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We're fitting underfloor heating to an existing mid '80's house. Turns out that there is only 10mm polystyrene above the block and beam :( Any idea on how to insulate this, and fit UFH, without having to raise the floor level significantly? Thanks

I've got a question about framing the walls of a garden room. I'm just sussing out how I'd go about doing the framing. Here's my basic design I'm playing around with, which is an odd shape due to garden (no idea how I'll do the roof yet): From what I understand, the 400mm vs 16" question just...

I'm designing a garden office/gym at the moment. The base will be a concrete slab, insulated from below. Construction will be (from top to bottom) Around two courses of brick for the timber sole plate to sit on. 100mm concrete, top of which is ground level. 100mm insulation 25-50mm sand...

My shower has recently stopped turning on. It slowly got worse and worse... taking longer for the pump to kick in then would only kick in whilst fully on cold and now just doesn't start at all :( I've disconnected the hot feed into the pump, and essentially there's just a slow trickle out of...

Is this even allowed? Under sink is a socket. Here's the back of it. Is a socket in sink unit allowed? If so, is that wiring legit? Doesn't looked fixed very well either.

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Can anyone supply me with instructions on how to lower the entry/exit volume that comes out of the main panel when entering/exiting? It's currently deafening levels, and there's no way you could come back late at night without waking up the already sleeping household. I've got the engineers...

I'm putting 3 x 5metre strips of LED's into my garage. I'm going to have the LED driver wired up to a connector block, which will then connect to each of the 3 LED strips.....pretty much like this: The input connections on the drive are well covered. The output connections could are...

Hello, I'm wondering if I can hook up my Pyronix Enforcer to my home automation. Are there any kind of outputs on the Enforcer that can connected up to some kind of i/o module or sensor, which can then link up to my hub. I've got a Samsung Smartthings hub. I'm thinking of things like...

Hi, Just replaced a pump on a shower, and found out that the previous pump was hooked up to the lighting circuit on a fused spur. I've put the new pump in (which has a 3A fused plug on it), and connected it again. This is all in the loft. Just wondering if there are any safety issue with this?

Moved into new house recently, and discovering lots of dodgy wiring DIY jobs. So, we've got a fireplace in the lounge downstairs. We've stripped the wallpaper off, and discovered a channel containing 2 electric cables, going all the way up the lounge wall, up behind the coving. It's only a...

I've got 2 lights, both working from 1 switch. I've replaced the lights with standard ceiling roses, but can't get both lights operating normally again. Here's the wires coming out of the ceiling: I'm ignoring all earth wires, but rest assured they are all connected up. Light 1: So, 1 and 2...

Hi, My Hot water is working fine. My Central heating is not :) I've got a 3 port valve. I turn on the hot water, I can hear and feel the 3 port valve doing its thing, and boiler kicks in, and all is fine. I turn on central heating, and nothing. I've manually moved the slider on the...

Hello, As title really, our drum stopped spinning, and we had the brushes replaced, which had both worn right down. A few washes later, we noticed an odd burning kind of smell coming from the machine. We are now told the armature on the motor is knackered, and we'll need a new motor. My...

Hi all, I'm attempting to make so custom sized kitchen cabinet doors. It's an IKEA kitchen, but the way we've laid it out means we have to create some doors of a unique size, which can't be bought anywhere. So, from my measurements of the existing doors and draw fronts, the existing radius...

We have a landing light, controlled by two switches. One downstairs, one upstairs. I've replaced the upstairs switch, and I've been unable to rewire it successfully! (yes, I do regret no noting which wire was wired to which terminal :D ) I have 3 wires coming from downstairs (red, blue +...

Ok, firstly, I really don't know a lot about electrics, so excuse me if I get any/all terminology wrong here. Basically, we've got a 25 year old house. The consumer unit (or fuse box as I call it) is pretty old, and has about 7 fuses/jumpers/what ever the correct term is. 3 are 30amp (plugs...

Hi there, I'm about to attempt doing some solder ring joints for the first time :shock: I'm replacing the plumbing under my kitchen sink. I will be having two equal tee joints (cold feeds for dishwasher and washing machine) very close to each other. As close as possible really. I'm...