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I just had a new consumer unit installed by a certified electrician. The wall the CU is mounted divides my entryway from my bathroom. Looking at the bathroom wall, it looks very inviting for hanging a picture. I'm worried someone may drive a nail in the wall and go straight into the power...

I just made a mistake and I'm hoping someone here can tell me how to fix it. I just had a new Jeld-wen two panel white oak door hung in my bathroom and decided to the first of three robe hooks to it. After drilling the first hole for the plug, I discovered the door is 100% hollow where I...

I recently decided to install a UK bathroom rated shaver socket in my bathroom. I purchased the socket and 1mm sq. two core and earth cable for the job. I want the shaver socket powered even when the lights are switched off I connected the cables to the shaver unit and mounted it into...

I bought an italian sink 75cm wide by 50cm deep for my bathroom. I want it to rest on a cabinet with two doors and four 4" legs. A local joinery will be making the unit for me and I want to make sure I'm asking all the right questions and getting all the right answers. I asked what kind...

I'm about to have a new water pump installed in my flat. The diagrams from the vendor show a min 1.2 meters distance between the bottom of the Cold Water Storage to the top of the Hot Water Cylinder. In my one storey flat, it doesn't work this way. There is only a 45cm gap between the...

There is a switch on the wall in my hallway which supplies electrical power to my water pump. Before I bought the flat, I rented it and the land lady told me to never leave the switch on unless I needed the pump. I'm about to replace this pump and was wondering, do I really need this...

You may already be shaking your head in reading the title. I've purchased a fixed shower head with a thermostatic valve. A plumber has installed it for me. The shower head is positioned about three inches below the top of the ceiling and the valve is at about chest height. I have a water...

I have a gap in a cement floor where we've chiselled out the concrete to get to heating pipes that were embedded in the concrete. Now I have a gap in the floor about 4" wide and 3" deep and about 3 feet long. I got some quick dry cement at Robert Dyas, mixed to the best of my ability and...

I'm looking to add some spurs to my existing ring circuit and am following part P. It looks like the previous owner converted a socket on the ring to a switched FCU, then ran a spur from that FCU to a double socket. I want to convert the FCU back to a double socket, and run a spur from...

Inspecting sockets in my flat, I notice that the original flex is only two cables (red and black). No earth. I'm adding some spurs and my new 25mm flex has three cables (red, black, green-yellow). Should I be concerned?

I've discovered that for my 1 bedroom flat, there are only three functioning fuses in my existing consumer unit: 1 for the lights 1 for the cooker 1 for EVERYTHING ELSE I'm planning to add about 8 new double sockets and replace about 6 singles with doubles. Questions are: Should I be...

I want to get my interior doors and frames replaced. They are old, chipped, painted over 1000 times and they just need to go. A contractor suggested I get metal frames to replace them instead of wood. I'm not sure whether or not I should get metal or wood frames. This is for my flat in...

This may be a stupid question. Can you replace an old consumer unit with one that has an RCD if you currently have a PME? Was wondering if PME may cause the RCD to trip often due to earth leakage.

I had an electrician tell me that I can't run cabling in my walls because someone could hammer a nail in it and electricute themselves. I thought about this some more and thought... 'Aren't there cables in all these walls?' What can I and can't I do per the regs? Background...

I'm renovating a 6th floor council flat. The darned thing has cement floors. The floor is actually 4 inches lower where the walls are. In some of these gaps, there are conduit pipes, etc. I don't want to fill these sections with self-leveling compound. What's the best way to make sure...

I am removing ceramic floor tiles from my ex-local authority flat. Even though I'm on the 6th floor, the floor and ceiling are cement. After getting the tiles off, removing the tile adhesive has been exhausting (not to mention my neighbors hate my banging the floor). I still have the...

I've purchased a Wylex Consumer Unit with a built-in RCD (part NHRS804BQ) to replace the old one in my ex-local authority flat. It is rated for a 3-4 bedroom home. I have a 1BR flat so I figured it should be more than sufficient. The old consumer unit has 6 wylex wire fuses in it, no mcbs...