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Has anyone tried using something like these (3.5mm clinch nuts) for repairing back boxes where the thread on the lugs is damaged? http://appianfasteners.com/pem-cls-m3-5-0-m3-5-clinch-nut-stainless-bag-of-100.html In theory one would just need to drill out the hole to 4.75mm insert clinch nut...

Has anyone used these http://www.screwfix.com/p/2-gang-back-box-protector-pack-of-50/50297 I have been cutting bits of corrugated cardboard to size, but it is a right faff, so precut ones would be handy.

I am looking at a mixer tap for a basin and it is available in 25mm and 35mm cartridge sizes. What is the advantage if any of the larger cartridge size? Basically I am not sure why a tap would be offered in different cartridge sizes. Specifically this is the tap in question...

Don't know if this is in common usage, but rather than use a bit of timber as a batten for tiling a better idea is to get a piece of 150x2400 melamine faced chipboard aka Contiboard, cut down the centre length ways. Hey presto two dimensionally stable perfectly straight battens with a nice wipe...

I am tiling my kitchen at the moment and after seeing the following post I decided to give it a go on the external corner of some boxing in of pipes in the corner. //www.diynot.com/forums/tiling/tiling-external-corner.331613/ Although it took a few goes to get the technique right for...

After an incident at my mothers where a ~38 year old socket went bang and issued smoke and flames after being switched on, I was wondering what sort of life span one could reasonably expect from a socket or light switch? The issue seems to have been the switch in the socket itself, hard to...

I have put a couple of 5A sockets on the lighting circuit in my kitchen to feed under cabinet task lighting. However wiring them up today it occurred to me that of course that lighting circuits are protected by a 6A MCB these days rather than a 5A fuse. In theory therefore a fault could cause...

What is the minimum distance I need to have between the flue for my combi boiler and the vent for a cooker hood?

Does a fixed appliance in this case a chimney extractor hood create a safe zone? What I propose to do is run a length of flexible conduit vertically up from a back box which is located to the side of the hob position to level where it will need to emerge from the wall for the hood doing the...

In the corner of my kitchen I have an old disused gas pipe. I am presuming that it is malleable iron. It comes up from the floor, and then just below the ceiling there is a tee piece with the pipe going through to next door. There is then what looks like a hex nibble going into a 90 degree bend...

Fitting a new kitchen and B&Q only allow for one draw in there 400mm cabinets. As this was going to leave very few draws in the kitchen I decided I could fix this by making my own draw fronts by cutting down full sized doors with a router. The style of the kitchen has continuous profile with 2mm...

Been stripping my kitchen out for a replacement. Turns out that the bottom half of the walls are what from the hardness must be concrete. However it is very smooth almost polished finish. Then about half way up the wall is run in the same "concrete" finish a dado rail effect. Above this it is...

I was going to seal around a number of sleeved copper pipes where they go through the wall (mixture of gas and water) but noticed the clear silicone I was about to use said not to use with copper. That leads to what sealant should one use?

Been redoing the waste in my kitchen as part of a refurbishment and have just realized that the condensate from the boiler (Worcester Bosh Greenstar 28i Junior) currently drains directly into the kitchen waste downstream of the sink trap without any trap of it's own. Is this correct or should...

Doing my kitchen up, and got to the point where I needed to replace the waste pipe. At some point in the past (I am guessing 1990 from the newspaper used to pad the wall before cermet was stuffed over it), the cast iron bend coming through the wall was replaced with plastic that was not UV...

I had the gas for the cooker in my kitchen disconnected and capped this morning. Now I thought that as the pipe was capped 10cm from the tee of the gas pipe as it passes through to the lounge and the gas fire as is going to be stuck permanently behind a cupboard and inaccessible it should be...

I intend to brick up a now defunct air vent in my lounge. The issue is the outside is a galvanized cast iron vent in a roughcast wall. In addition there is one for next door as well just symmetrically opposite so I would rather leave the external grill as is. My plan is to insert a bit of...

I purchased a bag of hardwall this evening to bring the exposed bricks after removing a chimney brest level with the rest of the wall before applying sound proofing boards. Reading the instructions on the bag it is very explict that the product should only be hand mixed. Are they having a...

I was replacing a damaged double socket at my sisters at the weekend, and noticed an unknown cabled running through the backbox. After some investigation it turned out to be three core and earth linking the smoke alarms for power and signaling. I suspect it is being used as an easy way to get...

I have a short section, maybe 30 to 40cm of 3.5" lead soil pipe that comes in from a bend on the outside wall. All the exterior soil pipe is 3.5" cast iron, and I have no wish to change it. On the face of it, there is nothing wrong with the pipe, i.e. it is not leaking has been there 60...