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Sorry this is probably a daft question but i'm going to ask it anyway. We had our old central heating system (back boiler with immersion tank) pulled out and a new combi boiler fitted a few weeks back. While the engineer was fitting the new system I asked if he could run us a new loop for the...

ok cheers, it's a fairly small dinning room. Only planning on 8 x 9w leds so no worries there. Thanks for the advice ;)

Planning on fitting downlights in the dining room this weekend so called into Screwfix on the way home from work last night. I asked for 2.5mm twin core + earth but they only had 50m reels in stock. When i told the guy at the counter what it was for he assured me "6243YH 1.5mm twin core & earth"...

Really? I thought £4.5-5k was a little step considering the work involved and I was quoted just short of £1k to do the infill. Given i'd have to pay for the electrics separately all he would be doing is; dpm, floating floor, insulate 1 wall, floor and ceiling, plaster boarding walls, skim walls...

We are looking to convert half our integral double garage into a habitable room. The garage is split into two separate areas by a dividing wall. Each area is roughly the same size as your average single garage and has its own single garage door, lighting and a single double socket mains point...

ok cheers and thanks to all for the advice ;)

the hob is 6.6kw and the single built-in oven is 2.3kw. am I ok to run both off one circuit on a 32a mcb over 6mm cable?

Hi Stillp, its 6.6KW

Hi crispieees, stillp, yeah the house has a Wylex consumer unit which has separate 32a MCB's, a couple for the sockets, one for a shower and another for the cooker circuit. There's also a handful of 16a breakers for the lights, smoke alarms, etc. I think you are correct, it looks like 6mm...

I've just removed our old built-in gas hob and purchased a nice new shiny eclectic ceramic one. After removing the hob and temporarily pulling out the electric oven directly below it, I expected to find a cooker connection unit. Instead there's just a double 13am plug gang/socket? This is...

Well I've passed a couple of emails back and forth with my local building control authorities and so far they've been far from helpful. They're saying the application should be submitted by someone who is familiar of the process and building regs. Therefore they're basically saying i should use...

Hi Terrypin, thanks for taking the time to respond. I've since had two quotes for our garage conversion. The first was from a local window/door fitting firm who quoted £900 to remove the garage door, lay a 12 course brick wall and fit a window. The second quote (£4500) was to oversee the whole...

We have just moved into a house with an internal double garage. The garage has a dividing wall down the middle separating the garage into two areas. Each area has its own single garage door. We would like to convert half the garage into a usable room. There is an internal door from the house...

Wow I've opened a can of worms here! Yeah we have a dimmer switch so maybe this was the issue with the 50w bulbs? Anyhow we've now put dimmerable led bulbs in the down lights and all seems ok. And agreed that many lights for a single room probably isn't the most energy efficient use of bulbs but...

I fitted 9 x GU10 down lights with 50w bulbs in our living room a few years ago. I quickly realised (flickering bulbs) the single light circuit wasn't powerful enough to server 9 x 50w and replaced the 50w bulbs with 30w, job done. The missus has now decided she wants to extended the living room...

cheers ;)

is this the correct replacement? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aico-Mains-Powered-Smoke-Alarm-With-Hush-10-Year-Rechargeable-Battery-Ei151TL-/271254600280?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f2808ba58 thanks in advance

here's some pics of the smoke alarm. Photo 3 by preecy posted 7 Jul 2015 at 8:30 PM Photo 2 by preecy posted 7 Jul 2015 at 8:30 PM Photo 1 by preecy posted 7 Jul 2015 at 8:30 PM