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Good. Glad you can smell BS too. My limited understanding of MCS is they the certify the installer by checking insurances, staff qualifications, processes etc. Perhaps a site visit to check installation quality though probably unusual. What they don't do is care about the end customer or the...

Just out of curiosity, and serendipity, I have a visit from a PV seller tomorrow to give me a quote. I had to deal with "head office" and was told that under the MCS rules, both homeowners (me and my wife) are supposed to be present during their quotation process. Does anyone know if this is true?

Do you want to just take the chill off the air, or sit reading in a t-shirt? It's the smallest room in the house, so won't take much to heat it. As a guess, assume the external wall is 5m2, insulated cavity wall U value 0.5 W/m2K, you want 20C when it's -2C outside. Heat loss=5x0.5x22 so 55W...

On my mobile, if I touch the name, comes up with the profile

I'm sure my profile says "Edinburgh"

Ok, to put a twist on the topic, what if you had lifted a floorboard upstairs to access downstairs lights and found it hidden away somewhere never considered to see the light of day ever again? Would you leave well alone, open and tighten the screws, or replace it with a wago box?

I'm going to replace a few damaged bricks but where do I get just 10 bricks from? Current ones are 73mm and have weathered from black to a dark brown. Not having done this before, I hopped onto a well known building supplies site and spotted some that will probably do the job. However, they...

Do you have a gas fire in the room?

As far as I can see, there is no mechanism to be able to drain the cold water system. I recall that last year I turned the water off at the stopcock and left the taps downstairs open to allow for expansion. I can't recall if I left the taps open upstairs. However, even if I did, it would seem...

I shall be abandoning my late mother's house for 6 months. I'm in the process of clearing it, but it is taking an age and I have little time I can dedicate to the task just now. It's also 300+ miles away so dropping by for a weekend is impractical. There is empty property insurance in place...

So here's one for the proper sparkies... You're doing a bit of work in a house and while tracing a cable you come across a junction box which you open up. Now, do you close it up and be on your way, tighten up those screws out of habit, go crazy with your torque screwdriver and tighten them...

Good opportunity to educate me as a non-sparky ... So the EICR is going to flag a couple of C1s and the client has the option to carry on as before under the rationale of "It's not killed me yet, so it'll do". Now let's say they want to show willing. They check that 45A, find it only powers a...

That depends on the lease

If I had my way, I'd chainsaw the bottom of the damn thing. But it's on their side so their hedge. They cut their side and ignore the top. I took it upon myself to keep it to height, mug that I am. Platform to cut it from isn't an issue. Time, patience and willingness are.

Just been sent a couple of photos of the ceiling ... All surfaces feel dry though cool to the touch.

As usual, the hedge has grown taller than I realised and is in need of a good trim. Think 3 feet. Every two or three years I bring it down to size but it takes an age since it's 30m long. Some branches are too thick for my hedge trimmers so have to be lopped with cutters or a hand saw. Yes...

I think you're both probably right. I've now worked out that room hasn't been entered in over a year. That's a long time with little air flow and a toilet pan slowly evaporating away. The house was left unheated, the room is single skin brick and on the north side. It will have been the...

A while back my elderly mother turned her toes up leaving me and my sister the unenviable challenge of clearing the house. Little progress has been made mainly due to neither of us living within 400 miles of the place and both having families and jobs of our own. This evening my sister called...

Well if I were using conduit, naturally I'd run both cables in it

So the original ceiling pull light switch in my garage has packed up. By "garage", I mean junk room with a big up and over external door. Plan will be to run T&E down to the white switch which operates an external light, replace the single switch with a double and reuse the existing 20mm back...