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Mother in Law has a Hotpoint EW 74 Electric Cooker/Oven. When the Oven is on and you open the oven door it trips the RCD. We have had someone out to look at it who changed the thermostat switch, and that seemed to work for a while but it is now doing it again. If you first isolate the...

You will also need to take care here, the cover would force rain to run off the cover and down the walls... not a good thing, unless you did a full roofing job, flashing, guttering etc.

Hi all I am sure this has been covered before and from my research I think I am on the right lines but I have a specific question... I plan to insulate between the rafters in my loft, rafters are 6 inches deep so I thought I would put 100mm Kingspan between, leaving a 2 inch gap behind, I...

Hi All Thanks for the replies, useful ideas, I think that the filler will be the best option, if it does not work I will have to add some form of end panel. I don't think I can just replace the panel as the units are pre-assembled from Wren so doweled and glued, I doubt if the unit will...

big-all: it broke up unfortunatly that was my first thought. I think some kind of filler but not sure what

I was tempted to post this in DIY Disasters but hoping for some help here first. I have kitchen units from Wren (yes i know...) two wall units have glass doors and glass shelves. The special brackets for h glass shelves do not fit into the holes provided for the normal shelves in the...

Failing Ebay, there is a place in Derbyshire or they have a website http://www.craft-supplies.co.uk

I get some of my wood for wood turning from Ebay, search for turning blanks or something similar Matt

I have used coroline bituminous sheets on several garages/sheds and it works very well. Stocked by B&Q?Screwfix/Homebase Depending on the size of the roof, span and if you want access to walk on the roof, as malcmw says put some ply under it, I used 12mm OSB board Some pictures on My...

I am going to go with something like this and do two banks of three, won't look quite as good, but seems less complicated.

Sureitsoff? have you used the Varilight ones you mention? if so what are they like quality wise? Matt

I think I will go away from the grid and put in two three dimmer switches, the cost of the grid system seems far too high problem is finding a decent quality 3 dimmer switch

Hi all I have stupidly overlooked costing out the switches... now that 2nd fix has come I am getting a shock. I am using the MK range throughout so wanted to use the mk range on the switches I have a panel where I have a 6 way switch, where I want everything to be dimmable. I know of...

Thanks Richard Yes this is ground floor, if I put some 9 inch DPC between the wall and the insulation that should work?