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Hi all, I just wanted to check here first in case I ask my electrician and offend him. He is wiring in lighting in my new kictchen and I see that he has been using grey plastic covered cable with a solid copper core on most of the kitchen for my GU10 mains spot lights. There are 14...

great, thanks - will go for a 2 gang switch and ditch the dimmers! I am having an electrician wire it all up for me. I am amazed he did not bring this to my attention...

Thanks so much for this, I really appreciate it! How about: I get rid of the dimmer idea and have a 2 gang switch and split the room into less lights, 6 on one side and 4 on the other? As long as I am clear that getting rid of the dimmer will sort my problem, right? Is the biggest...

I want to use halogen and I don't mind whether I use mains or LV - would I be better off with LV, then if I stick to using conventional rocker switches? Also - is the maximum wattage thing only an issue with dimmer switches?

If I don't bother dimming them, could I get myself out of this problem!? Are conventional light switches not as restrictive?

kitchen designer has put so many spots because the kitchen is very large and he says that by their nature, halogens are not very directional. If I just go with LOW VOLTAGE lights, will I overcome this problem? I have been told that Low Voltage lights aren't dimmable, but is the advantage that...

I want to have 15 mains dimmable sunken spots fitted in my kitchen and want to control them from a 2 gang dimmer switch. The 15 lights will be split into 2 sections in the kitchen. 1 Switch will operate 8 lights and the other will operate 7 of them. The trouble I am finding is that the...

We are having an extension built and the upstairs level is made from Timber with a pebbledash render on EML and breather paper. Looking at the plans, the architect has requested a cavity of 38mm with insect mesh and a void between the plywood walls and the render. However, the builder has...

yes - just called the architect and he was very annoyed about it - he said that they must have an insulated void. He didnt say why, though, but if he says they need it then, they will have to, I guess!

I am having my extension built at the moment and the upstairs level is 100mm studwork (exterior): This has an inner and outer skin of ply and insulation between, with an intended void of 38mm between the outer sheet of ply and the outer cladding (which is 3 coat render on EML and breather...

EN 636", a standard for exterior use, although it might also state "EN 13986" which indicates that the panel has been bonded with a phenolic resin, which is waterproof Hi Scrit!! Thanks so much for the info, I went and found some blurred text, which read: the year - 04 EN 636-3...

will ask them tomorrow, cheers! I was just paranoid as I had not seen any markings that I understood as being external (or internal).

Hi I swear that there are no other markings on my wood... yikes - do you think that they used internal use ply!?? I am really worried now. If it was for internal use would it still have a number for internal use?? Sorry to go on!

Hi Scrit, Thanks for that! I have been and looked at the sheets and they do not say WBP or exterior. There is a CE stamp on them, which reads something like: CE 1224-CPD-0099 Sumantna Timber - I think - very blurred text... Do you think they have fitted standard ply? Should I be...

WBP plywood - what is it?? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi I am having an extension built and the upstairs level is to be built from timber and the plywood cladding is meant to be WBP ply. Water and Boil Proof is what WBP stands for...

neareast tree is about 5 metres away. Okay, I think I will email Building Control and have them confirm it in writing.

Hi Static I just spoke to the architect who said that as we are now only at 1.7m in places, building control would have tested the soil and may have passed it without claymaster. I phoned building control and they confirmed that as we were not going too low and that they were happy with...

It was indeed one tool (ground breaker) on a plug into the newly wired plug board. So, fingers crossed, I haven't fried all of the wiring!!

Yes, I do mean "if" they have moved to traditional hardcore floors. Admittedly, the architect did not take a soil sample and decided that we needed Claymaster, after we said that we were not going to remove the Leylandii from our garden. His original plans showed 1.5m foundations with no...

Thanks very much, that is great. Hopefully Claymaster has been removed from the schedule. Is Claymaster normally only used when foundations are very deep, then? From experience, do you have any idea what they would do with the ground in-between the concrete strip foundations? Would they just...