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I need to route a hot water pipe and cold water pipe along my kitchen wall and I have to then mount my base units to the same wall. I assume this is common practice, but can I pretty much route the pipes where I want or should I have them routed as close to the floor as possible? I'm just...

Hi, I've got a radiator I need to hang. It's a double rad, 620x1400 so it's quite heavy and the problem is that one of the radiator brackets will have to be mounted on a wall which is plasterboard on thermalite (the other part of the wall is brick). Can anyone suggest what I should use to...

I've just done a load of this, and the best advice I got (from this site) was to use plasterer's bonding (adhesive for dot & dabbing), to bury the cables before having the plasterer do his thing. I'd always tried to use filler before (!)

I had a load of channels to cut (for a kitchen), sealed myself into the room with masking tape all round the doors, wore a good quality mask and having drawn the lines in black marker, just did them all in around 30 mins. Opened the windows to let out the majority of the dust, unsealed one door...

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I've just had my kitchen plastered, all the walls and the ceiling and I'm now ready to do the floor. I'd appreciate some advice before I start though: 1. I intend to tile over the existing quarry tiles - much faster and easier but are there any pitfalls to avoid? Do I have to apply any PVA...

Hi, I've been looking for ages for suitable cabinet lights and found some in Ikea - a set of three LV stainless steel units complete with electronic transformer, for £10. Now I've read enough on these fora to know that the professionals here tend to frown on the idea of several lamps from...

Thanks, just to verify then (about to order parts) :oops: I'll connect the hob to a cooker outlet plate then and the oven (a single oven only) to a fused spur. Both the outlet plate and the fused psur will be fed from the switched cooker control unit. Does this sound reasonable? Thanks :)

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Sorry, I'm installing a completely new circuit. I have the new CCU and I want to be able to disable the cooker and the hob with the switch on the CCU. What I need to know is how to exit the cable from the CCU. I don't want to just exit the cable from the plastered wall like the previous...

Hi, I had a new combi installed a few weeks ago. The installer left me a couple of stopped pipes to extend to my new kitchen sink and left the old ones in for me to remove when I was ready. I'm now ready to cut off the old pipes but how can I do this? Can I just shut off the mains water to...

Hi, Can someone give me an overview of how best to connect up a cooker physically? I've got no problem with the cabling, etc. but I do need to connect up an electric oven and a hob and while I have what is described in one place as a cooker switch socket, and another, a CCU, there is also the...

Interesting. So if I want to bed cable in my wall, I need to use metal capping, is that right? I'm sure I've seen it, perhaps in B&Q but I can't find anything suitable on Screwfix or ToolStation. Surely by what the regulations say then, I can't even use oval PVC conduit? Thinking about it, a...

:D I think I'm getting the point hammered (no pun intended) home! So don't use the angle grinder then :) I have an SDS chisel set which includes a gouge chisel. I'll give that a go but I seem to remember having difficulty with it for some reason. :? It's not exactly a channeling tool like...

The square hole cutting tool is a fantastic bit of kit! Just fitted 6 back boxes in less than 2 hours. Sure you electricians might laugh but these boxes usually have me pulling my hair out and taking hours to get them right. Best of all, the boxes are level and the amount of material removed...

Hi, I'm doing a few channels in plastered breeze block. I've got an SDS drill/breaker, a channeling tool and an angle grinder, plus I've hired a square hole cutter for the socket boxes. If I'm about to cut the channels for a ring-main circuit, what width/depth would you recommend? I assume...

Thanks! The stainless steel ones look great, but a bit too modern for my house I think. I'll check with the wife tomorrow though. :)

Hi, I'm just having my driveway done and the contractor is ready to lay bricks tomorrow. I've got two quadrants for flower beds and I've got the guy to lay SWA cable from each quadrant into the house ready to be wired up. I've just driven the car onto the drive and realised that at night...

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Will he care about it if it's an internal wall just to hang the boiler on (for now anyway)? When I'm ready to build the utility room, isn't it then time to involve the building inspector?