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Yeah, and pray tell me what you are going to do with 10Gb to the desktop? I can tell you know from the experience at work, getting servers to actually max out 10Gb Ethernet is far from simple. The only thing we could think of was streaming a 4K TV picture uncompressed, and that would be a pretty...

Even if it is not damaged at the start it is not hard to arrange for it to be damaged. I drilled through both cables coming into the socket, then before you know it in replacing both lengths you did further damage. Does sort of make a nonsense of it but the rules is the rules.

Quite a few of the interlinked type are not suitable to be powered from a lighting circuit if it has florescent lights on the circuit. Given that all the energy efficient ones are are basically florescent lights that is separate circuit. Suggestion is to use a door bell circuit. Building...

They used to exist as I have a couple of "precious" ones complete with sheaving on the live/neutral pins that are around 16mm deep. Awful colours, yellow and red but as they live in places you cannot see it is not a problem. I would dearly love to be able to purchase more, but these are ~20...

Been redoing the waste in my kitchen as part of a refurbishment and have just realized that the condensate from the boiler (Worcester Bosh Greenstar 28i Junior) currently drains directly into the kitchen waste downstream of the sink trap without any trap of it's own. Is this correct or should...

Given the room has no opening window, it is a requirement that the fan comes on with the light for building regulations.

Doing my kitchen up, and got to the point where I needed to replace the waste pipe. At some point in the past (I am guessing 1990 from the newspaper used to pad the wall before cermet was stuffed over it), the cast iron bend coming through the wall was replaced with plastic that was not UV...

Hum, those electrics are dodgy. You are not supposed to run the cable behind the skirting as it is not a "safe zone", unless you cover it with a grounded metal protection. You might want to ask in the electrics forum.

Yes, and I presume it passed. It is going to be behind a kitchen unit corner cupboard (it's right in the corner), so to get at it you would need to remove the sink, worktop and other cupboards. I would say it will be pretty inaccessible once the kitchen is done. I would say underfloor...

Grr, what is annoying is that I questioned him before he cut the pipe as I could see he had only the tools to cap it with a compression fitting, on specifically this point. He is Gas Safe approved, so should I complain or would I be wasting my time? Is there a link somewhere with the...

I had the gas for the cooker in my kitchen disconnected and capped this morning. Now I thought that as the pipe was capped 10cm from the tee of the gas pipe as it passes through to the lounge and the gas fire as is going to be stuck permanently behind a cupboard and inaccessible it should be...

Actually if you have the tools running the skirting board through the router table is way quicker than doing 45 or 30 degree cuts. What I found as a DIY'er was that I could do a better job if I applied skirting as a single length. Therefore I started gluing the lengths together with a 45 degree...

If you want to stop the drafts, which is a good idea, then simply fitting the skirting close to the floor won't do the trick. Personally I would and do fill the gap properly then fit the skirting. I always leave a ~6mm gap so the carpet can be tucked under, but I do fill all the gaps...

Because I want a good fix that is not going to move ever. I would note that I have skirting that I glued on with just No More Nails in 1997 that is still going strong and shows now sign of cracking, unlike all the other skirting in my mothers house which does. Consequently I would never call it...

Not in my house, the skirting is most definitely attached to the battens as well as the plugs. However the point I was making is that when you take the skirting off at least some of the battens and the plugs become loose at which point some other fixing method is warranted. I personally feel...

Any hole above normal skirting level should be filled in with cement or if it is really large concrete and then plastered over. After that I would recommend getting a bag of hardwall or browning plaster and just filling it in all around the room down to floorboard level. Will go a long way to...

They are £6.50 at Screwfix. Checking in my copy of the WRAS water regulation guide and the answer is no. In fact they are not needed on taps inside the house either, as G11.1 only mentions appliances. That said anyone not putting an isolation value on a standard outside tap needs their...

Yep that is how it works. The bit where the water is turned off resides inside the house so is unlikely to freeze. It is installed at slight downward angle so when you turn it off the water drains out the tap leaving nothing exposed to the cold to freeze. That of course assumes you don't leave a...

What if there was no work done other than pressurizing it with air above atmospheric and locating the leak? You could then get in a gas safe person and say look leak here please fix.

I would point put that as it reads what you suggest is impossible. Basically you cannot protect the incoming mains, the incoming telephone and any aerial lead with the same device. You will need a separate device with different characteristics for each. However they must all share the same...