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Hi all, Looking for some advice on how to install a set of inward opening uPVC French doors in an external wall. The current set up is a DG window so I need to make the opening for the doors in a stone built wall that is about 2' thick. I have installed French doors before but the issue I...

Hi all, I recently bought a flat with a combi boiler. The kitchen taps do no work too well, so thought it best to replace the glands - They are about 20 years old now. Thought it would be straightforward but then found there seems to be no way of isolating them! I have found the cold water...

Hi all, I want to install a stand alone double oven and separate hob plate but I only have the one cooker circuit from my consumer unit that has until now just been feeding the hob. I had thought that I could put the two cables for the two appliances into the cooker isolating switch but the...

Hi, I have a single storey house that I extended some time ago to add on three bedrooms and a bathroom. Apologies if I use the wrong terminology but I have a two pipe central heating system (feed & return) with two loops - one loop feeds the old part of the house and the second feeds the...

Hi everyone, I have a MEM consumer box. There is a 16 amp MEM breaker that supplies the immersion heater. I have had solar panels installed for the last two years and I have been having issues when I tried to install an Immersun device in place of the immersion heater timer switch, in that a...

Does anyone have any idea how to set up the heating control for my oil conversion Rayburn Royal. It was running fine until my oil tank ran dry. After it was re-lit it would not get up to temperature, so I was told to take out the well and give it a clean. This didn't help so a plumber came...

I have a Rayburn Royal with a vapourising oil conversion fitted. It gets serviced by a local firm once a year and works okayish. It was last serviced two to three months ago, but last week I ran out of fuel (forgot to check! :oops: ). With the tank filled up, I re-lit it but the oven won't...

I am needing to install a Marley extractor fan in a shower room. The instructions state that it can be operated by connecting it to a light switch so that the fan will start when the light is switched on. This would be ideal as there is no natural lighting in the room anyway but I am not...

Can anyone out there explain shower tray traps to me. Sorry if I sound a bit thick but the tray that I have just bought has a very small trap and I can not see how it would work. My understanding was that the traps were U shaped in order that they could 'trap' the water and so prevent odours...

I want to install two power showers and what I want to know is: 1. can just one pump be used for both showers? 2. do the showers have to have their own supply from the hot and cold water tanks or can I take a spur off the pipes supplying the basin, toilet etc.? Thanks in anticipation.

I need to replace an aging front door which is well rotten. The frame isn't in too bad condition but the opening measures 850mm x 2010mm. There is no sill, just a concrete base. I visited my local shed which isn't the biggest and the widest doors they had were 838mm wide which would mean a...

Been here before but have finally got round to attempting to extend my central heating system into my 3 bed extension. To begin with my house is singe storey. The existing CH consists of a multi fuel stove equipped with a wrap around boiler which feeds a hot water cylinder in the loft space...

I am wanting to extend my central heating system into a ground floor extension. I am prepared to do the work myself but I would probably find using the plastic 'speedfit' stuff easier to use as I am a novice at soldering, although I have done small amounts before. What are the disadvantages...

The wiring diagram that was supplied with an intermediate switch (and also the diagram in my DIY bible) show the switch as having two L1 terminals at the top and two L2 terminals at the bottom. However, the switch has an L1 and L2 at the top and an L1 and L2 at the bottom. :shock: I have...

It is my intention to fit three-way lighting in my hallway. I thought I could do this by utilising 3x two-way switches. However, looking at my bible it shows 2x two-way switches with an 'intermediate' switch between them. Do I have to buy one of these intermediate switches or is there a way...

This cropped up in a previous query of mine when I was wondering what the advantages. and disadvantages. where of low/high voltage lighting. The thing of loft insulation and reference was made to constructing boxes to keep the insulation away. I'm beginning to wish I'd stuck with traditional...

I moved into a house that had a central heating system (an oil converted rayburn and 6 Rads) which just simply did not work. The rayburn could make lots of hot water but could not cope with one rad being on. This was explained to me in this forum some time ago. :shock: Having extended the...

I am getting ready to install the lighting in a 3 bed extension. We have decided to go for downlights but I am not sure whether to go for mains or low voltage. Apart from the obvious, whats the difference between the two? Is one better than the other? Also the ceiling into which they are...

I am quite concerned about the floor joists on the ground floor of my house extension that was built about a year ago (internal work still on-going!!). :oops: The floor is constructed from 6" x 2" timbers supported by 3 dwarf walls (2 running along the exterior walls and 1 in the middle)...

What is the best way to install window boards? ie how to fasten them in place. I am completing an extension consisting of concrete block outer wall with a timber constucted inner leaf wall. The windows are uPVC and so do not come with a rebate to accept the 'tongue' of the window board...