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Our house has two hardwired smoke alarms. One appears to be faulty as it constantly rings and fails to reset. The wire from the ceiling has a plastic 4 pinned connector. In terms of a replacement, do all hardwired smoke alarms have the same connector type? Don't want to mess about cutting wires...

never mind found a English manual for the hob online, wired up and working

I'm wanting to replace an old built-in ceramic hob with a new one. The old hob is wired (6mm twin & earth) directly into the 30a cooker mains behind the built-in oven. The new hob has its own heavy duty power cord which has 5 cables (L1 black, L2 brown, N1 grey, N2 blue, earth yellow/green)...

perfect, thank you. I guess i'll need some sort of heat resistant cable from the oven to the 3 pin plug? or should I just use 6mm cable on that?

I have a glass ceramic electric hob which sits in the worktop and a single built-in oven beneath it. Both are wired into a cooker outlet which is on the wall behind the oven. I'm wanting to replace the old dated oven with a nice new shinny one (like for like). The old oven and hob are wired up...

Fitted a new bathroom suite a couple of months back and i had to make some minor changes to the pipework. The bath mixer has since started to show discoloured water when you first turn it on for a few seconds. The water from the basin and the thematic shower seems fine, it just seems to be the...

We have an attached garage with a side entrance to it from our hall way. The internal door between the house and garage is just a standard 30mm thin veneered/vented door and also has a cat flap. Needless to say we're getting a bit of a draught and having recently spent a small fortune on new...

ok cheers so I'm ok to chuck the brackets and screw the legs directly into the bath?

Bought this double ended bath a while back which came with a universal leg set. The leg set includes 5 threaded feet and two brackets. The base of the bath has 5 threaded holes for the legs but there's no where for the brackets to go... I guess they're not needed for this type of bath? Anyone...

cheers that worked ;) and yeah the old unit/switch was just a standard on/off, no timer

I'm replacing an old discoloured isolating pull switch for a bathroom extractor fan. The old unit has two LIVE wires (in and out) and two NEUTRAL (in and out) as well an EARTH. The new unit only has L1, L2, a COM and earth. Assuming the new unit was just a light switch I checked with the...

Thanks for all the suggestions. I decided to bring the stud wall out a couple of cm's so that I could chase the pipe. The wall needed plastering/skimming anyhow where i'd pulled all the old tiles off so new plasterboards probably saved me some time.

sorry yeah its 32mm. I could live with a boxed in section along the wall but its me who to put up with the missus moaning :p guess i'll have to box it in as I don't fancy notching the struts from one end of the room to the other. Also there would be very little, if any, slope.

My joists are 220mm high and the waste pipes are just standard 40mm. So I could make 40mm cuts but obviously I'd have no slope for approximately 2m, ie: the distance between the waste pipe u bend and soil stack. Do you think this is a bad idea?

Novice DIY'er hear so bare with me... I've just started ripping out our old bathroom suite. The old basin was built into a cabinet and was situated at one end of a boxed in bath. The new basin and bath are a freestanding style. The waste pipes were hidden by the old cabinet and boxed in bath but...

Hi I found those folding screens on eBay although I haven't ordered one as yet. Still deliberating on whether I should give up with the double ended bath and get a standard one which will fit into a corner of the room.

cheers, will dig out my hole cutters and prey I get it right ;)