Recent content by Thomas C

A recent heat pump installation meant that a fused switch with large outdated junction box feeding the previous combi boiler in kitchen has been left unused. It is fed from light circuit so is only good for a 3A load or similar. Similarly the kitchen windows were replaced and the old window...

I thought I would update this post with final results. In the end I could not take ducting through the 1st floor beams so underslung some flat rectangular ducting on the kitchen ceiling and vented out of the old 127mm combi hole already in wall. Then boxed around. Photos attached. I would have...

Thanks for suggestions and comments. Will look into both approaches and make a decision. Yes, I agree that junction box really needs replaced also, its on the todo list. Combi kind of hid it before.

I am trying to figure out best way to duct the cooker hood. Last autumn I had combi ripped out for air source heat pump leaving 5" hole in side of wall. Also I had new windows, before that kitchen window had a built in extractor, new window in kitchen does not have hole for extractor. Cooker did...

Thanks for the reply Notch7. What exactly do you mean by "window board"? As I understood it the wooden window frame buts up against the actual dormer wooden frame with some spacers separating each and gap filled by expanding foam. Please do clarify further.

Good morning, I have some rot in the wooden window frame of a dormer back bedroom. Unfortunately the rot has also spread into the dormer frame to some extent. I am having UPVC windows installed in a few weeks but want to be sure that all the rot is replaced with new wood. To that end I was...

Thanks for your replies. I will look at getting an integrated AAV/anti VAC with new basin as advised.

I have found a section in document H which would allow for the removal of the AAV - "1.30 Stub stacks – A stub stack may be used if it connects into a ventilated discharge stack or into a ventilated drain not subject to surcharging and no connected water closet has a floor level more than 1.3m...

I have an AAV next to a ground floor WC, the first floor WC is connected to an internal soil stack that eventually vents externally out above roof after turning a few corners via the loft space. If the regs allow it then I would like to do away with the AAV serving the ground floor WC and maybe...

I have recently replaced my kitchen cabinets and the wall mounted ones had an under cabinet halogen strip light wired directly from a spur, no local isolation such as FCU. I have now found out that it is fed from the ground floor lighting circuit (as is the combi boiler and a 40W extractor fan...

My existing one and also replacement by the looks just screw into directly onto wall with fake cabinet door screwed to front part that swings out. They are exactly 600mm wide for this reason. E.g. https://www.screwfix.com/p/clihs60-integrated-cooker-hood-600mm-grey/640fh

Recently replaced cabinets in kitchen like for like with B&Q white basic type. The existing fold out extractor hood is only 29cm deep whereas the new cupboards are 32cm deep (excluding doors), it is 60cm wide. Was going to keep existing extractor but open to idea of replacing it but cannot find...

Thanks for all the replies. I checked and the Euro screws thread just through the older Blum hinge fixing plates/bracket allowing the correct free sliding up and down once you get to the part between end of threaded section and the screw head. The recent generic Screwfix hinge fixing plates...

Hello Recently replaced my old kitchen cabinets like for like with new B&Q white melamine covered cabinets. The hinge holes are pre-drilled two holes for the upper hinge and two for the lower one, each hole is the standard 5mm diameter. I bought a set of new generic overlay hinges from...