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My ensuite bathroom has a very elderly 8.5kW shower that I want to replace. Flow rate is generally poor despite excellent water pressure to the house, temperature adjustment is usually either "too cold" or "too hot" and if water is drawn anywhere else in the house (e.g. flushing a toilet) when...

I have a standard lamp consisting of a wooden pole and a plastic lampholder at the top. The on-off switch has jammed (thankfully in the "on" position) so the only way I can turn the lamp off is by turning off at the wall switch which is a bit of a faff. I removed the lampshade and bulb to see...

Thanks for suggestions - with Notch7's idea how would I release the post (ie access the tightening screw) if the top of the boot is flush with the ground? Alternatively if I go for a bolt down shoe what sort of bolts would I need to attach the post to the concrete with to ensure that I could on...

I'm installing a new garden fence for the back garden. There's an alley between the house and neighbour's house followed by a short stretch of fence about 1.2m long between posts B and C (post C attaches to the back wall of the house) then a 90cm wide gate from post B to post A and thereafter...

Main point of having a working fan is mainly to satisfy the building inspector who is bound to test it when they visit to sign some other work off - you would not believe how nitpicky they have been over every nail and screw used in my house since I started the building works. Granted however...

Thanks - so is there really no extractor fan on the market that's suitable for a utility room? Criteria seem simple enough: adequate air changes and stays on until dryer finishes. My electrician thought he was covering the latter by getting a pullcord on that would turn itself off when humidity...

In our utility room there is a sink, central heating boiler, washing machine and tumble dryer. The room is about 7.5 cubic metres and has no opening window so to meet building regs needed an extractor fan. When we had the kitchen redone end of last year the sparky fitted a quite expensive (£100...

Thanks Sparkwright that's exactly it. Repro swirch plate mounted onto a slimline wooden box that looks a bit like a very basic picture frame so the switch plate is about an inch off the wall. The wooden frame contains a metal box which is what the gubbins behind the switch face that would...

Thanks but chasing flush into wall isn't an option here. We have wooden antique style switches throughout the house that are mounted on pattresses so it would wreck consistency with other rooms. Besides I like the surface mounted boxes and paid good money for them as they are very stylish not...

Hi not sure if this is an electrical question or a decorating question. We are in the process of decorating and trying to recreate an "arts and crafts" style room with fabric pasted onto the wall (specifically hessian or burlap, rather than wallpaper). All the sockets and light switches in the...

Not guilty....I guess chandeliers must be very popular with forum members' wives these days.

Well, I wasn't including the cost of the terminal blocks as I don't know what to order hence the question... Eight lampholders at £3.50 each = £28, eight Mason jars for £16, a couple of metres of flex, upcycle an old wooden wheel - perhaps starting at a tenner. My point was not, what's the...

My wife has decided we need a Kilner jar chandelier in our kitchen, something along the lines of this: However, as we're looking at close to £1000 for a specialist company to put together an old cartwheel, eight earthed and hooked lampholders, a bit of chain, some old jam jars and some heat...

Thanks, sounds like prior notification is the only route available in that case. The local council's planning department website has a guide to building extensions, but the only mention of bay windows is that new bay windows should have the same general shape and appearance as original bays on...

Thanks - however, my concern is on page 22 of the planning portal technical guidance 2014, since the side extension shown is not permitted being 3m away from wall B...

Hi, we live in an Edwardian terraced house. The dining room is dark and gloomy and has quite a small window which is an ugly modern replacement, though the original opening was the same size. A few doors down from us some of our neighbours have a bay window in the same place. They are otherwise...

Scenario: it's small but is the only bathroom in our otherwise large Edwardian terraced house, so we want to make something of it and keep to a reasonably Victorian or Edwardian theme. One corner of the room has an airing cupboard cut out (accessed from the landing), and this is paneled by...

Volume of spoil would presumably be around 10-15 cubic metres as we're talking digging down upto 50cm and a floor area of 25 square metres. Seems a lot and I'm guessing the quote reflects the amount of digging - can't really drive an excavator into the house! If we asked the builder to cut the...

Thanks for response. The front (living) room has a suspended timber floor (ie joists and floorboards) and having replaced a few floorboards I can say that there is dust/debris/topsoil about 50cm below the floorboards. Can't say I've noticed any external airbricks so I don't know whether the...

Our Victorian terraced house has a solid Minton tiled floor in the hallway and dining room which presumably was laid straight onto compacted earth/ash/debris. Sadly over the years it has sunk unevenly, and the deepest bits are now several centimetres lower than the surrounding parts. Having been...