...

Had a garage conversion done last year, with a new boiler + radiators (as old system was going on 20-25 years old). The garage conversion was done as a kind of structural work only, the decorating was left to ourselves (which, as of yet, none of us have got round to!) The flue has been left...