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I know what you mean. Sometimes giving it a whack does the trick. I have a light switch that gives me stick, I just hit the button hard it when it starts to spring. But either way, hitting it is a bodge, and its probably best to replace it.

Yes, but its not always convenient to dig a cable out of a wall just to satisfy regs. It's easier, much easier, to just put a JB into the wall and concrete over it. It must be watertight (or perhaps, plastertight) though, otherwise the plaster will slip into the JB.

I like to see a sense of humour, ban-all-sheds. I think the problem with my posts is that it is hard to convey humour with words. By the way, I have done a bit of sharking. And whats wrong with burying JBs in plaster?

Come on, for gods sake. Someone must know.

Yeah, what IanDB said. There's no way a full electric cooker, let alone a duel-fuel, would pull 9.4 kw. I've a duel-fuel, and you can 'get away' with plugging into a 13amp socket. Although if I had my way, i would run another dedicated circuit, because the fuse in the plug gets a bit warm...

Forget about underfloor heating, it is best installed in new houses when you have the floorbaords up, or have not yet concreted the floors. It will be labour to install it in a concrete floor (as the pipes need to be buried in concrete), and it will be labour to lift all the floorbards to...

It should be fairly easy to move, providing you can route the pipes and cables through into your utility room With regards to gas regs: Don't take regs too seriously all the time - as long as the boiler is in a safe position and supplied with enough gas (ask others about frictional losses in...

It could be a leak, but check out this other thread first. http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4635

Ha... you would be lucky, normally, to get ONE radiator off Britas Gas for 'just' £750. Let alone 13.

Regarding Part P: Can I have a decisive answer, from anyone who has the facts, about exactly what I can do myself and what an electrician will have to do. Also, can anyone tell me exactly how this law will be enforced. e.g if i do do the work myself, how will they find out - and, if it is...

"Got to slighty disagree with you there,it really to protect people who are not competent minded in buying the peoperty" Is that to say the seller or the buyer is not competent :wink: You have bad grammar and english. But the point is that after I have paid an electrician ££££ or, if...

But the difference is that a logbook can be replaced by the DVLA (please correct me...) The problem with electrics is that if i lost the certificate and 'forgot' which electrician performed the work, would my house be forever a millstone round my neck (or perhaps a white elephant would be...

Listen you, theres no need to get nasty. I wasnt ridiculing soilman, sorry..., oilman. I also was not questioning oilman's value to this forum. All I was saying is that his reply had nothing to do with my question. And just to clarify, I understood oilmans first post, but it had no...

With regards to enforcing the law, what people, or rather the government need to realise, is that if you bring in laws that are very unpopular, people tend to treat them with contempt. Furthermore, this disrespect for the law encourages (or rather removes the disinclinaton for) people to do...

First, I can see from your point of view, that I may or may not be a competent person. But I know my level of skill, and whats more is I do not just barge into a job and bodge it. I spend time thinking about how I will do it and the implications of one method as opposed to another. This is why I...

Excuse me, but what does IanDB's psot have to do with mine. And i dont need lectures that i havent got a certificate. As i say, im perfectly competent.

"unfortunatly i find it hard to beleve that any qualified electrician would tell you that what you have done is better than they do" Believe me or not, supersparks. When I had my electric shower checked out, his exact words were, "You've done a better job than most electricians would."...

I think this is b*llocks. Most people will not abide by this. All it will do is cause (more) contempt for the law, and people might think less of doing (arguably...) more dangerous stuff like gas work in future. And in any case, if the exact wording is (as I have seen...) 'a competent...

"Gas are you sure!!!!"

I'd love to know what youre on about, oilman. :?: I always use yorkshire fittings, because there a lot easier than a*seing around end feed. I've done a fair bit of plumbing and never had a leak with soldered joints, but I'm just keen to find out if its possible. For example, if the joint...