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Is it a straightforward (albeit messy) job that a competent DIYer could do over a few weekends or do you think it'd be preferable to get a builder in and attack it quickly to minimise the disruption?

The spark came to take a look at the setup and explained that while he could do what we'd asked, it would be difficult and involved trying to run cable behind cornicing and pulling up the floorboards on the upstairs landing. We decided that we could live without the two-way switch based on that!

We live in a terrace and on one site, our neighbours smoke a lot, both cigarettes and weed. The smell isn't overpowering but it's particularly noticeable in our master bedroom which has fitted wardrobes on the party wall that we didn't install. There were some large (grapefruit-sized) holes...

OK, the spark came last week and there was no need for any external cable. The dishwasher sits directly under where I wanted the new socket to go and that entire wall turned out to be plasterboard. Dead easy in the end. For the outside socket, he drilled through the wall and mounted the...

Just test on a small section of it first?

I think you're right, assuming this image is accurate: I could run a cable horizontally from the low socket on the first wall, to the corner of the room and then vertically to the height of the socket on the adjacent wall. At that point I could run the cable horizontally to the socket. The...

How would this work in practice? The lights flick on when the switch detects a body and off after a certain amount of time?

This might be a non-starter then. The ceiling void is not easily accessed as we have plasterboard ceilings in the kitchen and a tiled bathroom floor above. There is no cellar space below the kitchen but it does sit on a void of some sort, but again this isn't easily accessed. What about if the...

Try this https://photos.app.goo.gl/KY3kRqc8rSJokWTb6

That's a sensible idea but a big job. The cellar floor is cement and it would involve removing brickwork. We'd like to renovate the cellar and convert it into habitable space in the next 5-10 years so if I can get by until then it would be much preferred!

Think I'll get the spark in to tackle this one as it seems there have been a few raised eyebrows about my desire to install a new socket in the kitchen: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/running-an-electrical-cable-along-an-outside-wall.515966/#post-4292019

Access is incredibly limited. You can't actually see that cement block without a camera or mirror as the drain is set back around 50cm through a small opening approx 50cm x 50cm in size. Even then, the cement block probably sits around 30cm down from the opening of the drain so all-in-all, it's...

OK, so in simple terms, this is a job for a spark and the cable should probably be chased through the interior wall.

Interesting you say that as the exhaust flue drips onto our decking and has effectively acid cleaned a patch directly below it. It's probably taken 3/4 months to strip a bit of moss from the decking and bleach a small patch of wood so I would guess it'd take decades to do much damage to cement...

Thanks everyone. Obviously I have every intention of rewriting my hallway lights... Why is it unusual to have a light switch in the hallway that is on a two way switch and can be controlled from the landing?

UFH is electric so maybe a non starter anyway? Temp of the room is controlled by a rad/towel rail.

Amperage might be a limiting factor. I’ll have to check. Yes it’s an RCD. I called it an RCBO and a spark corrected me so I wasn’t sure.

I suppose not...but I’d like to nonetheless.

OK, cool. The room is already recognised as a bedroom; all of the houses on the street are the same and have a full staircase up to the room. Would there be any purpose applying for building regs with that being the case?

Well, what do you suggest then? Armoured cable? Chasing the cable through the plasterboard?