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Hi all, We live in a 1930s semi-detached house with the living room and bedrooms adjoined in a mirror image. The living room is one single, large through room (not two knocked through to one, but built that way) with a single fireplace on the party wall. The party wall, based on the exposed...

I've recently installed a new radiator, a first time job for me. It's running fine, very hot, but when the heating first turns on it makes a slight dribbling/bubbling noise, not constantly, just on and off, until it's warmed up. It is a Combi system and I've bled all radiators now and only...

I have a 40kg double bank radiator to fit on to a wall that I've now realised is all plasterboard and with no stud for the position it needs to go, underneath a straight section of bay window. I had bought some of these: https://www.toolstation.com/fischer-radiator-fixing-set/p88335 On the...

I'm planning on replacing a bedroom radiator. Because of sizing differences that are unavoidable, I need to adjust the pipework. I'm planning on changing the last metre to the radiator to use plastic pipe connected to the existing copper. Plastic will be easier for access and minimising joins...

I am replacing an old cooker extractor hood that was previously installed by a kitchen fitter. It packed up so I've got a new one. The extractor is on the lighting circuit. After removing the old one, I found it was wired to an FCU (no switch) within the chimney cover of the hood. The new...

I am thinking of giving our bathroom a revamp but have hit a mental stumbling block over the electrics. Currently the bathroom has a single pendant light and a SELV extractor fan with transformer in the loft, both running off the upstairs lighting circuit which has no RCD protection at the CU...

I bought a Hive with professional installation on Amazon but I hate it so returning it for refund. Since the receiver has already been wired up, am I right in thinking it will now be simple to swap the receiver over with one for a Nest or some other smart thermostat? Hoping so or might be a...

First of all, I am getting an electrician to put this right and I'm not going to work on the circuit, but I would like to understand what is going on, especially so I don't get any wool pulled over my eyes. Basically we have a lighting circuit with incomplete earthing (electrician says...

I have an annoying case of water hammer and really hoping for some help on how to solve it. Due to a minor leak I replaced the flexible hoses under the bathroom sink recently, and this meant turning off the main stopcock, as the isolator tap is built in to the hose. Ive turned the stopcock off...

I have bought a new outside light that is plastic and has no earth terminal. It says it's double insulated. This new light is replacing a metal one that is earthed. It connects back to a junction box. This junction box also feeds another outside light, which is metal and earthed. Both switch...

I want some work doing on my electrics but over the years of living here I've noticed a few issues with the set up and was hoping for views on how big the issues are in terms of safety and cost to resolve by an electrician. I can then get them to fix the issues alongside the extra work I want...

I have an oldish combi boiler, non-condensing, Alpha CB 24x. Recently the pressure has been rising and the PRV leaking outside. Even with heating not in use it still rises to the max. Sometimes it drops back to midway and sometimes it remains at max pressure, without intervention either way...

Last summer I installed some decking. Admittedly the slope I used wasn't steep enough towards the lower end but it was fine last winter. This winter, some of the boards are not draining at all at the lower end so there are puddles. What I don't understand is: - why ok last year but not...

I have an old concrete panel roof with a corrogated concrete roof, probably containing asbestos given the age. The roof has started leaking and, although it is getting on a bit, I'd like to get another 3 - 5 yrs out of the garage before funds allow removal and replacement. Bearing this in...

We have a ground floor extension that was build in the late 1970s. It is likely the gutters, fascias and soffits are the original ones from when the extension was built. The fascias are wooden and starting to rot so I would like to replace them. The soffits look reasonable but the paint is...

We have a rotten wooden fascia to one side of our house caused my a small leak at the end of one section of the aluminium gutter. The leak is caused by a small screw hole near the top of the gutter, which only became a problem when snow weighed down the gutter at that side, against the flow...

Happy New Year. :D Over the last couple of weeks our combi boiler has started playing up again. One symptom is that the heating sometimes thinks it is hot enough when it isn't. I can tell from the click on the room thermostat dial that the room is not up to temperature when it does this...

I am changing a few more faceplates from cheap plastic ones to metal ones. I have done this a few times now but seem to come across new problems each time! This time, in 2 of the switches there is no earth, despite metal back boxes. The switches are a 2 way hall/landing and a 1 way landing...

We have a radiator that weeps when cooling down (i.e. overnight) from the TRV. When the TRV is removed, there is no small puddle waiting in the morning, but when the TRV is on, the small puddle is there. I'm not sure if this is just down to the TRV preventing evaporation or if the TRV itself...

I have replaced some socket face plates in one particular room of our house and discovered that all sockets in that room are wired to 2 circuits. They are all single sockets, and each terminal has 2 wires going into it (2 earth, 2 live and 2 neutral wires). All 6 wires come into the socket from...