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Awesome, thank you. I’ve just been spending half an hour trying to get two lives into the new fitting with no luck so will do as you suggested! That’s interesting that the current setup is really out of date and no very compliant. So much more involved to do it that way as well. Thanks!

Now having had a good look inside the fitting hole there isn’t really another end. That earthed plate is just an extension of a larger plate that houses the cables for that fitting: This now would be important to keep looking at the housing; if the brown wire up on the main bit of the plate...

Sorry didn’t explain it well. This metal bar with the earth that I no longer need is screwed at both end: I will need to unscrew the lower one to get the old fitting off. I wanted to know what I should then do since I don’t need it. Unscrew it from other end and take it out then leave the...

Thanks, you’re right, it is double insulated: It will just be a case of swapping out all the electrical fixing. This new one is clearly double insulated class 2: For the current ones that quite a length to go to earth them then. With the earth wire on the bar would you remove the bar...

Hi people, I have recently purchased some new downlight fittings for the living room. I bought one at first to ensure it was compatible. The one I tried was a simple levering of the two springs to pop the old one out and the new one in. Of course, now I have bought a set for the lounge the...

Yes I’m not that fussed if it’s not central to that bit of wall so yes straight up is fine. So jabsaw directly above and then channel into whatever solid structure is behind it currently to connect them? I guess it’s worth taking the back box off first to see if there is enough slack? Any...

Difficult to tell. They come through the top left but it’s a very tight fit so you can’t see anything. I may have to remove the back box then to see? It has plaster over the edges so would need to hack some off to prise it out.

Hi, I want to move a kitchen socket because we are having new worktops and the upstands will be 100mm and one of the sockets is 70mm above the worktops currently. Here is the socket: The red box is where it needs to go to be clear off the new upstands. I also wanted it more central. The...

If the main house is very old but the kitchen extension is quite modern what to people think to brick slips after removing render? The bricks under render look cheap so would a rustic brick slip be an option? So something like this...

Ah good to know - thanks.

The architect plans shows it’s under the bell bead - so around the level of the floor. Won’t see it until the upper render is removed I guess. Why is bitumen paint bad?

If the overhang is enough would you recommend still leaving a few courses of bricks above gravel?

Ok so this is what I as thinking. Would cement cladding work on everything from kitchen floor level and upward? Then re render lower part to a few courses above gravel then bitumen paint those last few courses?

Yes you’re right that’s a window ledge. I didn’t really explain the set up very well apologies. The ledge belongs to a floor to ceiling window so that ledge is pretty much level with the kitchen floor. I have highlighted where I roughly think dpc is as per architect plans previous owners left...

Yeh but problem is that the dpc and bell cast bead for the main kitchen extension starts above the top course of bricks in those photos. So all these bricks are below dpc.

Hi, Since we moved into our house we noticed the kitchen extension render is delaminated (80% +). Main reason seems to be because they rendered below the DPC as it’s a suspended floor with a cavity. The render below dpc was 100% delaminated to the extent I took most of it off with my bare...

Hi, Fairly quick and simple question. We are having our driveway block paved. Our driveway is round the back of the house in comparison to the road therefore all the pavers have to be taken round from the pallets next to the road to the drive area using a small dump truck. The workers started...

No previous owners had it all done. Any ideas how I would take the integrated unit out? Doesn’t seem to want to come out any further than in the last photo? Thanks

Not at all and I can confirm they are certainly a ******* to sort out :D

:cry::cry::cry: Who thought integrated LEDs was a good idea? (n) Guess I need to get looking to find one that fits