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Hi all, I am lookign to instal 18mm engineered wooden flooring in one of my existing rooms. I have discovered after lifting the carpets that half the room has a concrete sunbstrate (which I am assuming had no DPM due to the age of the build) and the other half is 22mm floorboards over...

Hi all, My friend has just bought a house and was showing me something that made me a bit concerned. At the front of his house there is a balcony off the living room which is one storey above the garden. The balcony is constructed by a single skin brick wall at the front which has steel I...

Hi all, I have recently moved into a victorian flat, it is a 3 storey building with the bottom floor being a basement. My bathroom setup is that I have a sink which discharges into a run of 42mm pipe, I have a bath which tee's into this run. The pipe then is unioned with a small section of...

Is it easy to retro fit these? And how would I go about doing it. Thanks

How easy is it to retro fit slate tile vents into a roof. Does the vent need to be flashed afterwards? And what would be the process for putting one in. THanks.

Thanks for the info. The breaker the pump and lights would run from would be 16A, so can I use 2.5mm SWA? It would be a 15m run. Cheers

That was just a rough guess but I have been havin a look at previous posts, and I think I will run a pump and a double socket into the garden and run low voltage lighting off one of the ext sockets. Is it possible to have a 15m radial circuit off the shed CU to power the following, where the...

Can anyone provide a link to a recommended adaptable box that I can terminate the 6mm SWA 3 core wire. I will connect it to 6mm T+E which I will run to both consumer units in the house and shed. What is the best method of joining the tails. I gues as both termination points will be...

David, My current house CU is in my bedroom, where the cables exit and go directly into the loft where the are distributed accordingly. I have very old T+G flooring so lifting them is way more hassle than its worth. I like the idea of running it through the loft directly to the wall then...

Looking for a bit of advice on running power to my newly erected shed. The shed is approximately 30m from my house consumer unit. But their power run to an outisde light (approximately 5m from the shed), but this is on 6A MCB. I have no RCD on my house CU, but do have a spare way. I...

So using a 6mm T&E PVC wire from the cooker to the outlet terminal on the wall would be fine. Their is no requirement for a heat resistant cable? The reason I used 10mm was that I had some handy, and it covered me if I ever decided to add to the line.

I recently purchased a new dual fual range cooker. I was surprised to find that no cable was supplied to connect to the outlet terminal. The electric ovens are rated at a combined 7.3kW. I have run 10mm T&E cable to a double pole isolation swith from the CU. This then runs to a terminal...

I recently purchased a property which has a Worchester 250 combi boiler, and a hortsman mechanical timer. I recently found a small (1.5" x 1") acl lifestyle fitting in the hall, it is wired with a 1.5mm T&E cable and seems to only be a resistor and capacitor, I followed where the wire ran to...

So I take it the fact that the 3x80W running at 12V is wrong, and you actually calculate the current from the 230V supply