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Hello Everybody, planning a full kitchen refurb next year and would like to have some ceiling speakers. It should be a relatively simple system. Two speakers built into the ceiling, somewhere there needs to be an amp, and then a wall mounted control system. In its simplest form, it should have...

Hello, I am looking to gain access to a crawlspace under my reception room, but there is a gas line blocking it. I don't have space to get behind it from another void entry. As far as I can make out, this is the incoming iron gas supply pipe, before it goes into my gas meter. My guess is that...

Hello, I am in the process of cleaning up my victorian cellar, which is progressing well. Currently fitting/replacing some of the insulation between the joist and I have encountered a damp spot. I would like to know what your guess is for the source of this and if there is a cost effective...

Hi all, I bought a can of Rustins Quick Dry Floor paint, which is an acrylic emulsion paint. This is mean go onto some wooden floor boards in my cellar, so no perfect finish required. I find the shade a smidge too dark, and was looking if I can brighten it up slightly by adding some leftover...

One for the concrete experts... I am doing some works in a damp cellar and after digging up some more rubble, I found an old concrete pad in a corner. It's pretty beaten up with cracks, missing chunks, lots of unevenness and generally looks like someone just used different types of leftovers to...

Hello all, I am doing some works in my old victorian damp cellar. Whilst working there, I have noticed this lintel over the old coal chute arch, which is not is used anymore. The lintel is actually wood and suffers quite some wet rot, especially on the left side. I can almost peel off bits of...

Hello All, I am looking for some advice from someone familiar with the construction of old victorian terraced houses. I have posted my question in another forum already, but have not gotten quite the response I was after yet. Long story short: I want to know how the ceiling of my outrigger is...

Hello everyone, I just had a visit from my LABC for some plumbing works, mainly inspecting external waste pipe runs. The works they were meant to inspect were all fine, but annoyingly they have noticed some other close but unrelated waste pipes that were not up to regulation. Some minor points...

Hello all, I want to pull a light wire through an extremely narrow wall space in between two wooden studs. There is about 15mm width (but +100mm depth) and to make matters worse, there are already 3 cables going through this space. And to make it even more challenging, the cable I want to run...

Hello, during some re-wiring I noticed that one of my CH microbore copper pipe had a small nick/scratch. The floorboard had a small piece of metal pushing against it! It is not leaking and may have been like this for years, but keen to hear your views. Does this absolutely need to be...

Got a similar issue.... how long would you reckon to wait? Also, if the pressure increases only when the central heating is/has been running, would this exclude a leaky filling loop? Presumably a leaking filling loop would also increase the pressure even though no central heating has been used...

Hello Everyone, I need to replace the double glazed unit in one of my awning windows, as the seal has broken and the glass has become stained on the inside. How can I remove the window from the frame, so I can extract the actual window pane measure the exact size for a replacement? It looks...

Hello Everyone, FYI >> ca1900 period property, owner occupied, so regs/alarms in theory not required. Regardless, I am looking to improve on this for my family's safety. My property currently has one heat detector in the loft (where I also store my PV batteries) and one interlinked smoke alarm...

Opening a continuation of this post, as I actually had more queries before everyone started bickering... I've received the tiles now and made a rough layout. I am not intending to use the warm-up board, I just want to use it to make a perfect cutout for the flooring guy to work around. The...

Hi Everyone, I am currently redecorating my master bedroom, which will also include a new herringbone floor. I am currently refurbishing the fireplace and would like to lay down some mosaic tiles as hearth. This fireplace is closed and will never be used, so I do not require fireresistant...

Hello Everyone, I've recently noticed a small wet patch on my decking. Here the wider picture: The two red circles are toilet waste branches, the yellow circle is a shower waste. The green circle on the decking is my wet spot and the green circle at the top is where the newer PVC connects to...

Just a quick check pls. Installing a light outside my front door. Been a bit too aggressive and some plaster came off the ceiling. From the upstairs room everything looks like standard lath and plaster. I see some horsehair, but wondering about these white lines…

Onto the next... I am getting new flooring put down in my bedroom and as such I will need to strip the existing carpet down to the original floorboards. Whilst I have access, I want to wire a new socket onto the existing ring final and potentially cleanup a few things given that these areas...

Hello, I have recessed dimmable LED spot lights in my bathroom. They are all on one circuit so there is no zoning. They are operated by an ordinary rotary dimmer switch. Everything is working well, however given the nature of the room there is a lot of on/off switching for short periods. It has...

Hello, I want to add an ethernet socket to the side of my covered up chimney breast. The cat6 lead will come from the loft above, so I'd be looking to chase down from the ceiling. I've recently installed a socket into the same wall and therefore know that I have about 25mm of plaster and then...