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Son just moved into a house and wants to replace a 2 gang touch sensitive light switch in the living room which has failed. There is also a touch sensitive light switch 2 gang in the understair cupboard that's failed that is linked to the living room and can switch off/on the living room...

Big cast iron rads removed to restore parquet flooring and on re installation son wants trv's instead of manual valves. No access to sub floor to see if there's a drain cock so I guess I will have to rig up a hose to the manual valves individually to drain down before replacement. Not worked on...

First time fitting porcelain but have done a bit of tiling in the past. Tiles are 600x300mm x 8mm and are suitable for floor and wall. 2 of the walls surrounding the shower will be 12.5mm standard plasterboard and one plaster wall will be primed. All shower walls will have schulter kerdi...

What should I use to stick plasterboard to a wall that used to be on the outside skin. The old plaster from around the 1980's came off very easily so maybe an adhesion issue to external brick faces. I have some knauf plasterboard adhesive, will this be OK or is there a better product or primer I...

While installing a new stud wall in my 1930's 3rd bedroom extension to make an ensuite I thought I would add some insulation but unsure which would be best. Stud wall is 89mm deep so was going to fit 75mm celotex. Would this be OK and help keep the ensuite warm or are there better alternatives...

My neighbours have had a large extension to the rear of the adjoining 1930's semi and removed the wall between the kitchen and dining room. They then moved the location of the kitchen to the adjoining wall removing the existing chimney breast. We put up with 6 months of building work which I...

Anyone know why fan is running all the time when neither Ch or hot water are on. It's also making an irritating whirring sound otherwise I doubt I'd have noticed as it was very quiet before. I guess its a board that controls its operation.

My daughters recently acquired 1900's brick built semi has external insulation mainly on the large gable end. Unfortunately it wasn't picked up on the survey that the coating that covers the insulation is bubbling up in many places. My plan is to strip off all the old coating and re coat but...

I'm on a shared supply (1930's semi) and despite my complaints to Yorkshire Water about low pressure when my neighbour is using the water supply they refuse to do anything about it. The have tested the flow rate which they say meets minimum requirements but the test was carried out when no...

Daughters newbuild house had a leak in the upstairs bathroom today, no isolator valves on the offending taps and stopcock not fully shutting off so turned off at the water meter stopcock in the street. On turning both back on the gauge on the pressure reducing valve eventually goes upto 4bar but...

With the rising cost of gas is it worth replacing my 1989 Ideal mexico 2. The boiler has been very reliable having only 2 issues gas valve and pilot light thermo couple in all that time so I'm reluctant to get rid. Everyone I know with a combi has had expensive trouble with there combi's but...

My 1930's semi 3rd bedroom was extended back in the 70's, the extension has a carport underneath. The underside of the extension floor joists /carport ceiling has what I believe to be asbestos sheet attached with no insulation. What's the modern alternative in this types of installation today, I...

I like to be armed with a bit of knowledge before calling in the professionals as I have been caught out by some unscrupulous tradesmen in the past. My boilers (a Ideal Mexico Super 2 RS60 serviced 2 years ago) pilot light was lit but main burner wasn't firing up despite controls calling for...

My old Ideal Mexico super 2 RS60 has developed an issue where the heating/hot water has become intermittent. I've tested power to the gas valves solenoid which is a steady 248v ac when the controls are calling for heat but the solenoid doesn't seem to have enough pull to suck in the plunger. So...

I recently made some cupboard door's to fit a new airing cupboard frame I also made. On fitting the doors I annoyingly noticed one of them has twisted about 7mm, the other's have remained true. I currently have the door clamped to a bench to try and reverse the bend, is there anymore I can do to...

Any rules of thumb how deep a mortice hole should be. I gather the tenon should be a 1/3 of the width of the timber so on a piece of wood 42mm deep a 14mm tenon. How deep should the mortice hole be. The posts where the mortices will be cut are 70mm square and the tenon timber is 68mm x 42mm. I...

About to re fit en suite and the current supply to the basin is in 15mm copper, should I change the pipe to 22mm for better flow. The flow and pressure to the single hot tap is ok but I will be fitting a mixer.

As the title says really, have read through various posts but no real conclusions apart from wired seems to be the way to go, so recommendations please. The house is a 3 bed semi, front door, side door, rear patio doors so I thought 3 pirs and 3 door contacts to alarm the downstairs would...

I currently have a hudson reed kia mixer valve with a rainfall shower head and would like to add a flexy hose and shower head mainly for easier cleaning of the shower etc. I can access the pipework so my plan was to add a diverter valve in the pipe that runs to the shower head then run a pipe...

Currently running one power shower in the main upstairs bathroom, the MI's that came with the pump says it can run a second shower. The MI's don't say how far away the shower can be. The second shower will be about 8m from the 1.5bar watermill pump, will the pump be able to cope with this...