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I need to run a lighting circuit cable up a bedroom wall into the loft from CU on ground floor. For ease and minimising cable length I see two options. Shown by red lines in diagram. Questions are 1) In option 1 does the position of the window break the corner safe zone? 2) In option 2...

Thanks for all your advice, my thinking was that I could get an off the self door from a DIY shop or builders supplier or the like and make the frame to fit the door as I dont have frames in place yet this seems to me easier than fitting a frame then cutting the door to fit . It would also be...

Thanks thats what I was hoping

I was looking at the regs for fitting switches etc in bathrooms and can see that if one is placed behind a shower wall it has to be set back greater than 0.6m+ thickness of the wall otherwise it falls in zone 2. Does this ONLY apply to a shower wall within a bathroom, as my shower wall is the...

I currently do not have any internal doors or even frames. I will shortly be going about fitting some into the stone recesses. My question is whats the standard or best internal door frame size if there is such a thing. Also what is the best thickness of wood to use for the frame and the...

Ill take some pics tomorrow

The joist doesnt meet a wall plate but is nailed to the bottom of the rafter (diagram above) Should I do the same with the new joist? If so it would have to be nailed through the old joist to the rafter or I could place it on the other side of the rafter, in which case there would be a gap...

Yes there are no ceiling binders. Wouldnt ceiling binders hinder the laying of a floor? Or are the binders removed and their function taken over by the floor boards?

What are ceiling binders?

Room is 427cm. The joists would be a couple of feet shorter as they dont span the entire room. The diagram is not to scale the sagging is probably about 10cm. Part of the problem is that one of the sagging joists has a 2ft split along it. The diagram is an over simplification, below is more...

I have an old terraced house Im renovating. Ive pulled down the sagging bedroom ceiling (plasterboard) and can see that the reason is that the old joists have bowed over the years. What I wish to do is to remove the bend before putting up new plasterboard and also make the timbers strong enough...

Perhaps I didnt explain properly my questions are related to the actual light itself not the lighting circuit. I understand the types of circuit, (my posts mention them). I know how to select the right cable and the requirements for laying it to conform to regs. I have also seen mainainance free...

Starting the lighting circuits soon. Afew questions. Dont know which type to method to use, main going to junction box or ceiling rose. They both seem to have their advantsges and disadvantages. I think I would go for ceiling rose however, I havent bought any lighs lately so unsure what the...

I dont like that hollow sound the wall make and the flimsiness of the plasterboard with a space behind it, just my opinion but it somehow feels cheap and temporary. My thinking is that if its up against a relatively flat render then it wount have that flimsiness and even more so with some...

OK I think lime render. I understand that with a lime render there has to be a lime plaster finish rather than a gypsum, is this correct? Could I put plaster board over the lime render and also use insulating board between the lime render and plasterboard? Last question, anyone know a good...

Thanks for the link, very interesting. Do you think this would apply (ie need to breathe) if the outside of the wall is bare stone, hence it is exposed and moisture can evaporate from the outside as opposed to being able to evaporat from the inside?

I have an old stone terrace house with most of the internal walls hacked back to bare stone. My intention is to render these walls then apply plaster board and skim. A number of the walls are not plumb and very irregular, in some cases there looks to be a 4inch difference between different parts...

no sockets and switches here

Thanks steve. I will look into those

Not considered how the door will go yet. At the moment its just an opening. The walls have been hacked back to bare stone so I have a few options. Thanks for pointing that out though.