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No the ground floorbin house is all concrete, no wooden floors or air bricks.

Old paving blocks and pebbles

The black course was a plinth. It's a permeable resin driveway that they gna lay.

No that doorstep was always at that level. I cant put a doorstep as the drive slops downwards from the road to the door. The house is built slightly lower than it is as road level. No they removed all the concrete that was there, put hard-core down, then a soakaway in the middle for the aco...

I'm having a new resin driveway installed. The brick borders are going up quite high to the plinth level of front of house. Should the brick borders be further below 150mm for dpc purposes? Does the plinth I have offer any protection for damp? Also the acro drain is there as I have a slope on...

The rad has turned up. I got the hardwire option but want to fit a 13amp plug to it. It has not earth wire just blue and brown. Can I still fit it to a plug if it doesn't have the earth wire?

As suggested I probably just buy the hardwired one, and add a plug socket to it. Bit worried also if I go for the plug one the cable may be shorter. Thanks all

This is the rad: https://www.bestheating.com/milano-x-ecoso-alpha-electric-anthracite-horizontal-designer-radiator-635mm-tall-choice-of-size-and-wi-fi-thermostat-plug-in-and-hardwired-options-92476 It gives option to buy as 1.Hardwired or 2. Plug in option. There's no difference in wattage i...

I need to install 1 electric radiator into a room. I can buy it hardwired or with plug socket Now the plug socket is not near by where the rad is getting installed, but there is a plug socket directly behind the wall on otherside in the room behind. for aesthics of wiring I want to drill the...

How should a bathroom installation be with regards to lights and fan?

I'm annoyed by the lights as it's really bright spotlights and have a few of them. Plus I have a large window which gives natural light

Whats the correct way to do it? If i turn the light on and off during day to trigger the fan, it's only stays on for about 7 mins due to the timer, which is not long enough.

My shower extractor fan comes on with the light switch. It's on a timer. I find this annoying especially when I want a shower during day. I want the extractor fan to come on manually when I press the fan isolator switch. How do I rewire it up so it doesn't come on with light switch?

I think the party wall comes into ot as I'm within 6m of neighbouring property

Well the extension was started. But now I can't continue due to various issues. So want to stop and just put things back to how it was. All that's happened is wall has been knocked out, and a steel put in place.