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You mean something like this? http://comptools.co.uk/store/hafele-shelf-support-plug-for-216-hole-150-load-p-1112.html I just used some to fix an issue with a B&Q wine rack in my kitchen. Basically the shelves tend to come out with the bottles of wine. Replaced the supports with these...

Have you considered using concrete screws? That way you don't have to worry about getting everything perfect in advance, and due to their "no expansion" effect you can put them in close to the edge without worry. Basically you drill a hole of the correct diameter, make sure it is clean of debris...

You don't think the brick wall does that cold bridging for you? For the avoidance of any doubt that is a rhetorical question because it does. It's pretty basic thermodynamics really. My understanding is that the gap exists because there is usually a wooden strip called the "ground" that is...

You don't say what your hall floor covering is. If it is just the original bare floorboards then that is your problem right there. My mother is constantly amazed at these retro trends that were abandoned for something more practical as increasing wealth and technology allowed. If you have...

You probably have a suspended timber floor. You could try insulating that, it will help. Also check for air tightness especially around the skirting boards. If it is bad which it almost certainly is pull them off, seal with silicone and replace (probably easier to bin and ditch the lead paint...

Note that the IEEE is an USA based organization, and therefore it's definitions are not necessarily applicable in the United Kingdom which has it own organization the IET, formed from the merger of the IEE and IIE, and has a history that predates the IEEE. Remember this is U.K. based website...

I come across a fair few where you have to remove plugs, and feed through things so I see this a no worse and in reality a lot easier. It's a 12mm internal diameter smooth bore flexible conduit which will be just over a metre in length. The flex will push down it as easy as pie. I can't see that...

What difference does it make if you disconnect it from a switched spur and pull it out the cable out the conduit, or remove a connection plate from behind the chimney covering to disconnect it? I never bury a cable in the wall unless it is in conduit of some description. One could then get...

Is there a definition of what an accessory is? I can't see one but I only have a copy of the 16th edition. However playing devils advocate would one consider a wall mounted light fitting such as an uplighter or spotlight an accessory? Given that all such lighting as this that I have ever...

That would then be visible, with cable dangling between the flex outlet plate and the hood. I am thinking of a chimney hood, something like this http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/hotpoint-he6tix-chimney-hood-stainless-steel-11418696-pdt.html rather than the more traditional integrated hood...

I don't intend removing the pipe, as it goes next door and that opens a whole can of worms. All I wish to do is remove the hex nipple, 90 degree bend and service valve and then cap again with an appropriate plug.

It is definitely dead, had that confirmed when the new boiler was installed four years ago. Me removing the cap and opening the valve was curiosity more than anything else, though I note the cap was only finger tight! However none of the RGI's that I have had out for work over the years have...

Does a fixed appliance in this case a chimney extractor hood create a safe zone? What I propose to do is run a length of flexible conduit vertically up from a back box which is located to the side of the hob position to level where it will need to emerge from the wall for the hood doing the...

In the corner of my kitchen I have an old disused gas pipe. I am presuming that it is malleable iron. It comes up from the floor, and then just below the ceiling there is a tee piece with the pipe going through to next door. There is then what looks like a hex nibble going into a 90 degree bend...

An alternative option is to open up the crack a little, so it is 2-3mm wide. Run a grout removal tool up and down. Then "inject" the crack with an none solvent flexible gap filling building adhesive (No more Nails interior is my preferred choice) and smooth any excess off. Leave to dry and...

There are various reports of the culvert the river Newburn ran through collapsing in either May or June. I am going with June when there was a torrential down pour along with dramatic thunder and lightning and substantial flooding that turned the Gateshead Western Bypass into a carpark and it...

The ones for my kitchen are most decidedly chipboard.

I don't know. A work colleague of my brother in law lives in the effected flats. Apparently there was a public meeting where the residents where told that the engineers have declared it unsafe and probably unsafe to try and repair.

I guess it all depends on how deep the piles where sunk :) The river Newburn ran underground in a culvert here so clearly it was an issue, hence the piles in the first place. Apparently the culvert collapsed earlier in the year and had not been repaired, it is on land belonged to the Duke of...