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hmmmm ok this might have turned into a bigger job than I had intially hoped! I feel a bit of an idiot now as I actually removed the thin plastic tiles which were covering this after taking the carpet up, some of them had been damaged by the removeal of the toilet so I fuigured it would give...

Ahh bugger, thanks for pointing that out. It's horrible stuff, what can I do with it?

Apologies if this should be in a different forum, but I am ultimately going to be tiling this area. I have ripped out our downstairs cloakroom to decorate, tile the floor and put in a new suite. Unfortunately as I was trying to remove the toilet, the screws fixing it to the floor had been...

Ahh excellent, thanks for this, I'll give it a go. This house never fails to surprise me with horrendous botch jobs from the previous occupants, thiw as supposed to be a five minute job to replace the ceiling light in our newly decorated lounge! =(

Hmmm not easily, just finished decorating upstairs and so I'd rather not lift the flooring up there to get at this if I can possibly avoid it.

Ok, well I hope I'm wrong too! Let me check when I get home. So, if I am wrong and there are in fact 3 x three core cables going into the backbox with the following: - all (x3) the blacks chocked together - all (x3) the green/yellows attached to the back box - 2 x red into L1 on the old...

Hi, I'm trying to replace the ceiling lights in my lounge but on removing the first one I was shocked to find that on removal of the final screw it was still stuck to the ceiling. After a gentle pull I found out why; the light had been plastered to the ceiling and came off with a large chunk...

Let me check again when I get home this evening but I'm pretty sure there are only two cores in the green and yellow sleeve attached to the back box (and that they come from the two three cores). However at the ceiling rose end there are three cores coming out so I may be wrong at the switch...

Sorry Taylortwocities, you've confused me a bit there. The current set up is two ceiling lights controlled by a single wall dimmer switch (with just one rotary dimmer on). I just want to replace the switch with a new touch one.

Hi guys, Thanks for your replies, just to clarify, there is one single dimmer switch controlling two lights. I thought that the two 3 cores I can see coming into the switch would have come from the two lights but I guess that wouldn't make sense as that would leave a single two core...

Hi, I am trying to replace an old rotary dimmer with a new touch dimmer but the wiring in the old dimmer doesn't seem to match that suggested on the new instructions. The dimmer is controlling two lights. Into the back box I can see two three-core cables coming in (Red, Black and...

Hi All, The light in my kitchen takes these bulbs Markings read: KANDOlite 230V 40W G9 FR L05 Two have gone and so I'm looking for replacements but seem to be having trouble finding them anywhere. I've found loads of 40W G9 bulbs but they don't appear to have the white part...

Thanks for the quick reply! I'm guessing I'd need to get a pro in for this? I was going to phone up BG and get one of their quotes, would this be somethign they'd do, or do they just do straighrt boiler replacement? Rich

Hi, All this recent boiler scrappage talk made me start thinking about my draconian Thorn Olympic boiler and open vent system. I'm guessing it's only a matter of time before it give up the ghost completely after more than a handful of close calls. I don't want to start a debate on the...

Hi, I was up in the loft the other day and noticed that the extractor fan in my bathroom is actually connected to the lighting ring. Further investigation shows it going via a fuse outlet unit in the bathroom, is it ok to run this off the lighting ring? This leads to my next question. The...

ah..... damn! As I said I'm not massively skilled when it comes to plumbing..... how much would this job cost to get someone in to have a look at it? And anyone know of any reputable people in Milton Keynes? =) Cheers Rich