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Hoping for a bit of advice please so I can call the right person to fix a problem. RCD tripped overnight and have isolated the cause to be when the back of the fridge freezer touches the copper central heating pipes that run behind it. This is because it only happens when the fridge is pushed...

We have a walk in shower in our downstairs bathroom where I believe the flooring is Karndean. Where the flooring meets the wall it goes up the wall about 10cm so as to create a sort of tray. However it is starting to peel away from the wall in places. Please could someone advise the best...

I intend to board a small area of my loft to provide additional storage space at home. As there is already around 30cm of insulation up there, I will need to build some sort of suspended floor frame on which to fix loft boards. What size and grade timber is required for such an application -...

We have a Pyronix Sterling 10 alarm system installed at home with sensors for the downstairs rooms, door sensors and a single LCD type keypad. As part of our downstairs hallway renovations, I disconnected the keypad from the system so that the cable linking it to the main alarm could be buried...

What is the best way of fixing a DPM to a masonry wall to ensure the membrane is not compromised? I need to fix one to a single skin masonry wall prior to fixing timber studwork and need to know the most sensible way of A) Fixing the membrane to the wall and B) fixing the timber studwork to...

Hope one of you knowledgable guys on here can help me. The previous owners of our house built a small porch on to the front of the house to extend the small downstairs hallway. The porch itself is roughly 2x1m and there is no door between it and the downstairs hall (previous front door has been...

Evening chaps Having re-wired some of my light switches upstairs (for some reason they were all pull cords before :roll: ) I now have a mix of old and new wiring colours in the house. I am aware that I should have a sticker on my CU that states both new and old wiring colours have been...

Hi guys, hope you can help me please. This weekend I intend to install a new radiator in our living room as it currently does not contain any central heating (don't ask me why :roll: ). There is already a radiator in our adjoining kitchen and my plan it to tee off from the 15mm flow and...

Hi, hope someone can help me quickly. I want to upgrade my current analogue room thermostat (Drayton RTS8) with a digital unit and was looking at the Sunvic TLX7501. The wiring from the boiler (Ferroli Modena 80e) is a 2 wire configuration that I believe the Sunvic will work with. I was just...

Hope you can help as I'd like some clarification before I go ahead with the following. I'm installing a new aerial socket in our bedroom that will be connected to the aerial and sky box downstairs via a small 2 channel ampifier/splitter in the loft. I'm fitting the socket using a flush...

Hi guys, I hope you can help. Last weekend I was chiselling out a recess for a new electrical socket in one of my internal walls and through a combination of underestimating the wall thickness and being a little over enthusiastic with the chisel I have effectively knocked a hole through the...