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We run a community village hall and have a large kitchen provided for the use of hirers. This includes a Lincat SLR9 gas cooker which I believe is a 23.8Kw appliance with all six burners and oven on max. This was installed some 10 years ago and has passed all subsequent Gas Safety inspections as...

We have a maintained luminaire outside the back door of our community building (circular wall mounted with built in battery and 28w CFL Lamp Knightsbridge TPR28). This is operated along with other external normal luminaires from a switch in the lobby. It has recently stopped working and I have...

Can anyone give advice on a good quality gun grade glazing putty/compound. I have a very large mahogany full height window in my garden room, which needs the external glazing beads replacing. The originals are triangular section and have warped and split and I have got water coming in when it...

We are about to accept a quote for installing two 2 x Vaillant Eco Tec Plus 630 system boilers to replace our failing Ideal Concord CXS/SD 40 which has had more parts than triggers broom has had heads!! I believe most tandem boiler setups are controlled by a single timeswitch/controller and...

I am sure this question has been asked a thousand times but when I search for radiator outputs all I get are calculators that work out what size radiators I need for a specific room volume. We have 5 large (2000m x 600 approx) very old steel double panel radiators without convection fins in our...

In our Village Hall we have a Ideal Concord CXS/SD40/H central heating boiler. This was installed new when we had an extension built and the existing boiler needed upgrading. The Mechanical Engineers advising the architect insisted that we had a conventional cast iron combustion chamber boiler...

I am looking for views and advice on installing an EV charging point. I will get an electrician or company to install it but it but wanted thoughts on the best installation method. I have a three phase supply to my house and recently had a three phase smart meter fitted and the mains fuses...

I am trying to write a specification for re-decorating the inside of our Village Hall Annex in order to get quotes. it was built in 2010 and looking a bit tired and there is some settlement cracks, loose plaster around doorways and holes from recent plumbing and wiring changes including surface...

We need to install a HW recirculation pump and circuit in our Village Hall. There is a very long draw off from the HWC in the loft to the furthest tap in the Doctors Consulting room handbasin. As a result the water does not reach 55 degrees C within 1 minute which is the requirement for our...

I have a 20+ year old UFH system from Wirsbo (now Uponor) which uses wireless room stats. I would like to upgrade the heating controls to digital "learning" thermostats so am looking at using Heatmiser NeoAir stats and wiring modules. These are 230v and my current actuators are 24v so need to...

As the title says I am looking for some advice on loft insulation. I have a bungalow which I rebuilt in 2000 so external walls are now cavity and have cavity insulation. The roof spaces are part open and part boarded for storage. The ceiling joists are 125mm and the fiberglass comes up just...

I have a bungalow with vented hot water system. I have just had a new kitchen and wet-room installed and performance at modern taps was appalling so have fitted a monsoon twin impeller pump to provide whole house boosted water. This works fine and has drastically improved flow at taps etc...

Having recently chopped off the coving in my kitchen ready to have the ceiling skimmed it took me ages to make good the walls with Easyfill!! I now have a large lounge ceiling that needs skimming to cover the artex where the tape is now coming away from the joints. Is it reasonable to ask a...

I am looking for advice on a problem I have with my 50 Gallon cold water storage tank which regularly overflows. Previously the ball valve was a Torbeck Diaphragm Valve but it kept getting grit in it and overflowing. I have therefore changed this to a good quality brass float valve with a...

Can anyone tell me if Euro Modules and Faceplates are manufacturer specific i.e only MK modules fit in an MK Faceplate or are they interchangeable with other manufacturers? I would like to swap out the current white MK Euro faceplates with screwless versions to match the MK Brushed stainless...

I am having a Siemens induction hob fitted to my new kitchen which has a maximum load rating of 7400Kw. From my calculations at a nominal 240v this is approx 30.8 amp. A 6.0mm T&E has been installed for this hob supplied by a 32 amp RCD. My question is whether a 32A DP isolator is sufficient...

I am refurbishing a kitchen and need the old artex ceiling skimmed. The original kitchen had cornice that went up to the ceiling so there are parts of the ceiling that have not been artexed only taped and sealed. The plasterer has looked at the ceiling which has vinyl paint on the artex and is...

After nearly 20 years we are replacing our kitchen and I need to prepare the walls. I have got a plasterer coming to skim the "artex" ceiling and make good the chases for the new electrics and missing plaster where tiles were hacked off. However there are no tiles going back up and no wallpaper...

I've just purchased 12 x Aurora AU-FRLD711B/30 6w LED down-lights for my new kitchen. Half of these will be two way switched and the other 6 on a one way dimmer. I would like to use a "Smart" dimmer to control them which will work with Amazon Alexa and was looking at the Lightwave dimmers...

While searching for a swivel type radiator connection I came across a website called Rotarad who make a product found her on Screwfix. I am trying to make a hot water laundry dryer from a large ladder rack towel rail and needed the rail to swing down away from the wall to about 20-30 degrees to...