Recent content by Fran Faulkner

Our local Hospice Charity Shop also has a furniture depot - I took our 'old' bathroom suite there, and they were pleased to have it to sell - it'll raise some money for them, save being in a land-fill, and someone with an even older suite will have an inexpensive refurbished bathroom. Nobody...

I know - sorry for being in numpty mode :oops:

Thanks all - I think I'll use ALL your suggestions - put the rubber bung in the bottom of the pipe (lean down through the manhole - I can just reach), then squirt some foam down the pipe from indoors, followed by some water to make it go off. Then the post-mix concrete and water.

I have knocked our downstairs bathroom and kitchen into one. (Don't worry, I have a new upstairs bathroom!) The soil pipe from the old loo goes vertically down through the floor, and then bends to meet the drain outside - I can raise a manhole and see where it joins the drain. I've made a...

I meant a switched FCU, rather than a switch and a FCU

Yep - that's what I thought I'll add a double socket into the ring, then spur a DP switch and FCU from that. Thanks for the advice.

I can't give any power ratings, as I haven't bought an oven yet - hence my question Your post seems to suggest there aren't any 'standards' or 'norms' for built in domestic oven power ratings.

Ah well, I'll just read the helpful posts then.

No - there isn't any socket currently there - I'm going to add both a socket ( preferably a double one) above the new counter, and one below for a dish-washer.

I'd like to put a socket under the worktop for the dish-washer, and know it's good practice for it to have a switch above in the form of a fused connection unit. I want a socket in the close vacinity of the switch for this spur, and was wondering whether a combined unit is available, or whether...

In my new kitchen I shall have an electric oven, a gas hob and a dish-washer. Looking at connecting up, I know that a 'cooker' needs a 45 amp radial circuit of its own, and that I could use a switch which also has a 13 amp socket built in. However, looking at installation guides for built in...