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Thanks for your reply ban-all-sheds. It doesn't look like it was done to lenghten the leads, as they are only about a foot long now. It just looks like the transformsers shipped without flyleads to go to the light fittings. The cables are connected to the transformers by means of terminals to...

I repainted the ceiling in my dining room last weekend and removed the LV light fittings altogether rather than attempt to paint around them. When doing so I noticed that they had been wired using 1mm T&E from the transformer to the lamp. All earths had been sheathed and it didn't look dodgy. Is...

I'm after some advice, I have just tiled the kitchen with these tiles and now need to get on with the grouting. However, I'm concearned that I should maybe seal the tiles prior to grouting in order to ease the removal of the grout film and prevent future staining. Is this correct or should...

Thanks for your reply masona. I hadn't thought of that. I will check the electrical fittings to see if they could accomodate the extra 15mm depth. I would think the weight would be ok, as long as the correct adhesive is used but I am worried about the sheer awkwardness of fitting such large...

My wife would like to tile the kitchen walls with 30.5 x 30.5 x 1cm polished Crema Marfil marble tiles. Now, I'm sure this would look nice but I have some concerns over its suitablity. Firstly, is polished marble a suitable wall covering for a kitchen? Secondly installation. The tiles are...

Thanks for the reply Jason. I live in SE London so I may even use Richard Russell anyway. Cheers

Hi, I want to finish three large cupboard doors 200cm x 80cm in a uniform high gloss white finish and thought that the best way to do this would be to buy sheets of a laminate and trim and glue them to the existing doors. Firstly does anyone know if such a product exists and what sort of...

Just this weekend I fitted six low volt downlights in my kitchen ceiling. Taking advice from members of this forum I used one transformer per light fitting. The whole install was very straight forward and everything works fine. I was just wondering what the pros and cons were of torodial v...

Thanks for your replies chaps. The room is 4m x 3m and has good under cupboard lights fitted. By the sounds of things I would get away with four 50w but I may go for six 35w to give a better spread of light. Thanks again.

I am considering installing four low voltage downlights in my kitchen ceiling. The thing is I'm not sure which wattage of light fitting/bulb to buy as I'm not sure what level of brightness the fittings will give in the room once fitted. I was thinking of buying four 50w fittings, four 50w...

Hi, I have recently moved to a 3 bed town house built in the early 70's. The house has three floors, ground, first and second floor with two rooms and hallway/stairwell on each. I have done a bit of investigating to see what , if anything in the way of electrical work needs doing before I...

Subject line says a lot really. I would like to add a cooker hood above our all electric double oven/5 ring hob. I could spur off one of the sockets but it would be a lot less work and mess to spur off the cooker circuit as I was planning on putting the 5amp FCU for the hood right next to the...