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I'm in Northern Ireland, and we don't have water meter meters. Yes there is one there on the footpath which only corresponds to my house so that can be used in an emergency. Reason for my initial asking about location of stopcock is that the mains pipe from footpath is lead and I'm going to...

No water meter required, so there is no water meter.

Mains water supply of mid-terraced house enters house through front door, runs along full length of hall and then directly into kitchen where stop cock is located. Present setup means water supply is "live" right up to kitchen and cannot be switched off if required. Ideally, where should the...

Since there is no immersion switch located in that location presently (and so no cabling), would the electrician have to put in a new circuit back to the main electrical box? I know if a new electrical socket is put in a room, an electrician can connect it up to an existing socket, but with a...

The location I'm thinking of for a switch for an immersion on a copper tank would perhaps be 20cm-30cm from the tank, so want to check if such a distance would automatically rule out this location before I start getting out an electrician.

I understand that there are requirements concerning the positioning of light fittings and sockets in bathrooms within certain proximities of water sources such as showers/sinks. If a copper water tank for has an immersion heater with an associated switch in proximity of this same copper tank...

If layout was in the form of my initial schematic, can sink empty into DW waste?

So that would be Oven, Sink, DW. (instead of Oven, DW, Sink). Out of curiosity, in what way would this be better? Perhaps as outlet at back of DW is higher than that of sink?

built-in dishwasher would be an option too

and run from sink to outlet at wall would be 3.7 metres.

It's a free standing cooker, but perhaps it's possible then with a built-in oven? It's a floor board floor with joists running parallel with the direction of waste.

Would it be possible to configure appliances as shown in the schematic below so that the waste flow pipe from a dish washer and a kitchen sink can travel along the back of an electric cooker? I had a look on Curry's website looking at the sideview of multiple electric cookers and from what I...

Thanks for that - I understand the schematic now. So these height distances for gravity feed (no tiger loop fitted).

And is the tiger loop something that is generally an additional attachment to the boiler? Or do modern boilers come with a tiger loop as standard?

Had a look at the schematic but not sure what it's indicating.

If modern burners have a tiger loop which uses burner's own pump to transfer oil from tank to burner, what is the purpose of placing a tank up on breeze blocks or a metal stand? I had thought it was to allow the oil to transfer from the tank to boiler by gravity, but perhaps doing this is not...

So if either a) or b) below is the case (or both together), and a condensing boiler is used (not a system boiler) then presumably some sort of pump is required to transfer oil from tank to boiler. Where is such a pump located - inside the house/garage? If it's an external boiler, I guess the...

When installing an oil tank on 50mm thick concrete flags with 300mm clearance from tank to end of concrete flag base on each side, presumably the flags do not necessarily have to sit "atop" the surrounding concrete surface? This would mean that they would be 60mm higher than surrounding concrete...

Really what I mean is, once an external oil boiler is installed (wall or floor), he seemed to think that wall mounted condensing heat only boilers would have more ongoing malfunctioning issues.

Can a pressurised cylinder for hot water be used in a fully pumped open vented system (not a sealed system)? I'm just wondering as it would allow change to sealed system at later date without requiring new pressurised cylinder.