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Hi all, I'm reboarding my kitchen ceiling at the moment and just wanted to check on the below before proceeding further. Firstly, the existing ceiling was double plasterboarded. The reasons for taking it down was due to part of it sagging as a result of a previous leak (self inflicted-...

Thanks- makes sense.

Hi all, I'm currently renovating our kitchen, with an adjustment in layout and as such changing a freestanding cooker (induction hob and oven rated at 10kW) to having a separate hob on an island, with two built in ovens on another cabinet run. I have the dedicated 32A breaker and associated...

Yeah I was thinking I might have got to that point. The plumbing underfloor in this house has generally troubled me! I’ve debated whether we just need to bite the bullet and repipe before I completely redo all of the flooring downstairs. It does look a bit ropey, plus we have had small leaks...

Thanks- I've checked and a magnet doesn't stick to it. I can't see any markings or seams on that section of exposed pipework I took a photo of either. That said, that particular bit is in our living room where a section of floorboard has been cut out for access but I haven't done this yet in the...

Hi all, I’m redoing our kitchen at the moment, and I need to relocate a radiator to accommodate the design. The main flow and return pipework goes around the perimeter right under both where current radiator is, and where I planned to install the new one. Therefore what I had planned to do was...

It depends. A lot of radiators in your house may be perfectly sufficient to meet heat loss. We ended up upgrading just under a third- mostly K1s to K2s (one K3). Doesn't make sense imo to replace boiler and not at least explore an ASHP and get heat loss calcs/quotes. Just don't believe the...

Absolutely makes sense to explore ASHP options if you are replacing the gas boiler anyway- even more so with solar albeit granted you won't see much benefit in the winter months. UFH not required and probably unlikely you need to double capacity of all of the radiators.

Great. Thanks. Yes definitely only for the extractor fan.

Probably worded the above badly. I meant just cutting the wires at the top, where they drop down, and connecting them up together. I wanted to check if regs allowed the connections in the void if they were in a maintenance free junction box which I think they do?

Hi all, We have an extractor fan in our kitchen that I am going to remove (we will sort an alternate extraction solution). I can see the ring circuit cables coming down into the isolator switch (top right-ish of photo). Thought I'd better check- is it just a case of connecting the wires and...

Might be a bit late in the day if you have already bought the tray, and I'm not saying you don't want to firm up the sub floor as much as possible regardless of what your tray is constructed from- but the risk of cracking is the reason I went for a steel shower tray for the second shower room we...

Sounds about right. You either need to micromanage and check everything where most trades are concerned (and ideally have a payment plan that protects your interests i.e. a decent final payment, only payable when everything is thoroughly checked and working as it should), or do it yourself. I've...

If it were me I'd definitely explore the cabinet idea that you mentioned in your first post with back to wall pan...assuming you have sufficient room in front. Then hopefully a simple right angle fitting would more or less take it directly out through the hole. For one of my bathrooms I used...

No it doesn't. There's a window in the way, plus the way it is currently routed to run alongside the pressure relief pipework is the neatest way of doing it. The best way of doing it then would be to use rigid conduit pipe? I was looking at the galvanised steel conduit which is presumably the...

Thanks for the very detailed explanation and diagram (y) I just wanted a sense check as quite unbelievably the guy is insisting it should be fine and it is a fitting (as in the part) failure. As soon as I had a proper look at the gland it was obvious it was going to leak in that orientation as...

I must admit I missed the most recent replies but thanks all. I’ve completed the repair today- as suggested using some pencil markings to position to slip coupler correctly. I used a solvent weld coupler at the bottom to then slot my new branched section onto. All seems to be sorted. I take it...

Kind of. The situation is a bit complicated. We engaged with their services and agreed a contract of works whilst they were MCS/NAPIT accredited. They were suspended by both, around 2 weeks prior to them starting the installation. They didn't tell us of this, and completed the installation...

All noted- thanks for the further suggestions. The original installer has got back to me and said it is the case that the IP66 rated gland installed on the top of the junction box has failed. i.e. not their fault in terms of installation method. Fault of the gland. There's evidently no way...

I've got this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0001GL098?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_7 Used it a few times and it has been good. Last time I did use it, for whatever reason it was a real struggle to loosen the chuck by hand to get the drill bit back out but got there in the...