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Seen you can hire them. I might just hire one and get Homeserve back out if they will do it:

Thanks, so I need to find some with this kind of staging/ladder? I better check with the tradesmen before he comes out if he has this as dont want to waste his or my time.

Right, need some advice on planning the kitchen sockets. Will be having an integrated gas cooker hob and a double oven. Will each of these need a fused spur (so 2 fused spurs) or just the double oven? And is it 13amp fused spur I need to buy for both? I want to hide the spur inside the...

Thanks, by staging do you mean scaffolding ? Just trying to get an idea of the type of staging that would be suitable cheers

Would that be by cutting it from the outside on top of the conservatory roof, and cutting it inside the convervatory. Then pushing a new piece in? Im guessing homeserve wouldnt do it as they dont want to do the work by trying to lean over the convervatory roof, and by removing the panel it...

Hello, I have got a soil pipe running on the outside wall, then through the conservatory roof into the convervatory. What looks to have happened is that the conservatory has been built without moving the soil pipe, but just cutting a gap through the conservatory roof with the soil pipe staying...

Thanks. Was going to have a dimmer in the living room and master bedroom, do dimmer switches normally need deeper holes and deeper back boxes?

Thanks, electrician who is being subbed by the builder will be installing all the electrics

Thanks John

So what usually happens then, pull the box out and make it a bit deeper and refit? Or possibly have to fit a deeper back box after knocking out a bit deeper?

Thanks EFL, pretty much cleared it up for me. I was surprised at how cheap that site is too. The house was built in 70s so not that old so im guessing they should fit then onto the old backboxes then. So I will get 2 gang 2 way for the hallway and landing, and 1 gang 2 way for the rest of the...

Thanks again Gazman your a top man. I asked the manufacturer to put a 30mm knock on to the top of the upstairs windows frames to be on the safe side. Hoping all will be well.

Hi, Got builders in at the moment renovating a property I bought. Its up to me to supply the electrical sockets and light switches, but I am a total novice when it comes to this. The faceplates/covers of all the light switches are all going to be changed over. Can I just get any faceplates...

Thanks again, managed to get the order in now after a lot of help from theplasticsdepot and they were the cheapest too. Another question. Got a roofer sorting the guttering out (cutting off concrete gutters, new fascia boards and new gutters) (we wont be putting in a soffit due to matching...

Thanks Gazman, that was really useful advice. I went into a local trade counter who were very helpful and drew up some designs based on the measurements I gave them so im getting there. Changed mind and not having sliding doors at the back, going to have french doors there now, didn't change...

Thanks for all advice. Yes, it's more than I thought it would be, definitely shouldn't have committed to the builder fitting them as it's working out way harder to manage the design which I shouldn't really have to spend so much time researching, it's like I need a degree in this . I'm in...

Thanks, is that like the below, so that the line looks uniform ? Put simply for someone thick like me, does it mean that the windows that dont open all match up with the windows that do ?

I could really do with a window desginer to help on this! Should have gone for supply and fit, much easier as they would have planned it all for me

Need to get new windows ordered by Monday, I have found a well priced supplier in the midlands (im in manchester) who use VEKA profile which i have heard is the best. They are a trade counter and dont do any design or give measuring advice etc, so its up to me and the builder to get it right...

Thanks, that looks really smart. I'm getting a couple more roofers our for quotes and to get a feel for if I am confident in them. Had one chap out who quoted £2400 for scaffolding, cutting out the concrete, fitting wooden board and then PVCU facias and gutters on top to front and back of...