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Hi all. I am doing a refurb on my bathroom, it's the last room in the house that has not been done. I knew there was some interesting plumbing left to do, the rest of he house has been put right. So I find this. Which is fine. The house has suspended floors, except in the...

The fault occurs all the time, lights on or lights off. No external lights.

Hi, My parents house recently developed a lighting fault. Split load cu and the rcd tripped on one side, the only way we could get the rcd to stay on was to switch off the upstairs lights mcb. Switching on the mcb causes the rcd to trip. So we went and checked everything obvious and no...

Hi, We had a similar issue with our house and a loft conversion we were doing. The overhead supply attached to a chimney which was going to be removed, then went into the loft, through the house, out of a soffit and then round the house, back in the house to the fuseboard. We worried...

Hi, Thanks for the responses. Perfect. I recently had the overhead cable replaced and the electricity company moved the meter slights and left the tails long as I told them what we were planning to do. So it will all work, the electrician can turn three cu's into one and the henley box...

Hi, My house currently has 3 consumer units and I will get getting an electrician to replace these three with one. Currently the meter tails go to a henley box and from this there are three pairs of tails, one for each CU. When I have one CU can the tails that currently go to the henley...

Hi, Its a Veissmann Vitodens 222-F. I have not measured it but I am sure its 2.5m from the neighbours but only just. The boiler was fitted during a loft conversion and was fitted by a registered plumber and was signed off by the local council planning department. I suspect it does...

Hi, Quick question, my new combi boiler exhaust exits next to my neighbours patio, it is at least 1.5m from their patio but they have mentioned that when it fires up it blows condensation all over their washing. Anyway, can anyone suggest the best/cheapest/easiest way to diffuse the...

Right, that makes sense to me know. Its a Veissman Vitodens 222-F, it was installed recently during our loft conversion. I have read some mixed reviews about it but so far seems ok, and our gas bills have dropped when compared to our previous Glowworm boiler which was only two years old...

Hi, A quick question regarding tap and shower water supply. Our storage combi is feed mains water, and has two outputs, one marked "Domestic Hot Water" and the other "Balanced Mains". I am imagining that DHW and Balanced Mains should be used on showers/mixer taps to stop sudden changes...

So last night I thought I might as well have a look under the floor in the other end of the room, as that had a little bounce as well. It is one room now measring 7m x 4m. It was originally two rooms at 3.5m x 4m each with a chimney on the middle, the chimney has been taken down to floor...

Hi, All the debris was cleared as we went so was as clean as could be. The job was a bit of a panic so did not get a chance to insulate as I would like to but after all that work I still have to move a socket and fit two rads, so I might at that time insulate as well. Thanks for looking.

Hi, So we had a nice long weekend, my plan was to move a radiator and a double socket and just take the bounce out of the floor in the dining room. Started to investigate and it turned out it was going to be a much much larger project. Exposing some of the joists revealed previous...

Hi, I did not realise anyone was reading this. So the steels were put in and floors down and I got the building inspector out at my own cost to run alongside the third party building inspection company the loft conversion people were using. So all was ok. Next was insulation, this...

Hi, Thanks for the replies, I will look at that supplier of the ready mix. Soft is probably not the right word, drilling the bricks with a masonary bit is very easy compared to my last house which was built in the seventies. I shall look at getting some ready mix and some pointing...