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Saw a joinery firm yesterday who suggested I might be better off with Wenge as my wood type instead of American Walnut for my stairs and doors. Said that walnut will fade in the sunlight and is not a hardwood and though better than pine, can scratch easily (as it did when I gave him my sample)...

Yes, this is exactly my worry and I'm rather shameless to stay we are quite lazy at cleaning! Might just stick to the white glazed. On another subject, how can I find wider toilet bowls? In my culture we tend to wash ourselves with a douche shower spray but I find it somewhat annoying sitting...

I've seen some nice black matt coloured toilets, taps and accessories for my new bathroom. Has anyone had any negative personal experience with matt black coloured toilets, basins, shower mixers etc? I plan to use a water softener in the home but wondering if reduced limescale will be an issue...

I know this very much depends on individual preferences and taste but what do most people consider aesthetically pleasing with respect to the colour of the light switches and sockets as part of a high end home renovation project in which many of the sockets and switches will be visible? Most if...

We actually cabled every major ceiling room in the house because our building inspector first said to us that we could avoid using FD30 doors as part of our renovation project if we did it this way but then sometime later could not recall saying that. I kind of also wanted it that way so I...

What's the significance of 12 volt LEDs and drivers and 24-volt when given a choice?

Do you or anyone else know how loud the receiving unit/display is when someone rings the button on the intercom? If you have a two storey home for example can be heard from quite a high or long distance?

A driver and a transformer- are they the same thing? if I have an LED strip of 10 watts a metre totalling 100 watts for 10m, should I always oversize the transformer to say 150 watts or just get a 100 watt transformer? What’s the downside for either option? What would happen if it was under...

Yup, internal. Standard 25mm single metal back box?

What is the sounder method on a Texecom alarm system? We're running all the 8 core alarm cables ourselves as part of a renovation project and I was told that a single back box with the cable coming into it would suffice. Could someone please point me to the device online that acts as a...

I have some fibre cable that was given to me by a friend who had some left over after he finished working for BT Openreach. I'm renovating a home and running cables galore from and to a small comms room. Before we close up the ceilings etc, should I consider running some of this black fibre...

Yeah I have run a few Cat 6 cables to each room including a few to each TV points....you can imagine I have driven my builder potty. I must have ordered a few km of cat 6 cable for a large home renovation. Sounds like I should be fine to use Cat 6 then for telephone. Just need to install a...

On a propose Texecom alarm system I plan to install later in the year, we will be having perimeter sensors in the rear and front. How easy is it for me to take the output of these and connect to some third party software and how can I get alert notifications of any perimeter breaches without...

Can one planning application cover several items e.g. installation of aircon, erecting a gate over 1m which front a high way and also seek clarification on where an LED strip facing down across the width of my house along the eaves? Are neighbours informed regardless of purpose of the...

Does anyone here have experience of installing the Hikvision range of intercoms? Do they rate them? Are these portable or do they need to be secured to a base or wall connection? DS-KH9510-WTE1...

I've installed extensive amounts of Cat 6 cables around my house and to all of the bedrooms. We are in the process of slowly closing up ground floor ceilings etc so will be harder to run new cables soon. 1st and 2nd floors are closed up ceiling wise etc. Should I still be thinking of running...

I have a carriage drive way where on the left side entrance (where there is one brick pier touching the neighbouring fence, then drive way, then a brick pier which we removed completely after we got permission to drop a kerb and build our drive way entrance, leaving the jagged edge of a wall for...

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Does a gas boiler have to be installed on a brick wall or can it go on a plasterboard partition with the necessary supports and vent outside ways through a solid wall?

Hi Am I correct in thinking that I will need planning permission if I wished to install a sliding electronic gate of 1.5m in height on my drive way if I want to secure my property if it fronts a highway? And what if I want to remove one of the brick piers to widen the access of the drive way...