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So far you guys have been an invaluable help to me, and I'm hoping this will long continue. Here's another one for you.... :) I plan to fit an electric towel radiator in my bathroom but I am a little unsure about the allowed positioning and the zones. Does the entire towel rad have to be...

I'm looking to upgrade my hot water system to provide mains pressure hot water. I want to be able to provide hot water at good pressure for the bathroom (incl. drench shower) with sufficient capacity to enable me to add an additional shower in the future. I have been looking at installing an...

Thanks Brown. That was the type of setup I was thinking of. I'll give it some thought and see how we go. Anyone know if this would be legal? What kind of regs are there for this type of thing?

thanks for that big-all but i'm looking for something less decorative to simply blend into the wall rather than making a feature of it, and so far my searches have found nothing.

I am thinking of installing electric underfloor heating (tile warming only) in my bathroom and was wondering whether there was any way that I could use the light switch to turn on the floor heating as well. Before you all jump on me, I understand that the heating will require a dedicated and...

I've got an ugly square sided opening between my lounge and dining room which I would like to 'soften up' a bit by adding curved corners to form a kind of archway. Originally I had planned to increase the height of this as it is only about 6' but my investigation has revealed a bl**dy great...

I am in the process of fitting a new bathroom and part of this is installing a new shower. The shower will have a high flow rate (either from sealed cylinder or pumped) and will be installed in an alcove built to suit. I am considering the idea of waterproofing and tiling the shower floor...

Many thanks guys. Your explanations make sense to me. I'll try again tomorrow and hopefully get it right this time!

Thanks for the info about the fuse Plugwash. Sorry if I'm being a complete dunce here, but can you lead me through this a bit more...? My light fitting has live, neutral and earth connections. My lighting circuit has red, black and earth wires. What am I supposed to connect where? Sorry...

I have just fitted a new strip light in my loft, but when I tried it out it blew the upstairs lighting circuit fuse. My installation is as follows: I fitted a new 20A junction box on the lighting circuit (the cable running between two upstairs light fixtures) and linked that to my new light. I...

Thanks big-all. Those cranked hinges look promising, I might be able to modify them to suit. I'll let you know how I get on this weekend...

I was wondering whether I could fix a batten to the inside face of the board adjacent to the hinge edge and then fix the hinges onto that end face. Would that work? Problem might be with the location of the join between board and batten in relation to the hinge fixings...? Hmmm...

Here's one for you... :wink: I'm making a new loft hatch which will have a downward hinging door. The opening has been faced with timber and I want the door to be slightly recessed (i.e. above ceiling level) into this opening. What I am trying to figure out is how do I hinge the door such...

I have no idea why the cold water cistern was not placed in the loft as I have only just moved in. The loft access was tiny, but I have opened up a new access hatch now. Plenty of space for a tank of any size. The cold cistern is separate from the cylinder. It is a small galvanised tank (maybe...

I'm planning to refit my bathroom, including a nice powerful new shower. I currently have an puny electric thing! Problem is that my cold water tank is very small (fitting in the airing cupboard above the cylinder) and so this does not allow me many other shower options. Can anyone give me an...

Why would an integral power shower be easier to replace when it gets 'knacked'? If you're talking about getting scaled up surely a cheaper mixer shower unit (with a more expensive unvented cylinder) would be cheaper to replace? I'd like to go for the 'designer look' so I'd like to avoid having...

Here's another one for you... I'm planning to refit my downstairs bathroom and want to install a shower cubicle with a nice powerful new shower. I will only have the one shower to start with but I may want to add a second shower upstairs in the future. Question is what type should I...

Thanks Chris and nstreet. Talking of TRVs, I have them on all my rads at the moment. Based on what I have heard here, I asked my plumber if I fitted a room stat should I remove the one in that room. He said that was not necessary as long as I open it right up. Is this correct? Is there any...

How do these RF room stats link in to the system? Does it matter what programmer is already in place? These programmable thermostats and especially this 'optimum start' feature sound very clever and suggest that you can make substantial savings on heating bills as well as improved reliability...

Based on all the good advice I've read on this forum I'm thinking of fitting a room thermostat into my system, which it currently does not have. I have an vented pumped system feeding 7 rads (all with TRVs) with a Drayton LP241 programmer (24hr, 2 programme) running the show. I do not...