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Thanks. The walls have been fine until now so we'd discounted contamination. However, it's possible there is some which has only appeared due to the water damage from above.

Wayners - thanks for your reply

In the living room of my son's middle floor tenement flat, damp appeared in the corner of an internal wall, external wall and ceiling. Turned out that upstairs had a rising mains leak which was eventually fixed late 2022. However, both walls about 1m each in from the corner were damaged...

Thanks all for your replies

My son's bathroom has surface mounted downlights set into a lowered, suspended ceiling. It's a flat with another flat above. The downlights at present are fire rated so the whole unit has to be removed to change the bulb. This damages the ceiling each time a bulb has to be replaced. As it's a...

My apologies. I was using rather loose wording. We know the lights in the house aren't on a ring.

Thanks but you've misquoted by missing the next word, ie "switch". There is a live feed and switched live inside the switch in the hall. "Extend" means disconnect each, put a standard connector on each, wire in a length of twin and earth (brown live feed, blue switched live with brown tape at...

Thanks again. This is an option for us then as we can extend the switched live cable inside the lighting ring switch outside the kitchen, through the wall and then into the fused spur switch but change it to a double switch. Cables would all be separate and inside the switch could be marked to...

Thanks for your reply. Yes, we didn't think we could mix the circuits but just wanted to check. The lighting neutral can't be reached within the ceiling. We wouldn't need to run a separate cable as we can connect lives between the two switches. However, we'll just continue with the two separate...

The kitchen has two light fittings each with its own separate switch, one outside the kitchen and one inside. One switch has live in/out and is on the lighting ring. Can't get access to the cable between the switch and the fitting or the neutral. Second switch is via a ring mains fused spur...

Thanks muggles

Can you advise whether it's OK to use push fit fittings on 15mm copper pipe behind plasterboard and tiles when fitting a thermostatic bar shower please ? Normally I'd use Yorkshire soldered fittings but would like to use push fit in this instance if I can. Thanks

Our tiler will be tiling two walls in our bathroom in a couple of weeks time over a bath and shower over it. I have removed the old tiles from the walls leaving big areas where the plaster came away leaving brick wall but other areas where it's ok. I've cleaned it up as best I can and bonded...

JohnW2 Many thanks, that's very helpful. It's fine with regard to the pre-existing circuit and both the 600mm and 2.25m. However, I'll have a look to see if there's an RCD covering the lighting circuits as well as the ring mains. If not, I'll need to bring in a professional. I'm thinking...

I'm a competent DIYer about to replace a bathroom including toilet, basin, bath with shower (not electric), as well as remove and replace tiling. It's a first floor flat with another flat above and below and in Scotland. I'm used to DIY in our detached house but this is a relative's flat and...

if you mean the main control panel external to the boiler, it's a Honeywell and is working normally. Apologies for using the term plumber - just shorthand for the local guy who advertises Heating, Plumbing and Gas Services. On further testing: CW and HW required and all work fine. When HW...

Great - many thanks everyone. Am now wishing we had kept on the maintenance contract :rolleyes: rather than just using the boiler guarantee and getting an annual service. Am away to find a good local plumber. (y) yup, we're back up there in July

Help please We had a new Worcester Bosch Greenstar 30cdi system boiler fitted just over 2 years ago by a large power provider. Came with a free two year maintenance contract which ended two weeks ago. Last service was carried out under that contract in February. Over the last few weeks since...

I'm weighing up a few options on fixings but any advice please on the following queries regarding a raised deck (about 900mm up) using 47 x 150 joists (2.5m long) and ledger (4.8m long) with posts at 1.3m: 1 How to attach the rim joists to the ends of the ledger board as I can't source...

From memory, think we just predrilled holes in the L trim then used short selftapping round head screws. Usually enough space round the roof tiles anyway so that they don't get jammed against the screw heads.