Recent content by 33frog

I've had my arm twisted into finally doing the bathroom in our ground floor flat. We want to change the current layout and we’ve figured out where we’d like things to go and having had a look under the floor the pipe runs look feasible after adding a drain connector and branch/boss to the...

Sorry, what's strange, my suggested door construction or wanting to incorporate a cable within the door? I want the cable there for a video doorbell which can't be mounted on the frame or any nearby wall. It's the construction method for the door I'm more concerned with.

Original door isn't rotten but has been neglected and is somewhat warped. It's single glazed as well. Replacement would remedy these issues. Wiring is LV for wired doorbell push and data cable.

Hi there, going to do my cable runs tomorrow but I think I'll be leaving the rest of the install to a much later date. Does anyone have any suggestions for the best position for the hall detector and do you think the intended positions for the detectors make sense? I've read so much about...

Thank you everybody for taking the time to respond. A good few tips there and I take the point about 8-core being a bit thick for the door contacts. I might see if I can get some 6-core for those. Thanks again.

Hi there, for various reasons the ceiling in the hall of our ground floor flat is down and a new one is going up next week. It's occurred to me that since every room is off the hallway now is there perfect time to run cabling for a future alarm install. At this stage I don't know if the alarm...

Thanks for the replies, particularly Jeds. Ideally I'd like to remove it unless it serves a useful purpose. Given what I can see your suggestions sounds good.

I'd appreciate any thoughts or advice on this. I'm inclined to remove it but it looks like part of the original build so I can't help feel it serves a purpose but it just looks like empty boxing-in to me. This boxing spans 2.1m across the centre of the kitchen ceiling. It's about 25cm deep x...