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Thanks to you all. Why 450mm above the floor - because I thought that you had to? If I use 35mm Boxes they will be thicker than the dot and dab will they not? Do I need conduit when the wire will run at the back of the plasterboard? Thanks for your helpful comments. Bobbler

Besides my lighting problems I am also replacing ALL the sockets in the room. The walls currently have no plaster so I am going to fit 25mm deep boxes 450mm up the wall. The wall is to be "dot and dabbed". The question is, do I have to run the cable from one socket to the next, under the...

I can tell that I have gone a bit gung ho here. Picture is attached. The lights must be switched at a junction box which I presume will be under the floor in the bedrooms. I did not want to go there but I can see I might have to. How do you attach a photo?[/url]

Hi, Our living room has two ceiling lights and two wall lights. The switches for all four lights are in one unit. We want to remove the wall lights and therefore reduce the switch down to just two. I know which switches operate which light but cant work out which wires I do not need. Does...

Can't say that I ever saw this but it does sound funny. The stained glass cupboard doors are in the garage but they will not make it back into the house. Just to put your mind at rest, we have an oak staircase but that is not being replaced, the fireplace will be replaced and no matter...

Thanks to you all for your knowledgable comments. I know this sounds like an excuse, and it is, but my wife rules the roost here and she could not give a damn about the character of the place. I'd have kept the coving and the stained glass built in cupboard in one of the alcoves but NO it all...

Thanks to you both for your comments. I think that I would have got away with the window sills and the only door is moving anyway so that would not be a problem. (I have to create a new door opening and block up the original). Electrics were re-wired about 10 years ago but we need to put...

Hi, What you have to remember here is that screed is something that you use to just level off a floor. All screeds crack after time and most delaminate from the concrete below. Screeds also need to be at least 50mm thick to be effective as this is where the strength comes from. In this case...

At the moment I am making a right mess in my living room! The house was built in the thirties and had the original plaster coving around the ceiling that my dear wife decided had to go. I have now removed it all but this has made a mess of some of the walls where the old lime plaster has come...