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Hi folks, Had an estate agent out to value the house and he's suggested stripping out the wood panels in the kitchen extension and getting it plasterboarded and painted to give it a more modern look. I genuinely don't care what he thinks, but the wife thinks it'd be a great idea, and who am I...

Fixed. Red and yellow wrong way round. I love coming here with my special moments. You guys are superb. Cheers!

........... Bugger. Will anything blow up if I get it the wrong way round? On which note, the picture is sideways on, so yellow is at the top. Although I'm sure everyone knew that. Bar me.

As I stood, staring at this switch with my chin in my hand, my wife made the smartarse comment of: "You look like you're at NASA and you're trying to send that ****er into space." Now I shall mock her. :)

So have a two way switch thing in my kitchen extension. One is a dimmer but with these new LED lightbulbs, it causes pulsing and flickering. "I know, I'll change it to a standard switch." Ha. The lights work, they just can't be turned off. See attached image - I can't take the other...

So the live wire goes: Hallway, stair then outside light. If I take the live wire out of the outside light, there are still two wires leading away from it. One wire is the live wire leading to the light itself, and comes out of the same spot where the live wire ended, the other one comse...

Ok. In this picture: http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/8232/xrys.jpg You can see a 'n' shape to the right. The right hand switch is the outside light. I've taken out the 'n' and it terminates in the right hand switch, and is bent double in the middle switch. So if I cut it and...

The pictures aren't great, but I think I'm beginning to understand this now. So has the wiring for this effectively been fed off the main loop by doubling back from the switches for the hall / stairs? http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/579/9r4e.jpg...

Aaah I see. Let me go take the cover off.

Well, as is the trend with my luck, I tried to remove the connector block and the earth snapped away from the internal end!! I decided that it'd be best to remove the block completely, and the end result is now this: http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/30/qjdj.jpg I have went through all...

I bounded downstairs to check, and found this: Image > http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/3889/5inu.jpg So simple as that eh? Get some new cables, cut back the coating, insert, etc? It looks a bit gimped though. Is it just a case of unscrewing each locking bolt thingy from the external...

Hi guys, I had an external light at my front door, which must've been there since the place was built in the 70's. Long story short, wind damage destroyed it and I bought a new fitting today. Took the old one down and the wiring behind it was in an awful state. Held on by threads with...

Never mind! I took the cover off, stared at it for a bit, not having a clue what I was looking at. I then tapped the heater tank a few times, took the showerhead pipe off at both ends, then reattached it, sucked on it to pull out some more water, refitted it and the cover, turned it back...

Hi guys, I had a new shower fitted, the Mira Sport Max, only about two months ago. It's been working fine until three days ago. Everything seems as normal, red backlights on all three power settings. When I hit High or Medium, the backlight goes green for a few seconds then turns off...

The house is a 1970's Semi and the wife and I really want to utilise the space in the loft for storage. I'd love to look at getting a room with Velux in there, but it's out of our budget and stairway access would be a problem. The house had a chimney in it, but the previous owner had new...