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Thank you very much for your replies guys. I have the ticket but not yet the experience and so it's reassuring to get a 2nd opinion from the real experts :)

Hi I need to connect an oven and hob, I've looked at the regs and calculations etc and can't see anything I'm missing or wrong, but if someone's kind enough could I get a second opinion please? Oven is 5.9Kw / 25A Hob is 7.4Kw / 32A Cable is 6mm T&E (clipped direct) which should allow max of...

Cheers Steve, maybe I'll use a thinner cement board as backer in that case as there's the depth of the backer + the tiles + adhesive to consider. Studs are 300mm apart so I'm sure that'll be fine. The wife *always* chooses the wobbly edged antique underground brick type of tiles - which makes...

Hi I’m rebuilding my kitchen and have to insulate the outer brick walls so I’ve put up stud walls with celotex between the stud timberwork. But I’m undecided what to put over the studwork on the inside face. OK so it doesn’t need to look pretty beneath the kitchen base units, but I’d rather not...

Thanks for all your replies. In the meantime I found this which gives the charts - https://hspfireprotection.co.uk/information-and-advice/4_fire-ratings-explained.html To me, if it's C-s3, d2 then that seems to translate to it being acceptable to produce a high volume of smoke, acceptable to...

Hi I'm planning to install MDF cladding internally on a new vaulted ceiling. Buildings regs have just come back to me and said the following - The ceiling of your residential extension should be protected to resist the spread of flame over its surface according to classification C-s3, d2...

Hi I'm always confused by vapour barriers.... I have a kitchen with a flat roof (warm deck as it's insulated above), and an adjoining blockwork wall. The roof joists are currently exposed, and the internal wall will be battened up the blockwork and PB on top (no insulation) as it's a very...

I guess when people like myself are in the position of having done so much work already and purchased all the gear then it's going to be nigh on impossible to change minds! I'm thinking of this as essentially an insulated stud wall on it's side. All the walls will have stud walls (because if the...

Hi Ree Thanks for your compliment :), that's the part I know but unfortunately the rest of what I need to do is a bit of a haze to me! It's 25mm ply that I've already got and have allowed for that to get it to FFL where it blends in to other rooms. I get that screeding/SLC would be good in...

It was a can of worms me buying this house in the first place TBH! According to my understanding the building suffered settlement with the levels partly due to a very large extension being attached which pulled the entire building to one side and because it's all built on peaty soil with part...

Hi I'm just building a frame to make a floor level - because the original house floors drop away quite significantly. I've laser mapped the floor and cut the fillets to measure, the end nearest the door skims down to a few mm and then on to latex, whereas the far end has raised about 7" (it's...

I've read this since and mine show a frosted red appearance, so I presume they're ok? From what else I read, the older units used to have a green/red indication but the newer ones just have red coming forward to the front of the window. Isn't it great to know the safety of all my electronic...

Hi all Thanks for the replies. I was a bit wrong with dates - the SPD was fitted in Nov-2022, but still is less than 3 years old. The supply type is TN-C-S therefore one of the modules would be redundant as it's shorted by the E-N link at the service head. So really if that 2nd module is red...

Hi Yesterday we had a brief power cut for a few seconds. Apart from finding I was now the lucky owner of two dead computer monitors, on inspection of everything else I see that the Hager SPD's in my CU are showing red on the indicator panels. Hager say they are "end of life" - so does that mean...

As the question, every time I buy something from Screwfix I get the emails asking for product reviews with a £250 tempter, but I don't know of anyone who has ever received anything. Have any of you been lucky? I don't mind leaving product reviews if it helps someone else out, I kind of dislike...

Hi all, just an update - Octopus came again with a different engineer, fitted the SM, and said nothing at all about the "damage" to the box. So all is well. Interesting reading some of the comments about SM's although I didn't intend to start WW4 ! Presumably there's a roll-back option where a...

Thanks guys. I was slightly wrong about the box being cast, I believe it's folded steel and the issue is where the tails exit that the side is bent in slightly causing the corner joint to separate. I honestly don't know why Octopus smart meter people think that's a problem - unless there's a...

Hi In a small block of flats our tenants need the teleswitch and meter replacing as they're on storage heaters and the teleswitch service will be discontinued soon, so their only option would seem to be a smart meter to replace both items. I would have preferred them to get a dual tariff...

Well I'm half tempted to chuck an old mattress on the ground, rope up the beam to a tree or a neighbour's fence, then ask him to drive away fairly quickly! :giggle:

Yes but you're a strong dog and I'm an old man :giggle: and the lorry driver's mood on the day is part of the unsolved equation...