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I have a few shops where I would like to install CCTV but sadly there is no budget for a company to come down and charge £5k per shop to install anything so we're going to have to do it ourselves and hopefully get most of what we would like for a moderate budget. Costco have some Black Friday...

My prospective bathroom x 2 remodel needs one of the toilets to move about 2m so that I can extend the other bathroom into that space. This space will then be fitted with another bath accessed from the other bathroom etc. The building is purpose built 1980s low rise flats and the current toilet...

I bought a property a few months ago which need a refurb and it has a British Gas 330+ boiler installed in 2008. The property has 2 bathrooms and one kitchen and will need, via one technology or another, to be able to supply unlimited hot water to both bathrooms at the same time. I understand...

I bought a flat in a small development of 12 properties, each of which has an allocated garage. The problem is that the garages were designed in the 1970s for 1960s size cars and as such, modern cars no longer fit. This might not be such an issue except that we need to provide electric car...

Currently I have a gas boiler feeding the central heating on radiators (8) and towel rails (2) plus 2 bathrooms with showers and 1 kitchen sink. It is an old fashioned tank fed system with a store of hot water (limited and not enough) and an immersion backup. I have elsewhere and want...

All radiators need replacing, 3 in bedrooms, 3 in lounge, 1 in kitchen, 1 in entrance, 1 in hallway. Current setup is 8/10mm pipes and 20+ year old gas boiler. Is it worth it to feed radiators with 15/22mm and just replace all non 22mm plumbing in the property ?

I'm buying a circa 40 year old property which has central heating presumably powered by a British Gas 330+ boiler but there is also a Backersafe immersion heater. This was like my parent's setup decades ago. I want to gut the property and redo the lot but in the UK, do we have a gas boiler that...

I've been looking at some heating panels to go in a suspended ceiling, probably 1200 x 600 and perhaps like this: https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/BNRP06.html However, I am concerned about 95c surface heat and the other ceiling tiles near it. I'm replacing all the tiles in any case but...

I have a building which has and needs 3 phase power but I also have some machinery which I want to use that is single phase. So on a circuit that is currently 3 phase, what has to be done to turn it into single phase ?

I need to heat some shops which are currently using plug in oil filled radiators. There is no gas and no option for any form of central heating. I have thought about air curtains over the doors and perhaps some radiant ceiling panels but I am not sure how well these work in practice. Any...

I have a circa 0.9m wide glazed external door where the frame has been badly bodged by some historic "carpentry" ! Consequently, I would like to rectify this and secure the entrance going forward. I have a quote of around £1500 from a good chippie but in truth, I'd like to save that cash and do...

I want to drop a few 800w and 3kw heaters into a couple of shops to help with the cold weather but the supplied cable is only about 1m/1.5m long, not nearly long enough. The prospective units are from Costco: 800w - http://www.costco.co.uk/view/p/dimplex-800w-panel-heater-arlwp800ti-159623...

Like many I suspect, winter means drying more clothes inside and I do notice we suffer a bit from damp if we need to let clothes dry inside and we can't open windows long enough. I favour a bigger capacity rather than tiny one, a quiet one rather than a noisy one but I don't even know who are...

I want a telescopic ladder, largely due to space when stored but around the 4m range, they go from about £50 up to £250 plus. Not needing the very best is fine if the ones you get are safe but there are horror stories out there and a lot of the cheap end ones seem potentially suspect. So...

I am considering purchasing a property which I would then wish to demolish and then rebuild. To demolish - how long and how much (very roughly) ? To build - spacious 5 bed - how long to build ? I'm not expecting accurate numbers but I just don't don't have an idea at present.

I have an outbuilding which I would like to bring into the 21st century with electric and all that. At present is is little more than walls, a window and a roof. It is however dry and weatherproof. Ideally, I'd like to be able to run a bank of washing machines and driers in it. I am not...

I'm trying to work out whether I can and if I can, then just how to install a row of three washing machines along a wall which has no water inlet or outlet and is separated from the only water inlet and outlet in that room by a doorway, meaning that a permanent gravity feed from the bank of...

I have a supply to a now unused header tank which I want to shut off. I can't go further back up the supply as it also feeds an upstairs bathroom from pipework sealed in the walls. All I can do it seems is to cap it off in reality. I don't have welding equipment and without that, is there a...

Can someone please point me in the direction of a decent pressure reducing valve to reduce a hugely increased water pressure (10 bar) down to a more manageable 2 bar or something. Also, is there anything I should consider other than just cutting the pipe and installing one with compression...

As part of a potential longer term idea to buy land and build my own property, I wonder just how much it could cost to demolish and remove a current building, say an old house or bungalow ? To the uninitiated it seems terribly easy. Secure services away from the works and knock the damn thing...