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Hello, I'm tiling our bathroom and I plan to fit an electric radiator once the wall is tiled so I need to put a cable or conduit in the wall ready. How deep should this cable be in to the wall? Many thanks

Hello, I plan to get an electric towel radiator for a small bathroom instead of a standard gas heating system radiator. From experience would this be suffice for heat when cold ( its a well insulated warm house) but mostly to dry towels all year round. Any advice appreciated. Many thanks

Hello, due to a water leak a small section of joist is rotten. To repair would you recommend chopping out and replacing the section or screw battons each side to strengthen? Or is there another way Many? Many thanks

Hello, I've remove old tiles from our bathroom and there is either old adhesive or small areas of plaster missing (leaving patches of a sandy wall). Could I simply remove all proud/loose bits to level then prime and retile or should more be done before retiling? Many thanks

Hello, Our outside tap, when turned on seems to vibrate the pipes and there is a loud noise like a power tool, however the loud noise/vibrating goes when the tap is fully turned on or if you turn on a tap inside the house.at the same time. Any suggestions appreciated.

Hello, I plan to use sleepers to divide a gravel parking area and a turfed area. If the sleepers are sat in to the ground around 3 or 4" deep would I need to sit them on a small bed of concrete or simply on the ground. Many thanks

Thank you, any particular primer for this surface or woukd any tile primer be suffice?

Hello, I plan to tile a wall however when having a door replaced some small chunks of the plaster has come off, I have a bonding agent to apply to the wall but I wondered if I needed to fill these holes first with something or would the adhesive fill the gaps? Many thanks

Hello, I plan to tile our hall floor but the concrete floor has thick black coating on top (bitumen, screed?) It's a 1960's property and all the floors have this. Do I simply add adhesive and tile or would this floor require something else before this? Many thanks

Thank you it worked! however the middle switch for the hall has the light on when the switch is in the off position, do you know if this can be changed to match the rest? Thanks again!

Thank you so much this really is appreciated, I will do this is the morning and let you know! Thank you again.

Hello, yes there was a joining piece of wire, and the red seems to be the perm live on the 4 core cable.

Thank you, yes I have a twin probe meter.

Hello, I've taken the 2 gang switch off and I took a picture of the wiring but I can't believe it but the picture has vanished and I'm a little stumped. Could some one please advise on the wiring for the 3 gang one way light switch? I have 2 cables to connect to it, one 3 core from a single...

Hello, our hall has a 2 gang switch, one for the hall light, the other for an outside light. I also have a separate switch for a light in a cupboard, if I put all of these on a 3 gang switch, how would this be wired? The cable to the 2 gang has 4 core and the cable to the single gang is 3 core...

Hello, every time we use masking tape or frog tape, when removing the tape they often remove small flakes of paint/plaster? Does all tape do this? Many thanks

Thank you, re fitting, I assume its compression with olive to the valve and simply push fit with with pipe insert from the plastic 10mm pipe? Thanks again

Hello, I plan to buy a chrome elbow to come from my rad valve then to a 10mm pipe in to the wall. Re the attached image, would this do it? Its an PEGLER TERRIER CHROME-PLATED BRASS PUSH-FIT REDUCING 90° ELBOW F 10MM X M 15MM (28509)

Hello, can you bend JG speedfit coil pipe - ie out of a wall and up in to a radiator valve? Many thanks

Hello, in the loft its 15mm gray plastic pipe (apologies in comes down to a 22mm). I need to T in to this gray 15mm with JG speedfit 10mm pipe. Would I use JG 15mm inserts on this pipe or something else? Any advice appreciated.