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Metabo powermax BS Basic This is just under two years old, July 2016. So pretty well used for a 50m sq extension, 70 sheets of plasterboard etc. Today it intermittently starts and over runs as well, instead of braking to a stop. Not sure if it wear and tear or the brushes? Charged battery...

Fitting a ground floor shower room. Shower tray is 1200 x 800 with four upstands, tray is recessed into scree by 30mm. Studding on three sides. The studding was installed before the tray so 20mm thickness of wall is required to overlap the upstands as I could not cut the scree flush with the...

I have been building an extension and so I need to consider the heating design and layout. Single storey, existing was 60m sq new is 110 m sq. The existing has a bathroom with a shower and bath. The new has a shower so two showers. The existing heating was oil WB 12-14 combi heatslave. 12 years...

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Which way is a sheet of PB screwed onto a stud wall, long side horizontal or vertical? I thought vertical but I read a couple of Australian articles and a UK one which state horizontal. The same as as boards on a ceiling, i.e. right angles to the joists. I have to board two external walls...

a single storey extension, the layout is this: From left to right . 1. Main door, two gang switch, lobby light and outside lights. 2. Porch door, two gang. Porch light and outside lights. Intermediate switch for outside lights. 3. French doors, single gang switch, outside lights. My reading of...

One switch I intend to install in an extension will be a twin gang, one is for the porch light, the other is an intermediate switch for three external lights. Trying to find the best switch. I am going to use Hager for the rest of the face plates and they sell grid modules which I could use here...

In your case, the only place it can be connected is at the first light - equivalent to the ceiling rose in the diagram. I see, so the PIR is in parallel with the three switches? Do you want the switch to override the lights or just be able to turn them off entirely from the switch? To...

Three external lights, it could be just one for the sake of argument. Three doors with one switch by each door to switch all three lights at the same time. Supply from the porch rose to the first light. Twin and earth from the first light to the first switch, three core and earth from the first...

Thanks to both of you. I live at the end of the phone line, literally, three miles to the exchange and fibre was enabled six months ago to the cabinet in the village, I have not upgraded so it is usually 1.25 -1.5meg download and 0.25 upload. Say I watch the three minute weather report on BBC...

Just after general advice as to what cables to fix behind the plasterboard to allow for TV, PC. In the sticks so poor mobile signal inside, no cable TV on the street, so a satellite dish would be required for Sky or whatever? In the lounge I have a socket for a TV aerial and that's it. This...

https://www.planningportal.co.uk/info/200130/common_projects/16/electrics/3 Building Regulations: Checking for safety Where the electrical installation work is notifiable it should be checked to make sure that it is safe. This checking can be done by: the electrician who carries out the...

The plans were approved prior to Part P so were not subject to part P at a guess. Work was started in 2004 ish.

This extension has full planning approval from South Glos council. The building regulation inspection framework does not mention electrics. I am at the stage of drylining so need to consider the electrical wiring layout, but no electrics have been installed for this. The extension consists of...

Extension of 56m2. Electrics need to be done and certified to Part P. Emailed five NIEC sparks, two said they only certify their own work. Not tried any others. How likely is it that an electrician will test and sign off my work? I wired the original conversion in 2005 prior to Part P and a...

Thanks, I'll wait till the soil dries a bit before I do it.

Thanks for the advice, this is what I did.

I installed a Truedor and a sidelight using the supplied steel coupler to join them. The sill holds the two parts fairly well at the bottom but they move at the top. Not sealed yet and will use expanding foam. https://www.flickr.com/photos/67356568@N05/39600655101/in/datetaken-public/...

I am extending a single storey building which was originally two garages and three outbuildings on a rural site, neighbours are 1/2 a mile and 300 yards away. The storm drains for two pitches go through the hedge and discharge into the ditch the other side of the hedge which bounds a field...

I'm not, apart for access to CWT etc.