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I have a gastly looking single socket that is embedded amongst the skirting and looks awful I want to increase the height of the socket so I can get new skirting Ive unscrewed the face plate and it appears that there are three cables coming into the socket from below (not ideal) Can I use...

So should I remove the earth sleeve… what should I do with the exposed length of wire though?

Ok… the areas that the sockets are is painted. They were only put ina few years ago, but I believe they’re 25mm boxes at minimum…. One way to find out

I currently have plastic faceplates/sockets in my kitchen I am wanting to put some chrome sockets in, as below pic Would these simply be a straight swap? Cheers

So did you connect the glass panels to newel post? Do you have a pic of yours so I can see how it finished? If so. Would I simply just need to order the glass panels and connector clips?

I feel like I want to modernise my upstairs balustrade and I want to replace it with glass I am very handy with DIY so I’ll do it myself Having never done it before, is it an easy enough job to do? Would you rip out the hole lot including end post and start again? Having never really done...

One was brown and black with an open wire so I put an earth sleeve on it The other cable was black and open wire so I put an earth on that also

Will do, seems easiest solution. Cheers

Ok, ok get some terminal boxes. I don’t want to cut a hole out of ceiling to trace them so I’ll just put them in a terminal box Would one of these be suitable? If I decide to use an Wago box instead, Are the cable connectors I’ve used sufficient for the job though? Cheers

In my loft I came across 2 cables that are live and just loose ends connected to nothing. They come from below so I’m guessing lighting of some sort for upstairs bedroom. I turned the electricity off, stripped the wires down and pushed the exposed ends into 24A, 400v electrical connectors...

15mm throughout the house

Update: I have opened all TRV valves and all lockshields to maximum and all radiators are boiling hot … so I’m just going to leave them as is Maybe because it’s such a small house they all seem to heat up at the same speed

I’ve had a new boiler put in (ideal 24w max +) and replaced all my radiators (5 in total - 2 bed terraced house) In my kitchen I have put in a 1800 x 600 double panel radiator The only way I can get it hot all over is to turn off every other radiator and blast water through this one. I...

Ok so I’ll wrap the hell out of it and try again. If not I’ll use lock tite 55

I have drips from both sides of radiator where I screw the plug in with a tail that the valve tightens in to I put approximately 20 wraps of PTFE tape around the thread before tightening it. Any idea what may have happened? On a sidenote, how far do you tighten this thread into the radiator...