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Hi I'm about to renovate a flat. Currently all plumbing is surface mounted and the floor is solid concrete. Ideally I would like to channel it. Is there anything to stop me channelling into the wall and hiding the channels behind the skirting boards, therefore making for easy maintenance...

Hello I'm soon to start work on renovating a top (2nd) floor flat. It currently has a back boiler, hot water cylinder etc and looking at the state of the plumbing system, I think the best thing to do is to rip it all out and start again, installing a condensing combi boiler in the kitchen to...

Does anyone have some advice on the best tools to use for channelling? I have a top floor flat with solid concrete floor. The flat will be rewired through the ceiling void, with wires dropping down through channels in the walls to sockets/ switches. Since all wiring is currently surface...

Hello I've just bought a flat to renovate. It has solid concrete floors, a back boiler and being ex-LA also has all pipework (and electrics) channelled outside the walls. I'm going to have the back boiler (in the living room) removed and replaced with a combi-condensing boiler (in the...

Cheers for the advice - I'll have a proper read through the regs! It's a top floor flat but I'll need to make sure fire hazards etc are taken into account... Thanks again

How do I'm buying a flat to do up. Just got the survey back and it turns out floors are solid concrete. The electrics (and plumbing for that matter) are currently channelled outside the walls and I plan to get a rewire done. It may sound like astupid wquestion, but is it ok for all wiring...

Nice one - that's exactly what I wanted to hear! Cheers

Cheers for this... The thing I can't understand is why bother with transformers when there are mains voltage lights available? Am I missing something obvious? I can seem to get a fire and acoustic rated mains voltage light as below...

Thanks All Simon, any recommendations on where to buy?

I'm about to start doing up a flat to sell on. The place needs re-wiring completely and as part of this I will be dragging down the ceilings and installing new lighting circuits (Part P, Buildings Control Notification, EIC all taken into account!)... The home buyer's choice are downlighters...

The ceilings are plasterboard, although not sure what they are battened to - only looked round the place a couple of times and will have more idea when I get the keys! The replacement ones will certainly be plasterboard. Since it is a flat, all work has to be done from below rather than...

Cheers Adam Sounds like sense! I was planning to replaster walls anyway as they are a bit crumbly at the moment and I have a plasterer for a brother in law... but it looks like the complete rewire is the way to go.

Hi I'm in the process of buying a pretty grotty ex-LA flat in North London. Having been back for a second look, the electrics are a bit of a mess. The sockets are a bit shabby and all the wiring has been done in typical council style - on the outside of the wall/ ceiling. There's also things...