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I had the kitchen lights swapped from strip lighting to recessed ceiling lights (240V but with LED bulbs, no change to circuit) in 2006. I had the old cable running along the garden fence replaced by a new and more outdoor-proof cable at the end of 2013. Both were done by the same, fully...

I'm in the process of selling my house. A couple of years ago I had an electrician (properly registered) come to change the kitchen ceiling light (from fluoresent tubes to recessed) and he also replaced the outdoor cable supplying the garden shed as the original one wasn't suitable for outdoor...

Advice urgently sought for rectifying a pine floorboard sanding disaster! The plan was to rip up all the motheaten carpets of our Victorian house and sand stain and varnish the pine wooden floorboards. We booked a company in to do this, and so far one or two rooms are already finished with...

I asked a similar question here a few weeks ago and someone kindly pointed me to a company that makes switches which have a pizoelectric(?) device in the switch so the act of flicking the switch generates a tiny amount of electricity that powers a wireless signal that triggers a wireless switch...

Thanks for replies so far. I'm rather annoyed to say the least - I have three light fittings now hung but not operational and I will have to pay, whether someone to take them down and post them back and try to get a refund, or whether to ask someone to rewire them with an earth. No indication...

Several different light fittings but all fairly similar, like this one: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41d3R67%2BcZL.jpg ie metal frame, three or five arms with bulbs on the end. The cable going out from fitting which needs to be connected to the existing wires in the ceiling...

OK so I'm hoping to fit new ceiling pendant lights in several of my rooms and I order some lovely fittings from Amazon UK and one or two other UK-based online electrical suppliers. Sparky comes around and hanges them but refuses to connect them because the chandeliers are metal and their...

Thanks for advice. Plan is only to remove chminey breast from downstairs room at the moment - time is short, upstairs room recently decorated to our taste, upstairs chimmney breast is against party wall so issues there and upstairs chimney breast doesn't sit on top of downstairs chimney so...

Hi, I'm in the process of buying a Victorian terraced house and the chimney breast of one of the downstairs rooms sticks out quite a lot into the room so it would make sense to remove it to regain some floor space. There is no fireplace as it was bricked up many years ago (and the surveyor said...

Owain and Davelx: Thanks so much - that's exactly the sort of thing I was looking for and didn't know if it existed. A transmitter, receiver and wooden pattress for each room of the house isn't going to be as cheap as a B&Q wired wall switch - but it's going to be a lot cheaper and far less...

Thanks all - clearly until I have the house electrically tested I can't know how good the lighting circuits are, other than that they look similar to how they looked in my current house and replacing them (and all the plaster too) was a nightmare. In a way I'm less bothered about the ring mains...

Thanks Flameport - that's very helpful. Do you have any links to battery operated wall light switches? I've not been able to find anything with Google that simply allows a box on the wall to control a light in the ceiling of the same room wirelessly (but plenty of wireless gizmos that let me...

When I bought my first house (Victorian) I had it completely rewired, then redecorated each room. As all lighting wiring had to be put in chased conduits I had no option but to remove the wallpaper from each room afterwards - and in most cases found most of the plaster came off too, resulting in...

When I bought my late Victorian terraced house the building inspection pointed out the floor in one of the bedrooms (approx 14 foot square) was sagging a bit but didn't advise there was any problem. I recently measured it (taut string from corner to diagonally opposite corner) as being...

OK so the inspector got back to say that they could issue a "no action" letter, whatever that means, but that the major work including smoke alarms in every room still stands if I want to "regularise". They said if I just went for the letter I wouldn't then have to worry until I came to sell the...

Whose advice? I got the building regs inspector out to look at the room and asked him to tell me what if anything else needed doing for it to be signed off as a bedroom, given that, with a recent leak in the roof that needs fixing, I'm about to get the builders in to fix the leak and I...

Thanks for replies. Some further questions based on "regularisation": 1. What happsn if it didn't actually meet requirements 15 years ago as a habitable room. Recall that I said it was intended to be turned into a bathroom, not a bedroom, but the previous occupants never got as far as kitting...

I have lived in my three storey 100 year old terraced house for the past decade. It has two bedrooms on the middle floor and originally had one (front) bedroom on the top floor, with a staircase between middle and top floors in the centre of the house and a dead space under the attic at the back...