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Hi all, I'm currently in the process of building an outside office in the garden. Due to the distance from the consumer unit I'll be spurring off a socket inside the house with 6mm SWA. I chose 6mm just in case we decide to go to the consumer unit in the future. Because it's only a spur and...

Hi all. I want to change the layout in my garage which means moving my freezers to the other side of the room where there are no sockets. The easiest way for me to add power to where it's needed (in my opinion) is to create a fused spur to feed 2x double sockets. All this seems simple enough...

Hi all. Wasn't sure where best to put this, so I've gone general DIY. We had a leak recently in the heating pipes behind the skirting board in the conservatory and as a result a bit of the flooring has had to come up which I need to repair. The flooring is made up of tiles, 18mm wooden sub...

Hi all, I'm looking to reduce the dust in my integral garage which is a concrete floor. Part of the garage is an extension, you can see the differential line in the picture. The floor is sloped to a drain outside the door, presumably to allow for run off of any vehicle? We won't be using the...

Hi all, I've agreed to take on a project for a friend opening a cafe and I'm going to be putting some wallpaper on circular tables with some custom perspex on top. I'll be "sticking" 2 pieces of wallpaper on the table with a joint in the middle and then trimming carefully with a knife...

Hi all, I've got a Pyronix Enforcer alarm installed with a wired bell on the side of the house. I'd like to add an additional wireless bell on the front of the house as a deterrent. I'm comfortable with how this works, I've read through the instructions and watched a couple of videos...

Hi all. Last week I decided to take off the old gas flue on the side of our house that was now out of use. When I took it off I noticed there was absolutely no insulation in the cavity whatsoever. We had the old gas fire removed last year and I ran some wires in the cavity to a wall mounted...

Hi all, Apologies in advance for the long thread, I'm trying not to go insane! I'm fairly sure there's a leak somewhere but before I shell out I just want to make sure it's not something simple and/or obvious that I can check myself... I'm having some problems with the pressure dropping on my...

Hi all, I'm having problems with my Pyronix Enforcer connecting to the wifi, I've gone through all manuals and instructional videos and I'm coming up short. We have Virgin broadband but I have a BT Whole Home system which takes over wifi duties. The system was working OK but has been...

Hi all, We moved in to a house last year which did have a gas fire in, it has since been removed. On the external wall there is this, which I assume is something to do with the old fire. There is sometimes a bit of a draft from the wall inside and I'm wondering if it can be removed and...

Hi all, I'd like to add a pir security light on the side of the house and wondering the best way to wire it. There is an electric feed that's going outside already from the conservatory to an outside junction box. This is being fed to the pond but it's now not being used and we have no...

Hi all, I've just moved in to a new home which needs a wireless alarm fitting with CCTV. I've had a couple of quotes off companies and I'm undecided between 2 systems: - Ajax wireless alarm system (https://ajax.systems/products/) - Pyronix Enforcer V10 Both systems are fairly similar in the...

Hi all, We've just moved in to a new house and I'm trying my best to figure out the heating system and failing miserably. The boiler is an Intergas Rapid 32 with no thermometer in the house. I've looked through the boiler manual and managed to get it to be either set by timer, temporarily on...

Hi all, We're currently decorating our new house and next on the list is the hall, stairs and landing. There's lining paper pretty much everywhere which I've removed where we've had skimmed. However, I don't want to have to skim the entire hall/landing/stairs so I'm just going to paint over...

Hi all, My wife and I have just bought a house that we're doing some work on. The master bedroom has under cabinet lighting with pull cords which is quite useful but they need changing. I cannot for the life of me find any lights that are even remotely similar! I'm thinking the best thing for...

Hi all, I'm doing a bit of decoration around the house, including changing all of our light switches so they're all consistent. I've done the downstairs ones which includes: Kitchen - 1 gang 1 way Hall - 2 gang 2 way (controlling upstairs and downstairs hall lights) Living Room - 1 gang...

Hi all, Not sure where the best place to put this query was, apologies if not the correct forum. We've had a damp patch above our fireplace for over a year now, it hasn't changed shape or got bigger. I've had a pointing guy come round thinking that it was an issue with the chimney but he...

Hi guys, I'm trying to change the light fitting in our front room and it's got me stumped. I assumed it would be a simple case of changing the existing live, neutral and earth from the old one into the new but not the case. The existing light was connected to a connection block with the...

Hi all, Is it possible to cut a bi-fold interior door for our bathroom? I've measured the existing door and it is: > Height - 1922 mm > Width - 730 mm > Depth - 35mm Would I get away with this and shaving 10mm off either end? Or is it not that simple...

Hi all, I've recently had a new bathroom fitted and I decided to finish off by tiling and fitting all the bits and bobs (shower/bath panel etc). The last job I have to do it fit the towel radiator and I'm struggling. The pipes are too close to the wall to fit the radiator using the...