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'Metallic conduit is mechanical protection, if you understood my post then you would there is not requirement to bury this 50mm. There are also building regs that refer to the maximum depths of chases (part A). You cannot just rip a chase in the wall, you have keep the structure safe. But if...

Hi again. There is one socket the other side of the door, but that would be even harder to connect to (it'd be a very long spur run up and over the door and ruin the plastering. Ceiling isn't an option as it's been redone and coved. The galvanised conduit seems like a good idea, but 50mm seems a...

Quick question on wiring. Is it allowed to run a cable as shown by the red line? Ring main is in pink - the idea is to get a socket outlet on the other side of the room as there aren't any in that bit, and it'd be a lot easier than going all the way around the wall (I'm not sure how safe that...

Hi. I've just finished gluing down a reclaimed teak parquet floor and need to decide which circular saw blade to use to chop round the edge for the border. Thing is because it's parquet the cuts are all angled (neither cross cut nor rip)....so what do I use? The cheapy blades I tried (a 24 tooth...

Just redone all my windows recently (triple glazed, though the bathroom is the only double glazed one due to the window fan) so not too keen on undoing that....I did get an idea yesterday from my neighbour to hide the toilet cistern and associated soil pipe by building a fake wall and using a...

Building a partition would also block off natural light to one corner of the room

Regarding the soil pipe, yes that's what I mean. It comes down through the roof from the bathroom of the flat above, and a small horizontal section goes off to my toilet. "Why not build a partition between the basin and bath and have your shower/taps at that end, surely that solves...

Hi. I don't think I described it too well so hopefully this will help. As you can see there's a gap of around 6 inches or so between one end of the bath and the external wall with the window in it. Not shown on here is a large soil pipe that runs the whole height of the wall in this corner...

Hi. Has anyone used those folding shower over bath screens? The ones that fold say 4 or 7 times that fold up to one end of the bath when not in use. I would like to use one over my bath, but the issue is the end of the bath isn't up against a wall to fix to. Could I use some kind of clear...

I have a small brick step 1 coarse high built internally next to my back door that I've made out of engineering bricks. I'd like to tile it to finish it, but need to prepare a flat and level top to it first and I'm not sure if it's possible to tile directly onto the side of an engineering brick...

Hi. Is anyone able to recommend a good closed cell, high R-value expanding foam for sealing gaps around window frames (I'm in the UK)? I've googled a fair bit but trying to find actual data on the type of foam/R-values is like trying to draw blood from a stone... Thanks, Tom[/u]

Hi. I have chases in my concrete floor that go down to the damp proof membrane (about 70mm deep) and are about 60mm wide. My plastic radiator pipes are run in these inside slightly larger diameter corrugated pipe, such that the flow and return together take up most of the width of the chase...

I was wondering if it possible to run ordinary convector radiators at a low flow temperature (say 40) simply by oversizing them as necessary to get the right output? Does there come a point at which the difference between the room and the average radiator temperature gets too small for it to...