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Hi Just had a new kitchen fitted with all new sockets and wiring. Have noticed when the microwave is running and the kettle is turned on (the kettle is plugged in the socket next to the microwave) that the microwave sounds like its loosing power, like an electric motor sounds when a battery is...

We're updating our kitchen and have had the room the previous one was in stripped out, walls back to bare brick and the flooring taken up. The old kitchen floor was a slab with old terecotta style tiles on top and a step up into a laundry room with a wooden floor and a void underneath. The void...

Hi Can you recommend a good emergency cleaning company that covers South London (SW19) - ideally to start Monday. Just come home to find our decorator, that was power sanding our hall some how forgot to tape up all the doors that lead off the hall way and subsequently all of the rooms have...

A couple of dimmers that a builder fitted a year or so ago, when they did a loft conversion for us, are starting to fail. The light flickers on/off when dimming and usually switches off when left on a dimmed setting. I gather the ones they fitted are very cheap, all be it to UK standard...

Hi all Been trying to find some furniture to match our rubberwood bed without success - not much of a selection for rubberwood furniture. Would it be possible to stain pine furniture to match rubberwood? Would have to find pine furniture with a similar grain - no nots etc. And do...

Hi Long story short - we’ve had some building works carried out (large project) and have a final list of issues/ snags. Some major and some fairly minor. We’re anticipating the builder who carried out these works will dispute some of them, in other words not want to put them right. He’s...

Hi Need to upgrade our bedroom radiator from a single to a double but don't want the extra expense (budgets run over following decoration) of getting the copper pipes moved to fit the new double rad's valve location (center of the rad). Do you know of any stockists that do double rads with...

Hi Quick question. Does UK or England's household fire regulations require wire mesh (chicken wire) to cradle Rockwool that's fitted over a ceiling, when a new loft conversion is built? We're in the process of agreeing final payment for a loft conversion we've recently had completed. The...

Hi Wanted to ask the forum about my rights as a client to sack an electrical contractor. In our view the contractor have not done a satisfactory job. The contractor visited our house to quote for the works. They explained that they charge by the hour and confirmed their rate and the...

Hi We recently hired a 'pay by the hour' electrical firm to install a ring main on a bedroom in our house. Long story short and without going into too much detail, due to possible pending legal action (to do with a separate issue with them regarding final payment), would like to check if...

Hi I'm researching some tiles for a shower and was after some advice on using brick tiles, like below, with a shower frame. Would you avoid the beveled styled brick tiles and use flat faced or do the beveled style just take a bit more work with the sealant? Thanks

Hi I've had a UK certified electrician round who has fitted a 4 switch light similar to this but with two regular switches and 2 dimmers on the right. All 4 are connected to regular 60/100watt bulbs. The dimmers have two issues I've not known before, they buzz loudly when fully turn on (the...

Hi, wanted to ask the forum about junction boxes for extending wiring. We have an electrician doinging some work for us at the moment and he's joined two bathroom radiator heater wires by using a strip and wrapping a load of insulation tape around. Is this good practice? I would have...

Hi, is this a standard dado rail pattern? The width is 70mm. If not how much would you charge to create this pattern? I need 12 metres, 4 x 3 metre lengths. And is it cheaper/ better to use heat treated softwood or hardwood for this? Thanks Chas

Hi Have just had a new bathroom fitted and the white matt ceramic tiles around the bath and basin have a orange clay coloured edge showing, between the tile face and the wall. Was thinking a white satin enamel paint like this would do the job, what do you think? THanks Charlie

Nice simple one ;) - what's the name of the socket to plug this into? It's a flat faced socket with a small hole in the middle to get the wire below thru. It's to plug in a radiator dual Fuel kit. Thanks!

Thinking of buying one of these: http://www.designertrays.co.uk/ Anyone fitted one before? and problems? Thanks

Hi Do you know of any bathroom wall pull cord switches that could be used with a set of standard UK wall lights? - like this: . Perhaps a ceiling pull cord that would work ok wall mounted? We're planning on using those lights either side of a mirror and having a pull switch hidden...

As far as I can tell no one has asked this on here yet… What's the difference between an direct and indirect unvented [Megaflow] system? ...aside from price :wink: Thanks

Hi I've been lurking on here for a good while and had a quick question. We live in a Merton council area and checking their BCO site it seems all sorts of trivial changes to houses are applied for with them. No doubt the council would like everyone to run every bit of work thru them...