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Hi. I've looked at the Wiki but can't quite get what I think I need to know. Recently had a garage extention to be used a a hobby workshop. No cars will be driven on this section. I wish to level the concrete base because it wasn't leveled good enough. Base is a concrete slab of ready mix...

Hi. I'm looking to extend my garage flat roof. It's a single garage, attached to house one side. Attached to neighbours garage the other side. The roofs arn't attached because of an 8 inch step in ground level. The current construction of the roof timbers as built in 1976 are: - a length of...

Hi, Noticed i have an intermittent problem with my boiler. It's approx a 1998 model. Firstly when it lights it struggles to keep lit, with a spark and banging noise. When i watch the pilot it stays lit for a second or two then goes out, due to the bang, (which i assume is the gas valve...

Hi, I would like to move my stop cock from one side of the kitchen to the other approx 2.5meters. For whatever reason the builders in 1976 thought it would be clever to put it in a stuipd awkward place. Currently the mdpe comes out the floor about 120mm in to a brass stop cock then to...

Hi, I've started a new thread to separate this from my previous cooker related questions. In regard to tidying the cooker ignition and the extractor can I have your opinions of these two options or other options please? Option 1 is to spur off the ring socket (1) to a switched FCU (2)...

Hi, I'm refitting/updating my kitchen cupboards like for like but the cooker control switch is located within the cupboard! It was like this when I purchased the house and has been like it since circa 1985. Please see the drawing/picture - cable is in red Question: Although I don’t...

Hi, I'm looking in to purchasing one of the above cookers and before it's too late i want to do my home work and check the suitability of the MCB and cable i have. I would appreciate a trained eye/advise please. The last thing i want is to buy one and then not be able to use it...

Hi I'm looking to install a power shower in a bathroom refit. It is a Mira Vigour Thermostatic (low pressure water supply) Question part 1: Do I require earth bonding to be added to the shower? The bathroom has not had an electric shower before. The bonding currently goes from one pipe...

Hi I have recently read up on the junction box regulations especially regulation 526.3. See http://download.hager.com/hagergroup.co.uk/files_download/Ashley_Product_Information/JunctionBoxGuide.pdf I haven't done much in my house since last year but, i now know of two areas which...

Hi all In short; I wanted to confirm that I cannot fit a relocated light switch in a stud wall with a plastic dry lining box as the switch wire wouldn't be earthed? or can you buy a metal dry line box? Full reason explained below. Thanks a lot. I recently moved a light switch...

Hi Been having trouble with my mums boiler of late, firstly it is 7 years old, nearly 8. last few weeks she has found that when you run hot water the heating would also come on (but only when the hot tap was running). So i was thinking diverter valve. We have a boiler technician in the...

Hi I'm replacing a length of 2.5 cable to a socket where it has been drilled though (previous owners i will add), is there a requirement for the wires to be twisted together when terminated? thanks.

Hi I'm due to change my cooker in the not too distant future and are looking at one of these: Baumatic BT3060SS, Dual fuel gas hob twin elec oven (i currently have all gas) I would like some opinions on the spec/rating of the circuit cable required to wire the cooker up. If you look at...

Hi I have a couple of amazing finds that i susspect some people have been lucky to live when they did them, 1) Today I have tided up my airing cupboard around the central heating wires than run up the wall. God knows how the person who put the cable clips in to the wall was so lucky - they...

Hi. I'm in the process of replacing my skirting in my house (front room) I'm putting back the style that the house was made with 70mm Chamfer and round. I have used MDF and so far have been impressed and cut it all to size on my mitre saw. Now i need to fix it to the wall. Over the...

Evening all. About a year ago when I moved in to my house I noticed the lighting wires in the loft were 1.0mm T&E which was under the insulation, although not hugely thick, two thin layers totalling about 90-100mm. I rolled back the insulation to move the wires so they run over the top. I...

Good morning. Yesterday I was asked by a friend to help him wire a few connections in his shed. To cut a long story short he has 2 single sockets wired in a ring from an RCD in the shed. He wants to come off one of these to a FCU and then wire from this with a 3amp fuse to a light via a...

What I want to confirm is that you work out Amps that a transformer uses the same as a non transformer item. My power shower runs off 220-240volts input transformer, and says it outputs 100W 19V = 5.26AMPS? The reason; I'm fitting a separate MCB in my consumer unit for my power shower...

Hi Today I have been helping my uncle strip his front room to have his plaster re skimmed, we took down the ceiling roses making note of the wires to go back later. After working on and having seen both loop-in systems and junction box systems I'm not entirely sure what he has. It's no...

Hi, im new here but i hope someone can lend some advice. I have lived in my house for 6months now and have had little trouble with the boiler. Now i keep having to press the reset button because it keeps tripping out on what i assume is overheat. It keeps doing this randomly, may last a...