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I'm having the kitchen renovated. In one corner is a hugely ugly pipe (maybe 2 pipes) that has been boxed in with some equally ugly tiles. Ideally, I want a wall unit fitted right in that corner but the pipe and boxing in is in the way. The stop cock is right under the plumbing for the...

I'm getting the impression that what I want to do is a bit of a crap idea. However, I am really wedded to the idea of minimising further disruption (and redesign of the kitchen) and I do think that means having the under-unit lights on the kitchen ring circuit. My initial concern was having...

Off-topic a bit, but I once stayed in a hugely expensive holiday lodge in Canada where they had installed sockets directly above the (incredibly fierce) plinth heaters they were using to heat the room. I didn't notice at first and plugged in my phone charger. I burned my hand on the plug taking...

Absolutely. But I am married. The downlights are going in later, by the way. We are having the room above the kitchen renovated in April and the floorboards are coming up then, so the electrician would rather do it then when he has easier access. Suits me.

Thanks for your help - same goes to everyone else who has commented. The reason is hard to explain and makes me sound lazy, but basically, I want to minimise the amount of new backboxes and chases I create. This is for reasons of time and disruption rather than expense. It's ambitious, but I...

Hi all I want to add under-cabinet lighting to the kitchen. I currently have a normal ceiling light, which is on the downstairs lighting circuit. It is switched from a single switch. I want to power the new under-cabinet lights from the kitchen ring circuit and not the lighting circuit. Is it...

I've been trying to order a shed from this lot for ages. They don't respond to email or voicemail. They are never actually there to answer the phone. They have an utterly useless online ordering system where you are expected to buy your shed before even finding out what the delivery cost is or...

Hi I have a lot of leftover sheet material from building some wardrobes. Happily, I have pretty much exactly what I need to make a set the drawers I would like to build in to one of the wardrobes. This is a mixture of 18mm ply and veneered mdf. The drawers will be about 600mm wide and 350mm...

Thanks - but I don't think it works in parallel. Even with the doors closed, two of the switches would still be "open". What I need is something that turns the light on if: LHS front is open OR LHS back is open; AND RHS front is open OR RHS back is open. This is by no means impossible...

Thanks both. The problem I have with switches is that I cannot see how they can work on a sliding door. As you know, one door sits a few cm in front of the other to allow them to pass each other. Imagine that the front door is on the left hand side, and the back door is on the right hand...

I am building some fitted wardrobes and want to include some in-wardrobe lighting that comes on automatically when the doors are open. Each wardrobe has two sliding doors. I was really hoping that there was a product out there that would do this for me, but I’m really struggling to find it. The...

Is this to go over an existing floor? I've used cementitious boards like no-more-ply for this sort of thing in the past, and it's worked really well. Might work out as more expensive though. EDIT: I was tiling my bathroom. so ignore the above.

Pretty sure the answer to this one is "no", but thought I'd run it past you. I had my internal doors dipped and neutralised on Thursday. The company wanted to return them on Saturday. I received them on Monday, and they were still quite damp. They are currently drying out in my dining room...

Thanks jeds. Thanks also to thedeadzeds - I think what you are both suggesting is similar. We will have the floorboards up in that room soon as a gas fitter is tidying up some pipework in there, so I'll have a look in the floor void then. I've checked the loft- the wall is in decent shape and...

Thanks Blagard. It's what I feared, but also what I expected. The two main bedrooms are up against the party wall. The box room, over the front door, just has external walls - but as we are renovating, it is literally a box room right now - it's full, floor to ceiling, with boxes, tools, carpets...

Hi all I live in a 1930s semi, with a boiler in the back bedroom, which is the one we use. The boiler is on the party wall, in the alcove. We have two noise problems that I'd like to sort out, but I'm concerned that what I want to achieve is basically impossible without significant work. The...

Thanks John - makes a lot of sense. They cannot do anything to satisfy me that the new electrics (the kitchen) have been done safely, and as I said, we are going to want to replace a lot of the other circuits anyway. I was hoping for some certainty over the kitchen as replacing that is going...