Recent content by BARRYG

Hello I will be tiling our dining/ kitchen and hall floor soon. I want to install underfloor heating in these areas and am currently looking at heating mats/ribbon , to warm the floor tiles and take the chill out of the floor ,( not too worried if does not heat room up as a radiator would.)...

Cheers Bahco

I am removing non load bearing partition wall between kitchen and dining room ,which has a radiator on this wall. House is 4 years old , with a Potterton combi boiler , with overflow tank in loft, and flow and return pipes. The radiator in question has plastic flow & return pipes from wall...

Thanks Nigel , it has a 10 yr zurich policy , I will certainly ring them to fix it. Cheers Barry G

Everytime it rains there is a smell of wet plaster in a corner of a room downstairs. House is only 3 years old , cannot see any obvious holes outside - windows and pointing seems ok , although there is a gap for airbricks above the windows. Any advice much appreciated. Barry G

Thanks to everyone for all the replies. WIRING FIBRE OPTIC LIGHT SOURCE AND NEW SWITCH INTO LIGHT CIRCUIT IN LOFT USING 1.5m t&e and 20amp junction box. LIN = LIGHT IN LOUT = LIGHT OUT LS = LIGHT SOURCE SW = SWITCH Cable and junction box wiring (i think this right , have right info...

I am installing fibre optics in a bedroom ceiling shortly. Will wire the light source and new light cable (for a new light switch) into the light circuit , using a 4 terminal 20 amp junction box. Am I right to assume that if the lightsource is 50 watts and the mains voltage is 250 volts , there...

Have exactly the same iron problem ! Had a tefal iron and it blew the main fuse - then we bought a rowenta and this kept tripping the downstairs light circuit believe it or not ! Tried another socket in another room and it finally blew up yesterday - I thought it was a faulty circuit but all...

Started looking into these valves - I am right in assuming that you can buy mixer showers with built in pressure balancing valves , and that you can also buy these valves as a seperate item ? I am looking to install a Triton unichrome shower tower unit where the hot and cold water is fed...

Many thanks corgiman will get this valve. Cheers BARRYG

Many thanks corgiman will get this valve. Cheers BARRYG

Have a mixer shower on bathroom taps. Plan to install new mixer shower tower at other end of bath. The pipes to the bath taps are 22mm copper - plan to install plastic reduced compression tee in each of these pipes under the bath and run plastic 15mm pipes under bath , into stud partition wall...