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Hi, I have read it all albeit i may have not understood it all. I'm not a qualified electrician hence please do make some allowances. I appreciate your help and advice

My electrian and me are still debating to go with built in pir of seperate pir sensor. He prefers a built in sensor and im not sure and i want to lights to come on at the same time. Can you recommend a exrernal sensor to use? Also, he still advises for two seperate siwtch I'd need two...

Thankyou so much to you all, lots of helpfull advice, and much appreciated. Im womdering if anyone can recommend which sensors to use? Also is there a way altenative way to wire a dusk till dawn sensor so that it only starts to work when its switched on? I recall many years ago we had a...

Wow, thankyou very much guys a tonne of information here. Unfortunately for me though i might just be out of my depth with it. Ive spoken with the Electrian and tbh he didnt seem too keen on the idea either. Said it was complicated. And also suggested i would need 2 pir sensors , 1 for each...

Hi, My next home improvement will be to install some lighting in the front garden. Plan is to install 4 wall lights and some ground lights around the plants. I have a tripple switch. And plan on using as such. Switch one will control the two of the lights by the front door (one on either...

Thankyou again, i really appreciate your quick response :-) Ok i may pay a visit to tlc and see if they have something silimar and comes with a remote /switch that can be fixed to the wall internally. I need something easy to use for an elder in the family and preferably something that wont...

Thankyou. Another thought came to mind, im pretty sure ive seen remote control units which can connect several different circuits off of them. I believe they went somethingvlike this, Internal switch to box outside ( box out side has multiple connection point's) and each point can then be...

Hi, we are wanting to install some wall lights and floor lights to are back garden and needed some advice on how best to wire them to a switch. Currently we have just the one pir flood light in the garden and switch for it is in the kitchen just by the back door (goes into garden) I really...

Hello hope you all well, My enegineer says if we go with the copper and plastic pipe combination then once the copper pipe exits the rear of house it will have to go upwards againts the wall and the plastic gas pipe would then be joined onto it and run into the ground again and brought back up...

Hi all, I've spoken with the the gas man again and he said another way do it would be to use copper indoors and the plastic mdpe gas pipe for the run outside bit under the soil. Personally i would have thought for him it would be easier to install the trac pipe hence and only suspect he is...

Hi, i asked him this and he said no need for any type of ducting, Basically as i understood it, He was literally going to drill a hole from.the meter box into the house and then into the ground. Through the suspended timber floor and then into the concrete ( he'll have to break it and dig...

Hi Ianmcd Will it meet the safety regulations through out of of the run I've described, or would it need to be further protected etc? I.e, laying ontop of soil under the suspended floor void, then into concrete floor slab and then buried into soil in garden?

Thankyou, I appreciate the suggestion. I agree most high priorty is of its saftey

Hello, I need some advice about a tracpipe installation. We will be taking a seperate gas line into the outhouse, intend of routing in through the house underfloor. My gas man recommended a trac pipe from the front of the house ( where meter is) to enter into the house under the suspeded...

Hi Hugh, Many thanks for your reply, Its a brickbuilt chamber and very old, approx 1meter deep, and has only my property wast going into it. Its has a square iron cover it, again very old. I hope to get some pictures a but later for you, hopes the above helps meanwhile, thanks again

Hello, My next project is to reposition the gate in my front garden. This gate is not the by the foot path, its by the gable side of the house, and allows access to my rear garden. I wish to reposotion it so that i could fit a larger size car directly on my driveway in the front garden...

Thanks, I'll give that a go, i guess that would mean I'd loose the lip of the skirting as it would become buried pretty much into the wall just by the door? And then I'd most likely need to do the same with the architrave so that where the two meet they remain flush?

Yes thats correct

Is there a easy fix? There was originally a radiator on this wall but going forward i will be changing moving this else where for a upright one hence any obvious blemishes will quite visible

The door liner is plumb but i guess it would have been better to have installed a 5.5inch liner instead of the 6inch. He clearly has made the mistake of plastering up level to the door liner insted of making sure the plastering remained straight. The door liner could have been planned...