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I have a bedroom with a balcony. I wish to install a socket next to bed. I have double gang socket, nine feet away that I can tap into, go outside along wall and back through outside wall directly to side of bed, I believe a spur would suffice. Alternatively I can rip up wooden floor laid 3...

The renovation of my sons flat is well underway. As regards central heating I followed the advice on here and have gone the manifold route. Due to there being only four radiators I have been able to connect from manifold to radiators in Speedfit with no intermediate joints. Just a couple of...

Well into the refurbishment of my sons' flat but I have come across something that puzzles me. My own property has all the cold water to the taps supplied direct from the rising main. This flat has the kitchen tap supplied by the rising main but all the other cold outlets are supplied from the...

I am trying to get to grips wth how many showers can be run off one source, as I have mentioned previously we are updating my lads' flat, by creating an ensuite. It would be far easier to have a combi boiler as space is at a premium, but I am told that such would not run two showers. In my own...

I have an existing system, cold water tank in loft, hot cylinder in airing cupboard with shower pump on floor next to this, never had any trouble with the showering capabilities to two showers at same time. Piping to pump comes from cold water tank by a separate outlet, with the pipe from the...

Renovating my kids’ flat, with several structural changes that will mean changes to radiators positions plus additional towel rails. The very old system pipes are basically scrap and I would like to put in 10mm plastic pipes that could be hidden, running these from a central manifold, 22mm...

It has been a long time since you guys gave me invaluable help for me to create two bedrooms with ensuites for my twin young teenage lads. Time flies and now they are almost 30 (I’m retired) and have bought a duplex flat. Basically it was a tip, but having stripped it right down we are now...

Long time no ask, but I hope someone out there can help as always. Most grateful for any assistance. At present I have several one foot fluorescent tubes under my wall units in the kitchen. These are fed electricity through normal twin & earth wires down the back wall behind and emanating...

With the living room stripped right back for plaster skimmimg, wife wants all sockets and switches updated. No problem with electrics and TV stuff. Unfortunately the B'ham Cable Phone outlet stands proud of the wall on a white plastic "box". Sticks out like a sore thumb as it is...

Many of you have helped me in the past as I am really a silver surfer PC illiterate! Basically my new HP laptop keeps telling me I need to back up the system(?). With my new laptop, allied to my first Grandson, the number of photos, docs etc has increased dramatically. The pub experts...

We have a "lean to" conservatory with glass to the front and one side, both of these have large patio doors, approx 19' x 9'. The sloping roof is made up of panels of double polycarbonate. This looks a mess, discoloured and very noisy when it rains. I have seen a recent advert in a magazine...

My son's Old Evesham PC that was very badly infected. Took it down to nothing by formatting the hard drive. Reinstalled XP to factory settings. Put in Virgin Media wireless and have used the USB Netgear Adapter, as in the past to gain access to Internet. However after a few minutes the...

Over the years as an avid DIYER all trades on this site have been fantastic, you have all helped me produce really good results and I have learned so much. However I believe you professionals are being let down so badly by some of your colleagues out there. My daughter bought a brand new...

I had a Scientific Atlanta Virgin Box in bedroom. I connected TV via scart and ran a coax from Arial outlet to amplifier, that also received a coax from ordinary roof top arial. From this amplifier coax down to kitchen where TV had normal 5 channels plus Channel 6 showed whatever was on set...

For years I have had a second set top box in bedroom - Scientific Atlanta supplied by Virgin. The TV in the bedroom was connected to this box via the scart connection. I then used the coax arial outlet at the back of the set top box to feed down to our kitchen via amplifier that also had...

Over the last few years you guys on here have helped me completely refurbish my house - literally, thanks. I have finally come to the last job, refurb the downstairs cloakroom. Have stripped it all out and am left with a shell. (6X6X7.5 feet) In a time long ago, previous owners had an...

Decorating my bathroom, turned off Xpelair at isolating switch and noticed there is no fuse between this switch in the live wire to the Xpelair unit. This is shown in the fitting instructions to be needed, but an electrician pal says that as it is connected through the lighting circuit...

Vokera Mynute 35e. (6 years old) Controlled by programmer, when timer thereon operates to tell to turn on Boiler doesn't, but shows flashing red light plus code no. 1. I can reset it and it then works, so not too desperate. I would obviously like to get it fixed, any ideas what could be...

For many years I have had a normal Virgin cable box connected by scart to the TV in my lounge. The cable box had an ordinary aerial outlet for normal coax connection to a TV. I used this connection to feed to a TV in the Conservatory which is adjacent to the Lounge, brilliant in the summer...

Just drained down my system so everything is empty of water, well almost. All my downstairs rads are fed from upstairs and whilst I have drown outlets on each one, these only drain the pipes and the radiators all together. On one radiator I have a drain down valve incorporated into the...