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Bare. I've just double checked, it was the kitchen light strap. My mistake - this literally just happened and my heads still spinning. I wouldn't have cut the cables, if it wasn't for the fact this sparky has had a stripped house to work on for the last 8 months, and still hasn't finished...

MCB even.

Thanks for the reply. I was cutting the cables back so that I can board/skim the walls (there's about 4 feet of excess per cable, and several cables). I phoned the sparky to make sure these were not lived, he told me they hadn't been wired in. 100% the upstairs tripped. And it's on an RCD...

Long story short. Boarding out a new wall, so cutting back some of the excess cable on the sockets as they've only had 1st fixings. Called electrician to make sure it's OK. Given the all clear, there not wired up. Start cutting, and I get to the kitchen ring. Bang/Flash. One numb arm...

Hey, so I'm planning the kitchen (still) and I've come across a concern/issue. I'm planning to run three units side by side along one wall, right up until the corner. And luckily enough I can fit two 600mm units and a 400mm unit. Problem is, the corner where one of the units will need to...

Thanks everybody for all your replies. I wanted to keep the dishwasher near the sink, and have gone and already had the electrician sort a point for it so will have to be near by. I may switch the sink and dishwasher around - just means the misses won't be happy (she planned to have the sink...

Hey, so please excuse the naive question but I need some advice. I'm replanning the kitchen, and being my first time I'm unsure if it's asking for trouble by putting a dishwasher directly in front of the stopcock. Would this cause any unforeseen issues? (regs/common sense etc). Also, as...

Hey, yeah he's company is gas safe registered.

I have, they mentioned that he shouldn't have fitted it if it didn't mean the current building regs. I'm not sure how to find out if my boiler meets these regulations, but the plumber did say that it wouldn't pass, despite it being a "good'n". He did mentioned some self certified way, or...

Right so to cut a long story short, new boiler - was warned that it was 'B' grade, so there not allowed to install after April 2011, but as it was partly done, they'll be able to write a letter to gas safe and all will be OK. It's a Glowworm Betacom 30kw SEDBUK B combi range. So work went...

Cheers Andy, pretty much confirmed what I thought. Thanks for the reply.

Bare with me on this. We're having new carpets/underlay fitted this week and I'm need of cleaning old bits of plaster, etc that are stuck to the floor boards. There's a fair amount of dust too, so will be running round making sure this is all cleared and ready. I'm wondering, at least the...

Hey, Well the 'ol pot of funds has disappeared completely so looking at options to get a kitchen for as cheaply as possible. One ideas is to to buy a MFI kitchen I've found on an auction site, all new, but only comes with base units/hinges, etc. No doors. My worry is, will any old door...

This has been a thorn in my side for sometime, as I'm looking to get this for as little as possible and my searches are proving fruitless. I've an 'odd' shaped door frame to the side of the garage, which currently has no door. It's 73.5" by 30" and other than cutting down a ledge and brace...

Thanks John, so glad to have come across this forum. Really appreciate it. Thanks again.

Just want to double check this, I'm going to get a grid put in for the fuses to operate the dishwasher/over/extractor/fridge. Is there any regulations that state that the fuse has to be a certain distance from the appliance? And don't worry, I'm not going to be doing any work myself. But want...

Thanks for the replies. This is going to be quite tricky, as there is only 'one' way into the area and will cross/run along at least 3-4 2.5mm twin and earth (there will be at least 180cm where they'll be parallel). Thinking it may be best to just route it around the outside of the house. Is...

That's a very good point. I'll see if I can find it. They were genuinely decent guys, and would recommend them to anybody - at least up until this point. But hopefully can get this resolved fairly quickly. Thanks for your reply, appreciate it.

Hi all, Well I had some plumbing work done recently (CH system and new boiler), and too a good standard. All finished, plumber and he's team were all very friendly, we completed the paper work that needed to be sent off to have the boiler signed off. And I paid him. The last time I saw him...

Morning all, I've done a bit of Googling but struggling to workout this one. I'm having the house rewired completely, and want to have a TV with a sky feed (using magic eye) in the kitchen. I'm worried that running the RG6 cable in parallel with the main cable runs with cause interference...