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Hi, I am about to wire up my new garage with plugs and lights. Half the garage is a stud & boarded workshop behind which the cables will run. The rest is just brick face. The question I have is does surface wiring in the main garage have to be in trunking? If yes is plastic ok? Also for the...

Hi, Can I make the connection between a new water supply line and the water meter myself? Anglian Water want to charge me £500 for the pleasure. The meter is only about 0.25m into the pavement from the edge of my driveway so could easily be reached from the trench my builder is digging...

Hi, I have purchased a new Honeywell digital room stat to replace an old Drayton one. I am not 100% sure about changing the wiring though and was hoping someone on here might be able to help? The first image is the current stat wiring diagram. I have wires connected to points 1, 2 & 4...

Hi all, Recently had a new kitchen installed. During the survey the guy said they may need to upgrade my CU as it is the old style fuse wire type with no RCD protection at all. As part of the kitchen install I had one of the ring mains extended and had various sockets moved / added. They...

Hi, I am planning to upgrade my unpumped HW and pumped CH circuit to fully pumped Y-Plan. I have attached some current and proposed pictures and would appreciate someone taking a look and letting me know if I am on the right track or not. Any comments / suggestions would be appreciated...

Hi, Wondering if anyone can explain the benefit of a blending valve in this pic? This is the system is for the under floor heating in my conservatory. The pipes dissappearing up through the roof come out the top of the conservatory into some pipe insulation and then seem to enter...

Hi, I plan to replace an existing power shower with a 3bar salamander pump. The existing power shower has the usual pull cord by the door and a socket \ transformer in the airing cupboard behind the shower. The new shower pump has a standard UK plug. The cable is not long enough to reach...

Hi, Thanks for a great forum. I have spent a number of hours on here already. I have recently moved into a new house (well new to me... but house is 30 years old) and need \ want to make some changes. Firstly I want to install a shower pump to power mixer shower in main bathroom and a...

I am doing some DIY at my girlfriends house. One of the tasks is to replace a few internal doors. She wants the fully glazed panel glass doors. The current door is about 28.5". The only doors the local DIY's seem to sell are the 27" or 30". I would obviously need to buy the 30" door, but the...