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Due to the fact that the existing kitchen floor had sunk by approx 2in in the center [of a not very big room] and had large cracks in it I have ripped up the old concrete floor [which turned out to be not much more than 2-3in thick with big air gaps underneath where the floor had settled away...

hmm, I rewired the entire house last year [June 2004] except the kitchen and have spent the last year renovating the house. I intended to get a sparky round to check it out at the end of this year once the kitchen was complete but now with part P i'm not sure what to do! As I did the rest of the...

Oh well, good job I asked then. Its a bit of a pain as now I have to have two more switches in the hallway which I was hoping to hide in the cupboard.

Please can we have a new forum where all the 'i've just bought a new carpet and puked all over it, how do I get the stain out' type queries can go. I find them slightly annoying as they are not DIY questions and are generally of no use to most people (until they happen to spill some sherry on...

What do you mean by plasterboard wall? Is it a partition wall - a timber frame with plasterbaord nailed to each side. Or is there a solid brick/breeze block wall behind the plasterboard but a gap beteen them due to the plasterboard being attatched via wooden battens or thick dobs of plasterboard...

I've installed a security light and mains powered doorbell. Both of these items are obviously near the front door and the cables fall quite conveniently near the gas meter cupboard where I also have access to the downstairs main ring. I intend to connect the light and doorbell to the ring via...

When quoting cable sizes does it matter if a cable is single core [one thick piece of copper] or stranded [multiple smaller strands]. Eg, i've added an electric towel rad to the bathroom and obviously need to bond it to the metal pipework in the bathroom. I have a reel of 10mm multi-strand [7...

i've done all my rings in 2.5mm cable as well. Not in steel conduit though, just buried in the plaster where nessicary [ie from the floor up to the socket and back again, and in the corner of the room to get the cables between floors] otherwise they are under the floorboards, would this fail too?

So my question would be can I simply (!) bury the cables in the concrete floor? If so how deep do I have to take them and what protection do I have to give them? Once they are buried how are they supposed to stick out of the floor? Is it sufficient to just have each cable just sticking out of...

OK, some time ago I rewired my house, with a sparky installing a new CU on the wall of my understairs cupboard and myself then putting in the new rings and lighting circuits by myself. All of the cables reached the understairs cupboard via the void under the wooden hallway floor. Unfortuntately...

Is there a limit to the number of extension sockets that you can run from the master socket [Telewest]? If you wish to have more extenions than the limit allows how can you get around the limit [if it is possible?]. I currently have a master socket downstairs and three extension sockets...

I really dont like the look of the cable box sat on the shelf under my TV and HiFi. The TV and HiFi are both a matching silver colour, whereas the Telewest box is an ugly black thing. What I would like to do is hide the telewest box somewhere else and run a long SCART or SVideo cable back to...

As is usually the case it was worse than I initially suspected! I have now removed all of the floorboards downstairs, which was a bugger of a job. I tried to remove them whole without damaging them so that I would have the option of relaying them in the hallway and dining room rather than...

pna, I dont intend to change anything, I just wanted to check whether I should change things as at the moment I have [relatively] easy access to most of the cables whilst renovating. I just didnt want to be told by a sparky in 6 months time that I need to replace the 1mm cable when I get the...

the cable for my lighting circuits is 1mm at the consumer unit, however at some point upstairs it turns into 1.5mm cable... is it nessisary to replace the 1mm cable [i really hope not!!]. As doing both lighting circuits in 1mm cable [its only a small house, 4 rooms on each floor] should be...

Could be this stuff. I used it to fix all my internal door frames, worked a charm. I used it with frame fixers for the first few doorways as I couldn't quite trust it, but soon learnt that the fixers weren't required.

I have noticed several of my floor joists are infested with some form of wood boring insect, fortunately I was already planning on replacing a number of the joists due to wet rot [lucky me]. Obviously I will treat the new joists and the remaining original joists against wood boring insects -...

The Sparky disconnected the old fusebox from the mains, then connected a new CU alongside and connected up one of the downstairs rings. I then removed the old fusebox and reconnected the remaining rings. This was before the new regs if they make any difference....

I'm in the process of replastering a number of walls in my house. I have no problems with the existing electrics and intended to simply put new board up over the existing wires and skim it as it was previously. I have checked in my DIY book and it states that electric cables need no further...

I live in Birmingham and I paid £150 for a new 12 way split load CU supplied and fitted, I'm in a diffeent house now so cant remeber the exact specs but it had 6 MCB's on one side and a further 6 on the other side protected by an RCD. The sparky that fitted it offered me a choice of whetever...