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Hi All Above our bathroom used to be a flat roof and the joists are 100mm deep. The roof is now pitched but the old flat roof boards were left in place over the joists. There is no insulation between the joists (it’s on top of the boards in the loft). Is it ok to fit spotlights in this 100mm...

Hi I’m renovating part of our upstairs. The house is of different ages and in one part has 200x50mm joists at 400mm centres, but the other part has 150x50mm joists at 600mm centres. They’re different parts of the house (old and new) with a step between the different heights. The floorboards in...

Hi I want to insulate a solid brick wall and it’s been suggested I use insulation backed plasterboard and glue it on. This is fine, if you all agree, but the wall isn’t straight, it’s about 2 inches out floor to ceiling. The new plasterboard would therefore be the same, so it would be great...

Hi All I want to add some sockets in a bedroom and the plan is to run a spur from a socket (on a ring) to these via an FCU with a 13a fuse. From the socket on the ring it'll be about a 3m run to the FCU, then about 10m in total between sockets. As it's protected by the 13a fuse is this length...

Hi I've created a new small room by partioning a bit off 2 adjoining rooms. I want to add some sockets and have a couple of options: 1) Run a spur.. or spurs off an fcu. But I don't have the ability to test the socket I want to come off is on the ring main, although I believe it is. 2) I have...

I'm adding a 2kw downflow bathroom heater. We have a 6mm cable that powered the old electric shower under the floorboards in a junction box so I plan to use that for the heater as it's easier to access than any socket cables. This cable isn't used for anything else. I'm going to run a cable...

We currently have a toilet separate to the rest of the bathroom and want to knock the wall down between the toilet 'room' and bathroom to create a bigger bathroom. In this process we want to move the location of the toilet, which will move the toilet from being on the side wall to the back wall...

Hi all I've recently moved into a late 1950s house and just been adding insulation to the loft. I used a couple of loft boards between joists as much as I could but did also just stand on the joists at times. A crack has now either appeared or got worse in the bedroom. Having only just...

I have a 1.5bar shower pump to install and would like to use existing pipework where possible. The pump has 22mm flexible hoses and the manual recommends 22mm pipework throughout. My existing cold water feed to the shower is a dedicated feed but 15mm pipe. I was hoping to connect the pump...