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Thanks Lucid. Will get a roll of it, would never mess with short cut lengths, running 200m of Ethernet at the moment! My original plan was just hook up what we need and then if we ever reconfig. house we can switch things around, it's 3000 sq ft of living space. In our old place, I have it...

Just in the process of a large renovation and doing a lot ourselves, including a full rewire. I'm planning on running coax from the main aerial to an upstairs cupboard and then distributing it out to the various upstairs and downstairs rooms that need it (will probably put an aerial point in...

Well you'd be surprised and it soon adds up, basic online dealers 150mm celotex £42 100mm celotex £35 All "free" next day delivery too. But you can negotiate better prices for high quantities I've found. It's 150 jablite which is as rare as hens teeth by discounters unless you buy...

I can't seem to find any good online prices for 150mm Jablite the 100eps version. Need about 70 sq meters. it'll be covered by a membrane then 50mm of Gvylon screed. Any recommendations for suppliers? Would rather sheets of 150mm rather than laying 100mm and then 50mm on top (can find...

OK, so would 8 zones be ok if we stick to PIRs for all coverage and entrance/exits and don't have door switches except for the garage door (would you say PIR coverage if enough without door switch coverage in a larger home?) Two rooms with have large Express bi-folding aluminium doors as seen...

Want to install an alarm system in a mostly new build project we are doing ourselves. The one we have a present in a different smaller property is a 6 zone PIR type (no door/magnet switches), so entrance/exit determined by PIRs in hall and kitchen. The panel (I think) is a Guardtec with...

Thanks for everyone's input. I understand the wariness. All done with me working with the sparky, saving a lot of time and money, all signed off and all extremely well done according to spark - but I am extremely careful and diligent. Next up house alarms, new thread I think!

We are completely gutting and refitting an old property, all electrics have been ripped out as were completely suspect. We want to do the first to second fix of electrics ourselves (running cables etc), then let our electrician do second to final fix, testing and connections. Upstairs is 4...

We are replumbing an entire house, rads, hot water etc, due to a major renovation. (ripping out all the existing old system, copper, rads etc) Builder suggests using poly-pipe rather than copper for all the CH, with final copper ends up to the new (as yet un-chosen) rads. Is this the...

Looks like we are getting around 24 l/min from the main tap, which is through a very knackered old looking water meter under the sink. Will try with a couple on the go next.

Terrific thanks everyone - sage advice from those in the know! Just as I thought combi isn't the way to go. He will be the main contractor for the build and has his own plumber and sparky, but we are keen to talk to our plumber, one of many years experience and one who suggested unvented in the...

We are just starting a large renovation and extension project on our 4 bed house: 2 bathrooms, 1 downstairs WC. Extending the kitchen/diner (to 5x6m), living (to 5x6m) and adding a utility (there are also 2 more reception rooms downstairs) Water is currently a vented system, HW cylinder...

Sadly it's just a skim of plain old plaster (although 20mm deep) over v crumbly concrete block, not plasterboard... I'd have been happy with plasterboard finding a couple of joists and hanging a batten from them! Going to try and set some bolts into the holes with some Fischer polyester...

Thanks foxhole, so for the current one I've drilled, I'm now thinking of going all the way through the brick and using some sort of expanding bolt anchor, any thoughts / opinions?

I'm having a problem, fixing a batten a wall to then hang some heavy wall cupboards. I tested a section of the wall which will be hidden, and it's approx 20mm of plaster over aerated concrete block (possible aircrete?). It's a 90s house, there is obviously a cavity and normal brick past the...

Thanks seco services, think you might be right about it coming from the cartridge itself...I've had another thorough look this morning and put silicon grease between the gasket and the cartridge and replaced two of the rusted screws just to make sure it's a true water tight seal... It doesn't...

Our Aqualisa Aquastream (97-03 model) pictured here: http://www.aqualisa.co.uk/parts-store/Controls/Aquastream-thermostatic-and-manual-integral-power-shower/ has a constant leak from the gasket (between the cartridge and main unit), dripping slowly into the casing. It's happened on and off...

Same thing happened to us recently, we thought it was the pump, turned out to be a solid blockage in the feed pipe from the expansion tank in the loft, virtually no water was getting in/around, so the boiler temp was reached in seconds and nothing ever got hot. Plumber found blockage using a...

Thank you all so much for your replies - much appreciated Checked everything twice, MCB is correct rating cable is, so the order has been placed. :)

Thank-you so much OwainDIYer v helpful. I did think the likelihood of everything being powered at once remote, but I don't want a wall cable overheating and causing a fire. It's on a modern circuit breaker in a modern fuse box, but only the downstairs socket circuit is RCD protected with a...