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The appliances on the grid switch are split 50/50 over both sides of the kitchen (galley style). My thought was to use a 20A labelled DP switch to a 13A fuse on the grid for each of the appliances which then feeds a 2.5mm2 spur to the "hidden" single socket behind the cupboards/units. In...

The idea is to use the grid switch fed (part of) from the upstairs ring only for the six built in appliances but keep the rest of the kitchen on the downstairs ring (no wiring to the grid switch)

The route the cables run from the consumer unit would me a huge amount of redecoration (including a newly fitted en-suite) and recently decorated bedroom. All flooring is P5 chipboard as well so a pain to get under (they built the upstairs partition walls on top of this too !). We could go...

I've done a lot of searching about this and mainly come up with positive reasons for doing this but can't find any definitive rules or regulations regarding this. My kitchen is being refitted soon. I'm rewiring the existing ring main in the kitchen (currently on the "downstairs" fuse) to...

Thanks for the answer - I've talked her out of it now as I'm not too happy with them being in a wet environment with lots of grout etc. She's ordered some "proper" border tile samples so that solves my issue :)

swmbo has settled on some nice medium format ceramic tiles (250 x 400mm) but has also decided she wants a pebble effect border 2/3rd up the wall. We've got some sample and the tiles are around 6mm thick with the pebbles being a fairly uniform 3-4mm thick mounted on a plastic grid material...

Bear in mind I'm not a plumber - just a fairly competent DIY'er I didn't build it up like you would do with normal PTFE. This Loctite is pretty strange stuff - generally you get better results by cross winding it (watch the video). I put around double the turns that were recommended on the...

Make sure you read the comments on the videos before you assume that they are doing things the correct way. There are some absolutely hilarious ones out there from "professional" companies where they are doing lots of things rather wrong. One of my favourites is a woman installing a...

Nope - no washer at all although I did consider putting one on. I've attached a couple of photos of how mine turned out after using the Loctite - also bear in mind these are quite shallow male elbows with around 3-4 threads actually inside the shower unit so it was a bit touch and go ....

The goose as if it lands on you at speed it will do some serious damage !

Never used plumb blue so I can't comment but that Loctite 55 appears to be the saviour of many DIY (and Pro) plumbers ! Make sure you read the instructions about roughing up the threads a little and don't scrimp with it and you can't really go wrong. There is even a video on Youtube on how to...