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Hello, I recently converted a bedroom into an en suite, which was separated from my main bedroom by a stud wall. To get the water supply i teed off from the pipes that come up to the bath/shower and fed them under the stud wall. The hot water goes to a sink and a shower. Since i teed into my...

Hello, I have a new soil pipe coming through the wall at a right angle to the toilet i am fitting. My question is, what is the best option to connect the toilet to the soil pipe? a) use the right angle connectors, but are these only meant to be used when connected vertically not...

My dad's electric shower's low pressure line keeps coming on and the water does not get hot. However water pressure out of the taps etc is as normal. The shower started making a strange noise. I put this down to the shower been broken and needs renewing anyway. However the thing i was...

I am tiling my bathroom floor, i put 5.5mm plywood down but thought it was thick enough so put more 5.5mm plywood on top of the other plywood. Anyway i have since tiled my floor using flexable adhersive, however i cant find flexable white grout anywhere. Can i therefore use normal grout on the...

What is the best way to securing a shower mixer? The mixer unit has two dog leg screwed connections. I am fitting the shower to a false wall made up of 12mm plywood so can get behind the wall. I have run plastic pipe up the back of the false wall and secured the pipework with clips. However...

Sorry for asking a stupid question as the answer seems straight forward but just want some experienced advice. I am fitting a new shower, which has a mixer. The instructions say the hot water pipe attaches to the left side of the mixer (Hot water is normally on the left hand side) which is...

I am installing a new shower, however when i connect the P trap to the new shower waste plug the p trap can easily move about, this is because there is not enough thread on the bottom of the waste plug to fully tighten the P trap on the waste plug. The shower came with a flexy hose attachment...

Could anyone please help? I am putting a new shower cubicle in and it came with an attachment for the waste, this prevents me having to cut a hole in the floor for the u bend or raising the shower. Anyway it screws on to the bottom of the shower and then has a flexy hose. How do i connect the...

I want to put a shower in bedroom I am changing into an en suite, I have building regs approval and everything. However what is the best way to route 2 pipes up to the middle of a stud wall for the shower? I have used plastic 15mm up to now and it is routed at the bottom of the wall. Should...

Looking for general advice before i start this project. i have a small bedroom next to my bathroom which I want to turn into an en suite. I have already blocked off the old door and put in a new door leading into the master bedroom and have install an extractor fan. I now am up to the...

my friend has just moved into a house with an Optima XL 6 alarm, however he does not know the code to it and has no way of finding out as last owner never used the alarm. The alarm was set off last week and is on the same circuit as the down stairs lights, the only way he could turn it off was...

I plan to put an extractor fan in my bathroom, however I have a problem with the location of my isolating switch. I want to put it outside the en suite and above the door. I have a lintel above the door so cant feed the cable straight down behind the door. Therefore could i: 1) feed the...

i want to have smoke alarms connected to the mains and was wondering if i can spur off a light in 2 separate locations or do they have to be interlinked? Just trying to do it with least amount of mess.

i am changing my electric hob but have a question regarding the wiring. My old hob had 6mm cable going to it, however 6mm does not seem to fit the new hob. Well it will but because it has links in, the 6mm and the link will not fit in the same connection block. On the installation instruction...

I am in the middle of having my kitchen refitted. The sink unit had to be moved slightly to where it was previously, therefore the pipes had to me moved. The 10mm earth cable was cut to fit the pipes in the old location. Is it ok to fix a earth terminal block to the wall to extend the 10mm earth...

I am on installing underfloor heating but can see a problem that im hoping someone can give me a simple answer to. This is a link tio what i want to do: http://www.underfloorheatingdiy.co.uk/wiring_boiler.html Its the bottom diagram. (without a boiler) Anyway my problem is i dont...

I want to connect up my underfloor heating. I need a live, neutral, earth and a switch live from the boiler. I plan to take all four from the boiler connection for isolation purposes. The only problem i have is i havent really done much with boilers so want to make sure i get it right as a...

My landing is long and i only have one light so want to add another. Instead of having to fit a new light and switch, i wanted to fit the light but run one cable from the switch live and neutral from my existing landing light to my new light. This will mean the existing switch will turn both...

I plan to fit 2 smoke alarms. Can i wire them into 16A MCB which is not on the side of the RCD? Is it ok just to use 2.5mm twin and earth? I plan to wire them both off the 16A MCB on a radial circuit. cheers for help

I want to buy an americian fridge freezer, however the one i want needs cold water feed. My sink is on opposite side of kitchen to where fridge will go so i plan on cutting a channel in the concrete floor and laying a pipe to other side of the kitchen. My questions are: 1) i was going...