Recent content by leroy

thanks for info dingbat the third item was indeed the one I suspected might be kosher actually was an niceic registered electrician, probably looking to recover some of his christmas costs, and obviously not counting on me having regularly surfed these boards in the last few months. I...

just been told by a pro that the updated regs require: i) a separate ring for kitchens ii) that sockets and switched fcus within a metre of a sink require rcb protection iii) that an fcu for a cooker hood cannot be placed above a hob, regardless of distance got a feeling I was being...

On trying a 3rd alternative trap configuration (initial drop lowered a fair bit with a telescopic fitting), and filling washing machine trap at start of waste (it had been open before), the problem seems to have resolved itself. Panicked a bit there: never could get my head around physics at...

Yep, gradient subscribes to that standard pretty much exactly. Lowering waste all way to vertical stack would be too disruptive, alas. Shallower sink, if necessary, is lesser of two evils. Would you say then it's just a case of height and slope, and I don't have enough of a combination of...

calling all those in the know: just checked the waste plumbing on my new 1.5 bowl ceramic sink and am finding that the water in the main bowl is (too) slow-draining. the main bowl has a depth of 20cm. Fitted into the work top, this leaves it a minimum of 17cm from sloping horizontal waste...

thanks for setting me right on the spur thing Zen. by 'same' I meant, yes, same socket alas my kitchen was wired woefully inadequately so the spur option you suggested is sadly out (believe me, that was my first port of call...) looks like a vote for the extension, although I seem to...

humbly calling all those in the know... I'm refitting my (small) kitchen and need 3-4 additional sockets. From what I've garnered on this forum and elsewhere, I've narrowed my probable best options down to 2: a fused radial sub-circuit from an unused socket in an adjacent room, or extending...