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There's a big difference between basic but well finished, done on a budget; and your suggestion of just having two bits of worktop at different levels...

I bought a Bosch multi tool in order to neatly cut out one piece of skirting. Since then I've used it hundreds of times and I wouldn't be without it - worth every penny!

Due to removal of the worktop over the sink now being tricky because of nine pipes going through it to and from the boiler, I'd rather avoid replacement of the existing if possible. And I'm not sure if you can fit cheap (presumably laminate) worktop around a Belfast sink due to the issues of...

Apparently renters are a bit more discerning these days than I am myself unfortunately! And the better it is in terms of finish, the higher you can charge (within what's reasonable for the market of course). I did consider another piece of hardwood worktop of a similar light colour but it's...

At least you won't have to worry about the extra weight of half a tonne or so of water then!

Is there a tank in the airing cupboard and does it have its own supporting structure, or is it also putting a load onto the same joists?

Thanks. Having had a read and checked on the legalities, it would seem that the minimum requirement would be one detector on the landing, of ionisation type, and one detector in the lounge, which could be an ionising version but might be best as optical given the risk of smouldering electrical...

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I'm doing up the kitchen in a house that I will be renting out in the future. There are some solid, hand built units which are freestanding, only the sink unit is to any extent fixed. The unit to the left of the cooker will be moved to another wall, and I want to replace it with fixed worktop...

I want to replace a single smoke detector in a house which is currently being done up to be let out as a single residence. I'd like to have at least two mains detectors with battery backup, some of the floors are up but not all and so placement is slightly restricted unless conduit is used or...

What's the earthing arrangement going to be?

What on earth does he expect to achieve by taking you to court? No damage has been caused and no loss incurred.

This is true and a very fair point, but in this case it would not be financially viable to do so in this way. It would almost never make sense in the context of larger works to do part of it yourself and then get it separately notified

What galls me somewhat is that this is (presumably) notifiable work, but the person who is apparently legally able to do this work is likely to do a less satisfactory job than I would do myself...

Yep. Not a lot to do fortunately, just the hard wired room stat and the mains feed to the combi, this will be taken from the old and defunct immersion heater cabling as it's the closest power to where the boiler will be sited. Unfortunately that will involve extending this cable, and I'm not...

Was walking plumber/heating engineer round on first day of new boiler installation. I said "I'm going to be changing that cable there, it's been wired to that socket in 1.5mm off the ring and the ring has been connected back up between two junction boxes in 1.5mm. And as you know JBs aren't...

I'm going to have a guess, is Bexit when Victoria finally leaves David?

And very quietly.

Looks like a loop-in arrangement at the switch rather than at the fitting? One cable will be the incoming power from the consumer unit, one cable will be power going out to another fitting. The third will be the switched live going to this fitting. Unfortunately the original photos don't look...

However cable shears would go through those without too much trouble.