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Hi Currently building a summer house and stuck on roof choice and design. Overall size is 5m x 2.2m and is currently sitting at a approx 2m height, due to planning I can only go up another 0.5m. I'd much prefer to do a open gable style roof than a flat roof but unsure if I have enough pitch...

Hi everyone I’m asking this question not for a diy but more for to find out how much mess it’s gonna be... So basically what we want doing is two rooms one switch either side of what will be now one big room, wall that separates both rooms will be removed which includes a switch for each...

I'm not too sure if I'm honest but I guess to do it to be safe ?

Hey everyone Hopefully someone can help me out with my sub flooring concerns. I have brought 3000 parquet blocks and painfull attempted to remove the bitumen off them last week! After 3 days and some 250 blocks down my fingers felt like they had fallen off so I gave up! I'm now into the...

Hi everyone Need a bit of advise I'm looking at putting multi coloured led lighting up for my autistic son I'm sure most have seen the light it's on a reel and is mains powered my problem is my power source is from a light ceiling rose. Now I know it's a big no no to wire a plug socket to a...

Hi everyone Have just removed a double pvc door into my conservatory ( yes I know i should have one but the conservatory roof is being turned into a solid one so no cold ) My question is where the door is used to be a bay window and previous owner removed it put in a double pvc door now I have...

I haven't even looked at light yet can anyone recommend a light? Above the utility is a loft area feeding wires down the walls isn't too hard so i can get wires anywhere I want really Cheers

Oh lol it's late obviously

Hi everyone Just fitted out the utility and while the walls still need painting thought I'd try and wire in under counter lights. But sadly the wiring has confused me (Yes I should get a electrician in but I have wired in lights sockets before just never done something like this, I think I...

Right I have been into the loft and running another ceiling pull cord seems extremely easy to do plenty of access down the wall so I plan to do that. What size wire do I need and does it need earth as the light fixing don't have a earth fitting? and a 1 gang pull cord?

Right I've been having a good old think and see picture If I could use that pull switch from old light I could mod a pull cord into the light itself. But I'm unsure where to wire it within the light? Would you wire it after the transformer see second picture? Fitting the pull cord part seems...

I have thought about this and spoke to the wife about it... She said she would prefer the light to be able to come on without the main light coming on....something to do with makeup....! Crazy I know but what the wife wants the wife get lol Would the idea of a mini pull cord on the shelf not work?

Hi I don't know where the wires go to this it is part of the upstairs lighting as it turns off with the rest of the light upstairs at the fuse box, the pull cord controls only the ceiling light not the wall one. The choc block was on the existing light I have just removed it so I can isolate...

My en suite had a pull cord, ceiling light and a wall light that seemed from the 70's even though the house was only built 16 years ago sadly the wall light didn't work.. didn't have a pull string on it so thought it must run off the pull cord in the ceiling... on closer inspection the cord from...

hi everyone I have mounted my bedroom tv in its desired location but I don't have a socket anywhere near the location. The only thing I have is behind the wall is the airing cupboard and things that control the hot water tank see picture. Can I take from these at all?

Hi everyone I'm looking to have a booster pump install into my house as the 2 showers my current system run are just not good enough. I have a baxi solo boiler (not combo) and a gravity feed system, my header tank is in the loft it's a big tank and it feeds into the hot water tank in a...

Forgot to mention that each side of the f/f has a door opening. The only other way I can see is going from the bathroom but I still have to run around a 1.5m ceiling to get to the wall behind the f/f and I'm unsure of which way the joists run?

Hi guys/girls I'm looking to fit my freezer this weekend but not really sure my best method to fit it. Here is the layout the water supply is in the cupboard next to the dish washer and the freezer is around 1.5m away in a straight line. Ignore the mess I have only moved in 3 days ago above...