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I had to take up some of the boards in the loft to gain access to a light fitting and noticed that the majority of the insulation already fitted is only filling 1/3 - 1/2 of the cavity space. Is it worth buying new insulation to fully fill the cavities? I would need 100mm insulation rolls and...

I've been installing some cupboards under the stairs and was cleaning the dust off my gas meter when it suddenly dawned on me (after 13 years of living here), why are there two outlet pipes on my installation?! In the photo, the pipe that runs off to the right supplies gas to the kitchen where...

Central heating in my house was retrofitted before we moved in and the pipes creak when heated but also when you stand on the flooring above (still not sure if it's the pipes creaking or the flooring itself). It looks like the pipes haven't been installed low enough into the beams which means...

Hello, this type of thing has been answered before but the joists in my garage run side to side, as opposed to front to back so it leaves me with a slightly different problem. My single garage is in a block of garages and is made up of a single skin of breeze blocks. It has a flat felt roof...

My parents have just moved into a new house and they have never had gas central heating before so I was showing them how to use it. I noticed that the water pressure in the system was a bit low so I googled how to repressurise their particular boiler (a Vaillant ecoTEC Pro 24). This seemed...

I have an old immersion switch in my kitchen that is still live but no longer needed. I would like to remove the old switch faceplate and fit a blanking plate in its place. Once I've turned off the supply to the switch and removed the faceplate, is it possible to terminate each individual cable...

I’m hoping to replace my mains-wired under kitchen cabinet fluorescent light fittings with some LED strip light units and need some advice please. The current lighting system consists of a mains cable running into a fused switch on top of one of the kitchen cabinets (photo 1). This then feeds...

I am in the process of re-tiling my kitchen and would ideally like to replace a number of switches and sockets as they look a bit dated. The combined cooker switch and single socket is slightly puzzling me though - it's a front plated type with a very large back box. Is it possible to swap...

Apologies if this has already been asked, I've searched through the forums but couldn't find anything. Basically my old chrome towel radiator had rusted so I bought a new white one instead. Both are 450mm wide which I stupidly thought was all I needed to measure. I now realise that the...

I currently have breeze block (party) walls on either side of my rectangular garden - one side is 3ft high and the other is 4ft high. I’d like to increase privacy by putting up some fencing panels to take the overall height up to about 6ft all around the garden. I have therefore already bought...