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Hi. I am new to underfloor heating. I am in a new build. I have two pumps feeding two manifolds connected in parallel and feeding two different ground floor levels. There is a hot/cold mix dial for each so supply hot water is diluted to a lower temperature as I understand. While balancing, I set...

I have a pair of doors which open back against deep reveals. Fully open, ordinary handles would prevent the doors laying flush against the reveals. In fact they would make the doors stand quite proud of the reveals. So, I need flush or low-profile (12, maybe 18mm) door handles on that side of...

We are moving to a new house - well a conversion but everything except the walls is new. Anyway, the doors were all fitted but now have to be replaced with fire doors. These look the same apparently (oak veneered) but are thicker overall. The reason is that in one of the bedrooms it will not be...

Hi everyone. We are looking to buy a new-build house that has beamed ceilings in many of the rooms. The beams are softwood, pine I guess. I don't think they are structural. We have the choice as have them painted or not. I assume that unpainted means no finish at all, just bare wood. They look...

I have those doors that look like paneled doors but where the surface is made of plastic - common in modern houses. I would like to route or cut a groove to mount an acoustic seal - just a thin piece of flexible rubber. The door is made from a wooden outer frame and then covered with what...

I have a garage with a loft. Currently it has one light switch for the main space. I would like to get a second switch installed for the loft (which is accessible by ladder). Can this second switch be wired in series such that the first switch controls both lights, while the second, when...

The waste pipe on this tumble dryer is especially small diameter. No problem as it comes with an adapter which you put into the compression fitting - see this video; However; what do you do if you have an existing washing machine waste hose and you need to connect two hoses? I don't have room...

I shut off the pump gate valves so that I could service my central heating pump last night. These stop the water as removing the motor assembly splits the wet part of the pump in half? Did the valves work? Did they heck! So questions for anyone who does this more than the once that I have...

Water softeners are one of the most confusing things to research on the web in my opinion. People who sell them drop straight into that snake oil selling mode even though they are valid appliances which do have genuine value. I have recently had one installed; a Monarch Midi. I have learned or...

The cover for the fan in our fan oven has fallen off. This is a stamped plate with two tongues at the bottom and one screw at the top to hold it. The single self-tap tapered screw appeared to have been secured into the insulation behind the lining as the hole in the metal is much too large for...

I am having a patio laid in front of my house. I have the opportunity to put a pipe underground from the back of the property, where my outside tap is, through to the front. This will save me running a hose the 15m or so just to get it close to the cars, front gardens, patio, garage and so on...

How thick a cable should I lay to my garage? Hi. I am having a new patio laid between my house and my garage making it a good time to sink any cables in the ground even if they are not used just yet. We already have an electric car which charges from the garage. I can see that in the future I...

I am not sure if this is the right place to post this so sorry if it is not. I have had my window frames painted. The technique they used was to paint water-based gloss paint on the frames and also onto the glass. They did not create a neat edge up to and just on the glass but instead paint...

Friends My central heating boiler is playing up. It works some of the time but is intermittent. When it does not work it appears to try and start but then stop itself before the burners properly ignite. It waits a few seconds and then tries again. I can hear the click of a solenoid on and off...

In case this is of help to anyone I thought I would document my experience of putting LED bulbs on a two-way (landing light type) circuit. Having done this a coupe of times now on each occasion I have had the same issue. The circuits previously had halogen GU10 mains voltage spotlights...

With so many low-voltage devices now powered from plug-top power supplies (the ones where the power supply and three-pin mains plug are one unit) there is sometimes a need to use these in permanent installations. For example lights - like the ones used to decorate the plinths of kitchen units or...

Colleagues Has anyone ever tapped out a brass tapered NPT thread to get it to take a male non-tapered BSP threaded insert? For use with mains pressure water. I guess you use the sort of tap that can cut a thread in a blind hole. Does it work? Thanks in advance for your answers.

Colleagues I have just bought a freezer with a built-in ice dispenser. As this does not have any water filter built-in I want to add an external under-sink type filter to go between the mains supply and the freezer. I have decided to use the 10" canister type filters, rather than the in-line...

Colleagues I am in the process of altering a stud partition wall and rebuilding it. I have opened a hole in the wall and can see inside. Within the wall is a pipe of around 125mm diameter and I believe at the top an AAV. The wall is between the bathroom and dressing area so it is plainly a...