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We have a single power pump feeding two showers. when one of the showers is on, the other shower leaks a fair bit (water comes fro shower head). The main consequence is a lack of flow to the Shower being used. The ‘leaking’ shower is a Grohe bar control - not sure what model but about 7 years...

I want to keep a manhole cover on our drive looking good. Can I paint it to stop it rusting and what would you recommend?

Attached image shows a socket layout I have inherited (and my blood underneath!). All three sockets are mounted in a single recess on two double and one single back boxes adjacent to each other - no gaps between them. To compound matters, the back boxes are not deep enough for the recesses...

Massive help - many thanks!

Thanks Sunray. Think it will. What is best fitting to take cable out of wall - an outlet plate, then run cable in trunking on inside of panel?

This has also been posted on the Screwfix community. Attached two pics show a 'peninsular' in my kitchen with a raised 'backstand'. Backstand is former cavity wall. Plan is to remove the backstand to floor level, extend worktop from 600mm to 900mm wide (i.e. to edge of pillar) and cantilever...

Doesn’t need to look good both sides.

If people could give examples and idea on materials, it would be appreciated. Looking for solutions for rear and front wall. Fitting between piers and below pier caps. Here's a pic of how it is now. Fencing will obviously come out, but access to rear fence has to be from my side. Can dig as...

Thinking of putting a water feature in the gap between brick piers in our garden wall. Gap is 6ft x 6ft x 1ft. Looking to put resilient, nil maintenance panel at rear of gap and decorative panel/face to front where water feature will be. Fairly competent DIYer, so happy to lay bricks if...

Looking for a simple, low (nil) maintenance infill fence/panel between piers in brick wall. Gap approx. 6ft x 6ft. Looking for something like a plastic fence panel/tongue and groove between galvanised steel channels (or similar, or on brackets). Any ideas?

My daughter is just about to have her garden landscaped. She has not thought about lighting or electrical requirements but thinks she may want some lights in the future. She already has external light and an external socket on her (new) home. To save time and hassle at a later date, I was...

According to this socket to corner is a safe zone.

Hope sketch is clear. I’d like to spur from an existing socket to a new one in another room. ‘Easiest’ route is through wall behind existing socket into another room, chase wall round internal corner, along wall running perpendicular to it and drill through to new socket position. Is this...

Thanks again!

Thanks. Any thoughts on the cable for the switch? If accessible (by lifting floorboards), can I extend down to new switch position? Simple connector block or something more substantial?

In a downstairs room (not bathroom or shower room), I want to change a pull switch to a standard light switch and pendant light to spots in different positions to original pendant. I can reach the switch positions from above by lifting floorboards, but the pendant is out of working reach due to...

Thanks to all for your comments. Draining the system doesn't worry me, so I'll probably opt for that.

It is that pic and oldbutnotdead you have confirmed my suspicions. Looks like I'm going to be ripping the room apart anyway, so tearing down a bit of ply isn't going to make much difference. Thanks for the replies.

I'm a DIYer - reasonably competent. I want to replace a radiator with a heated towel rail, possibly moving position, so valves need to be removed. I have a sealed CH/HW system. Can I do this without having to drain the entire heating system, and how?