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    Attaching PAX to wall the rubbish way

    Morning all Getting some PAX wardrobes delivered today. I took a section of skirting board off last night expecting to see plaster all the way to the floor. But no - the plaster stopped just below the top edge of the skirting board and then went to bare brick - this was once an outside wall...
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    Ruined drive with pressure washer

    We had a new tarmac drive laid last year. A few weeks back we had a skip on it while getting some work done in the house. The skip left a lot of muck behind so decided to blast it away with the pressure washer…using the high pressure wand and also blasted other dirty parts of the drive. But...
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    Installing single cupboard into a fitted kitchen

    Hi all We've recently removed an integrated washing machine from the kitchen as we're now using a free-standing one in a utility room. We've ordered a cupboard to fill the gap from DIY Kitchens from where we got the original kitchen. The attached photo shows two things: The gap where the...
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    Branches from a radial

    Hi all. We had a small outside yard between the house and garage which has now been covered . It will be used as a utility type area so will be arranging for some mains sockets to be installed. The idea is metal or metal looking conduit attached to the brick wall. If the electrician wires...
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    Difficult to track down noise in heating

    Struggling where to start with this one.... We have a Baxi Duotec Combi boiler. All radiators with the exception of the hall and towel rail have TADO valves on. The hall has a normal TRV (fully open) and the towel rail doesn't have any TRV. Heat for these two is called for by the hall...
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    Best fixings for pull up bar

    Hi all I’m thinking of buying this pull up bar. I don’t really want one that attaches to a door frame. This will be fitted to a brick wall. Just wondering what would be the safest fixings to support 78kg of me bobbing up and down ? Thanks.
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    Single light - two PIRs

    Hi all Our outside light with integrate PIR is past its best and doesn’t really function how we want it to. it’s connected via an external Wiska box to a switch inside the house. What I’d like to do is have a light come on when either one of two separate PIRs is triggered, one located at each...
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    Bathroom light and fan wiring

    Hi all We have a three gang switch outside our bathroom. One is for a large illuminated vanity mirror, one for the ceiling light and one for the fan (with overrun timer and an isolator switch above door). But, the fan only works if the main light switch has also been switched on. As the...
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    Raising loft ladder hinge

    Hi all Re-laying loft insulation in part of the house as there was next to none there. Loft ladder is screwed to a joist height batten - so about 10 cm deep and when it’s pushed up it rested on a length of plywood screwed to the joists. But now I’m putting down a top layer of insulation 17cm...
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    Mitre angles

    This is hurting my head. Wife wants those frame things on the staircase wall I think it’s called Wainscoating. The top and bottom follow the slope of the stairs. So I’ve worked out that two of the angles are 42 degrees and two are 138. But I can’t work out what the mitre angles should be to...
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    Best option to improve bathroom extraction

    We inherited my late in-laws house. Among other things, we added gas central heating and a powerful over bath shower. The bathroom is 2.5m x 2.3m so just under 6 square metres. We have a heated towel rail in there and a 100mm Airflow Aventa in-line fan (rated 52 litres per second) ducting out...
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    Boiler gas consumption

    I've always left bill paying to my wife and didn't pay much attention to our fuel consumption but not we have a smart meter and I'm suddenly interested :-). I'm surprised by how much gas we are using. The house probably isn't as insulated as well as it could be and that's something we'll look...
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    Wiring a new receiver into a Rollertec motorised garage door

    Bit of a long shot this one but would appreciate any advice... My elderly neighbour has a motorised garage door with a Rollertec V2 control unit. Her transmitter fob is knackered. It seems like it’s impossible to buy these now (grey 4 button one). It seems the most common solution is to buy...
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    Cabling for electric vehicle

    We’ll soon be getting an electric vehicle and will need a charger. The one I want has a cost which includes ‘standard installation’. This comprises no more than 10m cable and drilling through up to two walls. My install will need about 15m cable and three walls. I thought I could make it...
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    New kitchen order of jobs

    Hi all We need to completely replace a kitchen on a house we’ve inherited. We’ve had quotes from kitchen suppliers to do the entire job but want to see how much of a saving can be made by sourcing the units separately and getting in various trades people - might be very little. Not sure of the...
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    Install boiler in garage

    Hi all My mother in law currently has a coal fire with a back boiler thing. Some rooms have radiators - others don't and get pretty cold. She's getting on a bit now and we really worry about her going to the coal house and she's also about to start home based dialysis. We really want her to...
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    Options for faceplate with FCU

    Thanks to all who helped on my other post about external wiring to a lamp post. This is related but thought it best to start a new post. To get the power from inside to outside I was going to replace a socket that we don't use with a switched FCU. However it's currently a 2 gang socket on...
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    Power to outside lamp post

    Hi all I'll be installing a lamp post in the garden about 3m from the house. Thank to the advice on here I'm ok with the actual electrical connections but as far as running the cable is concerned, is it allowable to use rubberised outdoor cable cable inside 20mm PVC conduit for burial to...
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    Smeg Washer Dryer tripping electrics

    Morning all Not sure if this should be in Appliances or Electrical forum. Anyway our Smeg washer dryer was working fine last night. Today as soon as the dial is turned to any program - even 'Drain' the LED displays for a second and then it trips the RCD protecting a whole load of circuits...
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    Light wired wrong - what actually happened

    I replaced a transformer on a hall light. There's another identical light in a different part of the hall. Stupidly I didn't make a note of which light wires connected to which circuit wires. Anyway after wiring up and switching on both lights came on but all bulbs in both lights were at...
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