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I want to put a shed in my side alleyway, this will mean that a large area of my wall will have a shed wall about an inch away from it. The shed wall next to the wall will be 15ft long and 8ft high. There will be a pent roof on the shed directing water away from the house wall. The house is a...

Yes there is a barrier between gas pipe and CU, there is a plasterboard ceiling. It does sound like everything is OK and I was worrying over nothing. Thanks.

I do have all the paperwork and certificate of compliance. It sounds like I may be worrying about nothing. Thanks for the reassurance.

I had a new consumer unit fitted by B&Q as part of a new kitchen fitting, they subcontracted to someone I believe was a proper electrician. The first thing he has done wrong is labelled the fuses differently on the sticker on the consumer unit to the labelling by the actual fuses, this made me...

Thanks everyone, I will now have to decide if to go with separate straight valves or the Danfoss combined unit which was suggested by rpevans.

Unfortunately given my pipework and location I am very limited on what I can get in the way of radiator. So do you think I can use the 2 central holes to screw in a standard TRV and a standard lockshield? Thanks

I want to buy this radiator: http://www.agadon.co.uk/products/aurora-radiators/aurora-designer-radiator?colour=ANTHRACITE&size=1800+X+300&find_radiator=1 It uses a '50mm central valve', these seem to cost about £100, see here...