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I put one in. Fortunately the cables were long enough that I could tip it well forward to get the best angle on the screwdriver. So it went in OK, but compared to an MK for instance, it's not great. Incidentally, the L & N aren't marked. On the back there's a DP label. Does this mean it doesn't...

I emailed them. See what they say. Yes, if it could be removed from the fascia, there might be a workaround, but it's riveted and glued in place. All very annoying, especially at £40+ a pop.

The screws are long enough, it's just the angle. Access, the fascia is already routed out next to the screws, but the insert is so 'low profile' that it site too near the front. If there were a way of altering it, I agree with you, I surely would have done. I see a lot of Varilight, with...

A few people make these. I bought two double sockets from Olivers Lighting. Oak fascia. Very nice, and the unusually large fascia covers the problems created by the wonky dry lining boxes that I inherited. https://www.oliverslighting.com/acatalog/Heritage_Wooden_Plug_Sockets-p1.html But.... The...

With Polyflor Forest FX, The flooring chap decided the floor was flat enough as it was. But he agreed that otherwise a self-leveller would have been the correct solution. Thankyou.

Thankyou. So I don't need to put it in a cupboard, that helps. The seven day timer looks ideal. https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/SMFST77.html Things have changed a bit since I last bought a new timer in, errm, 1982. And I didn't know one could buy them with a fuse. That saves another bit...

Will be having some vinyl laid over a dry concrete floor. Level but not screeded. The vinyl will be something decent like Polyflor or Karndean. I presume it's best to overlay the concrete. Should I use ply or hardboard? And what should I use to stick it onto the concrete? TIA

Having a 600w electric towel rail put in the shower room. It will be the only heat in there, so in addition to a ceiling switch, I'd like to have a timer. But there's no room for a cupboard in which to site a timer. Is there any timer that could be hung on the wall without boxing it in? TIA.

There's a hole in my bucket... the trouble being that all our buckets get used for gardening and seem to develop holes, even the one I have under the drain valve which is leaking. Actually that's not true, it's not the drain valve, it's the quarter turn valve ahead of the drain valve. Having...

We had attic tanks in our house thirty one years. Why should there be a problem? The attic pipework should be well lagged, if not, make it so. Foam, plus felt for corners and fittings, all well tied on with string. Put polystyrene slab around the tanks, leave no gaps. As has been said, don't...

Today I bought an EV from a local plumbers' merchants. Doubtless the instructions in the original German were excellent, but the translation is somewhat opaque. I have tried to look up the procedure for adjusting the pressure and how to determine whether it needs adjusting, but no joy. The EV...

Aha. Another thing I didn't know I didn't know. Not that we ever drink the water from the hot tap. Anyway, like this? https://www.advancedwater.co.uk/prod-140-147-0021.html So, in addition to shutting off the water, should I let the pressure out of the EV first?

Oh. Here it is

Replacement kitchen mixer to install. Mains fed. There's a small undersink water heater. So, can I just shut off the water and disconnect the pipes to the tap as usual? The heater has a red canister hanging off it - pressure vessel I presume - with a gauge showing 5 bar. Atop the heater...

After a near disaster when my auto stripper cut through the wire, it worked. I discarded 4 & 6. Mind you, this did not initially go well. As soon as I discarded any wire, the phone would not dial out properly. Then I noticed a button underneath - Tone/Pulse. Wossat, thought I. Amateurs, eh? V8

Thankyou. No, I just have to replace four feet of cable where it drops down from the ceiling. I will cut the 6-core cable at the ceiling and put in a 20/4 GPO junction box and connect to the 4-core. Then the 4-core will connect to the BT extension box. The 4-core is an old GPO phone cable, I do...

BT socket box for phone extension. What I think of as an RJ11. Network cable to the box trailing down the (stone) wall. Some stonework being done a few weeks ago, so I took the opportunity of burying another cable in the pointing. Couldn't bury the original cable as it's too short to follow the...

Repeat the process with the other leg of the frame, using a non-styrene with a longer open period. This time, I don't warm the tube by keeping in it my pocket for an hour, that may have contributed to a quicker set. Perhaps as a result, blimey it's hard to expel! Feel like I need a Charles...

Actually it was a lump hammer....... With my reading glasses on - never used to need these confounded things - I read the small print on the tube. The stuff I had previously was 'styrene-free' and at the temperature I was working had an open time of 12 minutes. The stuff I used here is Styrene...

Just had a minor disaster. What did I do wrong...... Three fixings into a Cotswold stone wall, very old wrought iron nails plus/minus 3/8" square section and 4-5" into the wall. Fixings for an old hardwood door frame 4" square. Drilled the holes oversize finishing with a 3/4" drill, dusted out...