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Hi, I've had a new kitchen installed and bizarrely the fitters don't do the plumbing so I decided I'd do that part myself. I'm fine with the taps but I have a query about the sink waste... It is a stainless steel Franke sink plus their special waste system. The instructions concentrate more...

Hi, I have a newly re-wired kitchen (by an electrician, all signed-off and properly certified) and they have left me a safely terminated 230v cable coming out of the wall that is ultimately connected to a wall switch so that I can add LED under & over cabinet lights once the new kitchen units...

Hi, I've just had my central heating boiler relocated and a new unvented cylinder professionally installed. I was surprised at the hot water temperature coming out of the taps was so hot even thought the cylinder stat is set at 50C so I started looking at the pipework. When the programmer was...

My house is undergoing renovations and as part of that the hot water cylinder is being moved from bathroom to utility room and changed to a mains pressure one. (FYI, work being done by a certified installer). Anyway, the plumber is also changing all the old radiators for new more efficient...

Hi, I'm having a new feed into my house that will have 22mm pipework to feed a new unvented cylinder. The plumber suggested that having a very short piece of 15mm pipework just inside the house (around the existing water meter, which the water company has said he can re-fit) should not be an...

Hi, I am hoping to build a small workshop inside an old barn. The barn floor is currently soil as it was an old potato store. I would like an insulated concrete floor. I've searched the forums for general floor construction advice but can't seem to find anything specifc. I think I need...

Hi, I have a 1960's agritultural barn that came with my house. It has a solid concrete gutter along each side (quite wide and strong - it safely supports my weight). Anyway, each section is about 10 foot long and several of the joints between them are now leaking. In the past they appear to...

Hi, I've just had underground soil pipes replaced beneath my driveway. They are modern PVC type material. Unfortunately near where they originate at the back of the house the builder could not lay them deep enough due to eventual shallow depth of septic tank (he said he wouldn't have had...

I am considering moving house shortly. An electrical report supplied by the vendor (from 2009) has a note from the electrician saying something about the "Earth Loop Impedance" being too high (I think it said 0.58ohms). There are also copies of follow-up letters from the local distribution...

I am currently refitting a static caravan for use during a house build/renovation. The previous owners of the caravan had fitted small central heating radiators and used a combi boiler in an external shed sited adjacent to the caravan. I have purchased the caravan but not the boiler as they...