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ok cheers ;) there's another socket nearby so i'll have to move the dryer to that.

While fitting our new kitchen i replaced a single unswitched socket for a double unswitched socket so that i could run a tumble dryer and washing machine from the same 13a fused spur. That fuse in the spur has just gone. I've replaced the fuse and its working again but is a dryer and washing...

We have a 2-gang wall light switch in our kitchen controlling the ceiling light and some under cabinet fluorescent tube lights. In total there's three fluorescent lights (two on one wall, either side of cook/extractor and a third on a different wall). The lights appear to be driverless and wired...

The boss has chose some wood effect tiles for the new kitchen. The sample in the showroom and the online photos suggest they've butt joined the tiles without using spaces/grout lines. I like the look of this but i was told a long time ago this is a 'no no' as the adhesive wont set. Any tiling...

Cheers sounds like a good idea. Also, thanks for the heads up on the wm fitting, will get that replaced at the same time.

I'm guessing its a hollow stud partition wall then. You could try hollow wall anchor fixings but they may also be too long and end up going through the other side of the wall. Another option would be these things: www.gripitfixings.co.uk

I'm fitting our new kitchen next week and looking for some advice on how to fit a new cabinet around the under sink pipework (see pic below). As you can see the water mains comes in through the base of the current cabinet. There's also cutouts at the back of the cabinet for hot/cold feeds, a...

Ok cheers, yeah the FUC mounted on the wall near the boiler isnt switched, so makes sense to replace it with a switched one while doing this. Correct, the CU and the boiler are both in the garage. The outside cabinet is on the other side (outside) of the garage wall. There probably is an...

We had a new combi boiler installed a few years ago to replace an old conventional boiler. The plumber wired up the new combi using the fused spur/mains which feed the old boiler. The cable goes from a fused spur (mounted next to the boiler) to a switch in the kitchen, before going back to the...

Is the such thing as 10mm push fit or compression air release valves/stop ends?

ok cheers that makes sense, will look at manual air valves. Didnt know that about heating & conservatories, thanks! I'll be calling the pros for conservatory/extension... thats way beyond me. Also, all the rads are on the 10mm microbore stuff.

I'm about to take out a stud wall between my kitchen and a utility room as we're extending kitchen and fitting a new suite. There's a small rad on one side of the wall so this will be coming out too. The sub floor is solid concrete so all the pipe work runs through the walls. The missus has...

No the wall dividing the double garage into two separate areas was already there. The only wall put in was the one the window sits on and bridges the gap where the garage door use to be. The builder cavity filled the dividing wall and the wall where the window is located. He then simply...

Shortly after moving into our house a couple of years back we converted one half of a double garage into a usable room. The dividing wall down the middle of the garage was already in place. The builder went with cavity filling on the dividing wall and the new base wall were the garage door use...

I have slowly been replacing the old rads in our house with new flat panel types. I'm about to start a revamp of the dinning room and struggling to find the same style (horizontal with flat vertical panels) in the size i need. They all seem to have a standard height of 600mm, however, i need...

Those Tectile parts look handy and certainly less bulky. Can they be used with plastic piping? Which would be easier/quicker, Tectile or 10mm half hard copper and couplers. Has anyone used these before, are they any good and how flexible are they? Nortonj, not sure these pics will help but...

Soldered joints are probably beyond make capabilities. Any suggestions that doesn't include soldering?

So the missus is on a redecorating mission. She went out last weekend to buy paint and skirting/attractive and came back with new designer flat panel rads and chrome angled trv's. The existing rad pipe work is all 10mm microbore and buried in the wall. The pipe work comes out of the wall on...

Spot on! It's now working perfectly. Again thank you both for all the help, its greatly appreciated ;)

If I disconnect the blue wire the entrance hall light goes off and no longer works from any switch.