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I have had an electric shower taken out and the 10mm wire is coiled in the attic turned off at the fuse board. Can i run this into my workshop that i have built next to the house and use it for my lights and sockets ? I have bought a garage consumer unit which looks easy enough to wire up.

it was a demonstration model from homebase so it came with no manual or instructions. we literally put it together from a photo i took of it in the store. what you are saying though is what i have been told, so must be right i suppose.... thanks anyway much appreciated.

I have been told that i should not silicone and seal the inside of my shower enclosure - only the outside. Is this correct as it seems bonkers to me and they can offer no valid reason why. ???

I have just bought 2 under cupboard strip lights. They are both meant to be plugged in as they obviously have plugs. As i have wiring already in place when i fitted the kitchen what would i have to do for these to run off my lighting ring circuit ?? I am presuming it is a fuse spur or something...

Saw these at my local paint sellers and decided it would be just the job as we were completely gutting our bungalow. The only problem i have with it is trying to remember which brush is for undercoat, which one for gloss, eggshell etc etc. Anyone else on here use one of these give me an idea on...

I live in a large bungalow, above our front door in our hallway we have the doorbell chime connected to a transformer, and wired to the electrics. When we are in the kitchen, bathroom or living room we hear the doorbell fine, however if we are in any of the bedrooms it is totally inaudible. I...

The one in our bathroom has not worked since we purchased our bungalow. As we are in the process of modernizing our bathroom i thought i may as well get a new extractor fan unit. I was expecting to pay in the region of £80-£100, but i gave the measurements of our bathroom to the fella in our...

my job for 2moro 8)

i never said it was beyond me - quite the opposite. i have the room to build a permanant structure, i have no neighbours and thought timber would need constant maintanance. my logic behind a block built shed is that when rendered it should be trouble free if i go about it the right way...

a new combi has already been fitted nige..... clearing the airbricks and soffets has done the trick. one further question - do i need to lag the 22mm gas pipe that runs through my loft, i am not sure these temperatures are low enough to freeze gas ???

thank you for the very informative information.

not enough cash to pay a bricky - all the available money i have will be needed for materials. i am a firm believer in that nothing is beyond us if we just turn our minds to it and think logical. the human mind is the best tool any of us will ever own, trouble is how many of us ever look after...

i'm really sorry guys but you lost me completely there :oops: i have no idea what NTE or NTE 5 are and as for putting in wires for the adsl ??? would you possibly break that down for me so i can buy the relevant bits i need then take my laptop to the telephone point so i can carry out the...

Well if anything can go wrong, it usually does where we are concerned. My wife and i were supposed to have started work rennovating our bungalow at the begining of november, but work commitments meant we did not get a free opening untill december 7th so we decided to go for it. B&Q lost half...

We have one master socket in our entrance hall, which i have connected up my livewire router from orange and i have connected a telelphone to my router for free calls to my family in cyprus as well as calling friends on their orange mobiles for free. we had until today a 2nd line which was run...

I did have to clear 6 black bags of cavity wall insulation from my one loft as it must have poured out from the airbrick spaces in the attic ! My wife did say that the man was complaining how much stuff he used... :roll: I spread it all over the attic above my garage then floored on top of...

Recently had cavity wall insulation done, as well as putting 8 inches of loft insulation on top of that orrible itchy yellow stuff - but now i am starting to get condensation in my attic. I have put in a new kitchen and an integrated tumble dryer with a vent pipe through the wall. as i live...

i used an engine hoist on mine - erected it over the stump, put the chains through and started pulling the chains through, came out like butter through a hot knife.....

I am purely a DIY enthusiast, however when i need a cordless drill i want it to work. I need to do quite a bit of screwing over the next couple of weeks :oops: so could also do with a spare battery - i honestly do not know weather i should buy a 14v or 18v cordless drill ? could someone...

I checked this out yesterday, the house was sold as a 2 bedroom house and the attic was not recognized as a bedroom or a conversion. No mention was made of the roof which was suprising as i found a few faults up there. they had put the velux windows in and never replaced the tiles up to butt...