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I'm planning to fit some shelves into an alcove by making 'rails' either side + back out of 8mm steel square bar, with housings routed into the sides (and back) of the shelves. The shelves are only 25mm thick, so I'm short of space to work with... My problem: what screws can I use for a...

I am insulating my timber suspended floor with 80mm celotex. Should I fit celotex between the final joist and an exterior wall? It includes a bay window, under which I found rotten joists (replaced, treated adjacent, DPM under new plates etc). The celotex would be very near the level of a...

I need to replace some boards in a 1920s house - most likely still has the original boards. Planning to sand the boards and stain quite dark (Dark Oak/Tudor Oak/Jacobean Oak) A builder I asked confidently told me some brand new boards would be fine if I rub a bit of tea on them and then stain...

I am insulating my timber suspended floor, and so need to insulate the central heating pipe runs underneath it. I have loads of 8mm (x15mm) climaflex type insulation, but my question is, is that adequate, or do I need something thicker? The pipe runs are towards the middle of the house...

Should a table lamp circuit - ie 2A or 5A sockets controlled by a dimmer - be a fused spur from a power ring or a (fused?) spur from a lighting circuit? (It's not easy to give it it's own MCB in the consumer unit in this case). The dimmer controlling it will be 2 gang, with ceiling lights...

Hi All I'm keen to fit a timer to an existing lighting circuit (for security reasons). The complication is that the light in on a dimmer switch. Will an inline timer object to feeding into a dimmer? I can see another option: connect output from timer to L1 and return from dimmer to L2...

Hi All I'm keen to fit a timer to an existing lighting circuit (for security reasons). The complication is that the light in on a dimmer switch. Will an inline timer object to feeding into a dimmer? I can see another option: connect output from timer to L1 and return from dimmer to L2...

In their wisdom, previous owners of my house placed the washing machine at the opposite corner of my house to any other plumbing. Actually, plumbing aside, it's quite a good place for it - and I can't think where else it can go. However, everytime it drains (via a hopper into a gulley), it...

(Hope this is the right forum!) Does anyone know a good manufacturer of extractor fans I can mount in the ceiling directly above my gas hob? I don't want to use a normal 'hood' as it would take a lot of light from an adjacent window. I know a company called 'Westin' make them - but...

Hi All - and Happy Christmas! Have a Hepworth 25mm MDPE to 22mm hep2o stopcock which is weeping from the supply side, water coming from inside the nut on the mdpe (which is actually a plasson fitting, joined and resold by hepworth) The mdpe is slightly scratched - but I have smoothed the...

Hi All Is it ok to fit Hep pipe and fittings in such a way that they will be subjected to force? For example, adding a tee to a curved section of pipe, which would result in a force at either end of the tee. Thanks Dan

Hi All Have a megatech HW cylinder heated by a Vailant ecotec 428 boiler. I've noticed that the boiler's water pressure increases from 1.0bar cold, to 1.6bar when hot - is that normal, or does that indicate a fault with the boilers expansion vessel (for example) Also, if i turn the HW...

I'm fitting a woodlock floor (Kahrs), ideally starting next monday. 2 walls in the room have been re-plastered - one skimmed and another sand and cement rendered and skimmed over - work finishing today. That would leave 6 days before fitting the floor. The floor is being delivered...

Are push fit (JG Speedfit) stop ends ok for central heating circuits? There's a pair of 22mm copper pipes under my floor blocked off with speedfit fittings (I think one is Hep one is JG Speedfit). I don't know how close they are to the active circuit, so I don't know how hot they'll be...

Is it a bad idea to position a rad opposite a window? Or is that an old wives tale? In my case, I've got a rad opposite french doors (timber, 4-6-4 double glazed, well draft proofed). Is that ok, or should I try to reposition it?! Thanks!

I've just drained and refilled my heating system - water only so far. I've got to drain it down and do more work on it in 2-3 weeks time. Should I add inhibitor? Or will a few weeks au naturel not do too much harm? Thanks!

Anyone know of a (free) heat loss calculator for Mac OSX? I can only find mention of PC ones...

Apols if this has been posted before - couldn't find it in the archives... Am I breaking any regulations if I put a radiator over a (double) socket outlet? I imagine it's easier to leave the socket intact to maintain the ring, but I guess I could connect with chocbox and put a blank cover...

Just wondering - is there much to chose between the makes of radiators in terms of performance? Who makes the best, reasonably priced double convectors?! Thanks!

Can 15mm pipes serve the heating for a whole 4 bedroom house with 2 bathrooms? We recently had a new boiler put in the attic and the installer simply joined onto the 15mm rad circuit there. That's left us with a 15mm circuit wandering round the house, visiting the old boiler site, old tank...