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My son wishes to install a separate electric oven and hob. Oven rated at 4.3KW Hob load 6.8Kw (max) Total load 11.1 KW This gives a current rating of 46.25Amps The cooker residual earth leakage cut out is rated at 32Amps. From a wiring and fuse installation point of view is the total...

You are quite right Breezer, it's just as I have my laptop with me for other reasons, I thought I might as well use it at my own convienence.

As to a "standard switch" it looks like a 13A mains on/off. Can't say about the fuse as it's at son's house but it would be no more than 13A (cartridge fuse holder) Wire diameter is as the size of a mains TV cable wire Does this help Andrew?

I shall be travelling to both the USA and Australia (not business orientated) and wish to be able to make use of email etc while I'm away. (Hotmail) I have checked out a few sites offering "services" but nothing seems really clear cut. As I shall be away a while, I don't want a huge bill piling...

I need to wire in my son's new NEFF oven. The instructions say use cable type H05VV-F but this cable appears to come in various sizes/current ratings. The current oven is wired into a junction box with a cable of a similar size to the cable on your average TV, except it has a black rubber...

Have you ever tried to get a Corgi fitter in to do a small job - they are not interested. My son in Milton Keynes has been trying for three weeks to get a Corgi registered man in to fit his new gas hob. No wonder people DIY.

I had a Benraad balanced flue convector heater professionally fitted in my kitchen many years ago. I now wish to remove it. The quarter inch gas pipe from the heater terminates at the house gas outlet via a standard on/off connection fitted during the original installation. Can I just unscrew...

I have used one of those plastic shields and whilst it's obviously not as good as removing the carpet I have found it easy to use and if you are careful, no bleed through. When you consider that apart from the stairs a good majority of skirting is covered by furniture, chairs etc. What little...

I need to replace my son's front door dead lock (lost key). They seem to be sold in 2 1/2 and 3 inch sizes. Apart from this size difference are they all manufactured to standard sizes in that all key holes are in the same relative position and all door cavity's are the same size regardless of make?

I am about to change my shower unit. The shower unit is currently fed by two external chrome pipes on a 65mm pitch. Are there any problems to be aware of in connecting to "chrome pipes". To expand the 65mm pitch to fit a larger unit I was thinking of using (1) plastic pipes and junctions...

Input from at the top of the diagram is from a junction box. Dotted is obviously earth. Not attached a diagram before so hope this works. I can see I have failed with the diagram - More later as they say.

I wish to replace the shower in my sons bathroom. The current shower is a mixer type, supplied by both hot and cold pumped water from the usual tanks. The supply pipes are external (i.e. exposed on the wall), stainless steel and run down the wall on a 55mm pitch. The replacement shower I would...

As I remember I used a three inch brush with a very pretty red handle. __________________________ moderator post locked to prevent hi jacking

I am in the process of doing something similar, but having three shelves. I used MDF and had it cut to size out of a 8 x 4 sheet (Homebase and no charge) I have run my router along the edge to give a more elegant finish

Well I took the bull by the horns and repaired the monoblock tap for my son. Found I did not have all the right washers to do the job so left some of the originals on. The kettle cleaner worked a treat on cleaning the scale off the tap parts. So once again thanks for all the advice.

Do I gather you resolved the problem by a washer change, descale and a regreasing and not a new tap?

My son's monoblock sink tap is quite stiff to turn and the water flow out of it does not appear to be under much pressure and takes ages to fill a bowl. He now reports that the hot water has stopped flowing out of it but the cold is OK. My question is; am I likely to be able to repair this by...