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After a long fight with this supplier, we had to pay for windows we didnt order, that were faulty and installed badly. We decided to try to fix or at least improve the installation ourselves and pulled some of the trim off the bay window. To our horror we found that the bay poles were short, in...

had a bungalow rewired in November 2008, can you tell me what standards the electrician should have done it to. I'm a bit worried that the light in the bathroom is on the main lighting cct, not protected by RCD, and that there is no bonding on the steel bath (you can see I've been reading...

Am I right in assuming that you cant leave a combi boiler on supply hot water only, when the Rads are drained. Thanks Fletchermills

Got a "floor expert" to come in this week and lay my 21mm prefinished T&G pine floor (from B&Q) onto a standard chipboard floor. His idea is to glue the pine boards to the chipboard floor, as well as nail, and glue the joints. Not sure I like this idea, it would be impossible to lift the floor...

I plan to lay the French Pine flooring (pre finished), bought from B&Q in my new loft room. The boards are 21mm thick x 143mm wide and 2m long. The loft floor is 18mm waterproof chipboard on joists. The instructions say to nail the boards (secret nailing). A few questions. 1 If Im...

I'm having a loft conversion done, and the present vent stack pipe has to go/move. The builder has suggested an air admitance valve instead of making a new hole in the roof. Can anyone tell me if these valves give any problems, do they work correctly, ie let air in, keep smells from...

Did sort of ask this in another post about moving the consumer unit further from the meter (4 metres), but got a mixed response. Anyone else have ideas why i shouldnt use an 80A dp mcb to isolate by consumer unit, rather than using a switch and a fuse. Thanks for any help

Great Forum by the way, found out loads of info - thanks to all. i'm installing a new consumer unit about 3.5m away from the meter. Having read other posts on this subject I see its recommended to fit a 100A dp isolator at the meter together with a fuse, no problem with the isolator, but...