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replacing old slates with cement tiles(cost main issue) on a 19th century terrace. All roof timbers are sound, there's 4 huge purlins(3"x 9") sat in the end walls and no signs of deflection anywhere in the roof structure..... New tiles weigh a fair bit more than the old ones so want to be sure...

Trying to make sense of the lighting circuit upstairs. Bottom of the stairs there's a 3 gang 2 way switch. One of the switches turns the landing light on. Single 2 way switch on the landing, also turns the landing light on. What I don't understand is that there's only 1 single core...

Got a bunch cracks in the ceilings upstairs in our 1960's house, been there years but we're decorating now. The ceiling joists are 18" apart, plasterboard has been nailed up, doesn't feel very secure. But the the thing that's the biggest issue is that in many rooms there's no support for the...

I have a combi boiler, therefore does it matter whether I use 15 or 22mm pipe up to the hot bath tap? would be a lot easier to run 15mm hence my question

Gonna use low voltage and trannies. Sick of GU10's blowing all the time.

It's hard for me to move the cables. Getting in the loft is no easy task. Regarding crimping. I'm no expert, is it possible to crimp 3 wires into 1 crimp butt terminal?

One of the lights is in Zone 2, the rest are zone 3

I've never been a fan of crimp connections. Perhaps I just can't do them properly but they never feel 'solid' enough to me, always a little wiggle. Never heard of push type connections

I'm renovating a bathroom in an old house. It currently has a single light/ceiling rose. The ceiling is in a bad way so we've created a suspended ceiling (ie, lowered it a little bit by creating a timber frame to be plasterboarded). I want to install 4 downlights. The easiest thing would be...

I recently discovered our bath/shower has been tiles directly onto plasterboard with no tanking solution. Is there something I can rub over that will soak into the grout to make it (more)waterproof? ...and how long before the plasterboard turns to mush?

I'm installing a new bathroom in our house. Took out the old basin/toilet/bath this morning and rather shocked at the amount of grey stinky gunk that is all the way through the basin 40mm waste pipe. The while pipe has 1cm of the smelliest gunge I've ever encountered. Before I connect up any new...