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Advice needed please! I am intending moving my washing machine to understair cupboard adjacent to kitchen to make way for a dishwasher. Question I have is that the waste pipe length is now going to be about 3.5 metres to the sink trap, do I run the waste pipe along at floor level frm the...

Hi, I want to install a dishwasher in my kitchen but am limited to positions I can place it without extensive moving of existing appliances including sink, washer and oven/hob. I have a galley style kitchen and one of the only available spaces I have is directly opposite my sink, this...

Hi, I want to install a dihwasher in my kitchen but am limited to positions I can place it without extensive moving of existing appliances including sink, washer and oven/hob. I have a galley style kitchen and one of the only available spaces I have is directly opposite my sink, this would...

Smell is usually after emptying bath and water level seems fine. Soil stack is definately above gutter.

Hi, I have recently noticed when letting out the bath water there is a smell of drains appearing, it seems to be around the toilet area and there is a gurgling noise also around the toilet area whilst the bath is draining. Could there be a blockage in my toilet which is only noticed when...

Hi, I have had a damp problem at the front of my house with rising damp, company that have been to give me a quote have advised that I have the internal walls tanked upto 30cm above the current damp height and then re-plastered. i have read many of the threads on this method which all offer...

Hi, I have just started decorating the front room of my house, 1920's mid-terrace, and hve found what I believe to be rising damp on the front wall, extends about 1m up the wall either side of the window (window has wood panelling below so there is no evidence of damp below the window)...

I was mistaken when I said I had lead and paper insulated cable. If the service fuse board is lifted off the ground and firmly attached to a joist but still remains under the floor will this be quite safe? I assume it will from the only advice already given being that it should not be on the...

The servicefuse is not located near my meter but the earth does run along side the main live/neutral feeds to where the service fuse is where it joins it's own termination.

Plugwash, I agree it was dodgy moving the cable, I also think that the original position of it was dodgy, the fact that the mains feed from the street travelled 8 foot up inside a stud wall and was nowhere near the meter!! As for the upstairs being on spurs, this is definately not the case...

Hi, Could someone clear up whether it is beneficial or not to have more than 1 RCD device? I have a 100AMP 100ma RCD fitted between the meter and the CU, I am going to be upgrading the CU for future expansion and am wondering if there is any point in gettinga split load unit with built in...

Mine is also like this, it is also not very flexible for moving, especially when you are having to move it live! my cocern is that the actual fuse housing is now also under the floor.

1, Definately not connected through, only 2 terminals top and bottom, switching it off also does not interrupt the supply. 2, I would still feel better if they were separated. 3, Not sure of the rating but I have a new one waiting to put in which is 9.5kw at 240v, maths say I need to...

Hi, I have a problem with an RCD device in my house, it is an old house but I think it has been re-wired at some point. Firstly, there is a separate RCD device (63a) before the cu but the wires from the meter and the wires to the cu both come from the bottom of the RCD meaning they are...