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"Test" button on the RCD is not enough?

EFLImpudence Thanks, although the last sentence is a bit confusing. Does it mean that the work has to be done by certified electrician anyway but no notification is required?

UPDATE: forgot to mention - there is a washing basin there which is close than 60cm to the proposed location of the towel rail - does it mean that it is actually Zone 2?

Hello, I want to install a new electric towel rail in the bathroom. It's going to be on the wall which is more than 60 cm away from bath so I suppose it is not in any "special zone". At the moment there are no electric circuits in the bathroom apart from lighting circuit behind the...

Hello, we are thinking about building a 1-storey side extension to our end-of terrace house. Border of our land plot is not parallel to the wall of the house. We have about 2 meters on the front side and 4 meters at the rear for our extension (overall length about 7 meters). To maximize usage...

Am I right that this is notifiable work (new installation in the bathroom)? Although I'm 100% sure that I can do it myself it looks that I have to hire a certified professional.

It's Stuart Turner Showermate pump. Installation manual says: "Typical pump locations are in an airing cupboard, or inside a vanity unit with a small purpose built dry and ventilated enclosure." So I suppose that my construction can be treated as "purpose built enclosure"...

Hello! I want to install a shower pump under my bath. At the moment there is only lighting in the bathroom in terms of electric. What I plan to do is the following: 1) build a counter-top along the wall which will join the bath at the side where the tap is installed. This will incorporate...

Over the weekend I had a look at other solid oak flooring with "click" installation in couple of stores selling floors. Most of them had the same gap between boards when joined as I mentioned in my original post. The only one model which didn't have the gap was found in B&Q. So although I'm...

Hello, I've recently got several flooring samples sent to me. The floor which I like the most is solid oak 120mm width x 18mm thickness. It is of click installation type. But I noticed the following - if I join 2 planks together there is no "click" and the join is not tight. Otherwise...

what would be the best solution in this case? I plan to put solid or engineered oak on top of it...

So am I right to suppose that it is concrete subfloor + some insulation + chipboards laying just on top of insulation? Or there might be some kind of joists/battens suporting the floorboards?

Hello, I'm replacing my flooring on the ground floor. After lifting up old laminate I discovered that underfloor is made of T&G chipboard which are not fixed to the base by any means. They just float and probably glued together at T&Gs. The problem is that they are quite uneven (max...

It was an asbestos survey. They didn't take any samples from walls. They just said that based on their experience wall materials in such houses don't contain asbestos.

Hello, I've recently done an asbestos survey on our property which showed that artex coating on ceilings contains asbestos. Although no wall material samples were taken and analyzed. That's why I'm a bit conspicuous about drilling the walls. I've got a small piece of the wall which is...