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Thank you both for taking time out of your day to help out, I can confirm that was the error.

Foxhole, thank you very much, this didn't even remotely occur to me as a possibility, I will report back.

Thank you for replying. The green wire visible in the picture of the wiring is connected to the earthing point on the back box and I am connecting it to the gold earth point on the new switch.

I am trying to swap an old gold metal light switch out, thinking it was going to be straight forward, however when I fit the new switch, it trips the circuit. Can you see an obvious error here? Old gold switch has COM, L1 and L2 at the top and bottom of the switch, new switch has them clearly...

This is what I initially thought, but as flex outlets only seen to come with an in and out, I started questioning it and wondered if I was going down a "cowboy" or bodge route.

I ran some cables to wire in a toothbrush charger and a mirror with a light. My thought process was to bring the lighting circuit down to the mirror and power the mirror with a flex outlet then continue the circuit on to the toothbrush charger. Flex outlets seem to be two connections only, the...

It has a square "key" slot like when you bleed a radiator, when I tried to turn it, naively thinking it was an isolation valve water started coming out, hence why I assumed it was a drain valve.

There isn't a hose outlet on it at all, so clearly not a drain valve, thank you for pointing that out. It did have a mixer tap on it yes. Had hot and cold feed going to it. Same question I guess though, can it be swapped for an isolation valve or is important to the plumbing system?

I am renovating my bathroom and have struggled to get a plumber on site. I have decided to attempt some of the pipework myself as I can't continue with anything until some of it is done. When removing the old bath I found the hot water feed to the taps has what appears to be a drain valve on...

It doesn't help that some idiot (me) has built a niche exactly where the copper pipe would be able to go straight up to the shower mixer.

Thank you, I figured copper was the correct way to do it, I have never soldered pipe work before (electrical items yes) and the thought of making a mistake and sealing it in with tiles concerns me. I would also have concerns with push fit being installed by myself and sealed in, looks like I...

Hi, I wondered if anyone could provide some guidance please. I am renovating our main bathroom and I am looking to add a mixer bar shower over the bath. A plumber has indicated taking the feeds from the bath taps would be fine, it's on a combi boiler and pressure is good. What would be the...

Hi Steve, Current thinking is 600x300 tiles weighing approximately 3.3kg each. The wall is actually fairly flat, I hadn't checked until you asked this question, there are some dips where the old plaster has come off, but we are talking 1/2mm. I will be removing bath and sink to replace with...

I have started a bathroom renovation and it won't be long before I need to start tiling, but I'm just going round in circles and could use some input from others, if you would be so kind. All my internal walls are block with some kind of "screed/render" over the top. I have removed the old...

Thank you very much for replying.

The pipes, supply and waste, utilise the small boxing in below the current sink. I would like to build up the boxing in to form a sheriff above the sink and then fit a wall hung vanity unit and sink. In trying to find the answer through Google and you tube I can find mounting frames (like the...

Thank you so much for the broken down reply, it's very much appreciated.

I am embarking on a bathroom renovation, but have some questions about electrics in the bathroom. I have an electric shaver socket in the room already, my plan is to remove the shaver socket, re-route the cable and have it power a mirror and a permanent toothbrush charger. I am assuming this...

Before, to prove it is as suspected, part of the ring? After, to make sure I haven't made any connection errors? Or for other reasons that indicate I shouldn't be doing it?

I did consider this and covering the join with heat shrink, but wasn't sure on whether that would have any issues with regulations. If I was to do a poor job of soldering the wires or something it could lead to issues.