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We recently moved into a house that has an electric storage heater central heating system (GEC Nightstor). The system is powered from two 63A MCBs in the consumer unit, one a dedicated off-peak circuit (Economy 7) and the other a regular circuit. Upon testing we discovered the heat storage was...

Hi all, We've just moved house and our new place has an old vented/gravity DHW system using a loft header tank + airing cupboard hot water tank with dual immersion heaters. The property is not on mains gas and is electric only. My main gripe with the system at the moment is the lack of hot...

I am a DIYer looking to add a double socket on an unfused spur. For me the nearest convenient connection point for the spur is an existing 3A fused FCU that is part of my ring main circuit. Can I spur off the supply side of this FCU?

In the past a "plumber" has run a pair of 15mm copper pipe from one side of the room to the other in the ceiling and notched every single joist on the underside to a depth of 1.5 inches. The notches are about 8 inches from the ends of the joist where they rest on an RSJ. The joists are 8x2''...

Hi guys, We own a terraced house where the staircase from the ground floor to the basement has been historically moved from the centre to the front of the house. The central wall in the basement has been knocked thru to create an open plan environment and RSJs installed. The joists of the...

Our Victorian mid terrace house is built into a hill such that the back wall of our kitchen is below ground level, sort of a "part basement" This back wall and perpendicular party walls have been previously dry lined using a "dot and dab" method of adhering plasterboard directly to the brick...

Hey guys, My garage/shed has a flat roof with a EPDM rubber membrane bonded to OSB boards. Unfortunately the dimwit who built the garage built the roof literally flat with no relief whatsoever. As a result water pools for days on the roof and runs off uncontrollably down the sides creating...

Just a quick question that I had in my mind I hope someone can answer - The regs permit the connection of one double socket to a 2.5mm ring by means of an unfused single 2.5mm cable. The maximum rating for 2.5mm t+e is 20A. However a double socket is capable of drawing 2x13A=26A if fully...

I am in the process of laying laminate floor across the whole of one floor in my house. I have lifted several floorboards in order to inspect the services before laying the laminate. I have noted that much of the lighting circuit and 2.5mm ring main is jointed by screw terminal junction boxes...

We recently moved into a 1890's Victorian terrace with a loft conversion. The loft conversion is very old since the walls and ceiling are lath and plaster. I was drilling some inspection holes through the sloped lath and plaster ceiling only to reveal that the gap between the roofing felt and...

We've recently moved into a house that has a rather old Halstead 'Finest' Gold boiler. After what our plumber told us about the boiler I suspect the 'Finest' part is a bit of an overstatement :D Anyhow, the boiler has two problems - Firstly the boiler makes a high pitch wining sound the...