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It's a masonry wall, cables coming from above and the blanking plate is just to show that there is a vertical cable run at that point. Thanks, I had forgotten about the safe zone near the ceiling. I'll go with that unless anyone has another idea that involves less chasing. Also, are the...

I'm turning what was my kitchen into a playroom for the kids. I want to move a socket from the usual height you'd find in kitchen down to above skirting level. If I follow the vertical path the socket will end up behind a new rad that's going in, so I need to move it horizontally as well. Any...

I recently moved my kitchen to a different room and have just started turning what was the kitchen into a playroom for the kids. I think sorting the old kitchen is going to be harder than providing all the utilities for the new one. Obviously the old kitchen had a drain where the sink used to...

Anyone know what these sockets are for? They're on my wall by the tv points.

I'm laying sheet vinyl flooring that is 4.2mm thick. I've laid the same stuff before but because it is so thick I've found it hard to gauge exactly where to cut. If you press a straight edge up to the flooring against the wall you get quite bend between the floor and the wall. I managed it last...

I need to get some vinyl flooring down before christmas. It's going to be loose laid and may come up again in the new year to screed underneath. Problem is, on pulling up the carpet the underside was damp above a fairly big crack in the slab. It's uneven where the crack is so needs to be...

After having spent the last couple of weeks getting everything ready for moving our kitchen into our living room, and having fitted all the base units in a mad rush to be ready in time for the 'joiner' to come and fit our worktops, I was devastated to come home from work this evening and see...

Cheers, I already went ahead with it though. I just done the bottom first and it came out okay, a couple mm high which I could sort with a plane if I had one. Glad to get the fridge out of the way to give me some workspace. I'll go back to it and sort it if I have time before the chippy comes...

I have a 2400mm fridge end panel to scribe. It is oversized on both the horizontal and vertical. How do I scribe both? If I do the floor first then the scribe will be wrong when I do the wall and the panel moves backwards and vice versa. I can't get my head around it. Any advice much...

I need to utilise the pipework from an old unused gas fire supply which currently sticks out of the floor up to the height of where the gas fire used to be. The pipe is apparently maleable iron and has a threaded connection on it. Before anyone gets their knickers in a twist, I'm having this...

Cheers guys. Lets hope I get this done before it gets dark! Dan

The removed lights wiring will be dead, I'm assuming I can just bung that up in the ceiling.

Scrap that, what am I saying. The terminal block will be replaced by the pendant itself.

It will be behind a ceiling pendant, sufficient?

The switches are a few metres apart and joining them jn any way is not an option. When I say one after the other in the circuit, I mean there are no intermediate lights between the two I want to control with the switch. I omitted some details for simplicity. The switch to light 1 is actually a...

Space is tight through the holes in some of the joists. Maybe three core and remove the t+e?

I understand how to wire two lights to be controlled by one switch, but how would I do this when the lights are already there and part of the lighting circuit? I have two lights connected one after the other in the circuit. Could I just remove the switch cable from light 2, leave the neutrals...

Nevermind, it's sorted

The previous occupants of my home for some reason took out the light on the ceiling and replaced with 4 seemingly random sited wall lights switched in pairs. I want to reinstate the light on the ceiling and get rid of the wall lights. Looking at the above picture, I'm supposing black and red...